Accused Stalker Asked: 'However Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann allegedly left her a recorded message which questioned: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has consistently asserted she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are on trial charged with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the court heard phone records and evidence obtained from phones recorded Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout the past two years.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most covered child disappearance cases and is still unresolved.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
Another phone message, played in court, recorded Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What happens next? Wouldn't that be important for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a life here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the recording stated.
The tribunal was told that by means of emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "recollections" from a early life with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who collated the evidence, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the phone records.
On that date, the father picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a message on Mrs McCann's recording declaring "I will persist and I will prove my claim."
The court heard the co-defendant struck up a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding joining her on a visit to the McCanns' residence in the county in that winter.
Phone records revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the trip to the village, that area, in last December.
The court was told message exchanges between the two accused, in last November, discussing attempting to acquire Mrs McCann's genetic material from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.
"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the trip to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a text which said: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like detectives. I desired to accomplish this with another person I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The case proceeds.
