She Disappeared With Her Baby In Hawaii, 34 Years Later The Toddler Makes A Terrifying Discovery!

In 1977, on a seemingly ordinary summer day in Hawaii, Charlotte Moriarty and her six-month-old baby, Marx, went missing after stepping out to run an errand. Charlotte, a free-spirited artist, had always been a bit unpredictable, so her sudden disappearance wasn’t initially alarming. However, the situation soon took a strange and unsettling turn when the baby’s stroller was found abandoned at a bus stop. Despite Charlotte’s history of leaving without warning, this time, she never came back.

Mark Barnes, the father, was initially hopeful and waited for her to return. But as days passed and Charlotte and the baby remained missing, he began to search for them. He didn’t contact the authorities immediately, waiting for what he hoped would be a spontaneous return. Eventually, after 20 days, Mark finally reported them missing to the police, but the investigation began slowly. Charlotte’s family was skeptical about Mark’s delay in reporting, which led to suspicions surrounding him.

The police started investigating Mark but found no concrete evidence connecting him to the disappearance. The case went cold with no leads. Weeks turned into months, and as time passed, the case became just another unsolved mystery, with no physical evidence to suggest what happened. There was no body, no clue, and no sign of the baby or Charlotte.

The pain of losing his son was unbearable for Mark. After more than a year of searching, he eventually left Hawaii and moved to California, starting a new family. But the disappearance of Charlotte and Marx lingered in his mind, even as the case turned into a cold file.

Decades later, in 2011, a man named Steve Carter, who was adopted as a child, stumbled upon a missing children’s database. He had always known he was adopted, but never questioned his past. That is until he found a case about a missing baby from Hawaii in 1977. He clicked on the article and was struck by a computer-generated age-progression image of the child. It resembled him closely. After some research, he reached out to the authorities, providing his information for a DNA test.

The test confirmed that Steve Carter was, in fact, the missing Marx Panama Moriarty Barnes. For 34 years, he had been living under a different identity, unaware of his past.

Investigators reopened the case and discovered that Charlotte had not simply disappeared. Shortly after the disappearance, Charlotte had wandered into the home of a stranger with baby Marx in her arms. The homeowner noticed that Charlotte seemed disoriented and disturbed, and when Charlotte asked for milk, the homeowner called the police. Charlotte was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation, but while she was under observation, baby Marx was placed into state custody. However, because Charlotte gave false names for herself and her baby, the authorities never realized the true identity of the child.

The baby, now identified under the name Tenzen Amia, was placed in the foster system, and Charlotte was never seen again. She had vanished after escaping from the psychiatric hospital, leaving behind no trace. Her failure to return for her son or contact anyone led to the heartbreaking mystery that would remain unsolved for decades.

The twist in the story was that the baby Marx was mistakenly erased from his true identity and entered the system as Tenzen Amia, which led to a lifetime of confusion for both the child and his biological family.