#10 - Life, Mystery, and the Found

True Crime Real Time

This episode veers from the usual and instead of speaking about the dead, we are speaking about the living. Instead of urging people to come forward, we urging people to sit back. To sit back and listen to a truly remarkable story of tragedy, sorrow, and also joy. We are speaking about DNA, but instead of DNA connecting a suspect to a murder scene, we are talking about DNA connecting family. This episode tells the story of long-lost siblings, living so close to each other, yet taking 70 years to find their way to each other. In this episode we meet Dianne and Doug, two siblings from a small town in New Brunswick Canada. Having heard their remarkable story, I’ve asked them if they would be willing to share this with you, and thankfully they agreed. I know this veers from my typical topics, but in a day & age where we are inundated with injustices and we constantly looking for DNA to help solve long unsolved cases of murder and rape, we are flipping the coin and showcasing a story where DNA helped solve a different kind of mystery. You see they found a sister. Dianne and Doug’s father had told them a few times, at various stages of their lives that they had a brother and a sister, but gave little to no other information. You see, he fathered these children during WW2.