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American woman claims she is Madeleine McCann and has DNA test results as ‘proof’

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Updated 07:56 26 Feb 2025 GMTPublished 07:29 26 Feb 2025 GMT

American woman claims she is Madeleine McCann and has DNA test results as ‘proof’

22-year-old Eugenea Collins is the latest person claiming to be the missing Brit

Brenna Cooper

Brenna Cooper

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Topics: Madeleine McCann, UK News, US News

Brenna Cooper
Brenna Cooper

Brenna Cooper is a journalist at LADbible. She graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in History, followed by an NCTJ accredited masters in Journalism. She began her career as a freelance writer for Digital Spy, where she wrote about all things TV, film and showbiz. Her favourite topics to cover are music, travel and any bizarre pop culture.

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An American woman has come forward claiming to be missing British child Madeleine McCann, just days after a Polish woman was arrested on charges of stalking her parents.

Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished while on holiday with her parents Kate and Gerry McCann in Portugal's Praia da Luz region in 2007 and, despite numerous high profile searches, authorities haven't been able the work out what definitively happened to the missing girl.

The case has since generated numerous conspiracy theories over the years, with several young women coming forward and claiming to be Madeleine. Most notably Polish woman Julia Wandelt, 22, who was recently arrested and charged with stalking the McCanns after landing in the UK last week.

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Now, a second woman in the US has come forward claiming to be the missing child.

Madeleine McCann is one of the most reported on missing persons cases in modern history (Handout/Getty Images)
Madeleine McCann is one of the most reported on missing persons cases in modern history (Handout/Getty Images)

Sharing her claims in an interview with the MailOnline, 22-year-old Eugenea Collins says that suspicions about her parentage occurred after she ran into issues with being able to secure ID.

"I am unable to get any kind of identification. I couldn’t even get any help from the people at the red cross when my house was burned because I have no identification," Collins, from Arkansas, told the outlet.

"I have never seen an original birth certificate neither. The only thing I saw had someone else’s name wrote on it and they marked that out and wrote mine above it."

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Like Collins and Wandelt, Madeleine was also born in 2003, meaning that she would also around the age of 22-23 today. However, Collins' claims to be the missing child have since been met with suspicion online, as several people have pointed out that she's missing the signature eye defect with Madeleine had called coloboma.

"She doesn't have a mark on her eye and she has photos that seem to be from younger than maddie was when she went missing," one person wrote in a Reddit thread discussing the topic.

"She has shown pictures of herself at 1 or 2-years-old and she doesn't seem to have an eye mark at all," a second person added.

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"She doesn't have a mark on her eye and she has photos that seem to be from younger than maddie was when she went missing," one person wrote in a Reddit thread discussing the topic.

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Collins has since shared DNA results with revealed she has largely British and Northwestern European heritage, however, this doesn't link her to the McCann family.

The 22-year-old also made the bizarre claim that the man she believed to be her father is actually the German suspect in the case, known as Christian B.

Collins added that she initially believed she was Madeleine after seeing an interview with Wandelt on US talk show Dr. Phil.

"If it wasn't for me seeing her on the Dr. Phil show I would've never known. In a way her stupidity actually helped me find my family," Collins told the outlet, claiming that she became suspicious after not being able to locate her original birth certificate.

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