True Crime Vault: Secret Siblings

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True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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It's a decades-old scandal only recently brought to light. Identical twins, put up for adoption as babies, but separated into different homes without telling the birth mother or adoptive parents. Now, those twins learn the truth about their past. Originally broadcast on 3/9/2018 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everybody it's Deborah Roberts co-anchor of 2020. We're bringing you more
0:05.0	2020 each week with the 2020 true-crime vault. That's right you're going to hear a
0:10.4	story pulled from our archives.
0:13.1	Shows that we just can't seem to get out of our heads,
0:15.7	and we think you're going to be drawn in too.
0:18.2	Thanks for listening.
0:22.0	Coming up.
0:24.0	She just called me, she said, are you sitting down?
0:26.0	You have an identical twin brother?
0:28.0	I literally almost drove off the road.
0:31.0	A scandal unfolding,
0:33.0	identical twins and triplets separated as babies,
0:37.0	but none of them knew it.
0:39.0	I was in shock that I have an identical twin.
0:43.2	I needed to find her.
0:44.6	That is my mission and life is to find her.
0:48.0	A prominent adoption agency deliberately splitting apart twin babies.
0:53.0	This is wrong.
0:54.0	And it's just what they did was really, really wrong.
0:56.0	They didn't give it down for anybody.
0:58.0	We're screwing people's lives.
1:00.0	The only thing more shocking, it was all part of a secret decades long study.
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