Season 6 Trailer
For the past twelve years, Lisa McDaniel worked for The Guthy Jackson Foundation, a high-profile non-profit, dedicated to a rare disease called NMO (Neuromyelitis Optica), from which Lisa claims her son suffered.
But while Lisa appears to be a sweet Southern mom whose personal tragedy led to her heroic work, this image hides her dark history of abuse. How was Lisa able to keep her felony conviction for poisoning and suffocating her infant daughter hidden? How did her children slip through the cracks of the healthcare and legal systems again and again? What really happened to her son Collin?
Season Six breaks a story that is years in the making and made possible through the astounding courage of Mishelle Roberts. This season ties together many elements introduced in previous seasons: ways that systems fail vulnerable victims, the culture of silence and inaction within hospitals that enables abuse, and the damage done to rare disease advocacy and victims’ groups which can devastate families and echo through generations.
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Transcript
True Story Media.
You said nobody wants to believe there's a monster in their family.
You think she's a monster?
I don't want to.
But I don't know how else you describe somebody who does those things to children.
Michelle has lived in the shadow of her family's dark past for decades.
But now she's ready to bring it into the light.
Please listen, please listen.
You're asking me to listen to you.
Please listen to me.
And we still don't have the whole story.
Like, we still don't understand the whole picture.
She was born, and I just remember being told that she was really sick.
Michelle's mother, Lisa McDaniel, has managed to keep her past buried.
How
somebody
could do that
to a child that was so little
and so helpless.
Still to this day haunts me.
I'm actually amazed from what you're telling me that this child lived through this.
When the judge gave full custody back to them, I stood up and I told him, I hope you don't sleep.
When you go home tonight, you have no idea what you've done and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Even after going to jail for medical child abuse, Lisa seemed to find every crack in the system to get her daughters back.
And then she had a third child, her son Colin.
One day, he got sick.
After that, I don't think he ever went back to a day that he wasn't.
You should see my face right now because I'm thinking, did he ever really have it?
The judges who gave us back.
As a caregiver, you pour yourself into advocacy and helping other people.
That's who I am at heart as a helper.
There's a pattern.
This fits a pattern and it is lethal munchausen by proxy.
Nobody else bothered to protect me.
Nobody else bothered to protect my siblings.
Lord, if you're going to take you, then go ahead and take you.
Please do it now.
Neither one of those children were suffering because of a disease.
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