S1002: The Sperm Donor

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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David Berry took an at-home DNA test and discovered dozens of half-siblings. Was this a coincidence or the scheme of one sperm donor? ______________ True Crime Podcast Festival 2022 in Dallas, TX We’re excited to announce that Criminal Conduct is going to be attending the True Crime Podcast Festival on August 26-28th in Dallas, Texas. The Festival is specially designed around your desire to mingle, interact, and have casual conversations with the podcasters you listen to regularly. There will also be panel discussions and live episodes you can’t hear anywhere else! Go to the website Truecrimepodcastfestival.com to find information on tickets and the hotel. Prices do go up the closer we get to the event so you won’t want to wait. I’ll see you at the True Crime Podcast Festival! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Creative Babel
0:09.0	Many of us are curious about where we came from.
0:12.3	I know I thought I knew about my own ancestry and family history and I was completely wrong.
0:19.8	In fact, most of my family is from Portugal.
0:23.0	I didn't know that.
0:25.0	And nowadays it's just so easy.
0:27.4	You could just spit in a vial, put it in the mail, and in a couple of weeks, this fancy
0:32.6	app tells you everything you want to know about your DNA and your family history.
0:41.3	David Barry, who you're going to hear from in just a second, was just as curious about
0:45.6	his past.
0:48.1	So my last name in his Barry, it's not a super uncommon name.
0:51.7	My father grew up without really knowing his own father.
0:55.2	He passed away.
0:56.2	I think when my father was six years old and even prior to that, didn't have much of
1:00.8	a relationship with him.
1:01.8	I was like, you know what, I'm going to find out where Barry comes from.
1:04.7	I ordered the ancestry.com DNA tests on those Christmas specials that they're always
1:08.3	running.
1:09.3	So he got one of the tests and I spit in the vial, I filled it up and then he sent it
1:13.8	in.
1:14.8	I didn't really think much of it.
1:16.0	A few weeks go by.
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