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Heir Hunters

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Series following the work of heir hunters

Series following the work of heir hunters, probate detectives looking for distant relatives of people who have died without making a will

Heir Hunters: Series 3

Livia Russell

Matthew Gordon

Barbara Altounyan

Heir Hunters: Series 3: Episode 16: Crook/Coope

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Episode 16

Episode 16: Crook/Coope

Series 3

Crook/Coope

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The team seeks heirs of a Cheshire farm labourer with a surprisingly large estate.

Fraser and Fraser seeks heirs of a farm labourer with a surprisingly large estate, while Hoopers unravels the case of who owns an old school site worth 800,000 pounds.

Series dedicated to finding the heirs of people who have died without leaving a will.

Albert Crook died in February 2008, aged 69. He never married, had no children and had worked nearly all his life as a farm labourer in Cheshire. By all rights, his estate should be a small one, but Fraser and Fraser soon hears rumours of 100,000 pounds in assets and a mysterious suitcase full of cash. With such a prize on offer, the pressure is on to find Albert's rightful heirs and discover just how a lowly paid labourer could amass that kind of wealth.

Hoopers has to unravel the perplexing case of who owns a Victorian school site worth 800,000 pounds. With the school planning to move out, the site should revert to the heirs of the original benefactors - Victorian philanthropists, Reverend Charles Belli and Octavius Coope. But finding the heirs means delving back through a 100-year-long trail of wills, and even seeking a High Court ruling. If things don't go well, the heirs won't receive a penny and the school's plan to move into a new home will be in tatters.

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