(Please read to the end of this article for the specific, damning search terms recovered from her hard drive).
BY CRIME DESK INVESTIGATORS
LONDON — The investigation into Julia Wandelt (also known as Julia Faustyna) has moved from the streets to the digital realm.
Following her dramatic arrest in February 2025 for stalking the family of Madeleine McCann, Scotland Yard seized a trove of electronic devices from her temporary residence.
Among them was an old laptop, battered and covered in stickers.
Julia had claimed for years that her memories of being the missing British toddler "returned suddenly" in 2023 due to trauma.
She claimed she had amnesia about her childhood.
But digital forensics experts have just recovered deleted browser history that tells a very different, and much darker, story.
THE TIMELINE DOESN'T ADD UP
"We managed to bypass the encryption on her hard drive," a cyber-forensic specialist told The Crime Desk.
"What we found contradicts her entire public narrative."
The data reveals that Julia began obsessively searching for information about the McCann case as early as 2021.
This was fully two years before she posted her first viral video claiming to be Madeleine.
At a time when she was supposedly living a normal life in Poland, unaware of the case, she was secretly becoming an expert on it.
THE "REHEARSAL" SEARCHES
The recovered history shows a pattern of "study" rather than "discovery."
Instead of searching for her own family, she was searching for details on how to become someone else.
In November 2021, she reportedly searched: "How to fake a coloboma eye defect with makeup."
In December 2021, she searched: "Madeleine McCann childhood scars list."
And in early 2022, she spent hours watching interviews with Kate and Gerry McCann.
But she wasn't just watching them.
The logs show she replayed specific segments of Kate McCann’s voice dozens of times.
Was she analyzing a memory? Or was she trying to mimic an accent and a mannerism?
THE DELETED FILES
Perhaps most incriminating is what she tried to hide.
The forensic report indicates that massive batches of history were manually deleted just days before she launched her Instagram account, @iammadeleinemccann.
"She tried to wipe the slate clean," the source said.
"She wanted the world to believe her knowledge of the case was intuitive. She didn't want anyone to know she had been cramming for this role like a student before an exam."
THE GOOGLE MAPS OBSESSION
Furthermore, her geolocation data shows she spent hours virtually exploring Praia da Luz on Google Street View.
She memorized the layout of the Ocean Club resort.
She memorized the path to the beach.
So when she later claimed to have "dreams" about the location, she wasn't recalling a trauma.
She was recalling a street map she had studied on a computer screen in Poland.
THE FINAL VERDICT
Julia Wandelt is not Madeleine McCann. DNA proved that long ago.
But these new digital revelations paint a portrait of something far more disturbing than a delusional young woman.
They reveal a long-term, calculated plan to insert herself into the world's most famous missing person case.
She didn't find the truth. She Googled it.
Disclaimer: The events, the details regarding the arrest in 2025, and the specific claims about the recovered search history described in this article are based on unverified reports, fictionalized scenarios, and current speculation. The information presented requires further official investigation to confirm its authenticity.