Julia Wandelt: Woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann wonders if DNA test results were changed
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Julia Wandelt, the woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann, is "very upset" with her DNA results that confirmed that she is not McCann, a three-year-old child who went missing in Portugal while vacationing with her parents.
Dr Fia Johansson has confirmed that Wandelt has returned to Poland and will be protected by her father. Meanwhile, Johansson also claimed that Wandelt, who is also known as Julia Faustyna or Julia Wendell has a lot of unanswered questions in her mind.
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What were Julia Wandelt's DNA results?
The DNA results of Julia Wandelt, 21, finally came out on Tuesday, April 4, which disclosed that she is not the missing child. The result revealed that Wandelt is 100 per cent Eastern European, meaning that she can't be the British toddler who mysteriously disappeared in 2007. Private investigator and self-proclaimed psychic Johansson, who aided Julia in her quest for truth, took to Instagram to share the sad news on Tuesday.
"Julia has had a difficult childhood, we know she has been sexually abused, she has been very open about this, and my investigation uncovered legal records proving that this was true," she said. Then on top of that she felt she was being ignored by her mother, who refused to take the DNA test which could have stopped all this from the beginning and given her the closure she needs. At first she didn't want to believe the DNA results, she was saying 'What if someone changed the results?' but I told her, 'Stop this now.' I can understand as a psychologist why she didn't want to believe her mother is her real mother.But I told her - she must stop this fixation now that she is Madeleine McCann and accept the result of the DNA test and start to move on with her life."
What are the statements made by Dr Fia Johansson?
Johansson said to The Sun, "Julia has had a difficult childhood, we know she has been sexually abused, she has been very open about this, and my investigation uncovered legal records proving that this was true. Then on top of that she felt she was being ignored by her mother, who refused to take the DNA test which could have stopped all this from the beginning and given her the closure she needs.At first she didn't want to believe the DNA results, she was saying 'What if someone changed the results?' but I told her, 'Stop this now'. I can understand as a psychologist why she didn't want to believe her mother is her real mother. But I told her - she must stop this fixation now that she is Madeleine McCann and accept the result of the DNA test and start to move on with her life."
She then continued. "The DNA test has proven she is from a small village in Poland where her mother and many cousins are from. These tests don't lie. She accepts this now but she has been struggling to come to terms with it.I made sure that it was safe for her to return to Poland and I've spoken to her father, who has said he will make sure she is supported and looked after and receives the health treatment she needs.I will continue looking into the case."
The psychic also added, "Lots of people have asked me why I got involved - was it for money, was it for publicity?, Of course it was for none of those things. I saw a woman who needed help, who was vulnerable. I've always had a deep interest in the Madeleine McCann case and Julia did have similar physical marks - the one in her eye and various birthmarks on her body. When I first met Julia and hugged her I didn't get the feeling she was Maddie but I still wanted to help her. Now we have the results and we know for sure she is not Maddie I still think there was a reason that this happened. I have had so many people come to me with fresh information on Maddie case.They saw me speaking online and came forward and have shared information with me. A lot of them were coming from the perspective of 'Julia cannot be Maddie because of this reason' and then shared some information with me. I would say we have received about 10,000 messages about the Maddie case in the past two months.
She also claimed, "Myself and my team are now looking at all of these and seeing what is legitimate. Of course there are always going to be crazy people and people not telling the truth. But some people have come to me and said 'I was around at the time Maddie went missing but I've always been too scared to come forward Others have told me they spoke to police at the time but lied and now they want to tell the truth. They've seen how I treated Julia and feel brave enough to come forward now. Of course we will share any information we believe is relevant to official investigators, we are already in the process of doing that."