Suspected Stalker Questioned: 'However Imagine I Could Be Madeleine?'
A female accused with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a phone message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has repeatedly claimed she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February the current year.
On Monday, the court was told call records and data retrieved from phones documented Ms Wandelt consistently demanding Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout that period.
Madeleine's disappearance in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a vacation in Portugal - is considered the most covered child disappearance cases and is still unsolved.
'I Do Not Need Money'
One phone message, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I understand I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine used to be, but I know what I know."
While a separate message of Ms Wandelt's monologues with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a small chance that I am she? What then? Wouldn't that be significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to understand," she added.
The jury was informed that through electronic messages, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt requested a biological test, sent childhood photos to her phone in a effort to demonstrate a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and asserted to have "flashbacks" from a early life with the McCanns.
The investigator, an investigator with Leicestershire Police who gathered the information, advised the court there "showed no any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with acquaintances of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.
On October 9th, 2024, Gerry McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."
During that incident Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."
The court heard the co-defendant established a association via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a appearance to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in that winter.
Call logs revealed Mrs Spragg had reached out using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to state the press had depicted Ms Wandelt as "a crazy person" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the months before the visit to the village, the county, in last December.
The court was told message exchanges between the two defendants, in last November, considering attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's DNA samples from her trash or from silverware at a restaurant.
"We must take action," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the visit to their home, Mrs Spragg transmitted a message which said: "We are positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our vehicle dark like private investigators. I wanted to accomplish this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The proceedings proceeds.
