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The Doctor Who Fathered 94 Children: Betrayal at 2020 W. 86th
The Doctor Who Fathered 94 Children: Betrayal at 2020 W. 86th
A calm, measured voicemail revealed a doctor admitting he used his own sperm to inseminate patients - and asking one newly discovered daughter to help him manage the fallout. Ninety-four people, as of May 2022, have tested positive as biological children of that same physician; how did decades of secrecy persist and what does that mean for the families involved?
In this episode, we map the chain of events from clinic consultations on West Eighty-Sixth Street to at-home DNA tests that unraveled the story, following the woman who…
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