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13th Mar 2023

Expert helping woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann reveals ‘a lot of evidence showing she was trafficked’

Charlie Herbert

The medium helping a woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann has claimed they have “a lot of evidence” to prove that she was “trafficked to Poland” when she was younger.

Julia Wendell, 21, is currently in California, US, having been taken from her home country after receiving death threats.

Wendell went viral last month after sharing what she claimed is “evidence” on Instagram that she is the girl who went missing in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007. The evidence included two freckles on her leg and an eye defect.

The 21-year-old, who would be two years older than Maddie who would turn 19 in April, has said she does not remember large chunks of her childhood, or the moment she was supposedly taken, but does remember overhearing her mum say she “took her”.

She also claimed she was abused by a German paedophile who looks like someone who was once a suspect in Maddie’s disappearance and now has Dr Fia Johansson, a medium who helps police crack cold cases, investigating her story and representing her.

Johannson is with her at the safehouse in California.

Speaking to RadarOnline, Dr Johansson said they had evidence to show Julia was “definitely trafficked to Poland.”

She said: “We have a lot of evidence right now that shows Julia was definitely trafficked to Poland from another country by an international sex trafficking group.

“We are still conducting an investigation but Julia is definitely not the biological daughter of her parents in Poland.”

Johansson also said that Julia had submitted samples for three different forensic examinations that will outline her DNA sequence, along with a 23andMe-style genetic test to establish her ancestry.

Her family are refusing to take DNA tests of their own. They have denied her claims, and have apparently blocked Wendell’s number.

Related links:

Expert shows what Madeleine McCann ‘looks like now’ compared to woman claiming to be her

Polish police speak out on young woman’s claims she is Madeleine McCann

Woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann ‘overheard’ her mum admit ‘we took her