False Names

When the police reached Charlotte made up fake names of her and her son. She said her name was Jane and her son’s name was Tenzin Amea. To check on her, when they asked her son’s date of birth, she instantly came up with a false date of birth too. This made police trust that she wasn’t lying and they never assumed that Tenzin could be the missing Marx.

Vanished

Charlotte was diagnosed with mental illness and sent to a psychiatric facility, and Marx was given to the state’s foster care. Within a few days, Charlotte managed to get her way out of the hospital and was never seen again. With Charlotte going missing the true story of her son vanished too. Marx was living just 30 miles away from his birth father’s place for the next three years. But nobody got even little idea about Marx’s existence. Apparently, his father wasn’t the only one affected by his going missing. 

The Case Reopened

Mark wasn’t the only person who was left without Marx but his half-sister, Jennifer who was eight years older than Marx never lost hope of his return. She always prayed for her younger brother. In 2001, she convinced the authorities to reopen the case files once again. And as per the procedure, they assigned an artist to make a sketch of how Marx would possibly look like as a teen. This was how Steve Jr. got his hands on the picture and his true identity was revealed.

All These Years Later….

After the truth was revealed, unlike what was expected out of him, Steve wasn’t in a hurry to meet his birth father and sister. He shared his feelings in an interview that he felt “terrified.” He wasn’t yet ready to meet his new set of relatives.

Sister’s Take On It

“I felt like we’d taken someone else’s child, though that wasn’t true. Truthfully I thought they were dead. I was really numb,” said Jennifer who recalls growing up ‘scanning crowds’ to find her missing brother. While the truth was now clear, Steve wasn’t yet prepared to face his birth relatives.

Took His Time

Steve decided to take his time to get familiar with the fact that he could see his birth father. After months of realizing the truth, he finally made a call to his sister, Jennifer and later on talked with his biological father, Mark too. Mark who now used to live in California was overwhelmed after listening to the voice of his son. Mark remembered the moment, “all I could say was, ‘Wow. Oh wow. Wow.’”