May 19, 2021 by Jeannie Ralston · Family

Two Texas Women in Their 50s Make a Startling Discovery: They Were Switched at Birth

Oh, the havoc those DNA testing services can cause! In Texas, 2 women face the fall out from a stunning mistake more than 50 years ago.

The judge called the case a "made for television situation," and he neatly summed up the stranger-than-fiction drama that had unfolded in Nueces County, Texas.

Two women--Mary Ann Saenz High and Cynthia Rector--were born on the same day, April 30, 1969, at Kleberg County Hospital. "Mary Ann was the offspring of Charles Wayne Rector and Linda Belle Walpole. Cynthia was the offspring of Fidel Barrera Saenz and Benilde Soliz," a lawsuit by the two women states. "Tragically, according to the birth certificate, Mary Ann was identified as being born to Fidel Barrera Saenz and Benilde Soliz, and Cynthia was identified as being born to Charles Wayne Rector and Linda Belle Walpole."

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