when we compared her dna to lavender doe's dna, we could see that it looked like lavender doe's parent, they felt close. all they had to do was find the right cousin, the right cousin who might be missing a daughter, a niece, or someone. not so easy. as we started looking and researching every person in this family, we found that there were 27 first cousins-- whoa. --who could have possibly been lavender doe's parent. you think, wow, here's our big break. now all we need to do is find the cousin. and it turns out there are 27 of them? 27. some of the people in the family had had several marriages and several children from each marriage. and so we started with that list. and we had to go through and see if we could find each of these people. where are they? who were their children? are they alive? what can we find? keith morrison (voiceover): one by one, they pulled on their threads, hundreds of them leading nowhere. and then it was kevin who found it. the texas woman had a distant cousin who lived out of state, a woman she didn't know, had never met, whose name was robin. and robin had

keith morrison (voiceover): lavender doe no longer-- eternally, dana lynn dodd. amanda gadd: some of the people still go by her gravesite and still put flowers and things like that there. and that's what we wanted. because she's part of longview. and she'll never be sent away again. no, she's home. that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm andrea canning. thank you for watching. [theme music] >> good morning, and. >> welcome to this. >> saturday edition of. >> morning joe. >> weekend. >> it was another busy week in washington, so let's get right to some of the conversations you might have missed. >> donald trump's stance on ukraine. >> which you know is not. shocking when you look back at the relationship. even during his first presidency, things he said and did, even withholding aid from ukraine. at the same time. >> this is a. >> shocking change. >> in what. >> might be the world. >> order and how our. >> allies are responding. >> i mean, he is quickly. moving from not just destroying. >> relationship with. >> ukraine. >> but restoring. >> a relationship w