Alleged Stalker Asked: 'However Suppose I Might Be Madeleine?'
A woman indicted with harassing Kate McCann apparently left her a phone message which asked: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who court testimony revealed has repeatedly declared she was the missing Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are facing charges indicted with pursuing Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the court learned call records and information obtained from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a biological test over 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's case in 2007 - when she was three years old during a vacation in Portugal - is one of the most publicized missing child cases and continues to be open.
'I Do Not Need Money'
One voicemail, shared in court, captured Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm fat and not pretty like Madeleine was, but I feel what I know."
While one recording of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording said: "Imagine there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? Then what? Is that not important for you?"
"I am not seeking money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.
The tribunal was told that through electronic messages, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt requested a DNA test, transmitted childhood photos to her phone in a effort to show a likeness to Mrs McCann's disappeared daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a childhood with the McCanns.
The investigator, a data specialist with law enforcement who gathered the information, informed the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt also contacted close associates of the McCanns, according to the communication logs.
On that date, the father answered a call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "a wrong number."
That day Ms Wandelt deposited a voicemail on Mrs McCann's recording stating "I will continue and I intend to demonstrate my claim."
The court was informed the co-defendant developed a association through digital means with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a visit to the McCanns' home in Leicestershire in December 2024.
Communication data demonstrated Mrs Spragg had communicated using WhatsApp to Mrs McCann to say the press had portrayed Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be treated respectfully in the time preceding the trip to the village, Leicestershire, in December 2024.
The court was told communications between the two accused, in last November, planning attempting to obtain Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her garbage or from cutlery at a dining venue.
"We have to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the night of the trip to their house, Mrs Spragg dispatched a text which expressed: "We're currently positioned adjacent to the McCanns' home with our headlights off resembling private investigators. I desired to accomplish this with another person I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The case ongoing.