True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SICK & TWISTED: Morbidly Obese Family Starves & Tortures Child Nearly to Death
11 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What shocking condition was the 14-year-old girl found in?
This is the case of a 14 year old girl, weighing just 35 pounds, comatose and barely clinging to life. Her own family spun a tale of this out of control child with behavioral issues who just refused to eat as a result of her autism diagnosis. But as the truth began to unravel, a far more sinister reality emerged.
Not only was every word they spoke a carefully constructed lie, but the very adults who condemned a child to a life of starvation were themselves extremely obese to the point of being almost immobilized. It's just disgusting to watch this family, who are no strangers themselves to extreme overindulgence, to berate and abuse a child for asking for the most basic nutrition.
Today we are diving into the disturbing case of MG, the horrific abuse she faced and exposing the web of lies that hid beneath it all. This case surrounds the abuse and neglect of a 14 year old girl who has not been named publicly
Chapter 2: How did the family justify the starvation of MG?
only identified by her initials M.G. It takes place in Oneida, Wisconsin, a small town located on the outskirts of Green Bay. For the first years of her life, M.G. lived with her mother until the spring of 2020 When she moved in with her dad, 47-year-old Walter Goodman, stepmom, 50-year-old Melissa Goodman, her adult stepsister, 29-year-old Savannah Lefevre, and stepbrother, 15-year-old N.M.
They also had two dogs, Lily and Sassy. A year after MG moved in in August of 2021, her stepsister Savannah's partner Kayla Stemmler also moved into the trailer. Not a lot is known about MG's life prior to moving in with her father. From what we know, she didn't have much contact with Walter since she was a little girl and had only met Melissa a few times before moving in.
according to walter mg's mother went to jail in may of 2020 so cps asked if he could take custody of her and he agreed that seems to be why she ended up with him though we don't know why she ended up in jail or if she's still in jail or what issues she was facing either way after moving in this was the setup of the trailer melissa and walter shared the main bedroom
Savannah had her own room and MG joined NM in his bedroom. The room had bunk beds so MG slept on the top bunk while NM slept on the bottom bunk. By the time Kayla moved in though, NM moved out of the room he shared and started sleeping on the couch. And of course, Kayla joined Savannah in her room. It should be noted that both Walter and Melissa
were extremely obese to the point of being almost bedbound. Neither of them left the home very often and it's unclear whether either of them ever worked. Kayla was really the only one who actually worked outside the home. She had studied early childhood education and was working as a teacher's aide in a three-year-old room at the Head Start program.
At one point, NM was actually diagnosed with cancer, so really the only times Walter or Melissa would leave the home was when they took him to get his treatment. As for the kids, when MG lived with her mother, she attended public school in Oneida until COVID hit when she was in the third grade. She ended up finishing out the 2019-2020 school year online before she moved in with her dad.
While living with Walter, she continued the fourth grade virtually before she was then homeschooled for the next three years. So with that being said... pretty much no one in that trailer ever left. MG had little to no contact with her mother, grandmother, or other siblings. She didn't go to the doctor. She didn't interact with teachers or friends.
She was stuck inside the trailer with four adults and one other teenager. No one ever heard anything about MG until the evening of August 21st, 2025, when Walter called 911 to report that his daughter was acting lethargic and was comatose. The call started with Walter saying, I have a 14-year-old daughter that she don't barely eat, so she looks really skinny.
She is also autistic, so if she don't want to eat, she don't eat. So the last four or five days, she'd been sick, thrown up. and I've been giving her liquid IVs and all that kind of stuff.
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Chapter 3: What was MG's living situation after moving in with her father?
He talked again about how she hasn't eaten in a while. She hasn't been able to really keep anything down in four or five days. Anything she would eat, she would just throw up again. Before that though, she never really liked eating anything to begin with. She's a bit underweight because they could never get her to eat. Anytime they'd give her food, she'd be like, eh, and just throw it away.
By that point, Walter had made it outside and officers began pulling up to the trailer. As officers pulled up, they saw Walter carrying MG down the driveway. Right away, they noticed that the girl appeared to be severely underweight and malnourished. Just from the first glance, they could see that she had a very prominent rib cage, collar bones, hip bones, and cheek bones.
Even though she was said to be 14, officers thought that she looked to be the size of a 6 or 7 year old. Right away, they took MG from her father, placed her in an ambulance, and transported her to the hospital. When she arrived there, staff were absolutely horrified at her condition. At the time, she weighed just 35 pounds.
And I don't think I need to tell you this, but that is literally an insane weight for a 14 year old girl. The average weight for a 14 year old girl is between 100 and 110 pounds. I can't even fathom the length of time that it would have taken for her to have been starved for her to reach such a low body weight. It was also found that she had a very large bruise on the right side of her forehead.
She had a very low body temperature, multiple pressure sores on her body which are caused from being immobilized for a prolonged period of time, and had a blood sugar of 24. A normal blood sugar for a fasting teenager is between 70 and 100. So again, she hadn't eaten in a very long time.
This did not appear to be the case of a girl who had been sick for a week who had just been eating as much as she could but just couldn't keep much down. Even when you're eating and throwing up, your body will still absorb some of it, especially with what Walter said. He had earlier said that she ate and didn't throw up until hours later.
If that were true, she would have had at least some sort of evidence of nutrition in her system, but she didn't. According to hospital staff, her low body weight was a result of prolonged extreme malnutrition and starvation, not a rapid onset of weight loss, not from five or six days of being sick.
As staff and detectives were finding this information out, officers were back at the station questioning Walter about how his daughter ended up in this condition. Walter again told officers that MG had autism with the mentality of a 6 year old. He said that she was abused by her mother before moving in with him, but he wasn't aware of these issues until he was already living in the trailer.
He found out that she had slept with a knife under her pillow because she was afraid due to the abuse she suffered from her mom. He said that she would give her sleeping pills and things like that. He even said that she was pretty much constantly on sleeping pills when she was with her mom. up to five or six pills at a time. But once in their home, she would never sleep.
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Chapter 4: What alarming health issues did MG face before the 911 call?
Savannah, oh, like how? Is she okay? Melissa, IDK, I can't see what's going on in there. Savannah, oh sorry, sorry, him telling her she was dying the other day just made me really anxious. Then at 4.59pm Savannah says, are you guys okay? Melissa, IDK, I'm freaking out. Savannah, is she like actually having seizures? Melissa, IDK what she's doing or having.
Savannah, is she awake and moving and just weak? Melissa, I'm not sure. Savannah, sorry, I'm just trying to understand so I can try to help. Savannah, do you want me to see if Kayla can get her up? Those are the last texts we have from the affidavit. It was just 20 minutes after these texts were sent when 911 was called to report that MG appeared to have trouble breathing and was comatose.
Unlike what they tried to claim, we can see that MG didn't appear to have behavioral issues stemming from autism. She was being abused. Maybe she did have some behavioral problems stemming from a sudden, drastic change in her life. She was suddenly removed from the home she knew her entire life when she was just 8 or 9 years old and placed with a family she barely knew.
That's a huge change for anyone. All the while, the whole world was changing around her. She was taken away from her school, her peers, her friends. She had to stay home in this home with people she barely knew. That is such a massive and scary change for anyone.
COVID was such a scary and uncertain time for everyone, including adults, let alone a little girl who was living with a brand new family that she barely knew. So as a result of her being scared and alone and having to deal with all this change, She was abused and neglected. She was stuck in a home with people who were hurting her, neglecting her.
She was locked away in a room, all alone, with nothing and no one. She was starved. so of course she started digging through the trash and begging for food maybe even hiding food in her room she was kept from using the bathroom so of course she screamed out and cried to be let out she was locked in a room by herself with nothing to do so of course she moved too much or begged to be let out
she was a little girl who was denied every single basic need for the entire five years she lived with her dad and there was absolutely nothing she could do about it no one checking in on her no one she could confide in because she was stuck in a home all alone with the government telling her that she wasn't allowed to go to school and then even when she was allowed to go back to school
Even the government programs that were designed to check in on her weren't doing that because her family said that she was being homeschooled. And they just believed her and didn't bother to double check on that. Nothing was done to help her. Nothing was done to make sure she was okay. So she lived five years in absolute darkness. Hell.
After 911 was finally called, she was transported to the hospital and given treatment, which included being intubated, put on a feeding tube and given nutritional support. I am very happy to report that unlike so many cases that we cover on this channel,
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