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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You can go to our website and follow things for
our confessions for cash.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
That's where you get to tell us a story.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
You can block out your voice or whatever it needs
to remain anonymous, and depending on the level of your confession,
we give you cash.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
And we really enjoy it when people call us with
kind of ideas or thoughts from our confessions to cash.
And that's exactly what happened with Lucy.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yes we're calling her Lucy now, but when we first
got on an air, she was anonymous.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
My dad and my auntie got me and my brother
to do an ancestry test and we got the results,
and I was a bit confused to begin with because
it was telling me my brother was a half sibling
and where he finally worked out he wasn't my biological
father after thirty one years and no one knew anything.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So it wasn't that he suspected anything.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
No, it was a shock to his system as well.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh my gosh, So where is your mother in all
of this?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Currently living at my house pretending like nothing's happened, telling
us that DNA is fake and lies and it's not
all true.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
There's so much going on in her life. She was
on the bus at the time taking the kids to daycare.
You could hear the kids in the background going off
like she's got a lot going.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
On, And we said, look, we've got access to a
PI and he's one of the best in the business.
We call him PI Dave from oz Trace International Investigation Investigations.
I always say that, yes, I'm sorry, Dave's waiting outside
because we are going to put these two people together. Lucy,
that's not your real name. We are here to protect
the innocent. But you've just come in and you look
absolutely terrified. Are you okay? I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Can I ask what it is that you're especially scared
of right now?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, okay, it's just a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I'm kind of expecting to find out with my search
that is in jail or dad.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
To be honest, Yes, Because PI Dave, who you can
see in the studio with us, Welcome Dave, morning. Are
we tasked him with finding your father because we had
some information. You'd done a fair bit of research. In fact,
you've gotten pretty close. You thought you'd narrowed it down
to one of two brothers in Wa yep, And so
we gave that information to Dave, you're hoping to find
(02:05):
out today. I mean it's pretty exciting and terrifying, and
find out who your dad is it is.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, you told us that you live with your mum.
Does she know what's been going on?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I told her yesterday?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
How did that go?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
She shut down very quickly. It's kind of like she
knows something that she's not telling me, or I'm not
supposed to know, or I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Okay, this is just her at any point in this, Mate,
you don't have to get the information we're going.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
To give you.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I need it my kids because there's some health stuff
with your kids. My ten year old is deaf, and
you don't know why she.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Was born with perfect hearing and it's just declined over
the years.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So potentially there's some sort of genetic connection and you
don't know half the family story. Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Can we ask about your mum, like why do you
think think she won't tell you what's going on with that?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
She's always been very secretive. Yeah, but yeah, as my
brother and I said, like, we wish she told.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Us when we were younger, because you grew up thinking
your stepdad was your actual father.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Yeah, well he's always been my dad is your dad still? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
And your brother when you did the DNA testing, he
came back as your stepdad some or your dad.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
He came back as a half brother, not a full
brother to you. That's when we put two and two together.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Okay, you want to do this, yep, Okay, p I
dave over to you. You've had the information. It's I mean,
this is this has only been a number of days.
So was it a fairly simple task this time around?
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
What she was kid?
Speaker 6 (03:44):
We had the names obviously that we could do the
searches from that. We had two possibilities of names that
Lucy's given us. We had two brothers, so we've run
the searches on that, and they were actually quite easy
to find, both of them.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Okay, so how did you know little fist pump over
there from Lucy? Yes? How did you know those names?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
When I got my ancestry test back, I just went
Anie Meani money Move, contacted a fourth cousin through ancestry,
and she put it all together and gave us the names.
I then messaged the sister to those two brothers on
Facebook and she's like, I gave a backstory, and she's
like oh, it'll be this brother more than likely.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
YadA yadayah.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I have messaged everyone with that last name on Facebook
because it's unusual to me. One came back saying, you know,
don't destroy a family. They've gone and done an ancestry
test matched as my first.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Cousin, right, and that's these two people that would be
the cousin's uncles. Yes, wow, okay, So what else do
we know, Dave.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
I can say that the two brothers still live in Perth,
so they're still in wa both of them.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
They're still a li Lucy. They're not in jail.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
They're not in jail, not in jail, so they were
quite relatively easy too fine, So they're both employed as such,
they're both married currently and have been for a long time.
At the end of the day, I can provide you
with their names and their addresses, phone numbers and even
emails as such. So I do have a lot of
(05:23):
information to provide to you, Lucy. And what you do
with that and how you go about it, that's completely
up to.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
You you, okay, Love, I'm just going to give you
a big please someone.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Oh okay, don't have affairs. I didn't think I would
ever be in a fair child. But now I'm either
going to destroy another family or just keep destroying my family.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Hang on, there is some more information about that, so well.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Yeah, you were saying he's married, both married, Yes, both
persons are both married, and they both have children. One
of the gentlemen actually has one daughter and the other
gentleman has actually four children, so you possibly have a
number of step brothers or step sisters as well.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
What about the timing, because we now know how old
Lucy is, and do you know how old those children are?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I absolutely do. How old are you lose?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Thirty one?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You're thirty one.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
It happened in nineteen ninety two. I think I worked
it out to be about.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
May the information I guess in regards to this and
depending on which actual person is your father, depending on
where the situation lies. But I think you have a
feeling that it's more one gentleman than the other. And
he has the four children, so you're actually in between
the third and the fourth child, so he does have
(06:54):
children sort of before you and after you as well.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
If it's this particular.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Gentleman, what about if it's the other one.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
The other one, well, they were born in nineteen seventy
eight the other one, so that's a little bit older
than what Lucy is.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Okay, tell me what you're thinking.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Were they married in nineteen ninety two?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, mate, what you said the first time is potentially true.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
I'm going to destroy another family.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It does lead to perhaps the reason why your mom
doesn't want to talk about it, because if it were
an affair, it could be something that she is shamed
of for those For those reasons.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
She couldn't even confirm a name with me, so I
don't even think she knew who he was, what he did,
right anything.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
You're in an interesting position now. Obviously you've got all
this information, you have the capacity to contact these people,
Plus you live with your mom. Do you think it
will change how she is around this if she knows
that you have this information.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
No, she'll just be very quiet. She's avoided it. She
does good at avoiding things. She won't really talk to
me about it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Will she want to stop you from contacting them?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
She doesn't get a choice.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I guess that's my next question. What are you going
to do?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Work out how to contact them and what to say.
Getting a phone call from a thirty one year old going, hey,
I think you're your dumb your child. It'd be okay
if I was a lot younger, but thirty one is
that's a third of my life gone.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And you want to know who your dad is? Yeap?
Do we know if any of these kids are deaf?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I haven't been able to establish that information as such.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No, Robin, do you think Lucy your mum might at
least be able to save the one awkward conversation if
you were to say, I know, I know it's this
brother or it's this brother, and I'm going to call them,
tell me which one it is.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
She won't know.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Just randomly, after we did the DNA test, she remembered
she had an.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Affair, right, and she didn't know anything about that person,
Like you said, a one night stand? Do you mean
I think it was a drunken night that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
He was also, you know, with my dad at that time,
So I don't know what was going through her head.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
But oh wow, right was she in WA? Is this
a wa thing that happened?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Okay, we can't take this any further with the brothers.
We're not allowed to legally. We can give you the information.
The only other thing I would suggest is whether your
mum would talk to us.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I feel like we've just like delivered this massive bomb
into your life. What do you think you're going to do?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Take it step by stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I guess, not putting words in your mouth. You look
relieved from when you came in. You were you were
nervous and stress, but you actually look relieved. Is that
your feeling or what are you feeling?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I'm honestly not sure.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I have tried since January to contact numbers anything. Taking
this guy a couple of days doing wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
To be fair, it is his job and he's really
good at it. Yeah, if you're okay with it, we'll
call you back in a couple of days and see
what you're going to do. But it seems like it
hasn't changed your stance. You will contact one or both
of them and see what happens. Yeah, you have a
right to know who your father is, Lucy, And being.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
That my dad lives in Perth, it wouldn't surprise me
if he goes thor knocking because he wants what's best
for me as well. He said, take the good with
the good and the bad. With the bad like it
is what it is.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
So your mum's not supporting you, and your father, you've discovered,
is actually not your biological father is the one that
will hold your hand and get you through this.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yep. Wow, it might be comfortable for this person, but
he might be really relieved to find out and thankful
to find out that he had someone he never knew
was his child.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That's entirely possible.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Does Lucy look like any of the siblings? Do you know?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It's hard to say, Robin, but no, I wouldn't have thought.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
So Okay, there you go. He's an ex copper, he knows, mate.
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I feel like we've just given you the best and
worst news of your life. Cleose enough enough, We will
check in with you in a week and see how
you're going.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Awesome, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
We've also just had a text message, thank you so much.
Lee listening to Kip on Robin this morning. Love them.
Can I just say her dad is the man who
raised Lucy. Her father is the man she doesn't know.
It takes more than genetics to be a dad.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Absolutely, yes, very well, said