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Two Lives, One Son: The Doppelgänger Identity That Slipped Through Records

Two Lives, One Son: The Doppelgänger Identity That Slipped Through Records

A single envelope held two identical school portraits of the same six-year-old - same haircut, same gap-toothed smile - but two different surnames, Cooper and Hensley. How did one child end up with duplicate records, two households forty minutes apart, and adults living two lives that barely overlapped?

In this episode, we lay out the facts as they appear in the records and testimony, following the timeline from the misdirected envelope to the surprising discoveries at the school and beyond. Can the paperwork in an…

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