Grown Man Finds Himself on a Missing Children List While Searching for Biological Parents
- Posted on April 28, 2012 at 6:21pm by
Liz Klimas
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This composite photos of Marx Panama Barnes is what Steve Carter saw on a missing children's website. He felt it looked like himself. (Image: CNN screenshot)
Steve Carter, a 35-year-old Philadelphia man, was adopted at age four from a Hawaiian orphanage. He wasn’t too interested in searching for his biological parents growing up as he was always very happy with his adoptive ones. It was a gut feeling that spurred him to do some searching later in life. That‘s when he saw his own likeness on a missing children’s list.
CBS reports what Carter saw on MissingKids.com stunned him. It was a composite image of Marx Panama Barnes aged to be 26 years old:
“My first thought was, ‘Oh my God, that’s me.’”
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Carter and Barnes had birthdays one day apart. Their birthplaces are identical.
Carter emailed the picture to his adoptive mother. Carter recalled, “She’s like, ‘Oh my God, that’s you.’ And I was like, ‘That’s what I thought.‘ And she’s like, ‘But it can’t be you. You know, we adopted you at 4. There‘s no way you could have been missing at 6 months and we’d be able to legally adopt you at 4.’ I was like, ‘I was thinking the same thing.’”
A DNA test confirmed Steve and Marx were in fact the same person, but the mystery doesn’t stop there. CBS goes on to detail that Carter’s biological mother went missing with him in 1977. It was later revealed Carter’s mother had taken him, changed his name, his birth date and the race of his father on his birth certificate. CBS notes that while Carter was given to an orphanage, his mother was put in a psychiatric hospital from which she has since vanished.
Steve Carter found he was listed as a missing child when he went in search of his biological parents. (Image: CNN screenshot)
Eventually, Carter‘s father Mark Barnes was located and he said Carter’s biological mother had left him several times before this incident, but she would always return. This last time, she didn’t. CBS has more on Barnes’ reaction when he first heard from his biological son after three decades:
“He introduced himself over the phone. And I was absolutely, positively, thunderstruck and amazed. And we just sort of, in an hour of conversation tried to catch up on 32 years.”
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“Not one day went by when I wasn’t – he wasn’t in my thoughts.”
Check out the full CBS report:
CNN states Carter does plan to meet his biological father in person someday, but right now he is “still going forward, testing the waters.” He said he is currently trying to figure out what happened to him during the three-week time period between when he was reported missing and turned in to the orphanage. CBS notes Barnes saying he wishes he had reported Carter and his mother missing sooner than he did. In the years that followed the baby and mother’s disappearance, Willits News reports Barnes saying he did everything but turn the island upside down and shake it in his efforts to find Carter.
Carter (Barnes) as a baby. (Image: CNN screenshot)
Watch CNN’s video report:
For some time, Barnes said he was treated by authorities as suspect to potentially murdering Carter and his missing mother. Since Carter’s reappearance, the police have apologized to Barnes, according to Willits News.
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Comments (58)
JLee4
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:59pmIf the woman left her husband several times before that, and then went to great lengths to change her child’s identity and give him up… isn’t it possible that she was in an abusive relationship and did what she felt she had to, for the protection of her child? I‘m not saying that’s what happened, but I do know some things about abusive relationships & how most mothers would do whatever it takes to shield their child from that. This situation could have very well happened out of desperation. In any case, I pray the truth comes out for this man with a confusing past!
Report Post »stotlaat
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:19pmOr the “mom” was abusive to the extent that she’d deny the child and the dad each other. Normal people would never consider that. Those who‘ve known a sociopath know it’s entirely possible.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 6:04amSo much speculation, but no real facts to base anything on. At least he had a loving home.
Report Post »Barkus
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:53pmAll’s well that ends well.
Report Post »Smoovious
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:18pmSeriously?
Are you guys so far gone in the head, you just have to make a completely non-political story, political?
What’s wrong with you people…
– Smoov
Report Post »jimandcharo
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:21pmThis is the plot of the recent movie ‘abduction’, which has additional sub plots. It‘s amazing how real life can be so ’unreal’……
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 12:26pm…….the truth will out, soon.
Report Post »johnsnare
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:19pmComrade Obama,(AKA) Barry Sotero, or whatever name strike his fancy, will soon be history, and hopefully some responsible journalist, will uncover his entire background, that has been so secret all these years. Wouldn’t all America like to have a little more information about our wonderful Black President.?
Report Post »Delores at CH WV
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 11:14amWow, this gives many families hope that one day they will find their children. Abdopted children should look for their parents. Where are these abdoption children found? They could be one of those kids on the milk carton, too.
Report Post »billjac
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 9:10amBirth name Marx? Looney parents must have moved in the same circles as Obama’s mother.
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 10:06amI actually bet there is at least something to that. If he bio dad actually let him be named Marx I would stay away too untill after some serious research on him. wow! amazing story Blaze..
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 11:07ama “name’ does NOT a person make. Wonderful outcome…congratts!!
Report Post »Grannie4news
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 3:18pm@Adios and and others associating Marx with Karl Marx. Ever hear of the Marx Brothers Einstein? I also have friends with last name Marx. It is just a name, nothing else. Don’t be so cynical.
Report Post »rwinger261
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:33amWhat? An altered birth certificate in Hawaii? IMPOSSIBLE!
Report Post »piper60
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:59amWhat a concept!
Report Post »billjac
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 9:15amDon’t be such a skeptic. The Democrat governor of Hawaii has assured us he has seen the original certificate. That’s good enough for me.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 10:40amYou just layer some PDF stuff together and poooooff your son is someone different.
Report Post »idarusskie
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:19amThe sad thing is the state helped his nut case wife hide his son from him. The state abused this poor man thinking he off’ed his nut of a wife. Thankfully the kid got adopted out but only after he was 4 years old. Wonder how long he was there?
Report Post »Wonder if this nut case mother ( not the adopted mother)got help from some woman’s group helping women get away from those bastard men?
Elliesr
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 3:01amThis poor guy was either kidnapped or abandoned and it’s a joke! I understand his “gut” feeling. It’s a feeling that something is missing. I found my real father after 40 yrs. but enough of that. Many of you are obviously thinking Obama, Hawaii, birth certificate. How many of you have heard BHO’s other story? Well apparently he has another name, Barak Mounir Ubayd.. The writer claims Malcom X could possively be BHO’s father & when I looked at his picture, they look alike but that is not the shocker. I was so shocked! I had to listen to the audio twice. http://patriotupdate.com/22077/obama-changed-his-name-in-canada Everything GB’s been saying is right on but this guy goes further. Shocking!
Report Post »Jase
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:15amHe will finally get to meet his brother- Lenin Nicaragua Barnes.
Report Post »ChristinaP55
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:33amlol!!
Report Post »billjac
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 9:13amOh how I wish I had said that!
Report Post »Homestead1717
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 12:12pmDon’t forget to tip your waiters and waitresses!
Report Post »Adi0s
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 9:57pmIs this the guy his dad named Marx after his hero Karl Marx? say it isn’t so on Hawaii. No wonder Mr. Carter is just “testing the waters”.
Report Post »Vic Tory
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 10:10amNo. He just thought Groucho was too silly.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 9:29pmHA! The movie “abduction” is out on DVD and ties into this story.
I just sent DNA samples to a lab somewhere in the country to determine if the young lady who contacted me this past August is my daughter…..
Stories like this make my heart JUMP!
I hope this lad has a satisfactory conclusion to this journey.
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 9:02pmReally,his mother changed and forged an Hawaiian birth certificate.
Is that possible…
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 9:30pmWell, ain’t that interesting. That was 1977?
Naw, say it ain’t so.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 9:31pmGOOD ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good catch on that! :)
Report Post »SenorStrange
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 9:54pmNice Sue…VERY nice. Excellant catch.
Report Post »marthasusan40
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 10:14pmGood Catch…you should get a job at the Blaze.
Report Post »KarinKT
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 12:43amAnd his name was “Marx.”
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:23amExactly my thought. A forged Hawaii birth certificate. Isn’t that interesting?
Report Post »Amica
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 8:38pmOnly a small minded moron looks at the actions of some and condemns all. Taking a page from your book, I say that all South American women will marry a man in order to get citizenship and then split, and all Asians are passive, and mindless.
Report Post »Amica
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 8:49pmLest I appear as small minded a moron as the one I was talking to…
That was in response to a post that seemed to have been removed that said American women are greedy and vicious (paraphrased) and that one should only marry South American or Asian women.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 10:03amAre you Justtim or just channeling him?
Report Post »MountainJac
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 8:18pmReally? That’s what you learned from this? Impregnating someone doesn’t make you a father, just as much as being pregnant doesn’t make you a mother. Why do people make these generalized statements? Some people’s children.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 9:36pmWho are you talking too or are you one of those mental cases from Media Matters?
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 7:25pmDebbie Wasserman Schultz acts like her daddy is the President. Such grandiose delusions!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 7:15pmGiven the nature of Reality… of perverted Kings & Royalty over thousands of years… we probably all have Royal Relations… and at least one Crook in our Tree. I am just saying: What makes you as You is You… and not a Relation… so why bother to search?
Report Post »LameLiberals
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 7:05pmWe know more about this man than we do about Obama.
Wonder if a couple in Kenya adopted a boy from the same Hawaiian orphanage? (Sarcasm)
Report Post »Jas0n
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 8:04pmHa!
Report Post »KarinKT
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 12:46amOr a couple in Hawaii adopted a boy from Kenya.
Report Post »jpschaeffer
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 7:02pmGood Story.
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 7:01pmThings always happen for a reason. This story isn’t so much about his past, but about helping exonerate his father who had always been suspected of killing him and his mother. Great story.
Report Post »sacwoodpusher
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 9:24pmWell, we know the father didn’t kill the boy. However, do we know that he didn’t kill the mother?
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 9:33pmI think the story said she went to a mental hospital, that is why he was put up for adoption. I guess you missed that part of the story or I imagined it.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 6:55pmThank God he has great parents (his adopted parents) AND he has found out that his Dad {biological} didn’t give him up-he’s been waiting for over 32yrs to hear from his son. As for his biological Mom? Thank God, she turned him over to an Adoption Agency-it could have been much much worse. Good Story.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 6:44pmGreat story. Good things do happen. I wish him the best of luck and good fortune.
Report Post »lbyrd26
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 6:36pmI hope he gets it all sorted out. At least he has an oportunity now for some very good things. I can’t imagine being in his shoes. How confusing and scary it must be.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 6:32pm…
Report Post »Great story.
Hope Father and Son will hit it off, and be able to catch up on all those lost years.
AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 6:45pmYears ago there were programs regarding re-unions & such on tv & usually ended with miracles like this. Thank you for this story, The Blaze, Liz. K.
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