A Polish woman who claims she is Madeleine McCann has made an emotional plea to the parents of the missing girl. Julia Wendell, 21, has sent a message to Kate and Gerry McCann in her first interview claiming that she "really believes" she is their daughter.
Wendell, who is living in a US safe house after being forced to flee her home country, has undergone multiple DNA tests in the hopes of proving she is Madeleine. She says she has previously been ignored by law enforcement agencies who have ignored "critical evidence".
In an interview, the woman "fought back tears" as she watched a video of Kate singing to Madeleine after claiming to "recognise" the voice from her childhood. Wendell told Radar online: "I want to say something to Kate McCann: I listened to a song that you sang to your daughter Madeleine.
“When I hear your voice — from movies, from interviews — I feel like I really know this voice, your voice. I really believe that I could be Madeleine. I have a message to McCann's family… I want to say that I really believe I can be Madeleine, your daughter, but if I'm not, I'm over 100 per cent sure that the person who abused me is involved because I recognise picture from site findmadeleine.com.”
Wendell also claimed in the interview that Interpol and law enforcement agencies across three separate countries have ignored her "evidence", which includes recollections of an assault from a previous suspect and doubts over her own parents being blood relatives.
“If I am not Madeleine McCann, I know that I can open this case again,” Wendell told a reporter after identifying an alleged suspect that she had found on findmadeleine.com as a man named 'Peter.'
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The woman claims that critical evidence has been overlooked, including moles in the same places on her body and a similar speck in her eye to the English toddler, who vanished at age three while with her family on holiday in Portugal in 2007.
Wendell is currently living in a US safe house with private detective and psychic medium Dr Fia Johansson after receiving death threats and vile sexual messages. Johansson has confirmed that if DNA confirms that the girl is British, they will look to communicate with detectives in Portugal about her being the missing girl.
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