As the author behind the Jess Kimball Thriller Series, I keep myself informed and motivated by the cases of children who were found alive.
The case was handled in federal court because Carter was killed on a U. Military reservation. Briley said Carter's mother, Diane Croomes, took the stand during the sentencing proceedings. Nick Carter, Master Detective With Lon Clark in the title role, the series commenced 11 April 1943, on Mutual, continuing in many different time slots for well over a decade. Between October 1944. Given his record, it is conceivable that Holmes could have unraveled a modern-day mystery that has baffled observers for years: The case of the missing $5.6 trillion surplus. With new developments in the case of the Arkansas real estate agent found dead on Tuesday. Aaron lewis admitted to kidnapping Beverly Carter and not killing her. Directed by Arthur Marks. With Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman. For decades two branches of the Faraday family have quarreled about which branch of the family should control it. Philip Andrews, engaged to one of the have nots, is charged with murder after already being accused of fraud in the case.
One of my favorite scenes in the Jess Kimball series is the Christmas when Jess finally gets her wish. Now you know my secret. I really do love a happy ending. Especially during the holiday season. And especially for Jess Kimball. She’s been through so much for such a long time…
Have you heard of Steve Carter? His case can teach Jess a thing or two about hope.
Steve Carter grew up knowing that he was adopted from an orphanage in Hawaii. Although he had a happy childhood in southern New Jersey, the first three years of his life were shrouded in mystery.
According to records, Steve, had been placed in state custody by his biological mother, who claimed that her son’s father was an Hawaii native. Steve’s fair complexion and bright blue eyes left him doubting his heritage from an early age. However, it was not until Steve’s wife purchased a DNA kit for Christmas that the story of his origins began to unravel. The test revealed that he was actually of Scandinavian descent.
Steve (left) next to the composite drawing (right) – Image courtesy of Eternallifestyle.com
In 2011, Steve learned of Carlina White who had solved her own case by searching on missingkids.com. Inspired, Steve conducted his own search where he stumbled upon a composite drawing of a missing infant who bore a stunning resemblance to himself. Steve was shocked to learn that the DNA test was a match. He was, in fact, Marx Panama Moriarty Barnes.
So how did Steve Carter end up missing? Truth is stranger than fiction.
Steve was born to Charlotte Moriarty and Mark Barnes in Oahu, Hawaii. On June 21, 1977, Charlotte, who had a history of disappearing for days, took her 6-month-old son to the grocery store and never returned. Days later, a woman resembling Charlotte was arrested for squatting in a home with an infant. The woman, who is now believed to have been Charlotte, told authorities that her name was Jane Amea. She claimed that her son’s name was Tenzin and that his father was an Hawaiian native. Charlotte was admitted into a psychiatric hospital for a few days before she disappeared, leaving her son in state care.
Charlotte Moriarty with her son Marx Panama Barnes (Steve Carter) – Image courtesy of Dailymail.co.uk
There was another surprise in store. Steve had an older half-sister Jennifer, who had been eight when he had disappeared. Jennifer had never forgotten about her long lost brother, insisting that authorities reopen the case in 2001. Due to her efforts, a composite sketch eventually enabled Steve to solve the mystery of his past.
Fatal Dawn is the story that will change Jess Kimball’s life forever. I hope you’ll want to read all of Jess Kimball’s adventures! I really love the Jess Kimball stories because they’re exciting and she’s so driven to find her son. She keeps me on the edge of my seat! You, too?
There were few radio detectives with more endurance than Nick Carter as played by Lon Clark. It’s first airing was April 11, 1943 in the middle of World War II and it went off the air on September 25, 1955, 5 days after Dragnet aired its last episode. Clark made more than 722 appearances as Nick Carter, a detective character who predated Sherlock Holmes by 1 year.
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Nick Carter’s radio adventures are usually some of the most cleverly written detective stories on the radio, with excitement, thrills, and taut cleverly written mysteries.
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Carter, like many other radio detectives has a lot of lost episodes. However, unlike the Rathbone-Bruce Sherlock Holmes episodes, missing Nick Carter stories aren’t mostly or entirely from the World War II era. Given the rare World War II episodes of Sherlock Holmes, The Thin Man, and Mr. and Mrs. North, Nick Carter has to have done well during World War II. About 50 World War II episodes of Nick Carter are floating about. These generally feature one of radio’s most distinctive openings:
(Pounding on the Door)
Woman: What is it? What is it?
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Man: It’s another case for Nick Carter, Master Detective.
There are some missing war episodes and among the most curious are those from a 20-week period where Nick Carter went to a five day a week 15-minute serial format from April to September 1944. Outside of the 56 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar serials, the only intact radio detective serial stories are a 1936 Charlie Chan story and a 1954 Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Person story. The rest exist only in fragment and none of the Carter serials are in circulation.
However, it’s the post World War II shows that are in much shorter supply. Particularly those shows after 1948. After episode 366, “A Clue Called X”, 354 of the next 356 episodes are missing including the last 312, with no Carter episode from the 1950s in circulation.
The number of Carter radio plays is circulation is somewhere between 85 and 135 episodes depending on whose set you’re looking at. There are a lot of duplicates and mislabeled shows, so it’s tough to say for sure. This is why Lon Clark as Nick Carter didn’t make my 100 club list as I haven’t verified the episodes and there hasn’t been a clear independent audit of the Carter shows. That leaves near to 600 episodes missing from general circulation. The good news of this?
Many of these episodes may not be lost forever, but may only be out of circulation. The Radio Goldindex of radio shows usually tracks pretty closely to what’s in circulation, but on Nick Carter, Goldin has far more Carter episodes than are currently circulation. He catalogs 358 episodes or nearly triple what’s in circulation. Among the episodes Goldin lists are several of the Nick Carter serials which are either complete or complete enough to listen to. In addition there are more than 100 episodes from 1949-50 that Goldin has listed that aren’t in general circulation. This gives hope that the shows exist within collecting circles and will eventually become available to fans of the master detective.