A woman was left stunned after she received a mystery phone call telling her she had received a £100,000 windfall from a relative she never knew she had.
Divorcee Ann Margaret Mathison died alone in Los Angeles aged 74 in November 2020, leaving behind a stunning £1.5million estate.
But with no will and no known relatives, probate research genealogy company Finders International, who star on BBC show Heir Hunters, was called in to track down her heirs.
This was when Laura Barts, who lives in a port town in Cumbria, received a stunning phone call about Mrs Mathison - who was the cousin of her estranged father.
She was told that she had inherited the incredible sum through her late father, who walked out on her family when she was two, leaving a note in her brother's cot.
