The fiancée of slain Florida TV reporter Dylan Lyons hired someone to harvest his sperm hours after his death and plans to use it to manufacture a child in a lab.
The same day a rogue gunman shot and killed her 24-year-old future spouse while he was on the job, the grieving Casey Fite, along with Lyons’ mother, Beth Lyons, began researching how she could posthumously extract his biological matter and have his baby.
“That’s all Dylan talked about is having children with Casey. Their love was inseparable. They even had names picked out. That’s how devoted they were to having children,” Beth recalled in an interview for “Good Morning America.”
Fite said she called the hospital and medical examiner, both of which refused to conduct the retrieval. The examiner, however, gave Fite permission to access Lyons’ body if she found a doctor who was willing and capable of collecting Lyons’ biological matter.
Within 24 hours of Lyons’ death, Fite found a urologist who was willing to do a postmortem sperm retrieval. The invasive procedure yielded eight vials of Lyons’ gametes, which have been frozen for future use.
Harvesting and freezing a deceased man’s biological matter doesn’t guarantee Fite a legal right to reproduce, but Fite is already asking the public for $50,000 to fulfill her dream of having Lyons’ children as soon as next year. So far, she’s raised close to $5,000.
“I am devastated he can’t be here for what we always wanted. …
