TRUE CRIME NEWSMadeleine McCann Case: Arkansas Woman Claims She Is the Missing Girl and Insists She Has DNA Proof in Bizarre Twist
An Arkansas woman strangely claimed she's Madeleine McCann — a 3 year old girl who vanished during a family vacation in 2007.
Oct. 18 2026, Published 10:55 a.m. ET
An Arkansas woman wildly claimed she's Madeleine McCann — a 3 year old British girl who disappeared from her bed during a family vacation in Portugal back in 2007.
Eugenea Collins, 22, alleged recently she has "DNA proof" she cracked the longtime case as she could be the missing child.
Eugenea Collins alleged she has DNA proof she's connected to Madeleine McCann.
Collins told an outlet she convinced herself she's actually McCann after seeing a Polish woman, Julia Faustyna on Dr. Phil McGraw's talk show in 2023, and noticed some similarities in herself and the toddler.
"If it wasn't for me seeing her on Dr. Phil's show, I would've never known. In a way, her stupidity actually helped me find my family," Collins said.
Faustyna also claimed at the time she was the tiny tot who was mysteriously abducted in the European country.
Eugenea Collins Said She Took an Ancestry DNA Test
Madeleine McCann went missing in Portugal 19 years ago.
"I saw the age progressions and it was like I was looking in a mirror. I just know I saw pictures of myself online and it says I'm missing," the young woman noted.
Collins birthday is October 23, 2002, which puts her at around the same age as McCann, who was born on May 12, 2003.
Collins further noted she took an Ancestry DNA test that determined she's 68 percent English and Northwestern European, which she also insists can help prove her allegations. However, she explained she doesn't have any other DNA association to the McCann family.
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Madeline McCann's disappearance still hasn't been solved.
Collins then claimed to the publication she grew fishy of her family after she asked them for a copy of her birth certificate when she needed to replace her I.D. card.
"I am unable to get any kind of identification," she said. "I couldn't even get any help from the people at the Red Cross when my house was burned because I have no identification."
She continued: "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."
Eugenea Collins Claimed Her Biological Father Is Suspect Christian Brückner
Christian Brückner was targeted as the prime suspect in the case.
McCann's whereabouts are still unknown, with German native Christian Brückner being deemed as the prime suspect in 2020. But he has yet to be formally charged for the possible murder and abduction of McCann.
Collins also stated the man she assumed to be her father, Eugene Collins, is actually Brückner. "I saw pictures of the suspect and he looks like my biological father or who I've been told is my biological father my whole life," she alleged.
"When I first saw the photos of Christian Brueckner I instantly recognized that man," she said.
