Four years later, a Canadian college student named Corale needs to identify the father of her unborn baby. The 19-year-old turns to Viaguard Accu-Metrics for a prenatal paternity test. Like John, her world is rocked by tests that name the wrong dad. Unlike John, she starts asking questions and connecting dots. “Are there other people? Am I the only one?” A legal note: Over the course of this podcast, a number of allegations are made against Viaguard Accu-Metrics and its employees. When asked, company owner Harvey Tenenbaum said he stands by the test, and that any errors were caused by customers during sample collection.Hear Episode 3 right now — early and ad-free — by subscribing to CBC True Crime Premium on Apple Podcasts.
Chapter 1: What is the story behind Coral's paternity test?
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DNA testing, could you please hold?
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Hi there, am I speaking to a manager or a supervisor?
Well, both prenatal and... This is cell phone video recorded by a young woman named Coral Mayer. She and her mother, Michelle Renaud, are calling a company called Viagard Acumetrics. Michelle takes the lead.
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Chapter 2: What happens when Coral receives conflicting paternity test results?
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Her brother Jaden is behind the camera and the lens focuses on Kodal standing alone, a smoke flare in her hand. She lights the flare and smoke billows out in a cloud of pink.
Her little sister runs to hug her.
This is a rare moment for Coral. Everyone here knows what she's going through, that she still doesn't know who the dad is, and that she's waiting on results from a second DNA test. But for one afternoon, they can all just relax a little, celebrate. A couple weeks later, she gets the results from the second DNA test. Over the phone, an Acumetrix rep tells her this guy, he's the father.
So then I texted him and he sent like heart eyes and he was all excited.
But this man does little more than send emojis. He leaves Kodal mostly alone to face her pregnancy.
21 weeks and four days. And I'm not happy at all. I'm always exhausted. I'm always sick.
Karel records this in her bathroom. Her eyes are red, her face drained of colour. The dad-to-be shows up for only one ultrasound when Qaral is seven months pregnant. She phones him later, after the appointment.
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