It all started when Annie and her mother Pam Branum decided to take on a fun family project -- trace their family tree online. All three -- Pam, Annie and father John Branum -- took a DNA test. The results they got back were shocking. Pam Branum delivered the news.
For John Branum, it was tough to swallow. He felt shock and disbelief. "You're staring at it slack-jawed and you're thinking, well there's definitely a mistake here. You know, it almost seems surreal."
The Branums, meanwhile, feel the University has an obligation to dig deeper. "Our hope," said John Branum, "was that the university would inform the families that used that clinic during the years that Tom Lippert was there."