Chapter 6 - The Unknown DNA Sample Came From Lenore’s Own Brother
The laboratory could not legally identify an unknown donor from a private database just because we wanted a name.
But Lenore eventually made that unnecessary.
Callum confronted her through attorneys after the police incident.
He asked one question:
“Whose DNA did you use?”
She refused.
Then Callum remembered something.
His uncle Stephen—Lenore’s younger brother—had undergone genetic testing years earlier for a hereditary cardiac condition.
Lenore had helped manage his records before Stephen died.
Callum contacted Stephen’s adult daughter with an attorney present and explained what had happened.
She voluntarily provided a sample.
The comparison was conclusive enough for kinship analysis.
The false “Callum” specimen was consistent with having come from Stephen.
Lenore had used her own brother’s stored biological material to create false paternity exclusions.
Twice.
Fourteen years apart.
Once against Rachel’s baby.
Once against Maisie.
Why Stephen?
Because he was male.
Related closely enough to explain why casual genetic summaries did not immediately raise suspicion.
And most importantly—
Lenore had access.
The scheme was not technologically brilliant.
It depended on nobody checking chain of custody.
The first time, nobody did.
May you like
The second time, I did.
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