Suspected Stalker Asked: 'Yet Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with stalking Kate McCann reportedly recorded her a voicemail message which questioned: "what if I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, twenty-four, who court testimony revealed has consistently claimed she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are standing trial accused with harassing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February 2025.
On Monday, the court learned phone records and data retrieved from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly demanding Madeleine's mother for a biological test during 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most covered missing child cases and is still open.
'I Am Not Seeking Money'
Another phone message, played in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm fat and unattractive like Madeleine had been, but I believe what I believe."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's one-way conversations with Mrs McCann's voicemail expressed: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Is that not significant for you?"
"I do not need money, I have a living here in Poland, I simply desire to discover," the recording stated.
The panel was advised that through electronic messages, text messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a genetic test, transmitted early photographs to her phone in a bid to display a likeness to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and asserted to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.
The investigator, a data specialist with law enforcement who collated the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any answers" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.
On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "the wrong phone."
That day Ms Wandelt left a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording saying "I will continue and I plan to establish my point."
The court learned the co-defendant developed a connection online with Ms Wandelt preceding assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.
Call logs demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using communication app to Mrs McCann to say the news outlets had depicted Ms Wandelt as "mentally unstable" but that she deserved to be taken seriously in the months leading up to the visit to the village, that area, in December 2024.
The court heard communications between the two accused, in last November, discussing trying to acquire Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from utensils at a restaurant.
"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg told Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the appearance to their home, Mrs Spragg sent a message which said: "We're currently positioned outside the McCanns' residence with our lights out similar to investigators. I had hoped to achieve this with Peter Andrew I didn't imagine I would be doing that with the McCanns."
The trial proceeds.
