David Lomas on his own family mystery, New Zealand adoption laws and the new season of David Lomas Investigates

Every family has its secrets. If anyone knows this to be true, it’s David Lomas.

For 16 years the investigative journalist and TV presenter has worked tirelessly to uncover the mysteries of New Zealand families, connecting children to their birth parents and reuniting whānau in emotional television moments.

And though Lomas has spent his life finding people for others in his series Missing Pieces, Lost and Found and most recently, David Lomas Investigates, he tells the Herald on Sunday he’s stumbled upon his own family mysteries too.

“My mother had a sister who, for various reasons within the family, disappeared. And nobody knew where she was.”

Then, without intending to, as a young journalist covering what was at the time New Zealand’s deadliest mass murder, Lomas found…