A harrowing story comes out of Utah, where a family learned that their 21-year-old daughter, conceived via artificial insemination, is not genetically related to the man who raised her, but rather a dead felon who worked at the laboratory they went to for assistance.

The family, understandably requesting anonymity in the story, will be identified as Jeff (as the father), Paula (as the mother) and Ashley (as the daughter) for storytelling purposes. Paula and Jeff, in the early 90s, turned to a now-defunct Midvale, Utah clinic named Reproductive Medical Technologies (which had a working relationship with the University of Utah) after unsuccessful attempts to conceive. (Convicted kidnapper Thomas R. Lippert worked for the clinic and educational institution from 1988 until 1994, prior to his death in 1999.)