“This is excellent news. Maddie’s parents Kate and Gerry (McCann) will be delighted. It gives fresh hope,” a source close to the investigation told the UK’s The Sun.
The bombshell news comes more than a month after Julia Wendell, 21, of Poland, sparked a worldwide firestorm by alleging on a now-deactivated Instagram account titled @IAmMadeleineMcCann that she is the toddler snatched from a hotel room in Praia da Luz, Portugal, as her parents dined nearby with friends.
Wendell claims she had freckles on her leg and cheek as well as a coloboma in her right eye in the same places as missing Madeline and says the sicko who allegedly molested her resembles the composite sketch of the suspect wanted in the McCann case.