Couple Charged With Stealing Identities Of Dead Babies, Suspected To Be Russian Spies

Honolulu -- A couple in Hawaii are accused of spending the last few decades living under the identities of two dead babies in Texas. Court documents included photos of the couple in uniforms that seemed to belong to KGB, the security agency of the former Soviet Union.

Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison, both in their 60s, were arrested Friday in Kapolei on the island of Oahu and charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government.

Primrose and Morrison used the identities of Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague respectively to obtain Social Security cards, passports and driver’s licenses, according to AP News.

Government records show that Fort’s birth and death took place the same year in 1967 in Dallas, whereas Montague was born in 1968 in Burnet, Texas, and was buried in Marble Falls following her death in infancy.

Both the babies would have been about a decade younger than the couple.

Born in 1955, Primrose and Morrison went to the same high school in Port Lavaca, Texas, before joining Stephen F. Austin University. They got married in 1980 and assumed the identities of Fort and Montague in 1987, court documents said.

They got married once again under their assumed names in 1988, according to an affidavit filed by Special Agent Dennis Thomas of the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service.

The couple had passports issued under the names of the dead babies, and in addition to this, Primrose was also issued a passport under his legal name in 1999.

Court documents not only accuse Primrose and Morrison of using the identities of deceased individuals to create fake documents but also said the couple may be Russian spies that lived in Kapolei for years, NBC DFW reported.

Investigators found that Primrose, at the age of 39, had used Fort’s identity to enlist in the Coast Guard in 1994. Fort would have been 27 years old at the time.

Primrose's retirement from the Coast Guard came in 2016. He then worked for a Department of Defense contractor.

Court documents also included faded polaroids of Primrose and Morrison in uniforms that appeared to belong to the KGB, the former Soviet Union spy agency. Morrison’s attorney said the couple tried the same jacket on years back as a joke and took pictures in them.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Muehleck said a “close associate” claimed Morrison lived in Romania when it was a Soviet bloc country. However, Morrison’s attorney said her client never lived in Romania.

John Montague, the bereaved father of one of the deceased babies involved, said he was shocked to learn that somebody, for decades, had been using the identity of his baby girl, who passed away when she was only three weeks old.

“I still can’t believe it happened,” the 91-year-old father told AP News. "The odds are like one-in-a-trillion that they found her and used her name. People stoop to do anything nowadays. Let kids rest in peace.”

Federal investigators are asking for the couple to be held without bail and said they are a flight risk. A bail hearing was scheduled Thursday.