Woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann releases ‘bombshell new DNA test results’ – 18 years after the British toddler disappeared in Portugal
A Polish woman claiming to be missing British toddler Madeleine McCann has released her latest set of DNA test results.
Julia Wandelt, 23, became an internet sensation in February 2023 when she posted to Instagram under the account name ‘@IAmMadeleineMcCann’ claiming to be the missing daughter of Kate and Gerry McCann.
Also known as Julia Wendell, the 23-year-old ended up on American talk show ‘Dr Phil’ to discuss the far-fetched possibility before later apologising and saying she ‘regretted’ the entire ordeal in an interview with the BBC last year.
But now Ms Wandelt has taken to her new social media account, ‘@AmIJuliaWandelt’, to share the ‘results’ of a fresh DNA test that she said Kate and Gerry ‘refused’ to participate in.
The results, she said, were submitted to a ‘world expert’ who compared them to the crime scene following Madeleine McCann’s 2007 disappearance in Portugal.
Ms Wandelt alleges they also compared eyes, teeth and voice with the toddler, who at just 3 years of age went missing from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the evening of May 3, nearly 18 years ago.
In her numerous posts to the platform last week, the 23-year-old said her ‘source’ believes the genetic evidence ‘strongly supports that Gerry McCann could be Julia Wandelt’s biological father’.
Supported by ‘experts’ in the analysis field, Ms Wandelt posted the first part of the DNA results which had proven her to be ‘part British and part Irish’, and not 100 per cent Polish.
Julia Wandelt (pictured) became an internet sensation in February 2023 when she posted to Instagram under the account name ‘@IAmMadeleineMcCann’ claiming to be the missing daughter of Kate and Gerry McCann
Ms Wandelt appeared on US show ‘Dr Phil’ to discuss the far-fetched possibility before later apologising and saying she ‘regretted’ the entire ordeal in an interview with the BBC last year
Madeleine (pictured), then 3, vanished during a family holiday to Praia da Luz in Portugal in 2007, which would now make her 21 – two years younger than Wandelt
This particular announcement refutes the claims previously made by private investigator Dr Fia Johansson, who in 2023 shared Ms Wandelt’s DNA results that said she was, in fact, fully Polish.
The 23-year-old said she had previously been ‘struggling to understand’ those results from almost two years ago, and claimed Dr Johansson was not telling the truth – which the investigator categorically denied.
Meanwhile, ‘part two’ of the DNA results were analysed by the ‘highly respected and recognised world expert’ Dr Monte Miller and shared by Ms Wandelt.
After interpreting the DNA, Miller, who has a PhD in Biochemistry from Loma Linda University in California, delivered an update to Ms Wandelt, who previously described herself as a ‘fantasist’.
Miller’s email to the 23-year-old read: ‘The simple answer is that the suspect is not the source of the DNA on the evidence, because their DNA is not fully established everywhere.
‘However, they do match fairly well, more than I would expect at random, and a specific pattern emerges that look like an almost certain family connection’.
Ms Wandelt (right) was previously assisted by private investigator Dr Fia Johansson (left) in submitting DNA samples which came back in 2023 saying the 23-year old was 100 per cent Polish