An Australian woman flew to Zimbabwe to meet what she thought were her biological parents for the first time - but her new family were not what they seemed.
Abigail Prangs, 36, was adopted by an Australian couple after being dumped by the side of a road in Harare as a newborn.
After an emotional and draining search for her birth family Ms Prangs was led to believe that she was snatched by a midwife who told her mother she was stillborn.
Initial DNA test results showed Mrs Prangs was the daughter of Edna and Stanford Kamonere, from near Harare in Zimbabwe, who have 12 other children.
Edna said that she had given birth to twins but one of the babies mysteriously vanished and she was told by a nurse that the infant had died.
An emotional reunion was filmed for Sunday Night True Stories and Ms Prangs was thrilled to be finally meeting her birth parents.
But in a bizarre twist two further DNA tests showed that Edna and Stanford were not actually Ms Prangs' mother and father but revealed instead that she was their niece.
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Zimbabwe-born Abigail Prangs, who was adopted by an Australian couple when she was ditched as a baby, met who she thought were her biological parents on a trip to Zimbabwe
Noticing a strong family resemblance Ms Prangs approached an aunt called Elizabeth only for her to be whisked away in a van.
Ms Prangs suspects she uncovered a dark family secret after learning Elizabeth would have given birth aged just 14, if she was in fact her biological mother.
It was an unsettling turn of events for the mother-of-four, from the Sunshine Coast, who has been searching for her birth family for years.
Although she was adopted as a baby by Australians Mike and Kathy Prangs she never stopped wondering about her African roots.
She started her journey to reconnect with her long lost blood family, and spent countless nights researching adoption sites, newspapers and social media.
She even managed to find the policeman who found her crying, wrapped in a blanket on the side of the road and he took her back to the local hospital all those years ago.
After getting her hands on the birth registry from Harare Hospital from the day she was born, Ms Prangs tracks down Edna Kamonere.
Ms Kamonere said she gave birth to twins on the same day Ms Prangs was born but one of them was a stillborn and the baby's 'body' was immediately taken from her by a midwife.
The timing and details of Edna's story matched what Ms Prangs knows about her own start to life.
