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A Name Spelled Wrong Uncovers a Hidden Daughter: The Val Vogel Case
A Name Spelled Wrong Uncovers a Hidden Daughter: The Val Vogel Case
A hospital bracelet folded inside a charcoal gray peacoat traveled for 24 years from a dead woman’s closet to a thrift store and then into the hands of a 22-year-old - its thermal print read VALERY VOGEL, DOB: October 9, 1989, one letter off from her own name. That single strip of white plastic cracked open a family secret and exposed a birth certificate and newborn record no one at home had acknowledged; how did these papers sit undiscovered for decades and what truth were they hiding?
In this episode, we follow the chain of…
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