In 2018, Derek Abbott sent in some of the Summerton man's hair for DNA testing at a lab at the University of Adelaide. The lab found about 16,000 DNA markers but that wasn't enough. He started working with forensic genealogy expert Colleen Fitzpatrick. She suggested he bring some of the hairs to a lab in the US that had newer technology. It was always my intention to actually fly to America with the hair sample in my suitcase and personally take it to the lab. I was not going to trust sending this hair in the post. But because of COVID, I was not able to, I'm allowed to go on a plane, right? So I bite the bullet