Shara Broussard-LaPointe

You cannot fight those odds. And that was all they needed.

Yes. Along with another genealogist. My name is Shara Broussard-LaPointe. Tina had started a tree. And we really think alike and worked together to build this tree with 7,409 people in it. Oh, my gosh.

We were on the phone constantly.

Trying to get to the bottom.

And I think the justice system has worked and he's where he needs to be. But to say that that's honestly justice for Mary Catherine, it's frustrating to know that he lived a life and she should have been able to live a life and have children and go on. That is frustrating.

This is actually my great grandmother, Claudia.

It was my family's DNA kits that I had uploaded to GEDmatch.

It was kind of scary because I'm putting my own second cousins in this tree and I'm thinking, oh my gosh, you know, could one of my grandfather's sister's grandchildren have have done this? They lived here in Texas.

As you build those trees, you look for information that is pertinent to the case that you're working on. We had a tag for people who were in Beaumont. She was a teacher. As you build a tree, you look at people who are in education. Every one of these lines are built out.

That's a lot of hours, a lot of work, and a lot of people in a family tree.

She was working a family line very distantly related to her own. It was a very common Cajun name, Thibodeau. I got to a couple who were in Beaumont. I was able to see from records that they had two sons.

I put the names in the tree, and I messaged Tina, and I said, there's a couple in Beaumont. I'm tired. I'm going to bed. And I turned my cell phone off, and I fell asleep on the sofa. And when I woke up the next morning, my phone had just blown up. And it was you on the other end. Yes. What were you saying?