A new docuseries explores the terrifying chaos that ensued after an Indiana couple adopted a 6-year-old Ukrainian.
When Indiana couple Michael and Kristine Barnett adopted 6-year-old Natalia Grace, a little person originally from Ukraine, in April 2010, it was a dream come true. “[Natalia] threatened to stab my sons, drag their bodies outside and bury them under the deck,” Michael Barnett alleges in Investigation Discovery’s new docuseries “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace,” out Monday.
In April 2010, Kristine and Michael Barnett decided to adopted a little girl into their brood of three boys.“She’d been taking knives out of the kitchen and hiding them under her bed,” says Michael in the doc. “[She said], ‘I’m going to kill your in your sleep.’” Natalia, who did not participate in the documentary and could not be reached by The Post, has publicly denied all of the allegations. In 2019, sheDuring a 2019 interview with Dr. Phil, Natalia firmly denied that she was an adult impersonating a child.Others who’d encountered Natalia before she lived with the Barnetts say that she was nothing more than a disabled and harmless child who had been bounced around from home to home after arriving in the US in 2008.
“She’s really evil and devious,” says former neighbor Sue McCallum in the series. “People think, ‘She’s small and deformed. She couldn’t possibly do all the stuff everybody’s saying.’ But they’re wrong and she did do it.” The Barnetts rented Natalia an apartment, which was not modified for her special needs, in a two-story home in Lafayette, Indiana.
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