Couple Claims They Adopted an Adult Posing as...

In January 2018, 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student Blaze Bernstein disappeared while visiting his family in California. Days later, his body was discovered, and the investigation led authorities to a former high school classmate. What unfolded was a heartbreaking cas ...  Show more

In June 2021, 42-year-old Ryan Cooper was found shot to death inside his family home in rural Iowa. His wife, Karina, called 911, claiming someone had broken into their home and killed her husband while he slept. But what initially appeared to be a home invasion would soon unrave ...  Show more

How we living, Con-gregation? Welcome back to Scam Goddess, the #1 pod dedicated to all things fraud! This week Laci chops it up with actor, comedian, & podcaster Jacquis Neal (Culture Kings, UCB). Together they discuss the curious case of the family who adopted a 9 year old U ...

This story will leave you thinking for days. A young disabled girl adopted by the Barnett family is quickly found to be suspicious of not actually being a child! Sayyy what!? Yes the Barnett family accuses Natalia of being a con artist. Come join me as I unravel the insane amount ...  Show more

Writer Jeff Topolski (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) joins us this week to answer the question: Was Natalia Grace Barnett a murderous woman parading as a child, or a victim of terrible adoptive parents? In 2010, a 6-year-old girl named Natalia Grace was adopted by Michael and Kristine Barne ...  Show more

From the very start of her life, Natalia Grace has been passed around like a human football and exploited. From the moment of her birth in Ukraine when doctors encouraged her mother Anna Volodymyrivna Gava to give her baby up due to her diagnosis of dwarfism, Natalia has been ...