A psychic detective who has helped police find missing people says he is “100% certain” on whether or not the woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann really is her.
Julia Wendell, 21, from Poland, went viral after launching the @iammadeleinemcann Instagram account and sharing “evidence” to prove she is the missing girl from Leicestershire.
Julia’s likeness to Madeleine – including a speck in her eye – has seen her amass hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram.
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She also claimed Kate and Gerry McCann had asked her to take a DNA test.
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A source close to the McCanns said: “The family are taking no chances, they are willing to look at all leads. It is important they look at all of the factors, the girl does look similar. There’s no disputing that.
“If what she says is true, there is every chance it could be her. It all adds up.”
German clairvoyant Michael Schneider reckons he knows exactly where Madeleine is and thus whether or not Julia is her.
The ex-journalist seer says he has solved at least 25 missing persons cases since he started aiding investigations on a voluntary basis in 2006.
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Explaining how he works, he told us: “I look at a photo of the missing person or animal and ask myself to God whether the creature is dead or alive and get an answer through my inner voice that is almost always correct.”
Schneider is convinced that Julia is not Madeleine.
Rather, he has pinpointed her to a location in the Algarve, Portugal, close to where she went missing.
He said: “My very clear and 100% certain inspiration on this case is: of course she’s not Madeleine, she just wants publicity.
“Maddie is located in the Algarve in Odiaxere.”
Sadly, Schneider claims his intuition since 2013 has been that she was killed.
It is not the first time Odiaxere has been named as a possible location where the missing youngster may be.
Two months after she vanished Portuguese police probed an anonymous letter published in a Dutch newspaper which claimed Madeleine was buried under rocks in the village.
Schneider previously provided coordinates for a woman who went missing in Padenstedt, Germany, in 2021, some 397 kilometres away from where he lived at the time.
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She was found just 235 metres from where he said, as reported by JV.
He pinpointed exactly where couple Peter Neumair, 63, and Laura Perselli, 68, were found after they vanished from their home in Bolzano, Italy, in January 2021.
According to The Sun, he was able to help police locate another missing woman within 36 hours.
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