033 | Stolen Names in Paradise: The Couple Who Weren’t Themselves

They lived in a quiet cul-de-sac in Kapolei.
He was a friendly former military man.
She was soft-spoken, a little distant.
The kind of couple who never caused trouble.

But the names on their IDs weren’t theirs.
In fact, they belonged to two Texas infants who had died more than fifty years earlier.

For decades, Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison built new lives in Hawaii under those stolen identities — joining the Coast Guard, securing security clearances, even collecting U.S. government paychecks.

Then came the day federal agents knocked.
Inside their home, investigators found not just forged documents and passports, but faded photos of the couple wearing what looked like KGB uniforms… and bottles of invisible ink.

Were they spies? Or just two people who vanished into new names for reasons no one could ever quite prove?

This is the story of a thirty-five-year deception that fooled neighbors, the military, and even the government — until the tide finally turned.

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Sources for this episode include federal court filings in Honolulu, transcripts from the couple’s 2023 trial, sentencing records from March 2024, investigative reporting from the Associated Press and Hawaii News Now, and archival Texas birth and death records confirming the identities of the real Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague.

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