Episode 305 - Natalia Grace: The Orphan
In 2009, the horror film ‘Orphan’ told the tale of a couple who unwittingly adopted a 9-year-old girl, who (spoilers) turned out to be a murderous, adult woman.
Sometimes though, reality is stranger than fiction. A year after the film’s release, the Barnetts, a wealthy picture-perfect American family, adopted 6-year-old Natalia Grace from Ukraine. But within just 3 years, they’d abandoned her and fled to Canada.
Why? According to the Barnetts, Natalia – who had a rare form of dwarfism – wasn’t a little girl at all. She was actually a 22-year-old woman who was trying to murder their whole family. In this bizarre case, everything most definitely isn’t as it seems…
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Sources:
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/04/natalia-grace-docuseries-hbo-discovery-ukrainian-orphan-con-artist
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/natalia-grace-who-posed-child-30337046.amp
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12168593/amp/Adopted-child-Natalia-Graces-biological-mom-claims-daughter-actually-born-2003.html
https://people.com/natalia-grace-accused-trying-kill-adoptive-parents-speaks-in-new-docuseries-8414516
https://www.eonline.com/news/1391329/natalia-grace-orphan-accused-of-trying-to-kill-adoptive-parents-speaks-out-in-chilling-docuseries
https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/the-curious-case-of-natalia-grace-where-is-she-now-2174035/