Season 5
9 episodes · 2018
Long Lost Family features the emotional stories of people who have suffered a lifetime of separation, who are desperate to be reunited with people they feel an intense closeness to, but whom they’ve barely, if ever, met.
1A baby In A Shoe Box
Chris tackles the mystery of why a woman was left in a box hours after being born near an Ohio gas station. A woman enlists Lisa's help to locate her biological mother; no one is prepared for what they discover, and changes the woman's life forever.
2A Mysterious Disappearance
A young woman hopes Chris can help solve the thirty-year mystery of her younger brother's disappearance from a Miami Beach hotel. A man's search for his adopted birth mother reveals a shocking family secret that his grandparents took to the grave.
3Waiting A Lifetime
Chris helps a SWAT team leader and former Marine tackle his toughest challenge yet, locating his birth mom. A woman enlists Lisa's help to find her brother, hoping he will bring joy to a family mourning the tragic death of their father from AIDS.
4A Hole In My Soul
A woman enlists Chris’s help to find her biological mother, hoping for the mother-daughter bond she never had. A near death experience in combat accelerates a young veterans’ search for his birth family, and Lisa’s discoveries turn his world upside down.
5Feelings Of Abandonment
Lisa helps a man find his birth mother, hoping to answer why she placed him for adoption, but kept his three brothers. After turning to Psychics for answers, a woman desperate for details about her birth mom hopes Chris can separate truth from fiction.
6Secrets Are Better Kept Than Said
Lisa helps a woman locate her son hoping to heal the broken heart she’s had since placing him for adoption decades ago. The tragic beginning of a woman’s life with her mother dying in childbirth, has Chris searching for the father she knows nothing about.
7She Chose Another Person Over Her Childfinale
Lisa helps a man locate his birth mother hoping to answer why she chose to marry a man that didn’t want to raise him. A woman enlists Chris’s help to search for the biological mother who abandoned her at a babysitter’s house when she was three months old.
8I Want to Go Back
At 50 years old, the revelation of a man's adoption catapults his search for his biological roots, but his son's DNA only deepens the mystery. A woman enlists Chris's help to find the son she placed for adoption, hoping her decision was not in vain.
9She's Gone
Two sisters searching for their birth mother, hoping Chris can uncover the mystery of why they were taken from her. Lisa helps a mother find the daughter she placed for adoption, hoping the adoptive family she chose was the right one.