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Hello, anybody
that is watching.
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Hi.
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[theme music playing]
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[Michael Barnett]
Early on with Natalia,
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she was doing
as many things as possible
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to cause hurt or harm
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or mental distress
to the entire family.
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I've got my adopted daughter
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trying to poison
and kill my wife.
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We have had her standing
over my bed with a knife.
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She's clearly dangerous.
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At this point, what do we do?
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We... we take her
to the stress center.
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She's seen by
a psychiatric doctor.
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And so, at this point in time,
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we had already begun asking
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mental health
professionals for help,
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trying to find guidance,
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trying to figure out
the right medication.
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And all we're told
at every turn is,
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"Nothing you can
do about this.
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She is this.
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This doesn't go away.
This doesn't change.
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And she can't stay
at the stress center.
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She's... she's yours.
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Take her home."
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But they did say,
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"You can't let Natalia have
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free roam
of the house anymore.
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You need to put a latch
on the outside of her door.
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And anytime she needs food,
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bath, bathroom,
whatever is needed,
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you need to escort her
through the house.
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You cannot let her freely roam
your home anymore."
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At this point,
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we haven't done anything
as a family for a long time.
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We can't go
eat dinner together.
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We can't go to the
grocery store together.
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We are always
on guard for things.
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We don't do anything.
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So, it's my son's birthday.
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Ethan, my youngest son,
loved cows.
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So for his birthday,
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we find a place
in Indianapolis
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that lets you milk
your own cow.
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And it's called
Traders Point Creamery.
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We get inside and they say,
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"We have some release forms
for you to sign."
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Out there where the cows are
is an electric fence.
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And you have to say,
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you know there's
an electric fence there,
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and if you touch it
and you get harmed,
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that you're not
going to hold us liable.
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When they say that to us,
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Natalia's eyes lit up
like a Christmas tree.
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"Really?
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There's a scary
fence out there
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and, uh, I have to sign this?"
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Happily signs away.
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It's another quarter mile
from that building
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to where the fence starts.
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Everything's fine.
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The moment we get
within ten feet of the fence,
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Natalia suddenly
can't walk again.
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Before we went
on a walk on the trail,
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like, uh, my mom and Natalia
sort of stayed back.
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[Michael]
So Kristine decides
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you're not going to ruin
Ethan's birthday.
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Michael, you take the boys.
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You go on ahead.
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I will stay back here
and I'll handle this.
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Myself, my three sons,
we keep going.
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We keep going. We keep going.
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We get about 40, 50 yards down
and I start hearing screaming.
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[woman screaming]
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I turn and look.
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Natalia and Kristine
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are in a physical altercation.
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[woman screams]
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It looks like Natalia's
trying to pull Kristine.
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Now you might think,
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"Hey, she's a little person.
How strong can she be?"
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She uses her arms a lot.
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Push herself up on things.
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She goes up the stairs
using her arms.
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She's got guns that
Schwarzenegger would
be impressed with.
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She's very strong.
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My wife is frail.
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She's got a degenerative
disease called lupus.
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She's weak.
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I start to go back.
Kristine says, "No, go."
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Okay.
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She wants my son to have
his birthday. We go.
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And me and the boys
double time it.
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We get a little bit
farther down...
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and we hear the sirens.
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[siren wailing]
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The second I heard the sirens,
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I thought Kristine was dead.
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I think she's dead.
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And the police have arrived,
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um, ambulances have arrived.
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And we can see
Kristine is there.
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Kristine's very angry,
very upset.
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Natalia's over with the EMTs,
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and Natalia had been trying
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to pull Kristine
into the electric fence.
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She'd been screaming out loud.
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How am I with language
in this interview?
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Am I allowed to use words?
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"You [bleep] bitch,
I'm going to kill you.
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I'm going to kill you,
you bitch.
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You're going to die."
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Kristine's screaming at them,
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"She needs to be arrested.
She tried to kill me.
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She needs to be arrested.
She tried to
kill me."
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We wanted charges.
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We wanted her arrested.
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She, admittedly,
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to their face when they came
to the 911 call said,
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"I'm trying to kill her."
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They made the distinction
that their visual told them,
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"Hey, that's a little girl.
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She's not really trying
to kill anybody. She's sick.
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We're going to take her
to the hospital instead."
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But they stated we're not
going to press charges.
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She's going to get
a mental health evaluation.
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[Jacob] I think she was
already in the ambulance
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by the time I had come back.
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I was like,
"Oh, well, I guess,
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Natalia's mental health
is clearly off.
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I guess it's good that
she goes to the hospital."
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I felt a sense of relief,
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like, uh, it can be
a little safer.
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[Michael]
Kristine and I said,
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"She has to go to a hospital
long-term and get help."
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We didn't know how long.
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She can't come home
until she's better.
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When Natalia was in
the state mental hospital,
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she was under 24/7
observation and care
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of 90 doctors, nurses,
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orderlies, therapists,
et cetera.
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While she's there, she admits
openly and freely that,
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"Yeah, I'm trying to kill her.
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And by the way,
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I'm going to tell you,
doctors, and I'm going
to write this in my journal.
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I'm going to kill
the boys, too.
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And here's specifically
what I'm going to do to them.
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I am going to stab them
with a knife while they sleep.
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I'm going to drag their bodies
out of the house,
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and I'm going to put them
underneath the deck out back."
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Natalia drew this picture
immediately after being
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admitted to Larue Carter
State Hospital.
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It says, "bye," as in goodbye.
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[nurse speaking]
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[orderly speaking]
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[woman speaking]
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[Michael]
After a couple weeks,
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we get a phone call from them.
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"You got to come get her."
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Why?
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Well, they tried to be
really delicate with it.
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"Natalia was
propositioning the men."
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What are you talking about?
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[Michael]
Natalia was at Larue Carter.
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We had been trying to get her
to inpatient treatment.
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We had been
begging people to help us.
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We had been told by everybody,
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"You need help desperately.
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Your family's in danger.
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She needs
inpatient treatment."
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"Great.
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We are at
an inpatient facility.
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That's fantastic.
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Can you help us?"
"No."
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They said, "Mr. Barnett,
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the state mental hospital,
the adult wing,
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most of the men there,
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they're not particularly
good with children.
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And they're not particularly
good with girls.
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[nurse speaking]
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[woman speaking]
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[Michael]
So, after a month,
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they need her
out of there because
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bad things are about to happen
with all the men in the unit.
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"Take her home."
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"She's going to kill us."
"Can't help you."
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The danger we've been in
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isn't going anywhere
anytime soon,
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and it can't be controlled.
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[Beth Karas]
I'm Beth Karas.
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I'm an attorney in New York.
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I'm a former prosecutor.
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What hooked me in this case
was just the strange story.
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She's had various diagnoses,
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the last one being sociopath.
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But in my opinion,
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there are questions, a lot
of questions with this case.
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The fundamental rule
in all investigations
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is that you follow the facts
wherever they may lead you.
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There are some things that
just don't sit right with me.
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If she's actually
threatening to kill them,
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you got to go
to the police.
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Kristine and Michael
don't call the police.
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But the neighbor,
who is very concerned,
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does call the
Department of Child Services,
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who bring in the police
in March of 2012.
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They get a report
of child neglect of Natalia.
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[Michael]
March comes.
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Kristine and Natalia
are having the
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"who are you?" fight.
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Kristine wants Natalia
to write down
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people she's lived with,
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places she's been.
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Tell us about
people you've known.
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And this night,
Kristine decides
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that the most effective way
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to make you tell me
who you really are
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is you no longer have
a bedroom or a bed.
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You sleep outside.
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Grab your blanket.
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You're sleeping
on the back deck.
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Natalia's out there crying
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finally, like,
three hours into this.
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Well, I tell Kristine,
"I can't do this."
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I get up, I let Natalia in,
I get her back to her room.
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One of the neighbors
called CPS.
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So CPS shows up on the door,
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Child Protective Services,
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with a detective from
the local police department.
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They come in,
they've gotten this call,
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and we're neglecting Natalia.
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The detective for the
Westfield Police Department,
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within 10 minutes,
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takes a look
at the surroundings,
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takes a look at the paperwork,
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listens to us speak
for a couple minutes,
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and he immediately realizes
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he's not here
to protect Natalia.
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He's here to protect my sons.
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He knows instantly
they're in grave danger.
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Detective Klaus,
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he conducts an investigation,
he comes back and visits us.
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He's got a picture of Natalia
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from when she was naturalized
here as a US citizen in 2008,
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when she first got here
from the Ukraine.
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He's got her naturalization,
uh, information,
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basic vital statistics,
stuff like that.
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[Beth]
Natalia admitted
to Detective Klaus
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that she was told
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her new birthday
at the orphanage in Ukraine,
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that new birthday being 2003.
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Another thing,
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Detective Klaus showed her
a picture of herself
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from when she
entered the country,
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but she did not recognize
herself in the picture.
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He's not 100% convinced
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the girl in the picture
is even her.
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Another interesting thing
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he mentions to us
is her height.
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Four years ago,
when she was naturalized,
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she hasn't grown a centimeter.
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I don't care what kind
of dwarfism you have,
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if you're a six-year-old,
you still grow.
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He informs us he believes
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that her Ukrainian birth
certificate is all bogus.
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Here's this business card
to an attorney.
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You need to go
to them immediately.
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You need to correct her age.
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What are you talking about?
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Correct her age. That's...
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You can't just take an eraser
to her birth certificate.
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I'd never heard
of such a thing.
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I never... It never even
crossed my mind.
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I just thought
we have an adult
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who's masquerading it
as an eight-year-old,
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and that's what it is.
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So, he explains to me,
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foreign-born children often
have inaccurate birth records,
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and sometimes
it needs to be corrected.
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This is our
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legal recommendation
from the police department.
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We have it in writing
from them.
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So, the only way to protect
the entire family,
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I have to prove she's an adult
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and that she definitely has
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a fake Ukrainian
birth certificate.
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Kristine and I,
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again, we reached out
to the adoption agency.
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When we asked them,
"Can you help give us
contact information
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for her old family?
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We have got to find out
what's going on here,"
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they said, "No, we can't."
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The answer is always,
"It is a closed adoption.
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The other family
does not want
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to surrender
any information to you."
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It is not until
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I got a phone call
from the secretary
of the adoption agency
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a little bit later that day,
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00:16:41,482 --> 00:16:45,551
and she said, "I can't tell
you where she's from,
301
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but check her luggage closer.
302
00:16:50,103 --> 00:16:52,034
Really inspect
those backpacks."
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So I go upstairs in the house,
304
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get the backpacks out,
start rummaging through it.
305
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There was a little ID tag
inside of her bag
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when we adopted her
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that had the original family's
information on it.
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What are their names?
309
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Gary and Diane Ciccone.
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[Beth] We know,
according to records that
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Natalia starts her early life
in an orphanage in Ukraine.
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But all the conflicts
in this case,
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boil down to Natalia's age.
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Is she a child
or is she an adult?
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In 2020,
a Ukrainian investigator
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00:17:40,379 --> 00:17:43,172
went to track down
Natalia's biological mother,
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Anna Gava,
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and found Anna Gava's
sister, Tatyana.
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[dog barking]
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[investigator
speaking Ukrainian]
321
00:17:59,655 --> 00:18:01,103
[Tatyana speaking Ukrainian]
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[investigator speaking]
323
00:18:08,586 --> 00:18:11,482
[Tatyana speaking]
324
00:18:11,482 --> 00:18:13,241
[investigator speaking]
325
00:18:14,965 --> 00:18:16,655
[Tatyana speaking]
326
00:18:23,103 --> 00:18:25,241
[investigator speaking]
327
00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,172
-[Tatyana speaking]
-[Anna] Hello.
328
00:18:29,172 --> 00:18:30,655
[Tatyana speaking]
329
00:18:36,965 --> 00:18:39,000
-[investigator] Anna.
-[Anna speaking Ukrainian]
330
00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,448
[investigator speaking]
331
00:18:41,689 --> 00:18:43,517
[Anna speaking]
332
00:18:50,103 --> 00:18:52,931
[interviewer speaking]
333
00:18:54,275 --> 00:18:56,000
[Anna speaking]
334
00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,172
[bleep]
335
00:18:58,172 --> 00:18:59,103
[Tatyana speaking]
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00:18:59,862 --> 00:19:01,344
[Anna speaking]
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00:19:03,275 --> 00:19:04,379
[bleep]
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00:19:04,379 --> 00:19:05,275
[investigator] Anna.
339
00:19:05,275 --> 00:19:06,241
[line disconnects]
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00:19:08,172 --> 00:19:10,275
This woman, Anna Gava,
341
00:19:10,275 --> 00:19:13,758
who is supposedly
Natalia's biological mother,
342
00:19:13,758 --> 00:19:17,103
just said she's been
going through this saga
343
00:19:17,103 --> 00:19:18,758
for 17 years.
344
00:19:18,758 --> 00:19:21,551
Well, she said that in 2020.
345
00:19:22,172 --> 00:19:23,103
Do the math.
346
00:19:23,689 --> 00:19:24,793
That means
347
00:19:24,793 --> 00:19:28,172
Natalia may really
have been born in 2003,
348
00:19:28,172 --> 00:19:29,931
which is what
she has said all along.
349
00:19:30,379 --> 00:19:32,034
And in 2008,
350
00:19:32,034 --> 00:19:33,586
Gary and Diane Ciccone,
351
00:19:33,586 --> 00:19:36,241
from New Hampshire
adopted Natalia.
352
00:19:36,689 --> 00:19:38,586
By 2009,
353
00:19:38,586 --> 00:19:41,000
it's possible that
they found her behavior
354
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,758
to be too hard to manage.
355
00:19:42,758 --> 00:19:46,275
I don't know,
but to Ciccones, it's clear
356
00:19:46,275 --> 00:19:48,172
they wanted to unload her.
357
00:19:48,172 --> 00:19:49,896
Closed adoption
giving virtually
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00:19:49,896 --> 00:19:51,275
no information about her.
359
00:19:51,275 --> 00:19:52,965
They made a mistake though.
360
00:19:52,965 --> 00:19:55,103
They left their
identifying information
361
00:19:55,103 --> 00:19:56,862
on one of the luggage tags.
362
00:19:56,862 --> 00:19:59,551
So, the Barnett's were able
to track them down.
363
00:20:30,275 --> 00:20:31,862
[Judith Irving]
My name is Judith Irving,
364
00:20:31,862 --> 00:20:34,689
and I'm from
a little town in Indiana.
365
00:20:34,689 --> 00:20:36,172
And, uh...
366
00:20:36,172 --> 00:20:37,586
I-- I don't know
what else to say.
367
00:20:37,586 --> 00:20:39,034
Okay, can we start over?
368
00:20:39,034 --> 00:20:40,448
I'm so sorry.
369
00:20:40,448 --> 00:20:42,586
Oh, Natalia. [chuckles]
370
00:20:42,586 --> 00:20:44,448
The first time
I heard about Natalia,
371
00:20:44,448 --> 00:20:47,034
um, I actually
received an email
372
00:20:47,034 --> 00:20:48,551
from Little People of America.
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00:20:50,862 --> 00:20:53,482
Little People of America
is an organization
374
00:20:53,482 --> 00:20:56,275
where people with dwarfism
can meet
375
00:20:56,275 --> 00:20:58,275
and come together once a year.
376
00:20:58,275 --> 00:21:00,103
And we're there
for each other,
377
00:21:00,103 --> 00:21:02,758
we help support each other,
we're friends with each other.
378
00:21:02,758 --> 00:21:04,551
It's often where we meet
our husbands,
379
00:21:04,551 --> 00:21:06,586
or wives, or our best friend.
380
00:21:06,586 --> 00:21:09,758
Little people of America
told me that the Ciccones
had adopted a little girl.
381
00:21:09,758 --> 00:21:11,586
She has diastrophic dwarfism
382
00:21:11,586 --> 00:21:13,103
and they're trying
to find a home for her.
383
00:21:15,379 --> 00:21:17,172
When I saw her picture,
it was--
384
00:21:17,172 --> 00:21:19,896
I instantly fell in love.
[chuckles] I was like,
385
00:21:19,896 --> 00:21:22,655
"Yeah, this little girl,
Natalia,
386
00:21:22,655 --> 00:21:25,551
she's meant to... She's
meant to be my daughter."
387
00:21:26,482 --> 00:21:28,448
I-- I heard that she loved
to dance and sing
388
00:21:28,448 --> 00:21:30,965
and be creative,
and I was like... [gasps]
389
00:21:30,965 --> 00:21:33,241
You know, she's just
meant to be with me.
[chuckles]
390
00:21:35,379 --> 00:21:37,689
Dyan and her husband
said that,
391
00:21:37,689 --> 00:21:39,965
"Pay the legal fees
and you can adopt
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00:21:40,586 --> 00:21:41,758
this little girl."
393
00:21:41,758 --> 00:21:42,965
If I remember right,
394
00:21:42,965 --> 00:21:44,448
she told me that
395
00:21:44,448 --> 00:21:46,172
adoption costs from Ukraine
396
00:21:46,172 --> 00:21:48,172
were around $25,000.
397
00:21:48,172 --> 00:21:50,482
And I find it kinda crazy
398
00:21:50,482 --> 00:21:52,551
that you would adopt a child
399
00:21:52,551 --> 00:21:56,034
and spend $25,000 and only
spend a year with that child?
400
00:21:56,034 --> 00:21:59,034
So, I-- I find it odd.
401
00:21:59,034 --> 00:22:01,965
I don't know if there was
a financial scam or not.
402
00:22:04,655 --> 00:22:06,172
My husband decided that
403
00:22:06,172 --> 00:22:08,689
I don't think we can
do this financially.
404
00:22:08,689 --> 00:22:10,862
And I feel like
if you're going to adopt,
405
00:22:10,862 --> 00:22:13,448
both parents have
to be totally into it.
406
00:22:14,482 --> 00:22:16,965
But it broke my heart.
407
00:22:16,965 --> 00:22:20,827
So... Sorry.
[chuckles and sniffs]
It just, uh...
408
00:22:22,103 --> 00:22:24,172
When I wasn't able
to adopt her,
409
00:22:24,172 --> 00:22:26,103
I just wanted her to be happy.
410
00:22:27,172 --> 00:22:28,034
[crying] And then
when I found out
411
00:22:28,034 --> 00:22:29,172
what happened to her,
412
00:22:29,172 --> 00:22:31,517
I was like,
"She wasn't happy."
413
00:22:32,482 --> 00:22:35,379
And that was what
broke my heart the most
414
00:22:35,379 --> 00:22:37,344
is that she wasn't happy.
415
00:22:38,689 --> 00:22:42,000
[in normal voice] In my heart,
Natalia is the daughter
I never had.
416
00:22:43,275 --> 00:22:48,034
Once we-- we told them that
we couldn't adopt Natalia,
417
00:22:48,034 --> 00:22:51,103
they moved on really quickly
to the next couple.
418
00:23:04,758 --> 00:23:06,379
My name is Robyn Farris
419
00:23:06,379 --> 00:23:09,724
and this is my husband,
Dwayne Farris.
420
00:23:12,034 --> 00:23:15,758
Back in 2009,
we received an email
421
00:23:15,758 --> 00:23:17,551
from the Little People
of America
422
00:23:17,551 --> 00:23:20,034
asking us if we might
be interested
423
00:23:20,034 --> 00:23:24,103
in a possible adoption
of a little girl
named Natalia.
424
00:23:25,655 --> 00:23:27,172
And she hooked us up
425
00:23:27,172 --> 00:23:30,689
with the, um, adoptive mom,
Dyan Ciccone.
426
00:23:30,689 --> 00:23:33,275
She had asked us
if we would cover
427
00:23:33,275 --> 00:23:35,344
her previous medical expenses.
428
00:23:36,482 --> 00:23:39,689
So right then and there,
we started to get concerned.
429
00:23:39,689 --> 00:23:42,482
We thought it was
some kind of weird scam
430
00:23:42,482 --> 00:23:44,034
where, you know,
she kinda came across
431
00:23:44,034 --> 00:23:48,172
as a used car salesman
of sorts trying
to "sell" Natalia to us.
432
00:23:49,379 --> 00:23:52,103
So we said, "Heck, no,
we're not gonna do that.
433
00:23:52,103 --> 00:23:55,448
We're not gonna pay
for anything that occurred
in the past."
434
00:23:55,448 --> 00:23:58,379
And I think she harped on it
a little bit.
435
00:23:58,379 --> 00:24:01,586
But then, eventually,
she gave that up.
436
00:24:01,586 --> 00:24:03,689
Another red flag that
we were concerned about
437
00:24:03,689 --> 00:24:07,103
is why Dyan adopted her
438
00:24:07,103 --> 00:24:12,241
and so quickly wanted
to basically get rid of her.
439
00:24:13,689 --> 00:24:16,758
We were concerned
about her mental health
440
00:24:16,758 --> 00:24:19,103
coming from an orphanage
in Ukraine.
441
00:24:20,275 --> 00:24:22,275
So we did ask her
if we could
442
00:24:22,275 --> 00:24:24,758
please have
Natalia evaluated,
443
00:24:24,758 --> 00:24:27,482
um, for a psychological
evaluation
444
00:24:27,482 --> 00:24:29,689
to see where
she stood on that.
445
00:24:29,689 --> 00:24:32,103
And, um, Miss Dyan said no.
446
00:24:32,103 --> 00:24:35,034
Why would someone, if they
didn't have anything to hide,
447
00:24:35,034 --> 00:24:37,275
why would they
448
00:24:37,275 --> 00:24:39,862
refuse the psychological
evaluation?
449
00:24:39,862 --> 00:24:43,655
Yeah, definitely shady, weird.
450
00:24:43,655 --> 00:24:46,689
-Um, definitely red flags.
-Mmm-hmm.
451
00:24:46,689 --> 00:24:47,862
But I was still interested.
452
00:24:47,862 --> 00:24:50,241
-I still wanted to pursue.
-Hmm.
453
00:24:51,758 --> 00:24:54,275
[Dwayne] So we're driving
to this lake house
in New Hampshire,
454
00:24:54,275 --> 00:24:56,862
where we were meeting
Dyan and Natalia.
455
00:24:56,862 --> 00:24:59,965
And it reminded me
of Camp Crystal Lake.
456
00:25:01,448 --> 00:25:03,655
It was kinda spooky.
457
00:25:03,655 --> 00:25:07,793
[Robyn] He had some concerns
because the driveway
458
00:25:07,793 --> 00:25:09,896
was super steep
and it was gravel.
459
00:25:09,896 --> 00:25:14,275
And us, you know, having
physical disabilities
just like Natalia,
460
00:25:14,275 --> 00:25:15,793
we were wondering, "Wow.
461
00:25:15,793 --> 00:25:18,793
How does she get up
and down the gravel driveway?"
462
00:25:18,793 --> 00:25:21,655
'Cause when we first
saw Natalia,
463
00:25:21,655 --> 00:25:23,275
she didn't have shoes at all.
464
00:25:23,275 --> 00:25:26,000
She has these slippery
braces on her feet.
465
00:25:28,379 --> 00:25:30,103
And if you're stepping
on pebbles,
466
00:25:30,103 --> 00:25:32,000
it could definitely
hurt your feet.
467
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,862
So we were just
really surprised
468
00:25:33,862 --> 00:25:36,689
she didn't have any shoes
because you could
469
00:25:36,689 --> 00:25:40,172
fall down the driveway easily
without the proper footing.
470
00:25:43,034 --> 00:25:46,689
But we thought that
she was really adorable.
471
00:25:46,689 --> 00:25:48,448
She was about to turn
six years old
472
00:25:48,448 --> 00:25:51,068
and she definitely
looked her stated age.
473
00:25:51,862 --> 00:25:54,793
But we really
had a feeling that
474
00:25:54,793 --> 00:25:56,931
there was something bad
going on.
475
00:26:04,172 --> 00:26:07,758
We're both Christians
and everybody,
in our opinion,
476
00:26:08,448 --> 00:26:09,965
has God given natural gifts
477
00:26:09,965 --> 00:26:13,793
and one of his gifts
is the gift of discernment.
478
00:26:13,793 --> 00:26:16,586
You know, to the regular,
um, average world,
479
00:26:16,586 --> 00:26:20,379
it would just be
more of a sixth sense
or an intuition.
480
00:26:20,379 --> 00:26:24,275
I have a really good
lie detector...
[chuckles] I guess.
481
00:26:24,275 --> 00:26:27,275
But Dyan and Natalia,
482
00:26:27,275 --> 00:26:30,758
I knew that they were lying.
483
00:26:30,758 --> 00:26:33,172
-She was withdrawn and quiet.
-Mmm-hmm.
484
00:26:33,172 --> 00:26:35,275
And didn't engage.
485
00:26:35,275 --> 00:26:37,448
[Robyn] Yeah, she would,
like, look up first
486
00:26:38,448 --> 00:26:41,344
to make sure her
answers were appropriate
487
00:26:42,172 --> 00:26:44,379
-for Dyan.
-[Dwayne] And then
you asked her
488
00:26:44,379 --> 00:26:46,965
what the Ukrainian
orphanage was like.
489
00:26:46,965 --> 00:26:49,482
-Oh, yeah, yeah.
-And she
490
00:26:49,482 --> 00:26:52,862
gave an uncoached answer,
it was obvious.
491
00:26:52,862 --> 00:26:55,034
-[Robyn] Yeah,
she said, "It sucked."
-She said, "It sucked."
492
00:26:55,034 --> 00:26:57,172
And then Dyan
interrupted her
493
00:26:57,172 --> 00:26:59,103
and seemed surprised
that she said that
494
00:26:59,103 --> 00:27:02,482
and said, "Oh, no,
it wasn't that bad.
You were fine."
495
00:27:02,482 --> 00:27:06,379
It was almost like Dyan
had to give her approval
496
00:27:06,379 --> 00:27:08,275
-[Robyn] For her to... Yeah.
-...to come out. [scoffs]
497
00:27:08,275 --> 00:27:10,586
And then as soon as she said
what she was coached to say,
498
00:27:10,586 --> 00:27:11,655
she went back in.
499
00:27:11,655 --> 00:27:15,275
I've never seen
another person do that.
500
00:27:15,275 --> 00:27:16,689
-Even in movies.
-[Robyn] Yeah.
501
00:27:16,689 --> 00:27:18,344
Even in The Exorcist.
502
00:27:19,758 --> 00:27:21,103
It scared the [bleep]
out of me.
503
00:27:23,689 --> 00:27:25,655
I can feel evil
when I come into her room.
504
00:27:28,862 --> 00:27:31,689
I couldn't really put
my finger on whether
505
00:27:31,689 --> 00:27:34,379
it was the situation
that was evil
506
00:27:34,379 --> 00:27:36,793
or Natalia,
507
00:27:36,793 --> 00:27:39,172
there was something
wrong with her.
508
00:27:39,172 --> 00:27:41,448
And I think
that's the first time
509
00:27:41,448 --> 00:27:45,172
I've ever completely
trusted that intuition.
510
00:28:00,482 --> 00:28:03,862
Right then is when
I made the decision
511
00:28:04,758 --> 00:28:06,586
that we-- this was
not gonna happen.
512
00:28:06,586 --> 00:28:09,034
As-- as hard as it was
to make that decision
513
00:28:09,034 --> 00:28:11,586
'cause I knew how it was
going to affect you...
514
00:28:11,586 --> 00:28:13,275
And when I told you,
I was like, there's...
515
00:28:13,275 --> 00:28:15,275
I can't put my finger on it
516
00:28:15,275 --> 00:28:16,862
but there's something wrong.
517
00:28:16,862 --> 00:28:19,793
When you called Dyan
to tell her we weren't
coming back,
518
00:28:19,793 --> 00:28:20,758
then...
519
00:28:21,965 --> 00:28:23,379
the story just got crazier.
520
00:28:23,379 --> 00:28:24,862
'Cause she went
521
00:28:26,379 --> 00:28:28,103
ballistic on the phone.
522
00:28:28,103 --> 00:28:30,448
She was furious.
523
00:28:30,448 --> 00:28:33,034
I could hear her
through the phone yelling.
524
00:28:33,034 --> 00:28:36,103
-And so I was like, "Okay."
-[Robyn] Yeah.
525
00:28:36,103 --> 00:28:38,689
We need to go, like,
there was no telling what
she was gonna do.
526
00:28:38,689 --> 00:28:40,655
I mean, she went nuts.
527
00:28:49,551 --> 00:28:51,448
[Judith] Kristine Barnett
528
00:28:51,448 --> 00:28:53,896
tried to contact me
on Facebook
529
00:28:53,896 --> 00:28:56,793
not long after
they adopted Natalia.
530
00:28:56,793 --> 00:28:59,206
And I wouldn't--
wouldn't talk to her.
531
00:29:00,551 --> 00:29:02,551
And I knew that
things were not right.
532
00:29:02,551 --> 00:29:04,896
I don't know if she's trying
to get me on her side
533
00:29:04,896 --> 00:29:08,034
or-- or what she's trying
to do. I don't--
I don't know.
534
00:29:08,793 --> 00:29:10,379
But it's...
535
00:29:10,379 --> 00:29:13,586
I'm-- I'm not going
to entertain
536
00:29:13,586 --> 00:29:15,241
even saying hello to her.
537
00:29:16,586 --> 00:29:20,793
The Barnetts claim that
Natalia had threatened them.
538
00:29:20,793 --> 00:29:23,000
So what if-- even
if she did threaten you?
539
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,000
You're the parent.
540
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,068
I've-- I'm a teacher.
I have 600 students.
541
00:29:26,068 --> 00:29:28,448
Some of those are from
really rough families.
542
00:29:28,448 --> 00:29:30,689
You know, and I've been told,
543
00:29:30,689 --> 00:29:32,068
"I'm gonna cut you up."
544
00:29:32,068 --> 00:29:34,241
I've been told,
"I'm gonna drink your blood."
545
00:29:34,241 --> 00:29:37,655
Uh, I've been told all kinds
of weird stuff. [chuckles]
546
00:29:37,655 --> 00:29:42,206
But I'm not truly scared
that that's gonna happen.
547
00:29:42,896 --> 00:29:44,793
That child needs help.
548
00:29:44,793 --> 00:29:46,793
So you get that child help.
549
00:29:46,793 --> 00:29:51,551
So yeah, I find actually
being scared of a child, um,
550
00:29:51,551 --> 00:29:54,241
when you're a full-size
grown adult,
551
00:29:54,241 --> 00:29:55,724
a little ridiculous.
552
00:29:56,689 --> 00:30:00,586
So I started posting
on an adoption message board
553
00:30:00,586 --> 00:30:02,241
asking about
554
00:30:03,896 --> 00:30:06,896
if anybody had any experience
of a Natalia.
555
00:30:06,896 --> 00:30:09,241
What was it, like,
a year later,
556
00:30:09,241 --> 00:30:12,551
that Michael Barnett
emailed me out of the blue
557
00:30:12,551 --> 00:30:17,137
and said, "I think
we adopted the little girl
you were talking about."
558
00:30:17,137 --> 00:30:20,068
And he started to...
Said her name, Natalia,
559
00:30:20,068 --> 00:30:23,137
-some other things.
I was like, "Yep, that's her."
-Yeah.
560
00:30:23,137 --> 00:30:25,896
Kristine, his wife,
wanted to talk to you.
561
00:30:25,896 --> 00:30:28,896
Kristine and I kept in touch
over Facebook Messenger
562
00:30:28,896 --> 00:30:30,068
for several years.
563
00:30:30,068 --> 00:30:33,517
It did seem like a lot
of shady stuff going on.
564
00:30:34,896 --> 00:30:36,724
Michael and Kristine Barnett,
I mean,
565
00:30:37,275 --> 00:30:39,068
they lied a lot.
566
00:30:39,068 --> 00:30:41,068
They will do anything
to get what they want.
567
00:30:42,275 --> 00:30:44,517
They lie about Natalia
being violent.
568
00:30:45,586 --> 00:30:48,275
You just don't know
the true Barnetts.
569
00:30:48,275 --> 00:30:51,137
When Kristine started
telling us all these
crazy stories,
570
00:30:51,137 --> 00:30:53,206
we thought, "Wait a minute."
571
00:30:54,172 --> 00:30:56,551
I mean, she's tiny.
572
00:30:56,551 --> 00:30:59,068
-[Robyn] Yeah.
-[Dwayne] These stories
don't make sense.
573
00:30:59,793 --> 00:31:02,689
So we started
figuring it out that
574
00:31:02,689 --> 00:31:05,655
everything Kristine told us
wasn't the truth.
575
00:31:05,655 --> 00:31:09,068
[Robyn] Kristine was
using me and Dwayne
576
00:31:09,068 --> 00:31:12,551
because if she could
get us on her side
577
00:31:12,551 --> 00:31:16,137
believing, you know,
that Natalia had issues,
578
00:31:16,137 --> 00:31:19,448
then she would feel justified
in maybe getting rid of her.
579
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,137
Michael and Kristine Barnett
580
00:31:23,137 --> 00:31:26,793
not only lied to get her
581
00:31:26,793 --> 00:31:30,448
into their family, but they
also lied to get rid of her.
582
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,172
If they wanted to claim
she's older than what she is,
583
00:31:36,172 --> 00:31:38,241
I mean, I don't know
where they came up with that.
584
00:31:38,241 --> 00:31:39,482
That's just crazy.
585
00:31:39,482 --> 00:31:41,137
Like, who thinks of that?
586
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,551
[Michael] Detective Clouse
had told me,
587
00:31:44,551 --> 00:31:46,241
"You need
to correct her age.
588
00:31:46,241 --> 00:31:49,862
This is our legal
recommendation
from the police department."
589
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,896
I am attaching
a picture presumably
590
00:32:16,896 --> 00:32:19,344
taken at entry
into United States.
591
00:32:36,379 --> 00:32:39,379
A home study report
was prepared
592
00:32:39,379 --> 00:32:42,000
about the Barnetts,
early 2010,
593
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,172
by a licensed social worker.
594
00:32:44,172 --> 00:32:46,068
One section that
I found very troubling,
595
00:32:46,068 --> 00:32:48,551
and it's the background
information.
596
00:32:48,551 --> 00:32:51,896
The worker asked
Michael and Kristine
597
00:32:51,896 --> 00:32:55,000
if they had ever had
any domestic violence
598
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,448
or disturbances at home
and they both said no.
599
00:32:58,068 --> 00:33:00,655
The state took
their word for it.
600
00:33:00,655 --> 00:33:04,000
Th--they relied
on the self-reporting.
601
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,275
They should have gone
to the local police
to see if their names
602
00:33:06,275 --> 00:33:08,655
ever appeared
because they would
have found
603
00:33:08,655 --> 00:33:09,620
domestic violence
604
00:33:10,448 --> 00:33:11,862
in 2003,
605
00:33:12,689 --> 00:33:17,137
years before this
home study evaluation.
606
00:33:18,379 --> 00:33:19,655
They're fighting.
607
00:33:19,655 --> 00:33:21,551
Michael's got Kristine
in a headlock.
608
00:33:23,068 --> 00:33:24,965
And then he's pushed her.
609
00:33:28,551 --> 00:33:30,965
These are situations
that are pretty serious.
610
00:33:32,655 --> 00:33:34,689
Scary, you know, to think
of what could have been
611
00:33:34,689 --> 00:33:37,344
and what all the evil,
dark secrets
612
00:33:37,344 --> 00:33:39,758
are that we don't even know
that her coming to light.
613
00:33:42,379 --> 00:33:45,586
[Beth] It really doesn't
shock me that Michael
and Kristine have
614
00:33:45,586 --> 00:33:48,068
kept some of these
family secrets secret.
615
00:33:48,068 --> 00:33:50,551
This is not the public
persona they want to have.
616
00:33:55,172 --> 00:33:56,793
[Rachel] Every now and then,
617
00:33:56,793 --> 00:33:59,689
Michael and Kristine would
be in the front yard arguing
618
00:33:59,689 --> 00:34:01,000
or fighting,
619
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000
or... There was no--
I never saw anything physical.
620
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,965
It was just the yelling
and the screaming.
621
00:34:06,793 --> 00:34:08,241
I felt sorry for Michael
622
00:34:08,241 --> 00:34:11,275
because she was degrading him
623
00:34:11,275 --> 00:34:13,379
and calling him a loser
and a jerk.
624
00:34:13,379 --> 00:34:15,965
And I just was like,
"God, that poor guy."
625
00:34:19,896 --> 00:34:22,585
I've been fooled
by thinking that
they were the perfect family,
626
00:34:22,585 --> 00:34:25,620
because I don't think
they were the perfect family.
627
00:34:50,068 --> 00:34:51,068
[Michael exhales]
628
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000
[Beth] There were
a number of allegations
629
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,241
that Michael and Kristine
made about Natalia
630
00:35:07,241 --> 00:35:09,793
acting out in a violent way.
631
00:35:09,793 --> 00:35:12,482
Most of them happened
within the home,
632
00:35:12,482 --> 00:35:15,241
but the bottom line
is every incident
633
00:35:15,241 --> 00:35:17,137
was told from
the Barnetts' perspective.
634
00:35:17,137 --> 00:35:20,482
But the last one
was different.
635
00:35:20,482 --> 00:35:24,034
The Traders Point Creamery
incident had witnesses.
636
00:35:25,241 --> 00:35:26,241
I'm Chris.
637
00:35:26,241 --> 00:35:28,034
I worked at Traders
Point Creamery
638
00:35:28,034 --> 00:35:32,655
as a herdsman
from 2012 to 2015.
639
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,758
Uh, so I had gotten a call
640
00:35:37,758 --> 00:35:41,758
that there was some crisis
on the electric fence.
641
00:35:41,758 --> 00:35:43,896
Officers were called
and that we needed
642
00:35:43,896 --> 00:35:47,551
to take them down to where,
uh, the individual was.
643
00:35:50,137 --> 00:35:51,793
So I was under
the impression that
644
00:35:51,793 --> 00:35:54,137
when we got down there,
that there was going to be
645
00:35:54,137 --> 00:35:56,172
uh, a little person who was,
646
00:35:56,172 --> 00:35:58,482
um, distressed, um,
647
00:35:58,482 --> 00:36:02,000
very emotional. When
we get down there, um,
648
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,482
the caretaker seemed
to be the one
649
00:36:04,482 --> 00:36:06,655
who was the emotional one
of the two.
650
00:36:08,344 --> 00:36:10,793
And the little person
seemed to be more calm
651
00:36:10,793 --> 00:36:13,034
and rational about
the whole situation.
652
00:36:13,965 --> 00:36:16,344
There was no mention
of, uh, the caretaker
653
00:36:16,344 --> 00:36:18,310
being at risk
or anything like that.
654
00:36:20,344 --> 00:36:22,000
Natalia had been trying
to pull Kristine
655
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,379
into the electric fence.
656
00:36:23,379 --> 00:36:25,137
She'd been
screaming out loud,
657
00:36:25,137 --> 00:36:26,793
"[bleep] bitch,
I'm gonna kill you.
658
00:36:26,793 --> 00:36:29,103
I am going to kill you,
you bitch. You're gonna die."
659
00:36:32,379 --> 00:36:33,310
So, uh,
660
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,137
I was there with,
uh, the officer.
661
00:36:36,137 --> 00:36:38,586
I don't remember
any of that being said.
662
00:36:38,586 --> 00:36:41,241
I don't remember
there being any threats
663
00:36:41,241 --> 00:36:43,793
about being, "I'm going
to [bleep] kill you,"
664
00:36:43,793 --> 00:36:45,275
or anything like that.
665
00:36:45,275 --> 00:36:48,689
I just felt like the situation
had kinda been overblown
666
00:36:48,689 --> 00:36:51,000
and it was not really
that big of a deal.
667
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Like, I have
a fairly good memory
668
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,172
and I am positive
I would remember that.
669
00:37:00,137 --> 00:37:02,482
The biggest thing
I remember is thinking that
670
00:37:02,482 --> 00:37:06,000
if I had to deal
with the adult caretaker,
671
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,034
that, uh, I would be
really frustrated,
672
00:37:09,034 --> 00:37:11,137
uh, just
because it felt like
673
00:37:11,137 --> 00:37:13,931
she seemed to be making
the situation worse.
674
00:37:15,689 --> 00:37:17,034
My name's Mark Hostetler
675
00:37:17,034 --> 00:37:20,241
and at Traders Point,
I was the farm manager.
676
00:37:20,241 --> 00:37:22,862
I got a phone call from
one of my employees
677
00:37:22,862 --> 00:37:24,482
saying, "Hey,
we've got an issue.
678
00:37:24,482 --> 00:37:27,103
There's somebody
on the walking trail.
They're having a crisis.
679
00:37:27,103 --> 00:37:29,793
What should we do?
Can you turn the fence off?"
680
00:37:29,793 --> 00:37:32,241
Or is it dangerous,
was also the question.
681
00:37:32,241 --> 00:37:34,689
And both the answers
I should say were, uh,
682
00:37:34,689 --> 00:37:36,344
"No, it's--
it's not dangerous."
683
00:37:36,344 --> 00:37:39,241
And also, "No, I can't
turn it off 'cause it's
already off, I think."
684
00:37:39,241 --> 00:37:41,000
That section of fence
isn't even on today
685
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,275
because the cows are
in a different part
of the-- the farm.
686
00:37:43,275 --> 00:37:46,689
And so my response was
maybe a little callous.
687
00:37:46,689 --> 00:37:49,758
[chuckles] But mostly
because the threat
was so hollow.
688
00:37:53,137 --> 00:37:54,275
[Judith] I can't imagine
689
00:37:54,275 --> 00:37:56,206
taking a child's threats,
690
00:37:57,137 --> 00:37:59,379
like, so seriously.
691
00:37:59,379 --> 00:38:02,310
Being truly scared.
Now, you could take
their threats serious,
692
00:38:02,896 --> 00:38:04,793
but we're not even
super strong.
693
00:38:04,793 --> 00:38:06,379
We're diastrophics.
694
00:38:06,379 --> 00:38:07,482
We have joint problems.
695
00:38:07,482 --> 00:38:09,758
We have all kinds of issues
that would make it
696
00:38:09,758 --> 00:38:12,896
difficult for us to truly
overcome someone.
697
00:38:12,896 --> 00:38:16,172
We don't have the capability
of truly hurting an adult.
698
00:38:16,172 --> 00:38:19,103
You know, unless, you know,
there was firearms involved.
699
00:38:19,103 --> 00:38:20,241
[laughs]
700
00:38:21,379 --> 00:38:22,965
But someone like me,
701
00:38:23,793 --> 00:38:25,379
I couldn't damage an adult.
702
00:38:25,379 --> 00:38:26,655
They could just hold me off.
703
00:38:31,482 --> 00:38:33,793
If Michael's version
of what happened
704
00:38:33,793 --> 00:38:36,655
at Traders Point Creamery
is not true,
705
00:38:37,586 --> 00:38:40,379
that Natalia really did not
try to push her
706
00:38:40,379 --> 00:38:42,379
into an electric fence
and "kill her,"
707
00:38:42,379 --> 00:38:45,241
then it casts doubt
on all the other allegations
708
00:38:45,241 --> 00:38:47,482
of Natalia's acting out
709
00:38:47,482 --> 00:38:50,689
that Michael and Kristine
have reported.
710
00:38:50,689 --> 00:38:53,241
I don't know though
that anyone can get
to the truth here
711
00:38:53,241 --> 00:38:55,586
because there
are so many stories
712
00:38:55,586 --> 00:38:56,965
from everybody.
713
00:38:59,275 --> 00:39:00,275
For example,
714
00:39:00,275 --> 00:39:02,137
Michael's version
of what happened here
715
00:39:02,137 --> 00:39:04,344
is not necessarily reliable.
716
00:39:08,482 --> 00:39:11,379
At the Traders Point incident,
how did the police react?
717
00:39:11,379 --> 00:39:12,275
I don't know.
718
00:39:12,275 --> 00:39:14,965
My-- My sons and I
were out in the forest.
719
00:39:14,965 --> 00:39:18,241
We... When we saw
the police lights had arrived,
720
00:39:18,241 --> 00:39:20,482
we still had a good mile,
mile and a half
721
00:39:20,482 --> 00:39:22,482
of running through a forest
722
00:39:22,482 --> 00:39:25,137
to get back on the path
to get back up there.
723
00:39:25,137 --> 00:39:28,862
So by the time all four of us
get all the way back up there,
724
00:39:28,862 --> 00:39:30,586
Natalia's already gone.
725
00:39:30,586 --> 00:39:33,000
The officer with her
is already gone.
726
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,551
I don't speak to the officers,
I speak to my wife.
727
00:39:38,379 --> 00:39:39,586
We keep going, we keep going.
728
00:39:39,586 --> 00:39:42,551
We're about 40, 50 yards down,
I start hearing screaming.
729
00:39:45,172 --> 00:39:46,896
I turn to look.
730
00:39:46,896 --> 00:39:51,034
Natalia and Kristine
are in a physical altercation.
731
00:39:51,034 --> 00:39:54,034
It looks like Natalia's
trying to pull Kristine.
732
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,482
Look, I don't know
what the truth is,
733
00:40:00,482 --> 00:40:03,482
but this raises
a question in my mind
734
00:40:03,482 --> 00:40:06,379
of whether or not
Michael and Kristine
735
00:40:06,379 --> 00:40:07,965
kinda orchestrated
736
00:40:07,965 --> 00:40:11,172
the Traders Point
Creamery incident.
737
00:40:11,172 --> 00:40:14,379
They wanted
an outside incident
738
00:40:14,379 --> 00:40:17,137
where there would be
you know, some
739
00:40:17,137 --> 00:40:19,344
potential witnesses maybe,
740
00:40:19,344 --> 00:40:22,275
uh, and she would be
taken away
741
00:40:22,275 --> 00:40:23,655
for good this time.
742
00:40:35,379 --> 00:40:36,586
[woman speaking]
743
00:40:36,586 --> 00:40:37,551
[Natalia] Okay.
744
00:40:53,034 --> 00:40:54,034
-Yes.
-[woman] Okay.
745
00:40:58,379 --> 00:40:59,379
Yes.
746
00:40:59,379 --> 00:41:00,551
[woman speaking]
747
00:41:08,793 --> 00:41:09,655
[woman] Mmm-hmm.
748
00:41:57,379 --> 00:41:58,310
[woman] Mmm-hmm.
749
00:42:01,379 --> 00:42:02,310
[woman speaking]
750
00:42:05,103 --> 00:42:06,586
[Beth] The closer you look
751
00:42:06,586 --> 00:42:08,241
into this case and dig,
752
00:42:09,689 --> 00:42:13,103
the harder it is to know
where the truth lies.
753
00:42:14,275 --> 00:42:15,172
Maybe there's more than
one villain in this story.
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