Three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007 while on vacation with her family in Portugal. The case became one of the most publicized disappearances in the world, but despite the police having several leads, she has never been found.
In recent days, the speculation about the almost 16-year-old case has gone through the roof on social media when Polish Julia Wendell came out with the fact that she believes she is Madeleine McCann. In a week, her newly started Instagram account has gathered over 900,000 followers and on Tiktok she has several million views. The hashtag “madeleinemccann” alone has 559 million views on Tiktok.
On her social media, the 21-year-old shows what she believes is evidence in the form of similarities between her and the old photos of Madeleine McCann. These include the shape of the face, a dark mark in the right eye, a dot on the leg and other similarities between her and Madeleine’s parents.
To be DNA tested
Julia Wendell’s age does not match Madeleine’s, who would be 19 today. But she claims that she was sexually abused as a child by the German pedophile, who was the main suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, and that the perpetrator would have been able to falsify her age.
Now, among other things, the Daily Star reports and refers to “a source close to the family” that the parents of Madeleine McCann have agreed to DNA testing the woman. Julia Wendell writes the same on her Instagram. However, there is no official comment from the parents yet.
Someone who has commented on the matter is one of the private investigators hired by the parents to search for Madeleine in the months after her disappearance, Francisco Marco.
– Without knowing the details fully, it doesn’t add up for me. I don’t think it’s her, he says to Spanish El Independient.