The Polish woman who believes she may be missing toddler Madeleine McCann all grown up has traveled to the United States with her psychic medium and private investigator handler, and CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace is skeptical of the whole matter.
Fia Johansson, the “psychic medium slash private investigator” who once predicted that McCann was still alive, says that Julia Wendell has submitted three DNA samples to determine if she is British, although DNA cannot actually determine one’s nationality.
“She says that she is not the natural child of her Polish parents,” Grace told Fox News, although her entire Polish family — “the whole works, say she’s their natural child.”
DNA can determine relationships between people, but Wendell’s Polish family is reportedly refusing to submit a DNA sample, and Maddie McCann’s family, which reportedly said they would do so, apparently has not. And even if DNA eventually proves that Wendell is not McCann, she apparently has another idea.
“She says if she is not Maddie McCann, she may be a Swiss girl who went missing with her sister,” Grace says.
Bottom line, says Grace, “I do not think she is connected with Maddie McCann’s family in any way.”
“Polish police say her story doesn’t add up,” she said, “and that says a lot to me.”
Wendell, also known as Julia Faustyna, claimed on Instagram to be the 3-year-old girl who vanished from a Portuguese resort in 2007 while vacationing with her parents, as CrimeOnline has reported. The 21-year-old — too old to be Maddie McCann — says she doesn’t remember her early childhood, that her birthdate may not be correct, and that she has no birth certificate or photos from her early days.
Wendell’s family, however, says that Wendell took her birth certificate and photos with her when she moved out of the house, and Polish police say they’ve investigated and are confident Wendell is not Madeleine McCann.
Johansson, however, says that she can find no proof that police have looked into the matter.
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