A Bizarre Case of Assumed Identities

The role of the ID and secure document industry is to ensure that procedures and checks are in place that grant each citizen secure access to the rights and privileges that are associated with their unique identity. But, as a report in AP News demonstrates, the longer a person lives under a stolen identity, the harder it becomes to unravel the truth of who they really are – and what they’ve been doing.

Walter Glenn Primrose was ordered to be detained until his trial at a hearing in Honolulu, near to where he and his wife Gwynn Darle Morrison were arrested and charged with assuming the identities of two children who died in Texas in the late 1960s.

According to the AP article ¹, Bobby Edward Fort was 27 years old when he enlisted in the US Coast Guard in 1994 and retired 22 years later with a secret security clearance that allowed him to land a job in Honolulu as a defence contractor.