6/13/2023 0 Comments Last hope with troy dunn“They’ve really done all they can do,” he says. And after they’ve tried everything they can on the web, that’s when they finally contact The Locator. Now people research everything themselves. That, he admits, has made his job even harder. And social media has made it easier than ever to find people. These days, of course, everything is online: Birth and death records, driver’s licenses, whatever. This was 1990, and they often had to drive to a Lee County library to use its scanners and microfiche readers. Soon he and a business partner had opened an office in a spare bedroom and were taking on missing-person cases. “That’s what started it… That was kind of a life-changing moment for me.” It was a response that altered the course of his life forever. “And then she began to weep.”ĭunn says he was amazed at her response. He helped his mother - who was adopted as a baby and later became a regular on “The Locator” - find her own birth mother.ĭunn still remembers calling his mom to tell her the good news: He had a piece of paper, he told her, and on that piece of paper was the phone number for her birth mother. "There’s nobody better at it than him.”ĭunn’s first-ever locating job hit particularly close to home. “This is clearly his passion and his life’s work," she says. “Last Hope with Troy Dunn” brings that same kind of emotional journey to UP every week. There are other TV shows that do something similar, Winter says, but those shows can’t touch Dunn’s deep well of experience and empathy. “You were watching families get repaired right in front of your eyes.” “It was a show that had more heart than anything on TV,” she says. Winter says she’s a longtime fan of “The Locator” and always wished she’d been the one to bring it to television. UP offered him complete control, let him use his old TV crew and let him do the show documentary-style without reenactments. In fact, he’d been talking with several networks about doing a talk show, instead.īut then UP’s manager/executive vice president Amy Winter contacted him this spring and pitched him the idea for a new series. “And what I believe is that family is the center of the universe.”Įven so, Dunn admits he hadn’t been planning to do another “The Locator”-style TV show. “I just want to continue to do what I can… and do what I believe,” he says. The new show features Dunn and his team crisscrossing the country every week, combing through birth certificates and databases, and doing whatever they can to reunite people with their loved ones.įamily is hugely important to Dunn, and that’s obvious from the size of his own family: He and his wife have eight children now, ages 3 to 25, including six boys.ĭunn takes that same unshakable belief in family and applies it to his TV show, too. Now he’s back with the new show “Last Hope with Troy Dunn,” and it’s in the same mold as his biggest hit, “The Locator.” That previous show ran from 2008 to 2010 on WEtv and now appears in reruns on UP. “And that exposure helped me find even more people.” “It suddenly exploded and grew,” Dunn says. That eventually led to talk show appearances, bestselling books, motivational speaking jobs and two national television shows: “The Locator” on WEtv and “APB with Troy Dunn” on TNT. The North Fort Myers private investigator started locating missing people and reconnecting families more than 25 years ago in Southwest Florida.
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