Lydia Fairchild | This Mom's DNA Didn't Match Her Kids

Things I Learned Last Night

Space Tim Media

Comedy, Education, History

4.6 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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When Lydia Fairchild applied for child support in 2002, she thought it was a routine process. She was a young mother of two, pregnant with her third child, and wanted to ensure help from her children’s father. But what began as paperwork turned into one of the strangest legal and scientific mysteries in modern history: the case of Lydia Fairchild and her DNA. To confirm paternity, officials requested DNA samples from Lydia, her children, and their father. The results were shocking. The tests proved beyond a doubt that the father was biologically related to the children, but Lydia was not. According to the DNA tests, there was a 0 percent chance she was their mother. Things I Learned Last Night is an educational comedy podcast where best friends Jaron Myers and Tim Stone talk about random topics and have fun all along the way. If you like learning, and laughing a whole lot while you do, then you’ll love TILLN. Watch or listen to this episode today! Become a Patron and Get Early Access to Ad-Free Episodes: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tilln.com/support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Episode link: https://tilln.com/lydia Support TILLN & Join The Mailing List: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/tillnpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Watch John R Brinkley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzBPxDMk460 Text TILLN to 66866 to become a patron and gain access to ad-free episodes, the exclusive discord, and earn discounts on TILLN Merch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey man.
0:00.6	What's up?
0:01.6	Have you ever heard of Lydia Fairchild?
0:04.8	Lydia Fairchild.
0:06.3	Lydia Fairchild.
0:07.5	No?
0:10.6	Lydia Fairchild.
0:11.6	Here, you want to look at her?
0:13.4	Yeah.
0:14.5	Here she is.
0:15.5	This is her and child.
0:18.6	Okay.
0:19.1	Her fair child.
0:20.3	Is this like an 80s picture?
0:21.7	This is 90s maybe? This is for those, it's a, it's a, you know, old picture and she's holding a baby and the baby's just like, probably, I think this is 90s because the story takes place Is that her baby? Yeah, that's her baby. Okay. Here's another picture of her where honestly in this picture, she...
0:38.7	Also with the baby.
0:40.1	Also with the baby.
0:40.7	The baby, yeah. And on a house phone. Oh, how the baby was flipping us off for a second, but it's not. A little ring finger. Very close. In this photo, though, looks kind of like Heath Ledger. Okay. Are we, I don't know if we can bully her like that.
0:57.3	I don't know the story.
0:58.4	You know the story.
0:59.6	She does, she, that's a beautiful woman.
1:03.6	I don't know.
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