Madeleine McCann has been missing for around 16 years, with many people believing that she may have died as a result of her parents’ negligence. Now a German woman has come forward with claims that she is in fact the child who went missing all those years ago while her family vacationed in Portugal. Has Madeleine been found, or is this just another wacky detour in the long-cold search for her?
According to Radar Online, an unnamed woman in Germany has come forward with claims that she is Madeleine McCann. The woman, whose identity is being protected, says that she has the same physical defect that the missing child has, and that she bears a resemblance to her. Madeleine McCann was born with an eye defect known as coloboma, which affected one of her pupils. Apparently this German woman has the same condition in the same eye as the missing toddler. The unnamed woman also claims to have a birthmark identical to one that Madeleine had.
This source says that the woman even has her own TikTok account, where she’s garnering a lot of attention under the name @iamamadeleinemccann. She mentioned a few months ago on a livestream that she believes she’s the missing child, and has since made quite a name for herself. Now she’s demanding a DNA test to prove that she’s indeed the little girl who vanished in 2007.
To be honest, the likelihood that this is just an attention-seeking stunt by someone who needs mental help is quite high. However, there is still a small possibility that Madeleine McCann could be anywhere in the world right now. When Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, she was on holiday in Praia de Luz with her parents and two little siblings. Over the course of their trip, Kate and Gerry McCann reportedly left Madeleine and her infant siblings alone in a rental flat while they enjoyed tapas and drinks with friends several hundred yards away. She vanished while her parents left her and her little brother and sister unsupervised. For approximately 15 years, numerous people — including detectives in Portugal — have shared the belief that Madeleine accidentally died while left unsupervised in the apartment, and that her parents likely covered the incident up and staged an abduction. There is no actual proof to indicate that Madeleine was taken from the flat the night she vanished, but it’s still possible that someone could have kidnapped her and then took her out of the country.
Do you think this woman in Germany might be Madeleine McCann? Or do you think it’s more likely that she never left her parents’ rental flat alive?
Chelsea Hoffman is a true crime writer with over a decade of professional writing experience. She is best known for her coverage of missing people including the tragic disappearance of Madeleine McCann as well as the heartbreaking cases of Dylan Redwine, Heather Elvis and many others.
