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A 21-year-old Polish woman, Julia Faustyna, who has a coloboma in her right eye and moles on her leg, claims that she may be the missing British toddler, Madeleine McCann. Madeleine disappeared from a holiday resort in Portugal back in 2007. Julia, who has also gone by the names Julia Wandelt and Julia Wendell, says she recalls very little of her childhood, except for vacations in warm locations with white-colored apartments.
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“I remember that I saw [turtles] on the beach it was little bay as I can remember I saw [turtles] then and there were another children and they tried to touch small [turtles]. I don’t see my family in this memory,” she wrote on her Instagram account, @iammadeleinemccann, which she launched over the weekend.
On the night of May 3, 2007, in Praia da Luz, Portugal, McCann, who has a coloboma on her right eye similar to Faustyna’s, was sleeping in the same room as her younger twin siblings while her parents were with friends at a nearby restaurant. Police had initially suspected that McCann’s parents were involved in her disappearance.
Faustyna stated she learned about McCann’s case from her grandmother, who she now doesn’t believe is her real blood relative. She has also posted several photos of herself as a child that show quite a resemblance.
“I have similar eyes, shape of face, ears, lips, I had the gap between the teeth,” she wrote in a post. “I need to know the truth. I need dna test and I need to talk with Madeleine’s parents. Help me!”
She also posted a police sketch from McCann’s missing person page of the man who people say they were carrying the child in the resort the night she disappeared. “I recognise this person..it looks very similar to my abbuser,” she went on to write. “I need you to help me because Police ignore me.”
A representative for the McCann family declined to comment on the matter. However, a friend of the family confirmed to The Daily Beast that they are open to investigation. According to Faustyna, the McCanns have agreed to submit their DNA for a test, writing on Instagram, “Thank you for support! Kate and Gerry McCann agreed for DNA test!”
The only suspect in the case is Christian Brueckner, 45, who is currently serving a seven-year sentence in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old woman. He was working as a handyman in the same report where McCann disappeared and was then found with little girl swimming suits and child pornography in his possession years after his arrest. He was charged with a number of sex crimes but hasn’t officially been charged with the connection to the disappearance.
