Accused Stalker Asked: 'Yet Suppose I Could Be Madeleine?'
A woman charged with stalking Kate McCann allegedly deposited her a recorded message which posed: "imagine I am Madeleine?"
The defendant, 24, who witnesses stated has consistently declared she was the disappeared Madeleine McCann, and Karen Spragg are on trial charged with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann between June 2022 and February this year.
On Monday, the court was told communication data and data recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt repeatedly requesting Madeleine's mother for a genetic test throughout 2023 and 2024.
Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal - is one of the most publicized child disappearance cases and continues to be open.
'I Don't Want Money'
Another voicemail, presented in court, captured Ms Wandelt stating: "I know I'm overweight and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I know what I know."
While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's voicemail said: "What if there is a small chance that I am Madeleine? What then? Wouldn't that be crucial for you?"
"I do not need money, I maintain a living here in Poland, I only wish to understand," the recording stated.
The jury was informed that via emails, mobile messages and communications, Ms Wandelt demanded a DNA test, sent early photographs to her phone in a attempt to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's missing daughter, and claimed to have "memories" from a youth with the McCanns.
An intelligence analyst, an investigator with the police force who gathered the data, advised the court there "seemed to lack any responses" from Mrs McCann.
Ms Wandelt additionally communicated with family friends of the McCanns, based on the communication logs.
On 9 October 2024, Mr McCann picked up a phone call from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, stating she had "incorrect contact information."
That day Ms Wandelt left a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail saying "I won't give up and I plan to establish my position."
The court was informed Mrs Spragg established a association online with Ms Wandelt prior to assisting her on a trip to the McCanns' residence in that area in last December.
Communication data revealed Mrs Spragg had communicated via communication app to Mrs McCann to say the media had depicted Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she ought to be taken seriously in the time preceding the visit to that location, that area, in last December.
The court heard communications between the two defendants, in that autumn, discussing endeavoring to get Mrs McCann's biological evidence from her trash or from cutlery at a eating establishment.
"We need to make a stand," Mrs Spragg advised Ms Wandelt.
On the evening of the visit to their residence, Mrs Spragg dispatched a message which expressed: "We are sitting adjacent to the McCanns' residence with our headlights off like private investigators. I had hoped to accomplish this with someone else I never thought I would be involved in this with the McCanns."
The proceedings continues.
