Suspected Stalker Inquired: 'However Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'
A woman accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a voicemail message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who a jury heard has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the court was told call records and information recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a DNA test throughout 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most covered investigations and is still open.
'I Do Not Need Money'
One voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I realize I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "Suppose there is a tiny probability that I'm her? What happens next? Is that not crucial for you?"
"I don't want money, I have a life here in Poland, I just want to know," the message continued.
The jury was advised that by means of electronic messages, SMS messages and calls, Ms Wandelt asked for a DNA test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a similarity to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with law enforcement who gathered the data, told the court there "showed no any replies" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally contacted acquaintances of the McCanns, as per the phone records.
On that date, the father picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "a wrong number."
That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's answerphone declaring "I won't give up and I intend to demonstrate my point."
The court learned Mrs Spragg developed a relationship online with Ms Wandelt prior to joining her on a visit to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.
Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had communicated via WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to express the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the period leading up to the appearance to Rothley, that area, in that winter.
The court heard correspondence between the two individuals, in last November, considering endeavoring to acquire Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her bins or from utensils at a eating establishment.
"We must assert ourselves," Mrs Spragg informed Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the appearance to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which stated: "We find ourselves positioned outside the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark resembling investigators. I desired to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The case ongoing.
