(Please read to the end of this article for the chilling object Heidi drew in the woman’s hand that explains how they got in).
BY CRIME DESK INVESTIGATORS
BERLIN — For eighteen years, the hunt for Madeleine McCann has focused on men.
We looked for a man carrying a child. We looked for a man in a van. We looked for Christian Brueckner.
But yesterday, a terrifying new piece of evidence suggests we have been ignoring half the story.
Heidi, the 21-year-old German woman claiming to be the missing British toddler, has unlocked a suppressed memory during a deep-state hypnotherapy session.
She was asked to visualize the window of the room she was taken from.
She didn’t draw a monster. She didn’t draw a burglar.
She drew a woman.
THE WOMAN IN VIOLET
The sketch, released exclusively to The Crime Desk, is crude but haunting.
It depicts the view from a low angle—the perspective of a three-year-old child looking out through a glass patio door.
Standing outside, framed by the darkness, is a female figure.
She has short, choppy hair. And she is colored in heavily with a purple crayon.
“She was watching me,” Heidi reportedly whispered during the session.
“The purple lady was counting. She was waiting for Mummy to leave.”
THE FORGOTTEN WITNESS
This drawing sends a chill down the spine of anyone familiar with the original police files from 2007.
There was a witness who saw this woman.
Jenny Murat, a British expat living in Praia da Luz, gave a statement to police days after the disappearance.
She swore she saw a woman standing alone on the street corner outside the Ocean Club apartment on the night of May 3rd.
She described the woman as acting strangely, staring intently at the apartment block.
And most critically, she told police the woman was wearing purple clothes.
THE ACCOMPLICE
For nearly two decades, the “Woman in Purple” was dismissed as a bystander or a ghost story.
But Heidi’s drawing confirms that the child inside the room saw her too.
“This rewrites the crime,” says criminal profiler Dr. Marcus Vance.
“It wasn’t a snatch-and-grab. It was a coordinated operation.”
“The woman in purple was the spotter. She was the lookout. She stood there in plain sight, timing the parents’ dinner.”
THE EYE CONTACT
Heidi’s recollection gets even more disturbing.
She claims that she waved at the woman.
“I thought she was a friend,” Heidi told her therapist. “She smiled at me through the glass.”
“She put her finger to her lips. She told me to be quiet.”
It was a grooming tactic. The accomplice calmed the child down before the snatcher entered the room.
It explains why there was no screaming. Madeleine wasn’t afraid. She had already made “friends” with the watcher outside.
THE CLUE IN THE HAND
But the detail that has stunned investigators is not the purple dress.
It is what Heidi drew in the woman’s right hand.
In the sketch, the woman is holding a small, metallic object up to the glass.
It is a key card.
For years, the mystery of how the abductor entered Apartment 5A without forcing the shutters has baffled police.
Heidi’s drawing suggests the “Purple Woman” didn’t just watch.
She had a clone of the room key.
She was likely staff, or posing as staff, and she was showing the child that she could come in whenever she wanted.
Disclaimer: The events, the description of the hypnotherapy session, the details of the “Purple Woman” sketch, and the specific connection to the key card described in this article are based on unverified reports, fictionalized scenarios, and current speculation regarding the “Heidi” case. The information presented requires further official investigation to confirm its authenticity and may be entirely fabricated.