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Woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann submits DNA test​

A Polish woman who believes she could be Madeleine McCann has submitted samples for forensic testing to determine if she is the missing Brit.

Julia Faustyna, who also goes by Julia Wendell, has been claiming on Instagram and TikTok that she may be the child – who disappeared from a family holiday in Portugal in 2007 – due to similarities in their age and appearance.

She has amassed tens of thousands of followers on both platforms as a result, posting under the handle @iammadeleinemccann.

The 21-year-old has submitted samples for three different forensic examinations that will outline her DNA sequence, along with a 23andMe-style genetic test to establish her ancestry, private investigator Dr. Fia Johansson told RadarOnline.com.

“If the results come back that she’s British or from that area then we are going to continue our investigation into Madeleine McCann and communicate with the detectives in Portugal,” said Dr. Johansson, who relocated Wendell from Poland to a safe house in the United States after a series of death threats.
 

Julia Faustyna most likely not Madeleine McCann, analysis concludes​

The Polish woman who became an internet sensation after claiming to be missing British girl Madeleine McCann is most likely not the girl who was abducted in Portugal in 2007, a facial recognition analysis concluded.

Julia Faustyna, who is also listed in some reports as Julia Wendell or Julia Wandelt, failed to match photos of McCann in a facial recognition comparison of the two.

Soon after Faustyna, 21, claimed to be the missing British girl, Swiss AI company Ava-X ran photos of her and McCann through its Iris facial recognition software, the Swiss newspaper Blick reported.

“It’s practically impossible for the young Pole to be Maddie,” Ava-X’s co-founder Christian Fehrlin concluded.

Fehrlin noted that while childhood and adult photos of Faustyna matched — a comparison between photos of McCann and Faustyna did not.
 

Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann receives negative DNA test results​

A Polish woman who believes she’s the missing British girl Madeleine McCann is not the same person who was abducted in Portugal in 2007, results of a DNA test concluded.

Julia Faustyna, 21, had been claiming on Instagram and TikTok that she may be McCann, who disappeared from a family holiday more than a decade ago, because of their shared age and appearance.
 

Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann receives negative DNA test results​


this is hard breaking. when she came out as madeleine mccann i was gunna plan a trip to poland with my family to visit her. what a sensation! what an inspiration! wow! but now after this realization we are devastated.
 

Polish Madeleine McCann faker Julia Wendell, 21, is reported to police over 'explicit images of children found on her phone'​

The Polish woman repeatedly claiming to be Madeleine McCann - despite negative DNA test results - has been reported to police over explicit images of children that were allegedly found on her phone.

This morning, news broke that police have seized a phone belonging to Julia Wendell, who went viral on social media for claiming she was missing British toddler Madeleine McCann.

It has now been revealed that Dr Fia Johansson, a private investigator and psychic medium who brought Wendell to the US, has handed over the phone to Californian police after filing a report alleging a phone Wendell had left behind with her in California after the DNA test appeared to contain explicit images of children.

Dr Johansson told The Sun: 'Police are taking this very seriously and have assured me that a full investigation will be done,' and added that Orange County police have told her the phone would be passed on to law enforcement in Germany and Poland.
 

Madeleine McCann’s sister Amelie speaks out on 16th anniversary of her disappearance​


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Amelie McCann has spoken out for the first time since her older sister Madeleine disappeared during a family vacation 16 years ago.

The three-year-old vanished during a family vacation in the resort of Praia de Luz in Portugal’s Algarve region on May 3, 2007 — nine days before her fourth birthday.

Amelie, now 18, fought back tears as she lit a candle in her sister’s memory at a vigil in Rothley, Leicestershire — McCann’s hometown — on Wednesday, attended by close friends and family.

“It’s nice everyone is here together but it’s a sad occasion,” Amelie said at the vigil where pictures of her sister were hung up on railings.

Amelie was joined by her friend Georgina, who helped her read messages for Madeleine handed from well-wishers.

She later joined her parents Kate and Gerry McCann, who did not speak at the vigil.

Kate’s close friend Fiona Payne, who was vacationing with the McCann family in 2007, was also in attendance.
 

Madeleine McCann Search of remote reservoir enters second day as police seen digging beside dam​


The fresh search for Madeleine McCann has entered its second day as divers probe the Barragem do Arade reservoir in Portugal which suspect Christian Brueckner used to visit.

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Investigators believe the 45-year-old killed Madeleine, then aged three, after abducting her from a holiday apartment.

The reservoir is around 31 miles from Praia da Luz where Madeleine went missing in 2007. While divers scoured the water, police were seen digging besides the reservoir on Monday afternoon.

A Policia Judiciaria statement on Monday said it is co-ordinating searches in the Algarve at the request of German police and in the presence of British officers.

The development comes just 10 days after Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, issued a tribute on their Leicestershire-born daughter’s 20th birthday, telling her: “We love you and we’re waiting for you. We’re never going to give up.”

 

Madeleine McCann police in Portugal 'no longer needed' as search primed to end​


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Portuguese police scouring a reservoir in the Madeleine McCann search have been told they are to "stand down" at 4pm today. This likely signals the end of the search in the Barragem do Arade area by the National Republican Guard (GNR), 30 miles from Praia da Luz, where the then-three-year-old vanished in 2007.

 
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Madeleine McCann – latest update: Search of remote Algarve reservoir finds ‘relevant clue’​


A three-day search of a remote Portugal reservoir has resulted in the reported discovery of a “relevant clue” linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Officers concluded their search of the Algarve reservoir on Thursday, where key suspect Christian Brueckner reportedly visited “some days” after the three-year-old vanished on May 3, 2007.

Using sniffer dogs and a tractor-based tree-cutter, authorities scoured Barragem do Arade reservoir in the Algarve - around 31 miles inland from where the McCanns were staying in the Praia de Luz resort.

Police in Portugal said the search resulted in the collection of some material that will be subject to competent expertise. The material collected will be handed over to German authorities.

A source close to the investigation told Reuters there was nothing tangible to report, while German prosecutor Christian Wolters played down hopes of a breakthrough, saying: “Of course, there is a certain expectation, but it is not high.”

It brings the total amount spent on the search for the Leicestershire-born girl, codenamed Operation Grange, to just shy of £13.1m since 2011, and is significantly less than the more than £300,000 approved by the Home Office the year prior.

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Exact date Madeleine McCann prime suspect will finally go on trial for sex crimes
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Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner is set to go on trial next year.

The paedophile will be in the dock facing charges for five sex crimes, three involving minors, on February 16 2024, German prosecutors have confirmed. It is expected to be presided over by a panel of four or five judges and could last up to three months, according to reports.

The 46-year-old's lawyer is understood to have accepted the start date despite filing a complaint against key witness Helge Busching. The trial will take place at Braunschweig High Court. Police identified Brueckner as a suspect in the McCann case in 2022 after it emerged he had reportedly been driving around the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal at the time the British youngster went missing in 2007.

He has always denied any involvement Madeleine's disappearance. Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said: "It's set to begin on February 16, a Friday and a half day, but there should be enough time to hear all the charges. Everyone is available that day and assuming there are not too many holdups from Christian's lawyer, Mr Fulscher, we will hear his reply to the charges."

Brueckner's lawyer submitted an official complaint to the court over key witness Helge Busching, a former friend of the accused, and who he allegedly confessed the Madeleine abduction to in 2008. Mr Wolters brushed this off, saying: "It will not be a problem at all, don't worry. I spoke to Helge yesterday and it's only an attempt to paint him in a bad picture." He added: "We understand the issue and he will be fine." Mr Wolters said the Madeleine investigation continues and he expects a trial date to be "set soon".

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German police discover Christian Brueckner emails linking him to Madeleine McCann - the first ever time investigators have found evidence connecting him to her case​

German police have discovered an email account linking Christian Brueckner to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, investigators have claimed.

Titus Stampa, a senior detective, told a court in Germany that investigators had found emails on a Hotmail account used by Brueckner that linked him directly to the case.

The bombshell revelation is the first time an investigating official has alluded to evidence directly connecting Brueckner to the three-year-old's disappearance from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal in 2007.

But Stampa said he was unable to share details of the evidence as it was 'related to the killing' of young Madeleine.

Brueckner, the prime suspect, is currently on trial in Germany for unrelated sex crimes. He denies involvement in Madeleine's 2007 disappearance.
 
A German court on Tuesday acquitted a man who is also under investigation in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in a trial on charges of unrelated sexual offenses.
The Braunschweig state court acquitted the 47-year-old German national, who has been identified by local media as Christian Brueckner, of two counts of rape and two of sexual abuse.

However, Brueckner will remain in prison another year because he is still serving a seven-year sentence for rape in a different case, German news agency dpa reported.
 

Disturbing hard drive 'found buried in Madeleine McCann suspect's abandoned lair contains clues that the three-year-old is dead'​

Disturbing clues allegedly uncovered at Christian Brueckner's abandoned lair in Germany have intensified the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann - with prosecutors sure the youngster is dead.

Madeleine was three when she vanished from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007. Brueckner, a German paedophile, has been a prime suspect in her disappearance for years.

A bombshell cache of horrifying documents, pictures, children's swimming costumes and toys was reportedly uncovered at a former box-making factory he bought in 2008, a year after the British girl was last seen.

Among the disturbing finds was a hard drive of images that police are said to have kept secret - but are reportedly thought to uphold investigators' long-held belief that Madeleine was killed.

Police reportedly later found an insurance document that is said corroborate an informant's account that he allegedly confessed to her murder in Spain in 2008.

The materials found by police, revealed in a Sun investigation to be broadcast on Channel 4 on Wednesday night, shed new light on Brueckner's disturbing obsession with children and his potential involvement in the case.

Last year, Brueckner was cleared of unrelated sex attacks in the same area Madeleine vanished from.

But in 2016, police searching a factory owned under his name in Neuwegersleben, central Germany, uncovered what was previously reported to be some 8,000 pieces of disturbing material, alleged to include videos and pictures of suspected crimes.
 

‘He’s calm, clever and dangerous’: The battle to convict Madeleine McCann’s prime suspect​


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The red dust kicks up again as police vans rattle along the narrow rural tracks east of Portugal’s Praia da Luz, while the global press pack strains to peer beyond the cordons. For many, the scene is painfully familiar.

Eighteen years ago, the search for three-year-old Madeleine McCann gripped headlines worldwide after the toddler from Rothley, Leicestershire, vanished from her bedroom at the infamous Ocean Club holiday resort. Now, in this same arid Algarve scrubland, the echoes of that disappearance in May 2007 still linger.

But this time, nearly two years after the last search in 2023 – the most extensive since 2008 – a different urgency hangs in the dry air. Experts speak of a ticking clock, a new pressure driving this latest effort.

The catalyst behind this three-day scramble? One man: German paedophile Christian Brueckner. More specifically, the need to keep him in the German prison from which he is set to walk free on September 17 at the age of just 48, despite his disturbing back catalogue of sadistic crimes and his status as the prime suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance. Chillingly, a leading German psychiatrist told a court last year that Brueckner had been tested and scored 99 per cent on a scale of dangerousness.

Some 30 German police officers, joined by forensic experts and supported by Portugal’s Polícia Judiciária – the national criminal investigation police agency – began fresh searches on Tuesday across a 26-mile area in pursuit of new evidence in Madeleine’s case. Chainsaws, hedge trimmers and pickaxes are being used to clear thick foliage and access crumbling ruins, while mounds of earth are shifted across the barren fields.

Equipped with radar capable of scanning 15ft below the surface, the team is expected to continue this extraordinary operation – scouring 20 privately owned plots and draining wells – until Friday.

Now it seems this heartbreaking British case has become the only means left for German authorities to keep the sex offender behind bars.

“It’s now or never,” read a headline in Germany’s Bild newspaper this week. Summing up the race to keep Brueckner imprisoned.

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