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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 5

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Matthew Gordon

Heir Hunters: Series 5: Episode 25: Smith/Gray

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Episode 25

Episode 25: Smith/Gray

Series 5

Smith/Gray

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The team search for living relatives of widower Gordon Smith, who died in 2009.

Series following the work of probate researchers. The team search for living relatives of widower Gordon Smith, who died in 2009, leaving behind an estate worth 150,000 pounds.

Widower Gordon Smith died in 2009, leaving behind an estate worth £150,000. He left a will but it was not properly completed, so now the heir hunters must find living relatives. 

Michael Gray died alone in 2007 in his home in Kingston and was something of an enigma to his neighbours. But when the heir hunters begin investigating the estate, they learn his father's career with the air ministry had meant that Michael had spent much of his childhood in a remote port in the Yemen.

Plus, details of three unsolved cases. Could you be an heir to an unclaimed estate worth thousands or even millions of pounds?

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Series following the work of probate detectives.

Series which follows the work of teams of probate detectives, who track down missing family members of people who have died without making a will.

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