
Steve Carter lived a normal life in New Jersey for 34 years, believing he knew his story. He had been adopted from Hawaii as a child and raised by loving parents, Steve told the What It Was Like podcast. But his world changed forever when he decided to browse a missing children’s website in 2011.
What started as casual curiosity after hearing about another missing child case led to a shocking discovery. Carter found himself staring at an age-progression photo on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children website that looked exactly like him.