Both men were arrested that morning. The three supposedly missing embryos were discovered in a storage unit linked to a business associated with Peter’s employer. A court ordered their preservation while investigators determined their future.
Days later, an investigator described the scheme. Peter approached Whitaker before fertility treatment and arranged to create embryos using our own sperm and eggs, while manufacturing agreements that might grant him control of the children after divorce. Harper and Madison, another woman, each heard different claims. Audrey’s grieving parents were falsely told her frozen eggs had been used.
Peter had also opened a second patient account with my personal information. A transfer request dated before my first clinic visit belonged to that account, intended to suggest I’d approved the false agreements from the beginning.
“He knew the babies were ours?” I asked.
“Yes,” the investigator said. “The records show that all three were genetically yours and Peter’s.”
