The Locator

Brother and sister, Jerry Sloop and Debra Hall in Marion, IN, have been on a quest to find their half-brother, Michael David Peterson, for almost 40 years. Due to the hospitalization of their mother, the family was forced to part ways. At the age of five and six, Jerry and Debra were sent to stay with their birth father. Michael, two years-old at the time, remained with his birth father, David Peterson. Shortly thereafter, David took Michael to Salt Lake City, UT and no one has seen them since. After several failed attempts to find Michael using private investigators, Jerry and Debra reached out to Troy, as they and their ailing mother are desperate to reconnect with Michael for the first time in almost 40 years.

Adopted when she was a baby, Katie grew up in Minnesota and has always wanted to meet her birth family. She knows that her birth mother's name is Kathy and that she had two other girls - Alicia and Portia. Katie feels as though finding her birth family will help her answer the questions she has about her background. Now an independent woman at 29 years old, Katie lives in Scottsdale, AZ studying criminology to become a crime scene investigator. Troy gives Katie the surprise of her life when he finds Kathy in Garland, TX. Will this meeting help Katie get the answers she’s been seeking?

In 1969, Kelly, at that time, a young girl pregnant with her first son, Christopher, made the difficult decision to give him to a couple who could provide him with a better life. She knew nothing of the adopted parents, other than the fact that they had other children. A few years later, she met her future husband, and they had a son, Ricardo. Kelly told Ricardo about his half brother around the time he entered the first grade. Ricardo is now the morning deejay on KPTY 93.3 in Houston, TX. He has been married for 10 years and has two children. Ricardo would like to meet his brother and establish a relationship with him since he grew up an only child longing for a brother. Christopher, whose parents raised him as Brock, is now married with five children and is a Technical Sergeant for the California Air National Guard, stationed in San Jose, CA. He tried to search for his birth family for many years, but nothing ever turned up. Until now.

Angel Fox from Tacoma, WA, gave birth to identical twins, Tylor and Taylor Neil, when she was 16 years old. After her marriage broke up with Jack, who’s 24 years her senior, he gained custody of their children. Angel visited regularly for the first three years of their lives, but then moved to Eugene, OR after their third birthday and was not able to be in touch as much as before. Months later, she learned that Jack had moved the family, taking the children to an unknown location. Angel was devastated and tried to track them down on her own, but to no avail. Four years ago, she connected with Jack’s daughter from a previous marriage who told her the boys were adopted by a family friend. This was the first time since the twins were three that Angel had heard any information about them. Angel reached out to Troy saying that she “feel(s) the empty holes in me. Every year that goes by is another year that I let them down.” Troy and his team located the twin boys in Puyallup, WA. Will they be interested in reuniting with their biological mother?

Over thirty years ago, John Reed and his three sisters were placed in a foster home in Missoula, MT after it was determined they were victims of neglect by their birth mother, Norma Jean Gaskin. Shortly thereafter, John and his older sister Monica (ages four and seven at the time) were both taken in by Eddie and Eva Reed, who raised them until adulthood. Sadly, their two younger sisters, Lola Dessman and Nicole Gaskin (ages two and one at the time), were adopted separately by another family. John is now married with five children. His wife, Kristi, has tried on several occasions to locate John’s sisters with no luck. In an effort to surprise John on their 16th wedding anniversary, Kristi submitted her husband’s case to Troy. Will Kristi’s 15 year search finally come to an end, and will John get the surprise of a lifetime?

Jaclyn got pregnant at 21, but she was not married to the father of her child. Her father Mark, a devout Catholic, turned his back on her and changed his numbers. Jaclyn was devastated. Jaclyn's parents met in Germany. Her father was in the military. Three years after Jaclyn was born, they divorced. Jaclyn didn't see him again until she was 13 and flew out to California to spend a week with him. When she was 21, their contact dropped off. Jaclyn would like the chance to tell her father that she is getting her life together. She's married and has two children, a boy and a girl. She is taking classes online at University of Phoenix. Her husband works on base in aviation at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, NC and is an officer in the military. Will Troy be able to locate him?