Long Wait

Steve wasn’t sure about what he just saw and he immediately decided to get in touch with the authorities, to know how he could be certain about the reality. He was guided through a process of DNA testing. Thus, Steve got a DNA test done by the professionals this time but it was about to take around 8 months for the results to be out. Steve patiently waited for the reports and there it was, 8 months later.

Indeed The Same Man

The reports stated that Marx and Steve were the same people. He wasn’t sure if he wanted to meet anyone who posted his missing report on the website and that’s when his wife, Tracey suggested him that he should at least go ahead and know the whole story about how he came to that Hawaiian foster care in 1977. Steve Jr. finally decided to know the whole story.

Getting To The Bottom

When he got into deeper, he got to know that on June 21, 1977, journalist and Vietnam vet Mark Barnes was working in the garden of his home in Hau’ula, Oahu, Hawaii. He lived there with his girlfriend, Charlotte Moriarty, who took their six-month-old son to the nearby grocery store. While Mark was occupied with planting, Charlotte bid him bye and took off. But the two never returned home.

No Return

Charlotte was a free bird, she was in the habit of taking off without telling anyone and used to return whenever she felt. When Charlotte never made it home after three weeks, Mark finally informed the police who weren’t able to do trace her anywhere. The police never found Marx and her mother. Their photos stayed on the missing person’s list for years after that but no result. 

Heartbroken And Confused

Mark searched for them for more than a year, with their photographs in his hand in all the nearby blocks but never saw his family again. Never did he imagine that his little Marx would be living a wholly different life as a different person far far away. Steve knew his father but he still wanted to know about his mother and he further searched only to discover the more weird truth. “I spent about a year and a half going crazy driving around the island. It was rough,” Steve’s birth father recalled.

Strange Squatters

When Marx and Charlotte were supposed to go for a regular walk, Charlotte actually changed her way and moved towards a different part of  Oahu, and made their way to a random empty house. When the owner of the house returned, she called the police as she sensed something suspicious. When the police arrived Charlotte managed to play a trick that changed two families’ fate forever.