The Locator

I have wanted to watch that show called The Locator on the WE television channel. I kept missing it but I am watching an episode tonight. I guess the person who does the locating decides each week which cases he will take, and then you follow him on his journey.

This week he was trying find a guy that a lady had met years ago when they were both in the service. When the lady got pregnant she decided not to tell the father. Now the son is like 25 years old or something and in the service himself. The son had a service buddy die and it really shook him up and brought to the surface the need to know his father.

The "locator" tracked down the father. On the first phone call to the father (his name is Dean), Dean hung up on the locator because he thought the call was a hoax. After Dean had a while to think about it, it dawned on him that it was a possibility so he called the locator back. Dean is currently happily married and the father of three other children.

Now they are working on having Dean and the son, Chad, meet. Luckily his wife is being very supportive of the whole thing. They did a DNA test just to make sure that he was the father, which I think is smart. They have not told Chad that they have found his dad yet. They are getting ready to surprise him right now. The locator took Chad on a drive and stopped to talk to him on a road. He then told him he was standing on the driveway to his dad's house.

Wow! I can not imagine that feeling. Seeing your parent or child that you never knew existed. What a great job it must be to reunite loved ones. And the sad things is that he seems like he would have been a good dad. The foot notes on the episode said that they spent Christmas together and that he has become close to his father and a sister. I hope they all do well together.