Will Natalia Grace Ever Find Peace?
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3 • 791 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
As the final chapter unfolds, unsettling truths emerge about the role of the foster system, religion, and even the media in her life. Were the Barnetts' accusations justified? Did the 'cult-like' behavior of the Manses exploit her further? And what about the cameras—did the spotlight help or hurt Natalia in her search for a normal life?
In a case that’s as convoluted as it is heartbreaking, the real question remains: was Natalia Grace a victim, a villain, or both?
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| 0:23.1 | Nothing says, welcome home like a hidden body in the basement. |
| 0:27.4 | It's Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske, featuring former prosecutor and defense attorney |
| 0:32.5 | Eric Fattis. |
| 0:33.7 | The curious case of Natalia Grace, we're on the third season of it now. |
| 0:39.4 | I was unaware of that until the other day. |
| 0:41.3 | But here we are, and it's the final chapter, at least according to the producers as of right now. |
| 0:46.1 | Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian adoptee that was brought in by Michael and Christine Barnett, |
| 0:53.3 | adopting her, believing her to be a six-year-old orphan from the Ukraine. |
| 0:59.1 | Shortly thereafter, they thought she has to be older. |
| 1:02.2 | They made claims that when they picked her up to adopt her, took her, give her a bath, |
| 1:08.7 | and there was pubic hair on this six-year-old, and they're thinking, |
| 1:11.7 | oh my gosh, and she is a little person. Maybe she's much older than she says she is. And it went to |
| 1:16.8 | claims of abuse. It went to claims of all sorts of things, her holding a knife over the family |
| 1:21.8 | late at night. Eventually, they changed her age to 22 and put her an apartment and kind of wash their hands of her, to say the least. |
| 1:29.7 | Eventually, another family comes in, adopts her, and that is the man's family. |
| 1:34.3 | A very, very, I'd say, culty religious family that then ended up raising in Italia for the next 10 years. |
| 1:46.2 | Chapter 3, the final chapter, |
| 1:53.8 | that's where it's picking up right now. It is on Max on Demand, also Discovery Plus on ID. |
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