Long Lost Family — Season 5
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 b
About this season
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.
Episodes (9)
1. A baby In A Shoe Box
Aired 8 October 2018 • 85 min
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.
2. A Mysterious Disappearance
Aired 15 October 2018 • 85 min
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.
3. Waiting A Lifetime
Aired 22 October 2018 • 85 min
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.
4. A Hole In My Soul
Aired 29 October 2018 • 85 min
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.
5. Feelings Of Abandonment
Aired 5 November 2018 • 42 min
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.
6. Secrets Are Better Kept Than Said
Aired 12 November 2018 • 42 min
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.
7. She Chose Another Person Over Her Child
Aired 19 November 2018 • 42 min
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.
8. I Want to Go Back
Aired 26 November 2018 • 42 min
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.
9. She's Gone
Aired 3 December 2018 • 42 min
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.