A young 21-year-old woman of Polish nationality who made headlines earlier this year when she claimed via a social media campaign that she believed there was a chance that she was the missing toddler, has revealed the results of a DNA test.
Julie Wendell’s spokeswoman Dr. Fia Johansson has confirmed via Instagram that the test show that Wendell is not Madeleine McCann.
Johansson wrote: "We finally know the reality. Although it is impossible to tell for sure without the parent's DNA results on either side, the test results speak to the origins of Julia's root. The test results revealed that she is 100 percent of Polish heart, with negligible influence from Lithuania, and Russia."
Although Madeleine would only be 19 years old now, Julia Faustyna has said that she did not believe her age to be accurate. (Faustyna also goes by the names Julia Wendell and Julia Wandelt.)
Three-year-old Madeleine went missing while on vacation with her family in Portugal in 2007. Her parents left her and her 2-year-old twin siblings in an unlocked hotel room while they dined at a restaurant in the holiday complex. When Madeleine's mother Kate went to check on the children, Madeleine was missing. Initially, Kate and Gerry McCann were suspects in her disappearance but were cleared by authorities the following year.
Her disappearance received worldwide media coverage, searches are still ongoing today.
Madeleine would have turned 19 in May 20222.
Happy 19th Birthday Madeleine. pic.twitter.com/aJiWDgi7pf
— FindMadeleine (@FindMadeleine) May 12, 2022
