Men say DNA tests showed they were switched at birth, plan lawsuit
""I think that's ultimately the million dollar question. And we're ultimately hoping that either through or through our trial that we actually get to the bottom of what happened here. How 2 people ended up in 2 different homes.""
About this episode
NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo interviews Kyle Bolin and Jeremy Morrison, two men who say they discovered in adulthood—via at-home DNA testing—that they were switched at birth in January 1988. Cuomo introduces the case by saying the pair were the only two babies born at Unity Medical Center in North Carolina and that each family left hospital with the wrong child. Bolin describes taking a DNA test “for fun” and finding he did not match anyone in the family he grew up with; he says the results led to contact with a biological aunt and then to Morrison, who took his own test and reached the same conclusion.
Both men describe the emotional and identity impact of learning that the families who raised them are not their biological parents, while emphasising that decades of relationships and memories remain real and intact. Morrison says he had two years to process the information and recounts the difficulty of explaining the situation to his father, who initially assumed it meant infidelity rather than a hospital error. Bolin says the remaining unanswered question is how the mix-up happened and indicates they hope a legal process will help establish what occurred.
The segment ends with the men describing their relationship with each other as two people navigating the same predicament, and their intent to move forward while seeking clarity about the circumstances of their births.
Key takeaways
- Cuomo says Bolin and Morrison were the only two babies born at Unity Medical Center in North Carolina on 26 January 1988.
- Bolin says an at-home DNA test showed he did not match any relatives in the family who raised him.
- Morrison says his own DNA test indicated he was not biologically related to the family who raised him.
- Both men characterise the outcome as having been switched at birth, based on the DNA results.
- Morrison describes a difficult conversation in which his father initially assumed non-paternity rather than a hospital mistake.
- Bolin says they hope a trial or legal process will establish how the alleged mix-up occurred.