"I wonder if it's tied to my biology"

The Daily Crime

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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When an amateur genealogist from Maine helps her third cousin track down her biological parents, she makes a shocking discovery. News Center Maine reporter Hannah Dineen shares what happened. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.2	Whether it was shock or whether this woman has the most incredible sense of humor,
0:06.5	Kathy Gilcress's reaction was she starts laughing and she basically says,
0:11.1	well, of course my father's a murderer.
0:14.0	For Vault Studios, I'm Reed Redmond.
0:16.4	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:26.9	Thank you. listening to The Daily Crime. A recent consumer report survey of home DNA kit customers showed that about 20% of
0:32.8	Americans have taken a genetic test, hoping to find answers about family origins or potential health problems.
0:40.4	10% of those customers said the results contained unsettling information.
0:49.1	Hannah Danine joins us from News Center, Maine in Portland, Maine.
0:52.8	Hannah, let's start back in 2017
0:55.1	when a woman named Kathy Gilchrist
0:57.0	gets interested in genealogy.
0:59.0	What sparked that interest?
1:00.5	Well, thanks for having me, Reed.
1:02.0	So Kathy Gilchrist was adopted,
1:05.4	and she says that she grew up with a charmed life.
1:10.4	She loved her adopted parents. They had a great
1:14.7	relationship. But in her older years, she just had this curiosity, this nagging curiosity about
1:22.7	what her biology was, where she came from, who her biological parents are and what her
1:31.6	biological family is like. So she turned to as thousands, hundreds of thousands of people
1:39.9	across the world have done on the last, you know, many years, she's turned to ancestry DNA.
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