Who do you think you are?
Charlie Parker is a private investigator who uncovered an imposter pretending to be a missing boy. Julia Bell uses DNA detective work to reunite abandoned children with family.
In 1994, 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay went missing in Texas. Several years later, he apparently resurfaced in Spain, and he was reunited with his family. But all was not as it seemed. Private investigator Charlie Parker knew he had an imposter on his hands. He spoke to Outlook's Jo Fidgen in 2018.
Rob Weston was abandoned in a cinema toilet in the UK in 1956. Decades later he was reunited with his brother Tommy Chalmers, thanks to the help of DNA detective Julia Bell. He spoke to Jo Fidgen in 2018.
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Picture: Newspaper article about Rob Weston
Credit: Photo courtesy of Rob Weston
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