In 2011, Steve Carter, a 35-year-old software salesman from Philadelphia, discovered a shocking secret about his past when he found his own age-progressed image on a missing children’s website. Adopted from a Honolulu orphanage at age four, he contacted police and underwent DNA testing, which revealed his birth name was Marx Panama Moriarty Barnes. Investigators learned that his biological father had reported him missing more than 30 years earlier after his mother disappeared with him during a walk. Although the circumstances of his disappearance and adoption remained unclear, Carter’s discovery brought him closer to the truth about his identity and offered hope to other families searching for missing loved ones…
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