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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Natalie Finn parents brought to justice for starving, torturing, killing teen daughter

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Natalie Finn weighed just 81 pounds when she died of cardiac arrest in October 2016. The 16-year-old and her two adopted siblings were locked in a small room in a Des Moines home while they were subjected to unimaginable torture and neglect. Nancy Grace explores the case against their parents who starved the teen daughter to death. She is joined by forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, juvenile Judge Ashley Willcott, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober, and reporter John Lemley.

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I just felt something wasn't right.

0:02.0

The more details that come out, unfortunately, I'm not surprised by them, but I am absolutely

0:24.0

sick and by them.

0:25.0

They call what happened next door, a house of horrors.

0:28.0

I just can't imagine someone treating their children like this.

0:32.0

This case involves a family that has many layers of complexities, many moving parts.

0:40.0

For Natalie and her siblings, there was no place like home.

0:44.0

Because for Natalie and her siblings, home is a place of fear, confinement, torture.

0:52.0

Truly a mother from hell.

0:57.0

When you hear this story, it is going to make your toes curl.

1:04.0

I am so distraught that this happened under the noses of neighbors, teachers, authorities,

1:16.0

and now a young girl is dead.

1:20.0

Natalie, Natalie, a young girl found dead in the floor.

1:28.0

At whose hands?

1:30.0

Mommies.

1:32.0

Listen.

1:33.0

Oh, yeah, I got that.

1:34.0

Eight, oh five, it's eight, three.

1:36.0

Everyone.

1:37.0

They had an I.V. and her and they were doing chest compressions.

1:40.0

And then we just saw them blow it on the back of the ambulance and drive away.

1:44.0

I'm Nancy Grace.

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