Suspected Stalker Asked: 'However What If I Might Be Madeleine?'
A female charged with pursuing Kate McCann reportedly deposited her a recorded message which questioned: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the court was told call records and information retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt persistently asking Madeleine's mother for a genetic test over that period.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - at the age of three during a trip in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and remains open.
'I Do Not Need Money'
One recorded message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt declaring: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I believe what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail stated: "Imagine there is a slight possibility that I'm her? What happens next? Isn't that significant for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I have a existence here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," the message continued.
The jury was informed that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a biological test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a attempt to demonstrate a likeness to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and stated to have "flashbacks" from a youth with the McCanns.
The investigator, an investigator with law enforcement who compiled the data, advised the court there "didn't appear to be any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally reached out to family friends of the McCanns, based on the phone records.
On that date, Gerry McCann responded to a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "the wrong phone."
On that occasion Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."
The court learned Mrs Spragg struck up a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in Leicestershire in December 2024.
Call logs showed Mrs Spragg had reached out using messaging service to Mrs McCann to state the news outlets had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she should be treated respectfully in the months leading up to the visit to that location, the county, in December 2024.
The court heard correspondence between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing trying to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her bins or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We have to make a stand," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which said: "We find ourselves sitting near the McCanns' house with our vehicle dark resembling detectives. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The trial continues.
