The woman who believes she may be Madeleine McCann has been taken to the US after receiving death threats online.
Last month, Julia Wendell, a 21-year-old from Poland, racked up quite the following on Instagram as she repeatedly claimed she could legitimately be the missing British girl.
Madeleine disappeared from a vacation apartment in Portugal in 2007 while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were at a nearby restaurant. They made sure to regularly check on their children, who were sleeping at the time.
Despite extensive searches and appeals in the following years, no trace has been found of Maddie's whereabouts.
Julia has made some bold claims over the past few weeks, stating that she has specific features that link her to Maddie including a speck on her eye.
She also contended that she doesn't remember parts of her childhood but added that she was abused by a German man who bears a resemblance to the prime suspect in the Maddie case, Christian Brueckner.
Due to her claims, she recently underwent a DNA test to rule out whether she is another missing girl. Online sleuths have suggested that Julia might instead be Livia Schepp, a Swiss girl who vanished at the age of six in 2011 along with her twin Alessia.
The woman's case is now being investigated by a California-based private detective and self-professed psychic medium Dr. Fia Johansson, who revealed on her Instagram that Julia felt frightened after receiving death threats and vicious messages from trolls.
According to The Sun, Dr. Johansson flew to Poland last week where she disclosed to followers that she spoke to Julia's doctors, school friends, and law enforcement about the case and thinks that there are a lot of unresolved questions.
However, as the young woman continued to be bombarded with threatening messages - including an alleged one about a bounty on her head - the doctors believed that she was no longer safe in her country and needed to fly to the States.
Writing on Instagram after landing in Los Angeles, Johansson said: "Me and Julia. She is Safe, she is secure, and she is happy. Stay tuned. We love you all. Thanks for the fantastic Support and a lot of kindness."
And in another video posted at the airport, Julia expressed her excitement about being in the US and said: "Never give up and believe in yourself dreams will come true."
The doctor explained to the outlet that her "number one priority" with Julia is to keep her safe because she "has nobody" in Poland - including her family who shared a statement rebuking her claims.
"Julia has never said, 'I am Madeleine McCann'. She has lots of questions about her past and she asked for help. We are open to all possibilities," she said. "Having spent time with Julia and investigating this I do not think she is lying or making things up for followers, everything she says appears to be real."
Johansson alleged that she found proof supporting the women's claim that she was abused as a child, and that her mother - who recently made a bombshell phone call to a doctor to get Julia hospitalized - blocked her number.
"We can't get a court order to force them to because there is a law against it in Poland," the doctor explained. "We went to the police in Poland to report her concerns she may be Madeleine McCann but they said they do not have any investigations about any missing persons outside the country."
"The country where Maddie is missing from - Portugal - would have to force Poland to look at it. So the police cannot say whether she is Madeleine or not Madeleine," she added.
