A 21-year-old Polish woman has gone viral after claiming to be Madeleine McCann, the victim of one of the most infamous child abduction cases of all time.
The woman, referred to as Julia Faustyna and Julia Wendell interchangeably, has posted a series of videos to TikTok and Instagram, explaining why she believes she is McCann – and she is willing to take a DNA test to prove it.
Madeleine was nearly four years old when she disappeared from the Portuguese holiday resort, Praia da Luz, in 2007. Her parents, doctors Kate and Gerry McCann, have been looking for her ever since.
Julia claims to not remember much from her childhood and that her parents avoided answering her questions. It was only after she began doing her own research and discovered Madeleine’s case that she “connected the dots.”
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The woman, referred to as Julia Faustyna and Julia Wendell interchangeably, has posted a series of videos to TikTok and Instagram, explaining why she believes she is McCann – and she is willing to take a DNA test to prove it.
Madeleine was nearly four years old when she disappeared from the Portuguese holiday resort, Praia da Luz, in 2007. Her parents, doctors Kate and Gerry McCann, have been looking for her ever since.
Julia claims to not remember much from her childhood and that her parents avoided answering her questions. It was only after she began doing her own research and discovered Madeleine’s case that she “connected the dots.”
@iammadeleinemccannc
I think that I can be Madeleine McCann because… #madeleinemccann #iammadeleinemccann #fyp #featureme...
- 2/22/2023
- by Nicky Kashani
- Uinterview
It never gets easier. On May 3, Kate and Gerry McCann shared a heartbreaking " target="_blank">message about daughter Madeleine McCann, who disappeared exactly 15 years ago while the family vacationed in Portugal. "This year we mark fifteen years since we last saw Madeleine," they wrote. "It feels no harder than any other but no easier either. It's a very long time. Many people talk about the need for 'closure'. It's always felt a strange term. Regardless of outcome, Madeleine will always be our daughter and a truly horrific crime has been committed. These things will remain." The parents then thanked authorities in the United...
- 5/3/2022
- E! Online
This is the final installment of a three-part series. Read parts one and two here. When Kate and Gerry McCann went home on Sept. 9, 2007, they told the reporters crowded around to witness their departure from Portugal that their decision to leave in no way meant that they had given up searching for their daughter Madeleine, who had been missing for four months. They were reluctant to go, Kate recalled in her 2011 book Madeleine, but going back to their lives in England was "what was right and fair" for their twins, Sean and Amelie, who at 2 years old were still unaware that something so devastating had happened. Their big sister's fourth birthday had solemnly passed on May 12, nine...
- 5/2/2022
- E! Online
Portuguese prosecutors have formally identified a man as a suspect in the case of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann nearly 15 years ago. The man is the first official suspect in the case since Kate and Gerry McCann, Madeleine’s parents, were named suspects in 2007. The young child was only three years old when she […]
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- 4/26/2022
- by Benedetta Tommaselli
- Uinterview
This is the second part of a three-part series. Read part one here. When their daughter Madeleine disappeared on the night of May 3, 2007, Kate and Gerry McCann were sure that she had been abducted from the resort where they'd been vacationing in Praia da Luz. But they tried to remain hopeful that, wherever she was, the 3-year-old was alive and being properly cared for. The parents of three broke their silence to the media the following evening, having to venture only steps outside their holiday apartment to read a statement into the waiting cameras, pleading for information and their eldest child's safe return. Immediately, sightings piled up: A gas station employee telling police...
- 6/12/2021
- E! Online
Gerry McCann checked on the sleeping children at 9:05 p.m., and they were snug in their beds. The Glasgow native returned to dinner with his wife, Kate McCann, and five fellow vacationers, the group from England in the middle of a 10-day holiday at the seaside resort town of Praia da Luz—"beach of light"—in southern Portugal. The various members of the party, enjoying wine and food at the Ocean Club's poolside tapas restaurant, would get up periodically to make the 100-yard walk to look in on their kids back in their respective apartments. It was Kate's turn to go at 9:30 p.m., but Dr. Matthew Oldfield, rising at the same time to check on his...
- 6/5/2021
- E! Online
The Latest Developments in the Madeleine McCann Case and What They Mean to Her Still-Hopeful Parents
Kate and Gerry McCann have gone without answers for 13 years, but they've refused to give up hope. The couple proceeded with their life together in England the best they could despite a part of them remaining in Praia da Luz, Portugal, where their 3-year-old daughter Madeleine went missing in 2007 during the family's spring holiday. The child's unsolved disappearance has been the focus of books, TV specials, an unauthorized Netflix documentary and endless speculation in the years since, every one of which went by with Kate and Gerry wondering if this might be the one that offered some real information about their child's fate. The case was closed in Portugal in 2008 but...
- 6/17/2020
- E! Online
Editor’s Note:
It’s been exactly 12 years since Madeleine McCann, then just 3 years old, vanished from her British family’s vacation villa in the Algarve region of Portugal.
To shine a fresh light on the long-standing, still unsolved case, in March 2019 Netflix debuted an 8-part docuseries about the case, entitled The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The following article was originally published on People to mark the series’ debut.
The circumstances surrounding Madeleine’s disappearance were any parent’s worst nightmare. And the ensuing years have only compounded the anguish of Madeleine’s physician parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, who...
It’s been exactly 12 years since Madeleine McCann, then just 3 years old, vanished from her British family’s vacation villa in the Algarve region of Portugal.
To shine a fresh light on the long-standing, still unsolved case, in March 2019 Netflix debuted an 8-part docuseries about the case, entitled The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The following article was originally published on People to mark the series’ debut.
The circumstances surrounding Madeleine’s disappearance were any parent’s worst nightmare. And the ensuing years have only compounded the anguish of Madeleine’s physician parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, who...
- 5/3/2019
- by Laura Barcella
- PEOPLE.com
The Madeleine McCann disappearance case has intrigued people across the world for more than a decade. When the 3-year-old girl disappeared while on a family vacation in Portugal, her family was immediately thrust into the spotlight. Madeleine's case is the subject of a new Netflix documentary, and is one of many true crime stories being highlighted in today's true crime boom, which is drawing attention back to her parents as well.
Madeleine McCann's parents are Kate and Gerry McCann, who both were doctors, according to Country Living. Kate also became an author in the years following her daughter's disappearance, writing a 2011 memoir about their experience entitled Madeleine: Our Daughter's Disappearance and the Continuing Search for Her. At the time of Madeleine's disappearance in 2007, the couple were both in their late 30s.
Four months after Madeleine's disappearance, news outlets around the world reported that Kate was named a suspect in Madeleine's disappearance.
Madeleine McCann's parents are Kate and Gerry McCann, who both were doctors, according to Country Living. Kate also became an author in the years following her daughter's disappearance, writing a 2011 memoir about their experience entitled Madeleine: Our Daughter's Disappearance and the Continuing Search for Her. At the time of Madeleine's disappearance in 2007, the couple were both in their late 30s.
Four months after Madeleine's disappearance, news outlets around the world reported that Kate was named a suspect in Madeleine's disappearance.
- 3/23/2019
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
On the eve of its release, Netflix has dropped the trailer for true-crime documentary series “The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann.”
“If you made a dozen movies out of this, nobody would believe them,” one participant in the docuseries tells trailer viewers right off the bat.
“I’ve done thousands of cases, the Madeleine case, I’ve seen the worst things a human being can see — the worst,” an investigator adds.
Watch the video above.
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Promising a deep dive into every piece of evidence and potential theory of what has been called the most famous missing child case in British history, the streaming series reexamines the events of the night of May 3, 2007, when 3-year-old McCann disappeared while on vacation with her family at Praia de Luz resort in Portugal.
The project emerges two...
“If you made a dozen movies out of this, nobody would believe them,” one participant in the docuseries tells trailer viewers right off the bat.
“I’ve done thousands of cases, the Madeleine case, I’ve seen the worst things a human being can see — the worst,” an investigator adds.
Watch the video above.
Also Read: 'One Day at a Time' Canceled by Netflix After 3 Seasons, Sony to Shop Elsewhere
Promising a deep dive into every piece of evidence and potential theory of what has been called the most famous missing child case in British history, the streaming series reexamines the events of the night of May 3, 2007, when 3-year-old McCann disappeared while on vacation with her family at Praia de Luz resort in Portugal.
The project emerges two...
- 3/14/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Netflix has released a trailer for its long-gestating documentary series The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann about the missing British child, the day before its release.
The Svod is to launch the multi-part series on 15 March. It tells the story of the disappearance of 3-year-old McCann, who vanished from the seaside resort of Praia de Luz in Portugal, while on holiday with her family.
Directed by Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened and Jim & Andy director Chris Smith, the series is produced by Pulse Films and Paramount Television and exec produced by Emma Cooper and Thomas Benski.
The doc series, which was commissioned in 2017, blends interviews with more than 40 contributors, 120 hours of interviews, archival news footage and reenactments. While it will feature interviews with investigators, journalists and friends of the McCann family, it does not feature contributions from Kate or Gerry McCann.
The Svod is to launch the multi-part series on 15 March. It tells the story of the disappearance of 3-year-old McCann, who vanished from the seaside resort of Praia de Luz in Portugal, while on holiday with her family.
Directed by Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened and Jim & Andy director Chris Smith, the series is produced by Pulse Films and Paramount Television and exec produced by Emma Cooper and Thomas Benski.
The doc series, which was commissioned in 2017, blends interviews with more than 40 contributors, 120 hours of interviews, archival news footage and reenactments. While it will feature interviews with investigators, journalists and friends of the McCann family, it does not feature contributions from Kate or Gerry McCann.
- 3/14/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is reportedly getting ready to release a documentary about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann this month. While the streaming service has been silent about this project thus far, reports are now surfacing with the claims that Netflix could release this new documentary in March 2019. No specific date has been provided yet, but viewers have mixed reactions on the case. With the news that a documentary would reportedly be coming out on Netflix, the Daily Mail ran a report, claiming that her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, have refused to participate in the documentary. Needless to say, the lack […]
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- 3/4/2019
- by Mary Jane
- Monsters and Critics
In what is being called a breakthrough in a long and frustrating crime, British Metropolitan Police are said to be targeting three burglars for their possible involvement in the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann, who was snatched from her hotel room in the Portuguese town of Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007. News about the trio, which was accompanied by reports that key arrests were finally imminent, followed a letter sent by the Crown Prosecution Services to authorities in Portugal on Friday, seeking permission to conduct interviews in connection with the case, reports CNN. "The letter is a significant development.
- 1/14/2014
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Six years later, the hunt continues. British police have released two photofits of the man sought for questioning about the disappearance of the nearly 4-year-old Madeleine McCann, who was snatched from her hotel room in the Portuguese town of Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007. The computer-generated pictures are based on descriptions provided by new witnesses who claim to have seen the man on the night of Madeleine's disappearance. Metropolitan Police describe him as white, between 20-40 years old, with short brown hair, of medium build, medium height and clean shaven. On Monday, investigators in the case plan to make another...
- 10/14/2013
- by Simon Perry
- PEOPLE.com
As was foreseen early this month, police in Portugal have decided to shelve the investigation into the unsolved May 2007 disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann, Portuguese attorney general Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro announced Monday. This formally removes her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, from the list of official suspects – arguidos – where they were placed last September. "Kate and Gerry will be reacting to this in the next couple of hours, other than this it is exactly what was necessary. They should not have been made arguidos in the first place," family spokesman Clarence Mitchell told reporters in the couple's English hometown of Rothley,...
- 7/21/2008
- PEOPLE.com
Police in Portugal are planning to shut down the investigation into the May 2007 disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann because of a lack of evidence, it is being reported. The official end of the probe by the Public Prosecutor's office is set for Aug. 15, according to Portuguese newspapers. Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann, told the Associated Press the family had yet to confirm with authorities whether, indeed, the reports are true, but that no matter the circumstance, "Kate and Gerry will "never give up searching for their daughter." Ending the investigation would mean that official suspects,...
- 7/1/2008
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
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