A Woman Arrested ‘for Being in My Own Home’ During a Squatter Standoff Is One Horror Story in New Docuseries (Exclusive)
A Woman Arrested ‘for Being in My Own Home’ During a Squatter Standoff Is One Horror Story in New Docuseries (Exclusive)
Bailey RichardsMon, June 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC
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Queens homeowner Adele Andaloro was arrested in 2024 during a standoff with squatters that went viral
Her story and five others are featured in Hulu's new docuseries Squatters: Get The F*** Out Of My House
The show, which "follows ordinary people blindsided by manipulators" squatting in their homes, premieres June 4
“I'm being arrested.”
“For what?”
“For being in my own home.”
These are the words Adele Andaloro of Queens, N.Y., exchanged with someone off-camera during her viral 2024 standoff with squatters who took up residence in a family home left vacant after her parents died.
The unexpected confrontation made headlines after it resulted in multiple 911 calls and multiple people being taken into police custody — including Andaloro herself. It is also one of six similar cases explored in the new Hulu original series Squatters: Get The F*** Out Of My House.
A new trailer for the docuseries — which PEOPLE can exclusively premiere — includes footage of Andaloro, who is the mother of PEOPLE staff writer Angela Andaloro, and other homeowners across the country facing off with squatters and police, plus some emotional and expert testimonies.
Just before footage of Andaloro being cuffed and taken into a police car plays in the trailer, one interviewee says, “If the laws can't help you, if the police can't help you, where are you supposed to turn?”
In other previews of the talking-head interviews in Squatters' six episodes, a crying woman says, “We had no idea that it was just the beginning of a horrible, horrible story.” Later in the trailer, she says, “It's something that never, like, leaves you.”
Patti Peeples, another one of the docuseries' subjects, explains the helplessness that homeowners who grapple with squatters experience — and the legal difficulties they run into.
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“You could walk into your home, find someone sitting on your couch, and you would have no right to ask them to leave,” she says in the trailer.
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Elsewhere in the preview of the forthcoming series, which is executive produced by Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa, others comment on the inventiveness of some of the squatters featured.
“In 20 years, I'd seen every scam in the book — I thought,” one woman says. Another man declares, “Once a squatter gets into a property, it's very difficult to get them out.”
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Other voice clips hint at darkness beyond just squatting. “She dumps the body in the bay and is taking selfies in the boat,” one woman says.
An official synopsis for Squatters teases: “A Queens homeowner gets arrested trying to enter her own house. A con artist loots a missing millionaire's estate. A grieving family watches a stranger wear their dead mother's clothes, then gets sued for $400,000 from prison. And a jaw-dropping showdown involving the S.W.A.T. Team.”
In the new series, “families are forced into shocking and emotional battles against squatters exploiting legal loopholes to live rent-free in homes they don't own,” the synopsis continues. “The six-part series follows ordinary people blindsided by manipulators who know exactly how to weaponize tenant protections and turn the legal system against the very people it's supposed to protect.
'Squatters: Get the F*** Out of My House'
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"From Queens to Malibu to Newark, each case is more infuriating than the last — and the system keeps failing the people who hold the deed.”
Squatters: Get the F*** Out of My House debuts on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ on June 4, with a new episode airing weekly.
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