Mike Neville: Madeleine McCann detective talks about 'wacky' individuals like Julia Wandelt making odd claims to cops
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: With polish woman, Julia Wandelt, 21, claiming that she is Madeleine McCann, a police officer closely involved in the case of the missing three-year-old toddler points out how often “weird and wacky people” have come forward with such bizarre claims. Mike Neville emphasized that we "live in a strange world and these things will happen."
“The trouble is with all these things… is you'll get people coming in confessing that they've committed a crime that they haven't done,” Neville told Sky News. “People have all sorts of mental health issues and as senior investigator on a high-profile case you’ve just got to accept that we sometimes live in a strange world and these things will happen", he added. The cop made no specific statements about claims made by Wandelt who still has not verified her DNA test which can prove her true identity.
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'This woman claiming to be Madeleine is not unusual'
"Some weird and wacky people will come forward, you've just got to accept that, and this woman claiming to be Madeleine is not unusual," he added before saying, "Yeah I dealt with a murder case and the family went to see a psychic who then had a vision that the missing person was in the boot of a car, and in the end when we when we found out what happened to him, he'd actually been in the boots of a - car so you just don't know what's going to happen."
Neville talked about left-out evidence
Neville also talked about pieces of evidence connected to Madeleine’s disappearance in May 2007 that went unexamined. “For example, a critical thing was a CCTV camera on a road that leads down to the Sea past a primary school and that could have provided critical evidence and that was completely missed," he said. This contradicts Dr Fia Johansson's statement where she said that there’s “no need” to involve the McCann family in any DNA testing because there are plenty of samples of the missing toddler's DNA “already out there” as a result of previous investigations. He further suggested advanced facial recognition software. that hadn’t been available in 2007, to be brought in to help settle Wandelt’s claim. The software could also potentially explore social media for images of another person who could be the lost British girl.
Wandelt gained over a million followers on Instagram after claiming that she is Madeleine McCann, the missing British child who disappeared at the age of three in Portugal's Praia da Luz back in 2007. She posted a host of supposed evidence on the social media app, including claims such as her childhood memories being vague as well as there being no hospital records of the first five years of her life in her home city of Wroclaw.
