Walter Primrose biography: 13 things about Timpson, Texas native who stole Bobby Edward Fort’s identity

Walter Glenn Primrose is a United States Coast Guard veteran born in Timpson, Shelby County, Texas, USA to Cecil Eugene Primrose and Betty Marie Hayes. Walter is 5’6″ tall while his wife Gwynn Darle Morrison is 5’4″ tall.

In 1987, Walter obtained a birth certificate record for Bobby Edward Fort, who was born in Dallas, Texas to Charlotte Fort in 1967. As an infant, Bobby died of asphyxia and was buried in Marble Falls, Texas.

On April 28, 1987, Walter was issued a U.S. passport number in his real name. On August 25, 1987, he was issued a Texas driver’s license number in Bobby’s identity.

On September 30, 1987, Walter executed an application for social security card (SS-5) form using the personal identifiable information belonging to Bobby’s identity so he was issued a social security account number in Bobby’s identity. Using Bobby’s personal identifiable information, Walter executed U.S. passport applications on November 8, 1996, on August 28, 2001, on October 3, 2006, on February 19, 2009 and on February 12, 2016.

Issued on February 23, 2016, Walter’s most recent passport in Bobby’s identity is valid until February 22, 2026. Here are 13 more things about Walter:

1. From 1970 to 1973, he and Morrison attended Calhoun High School in Port Lavaca, Texas.
2. From 1976 to 1979, he and Morrison attended Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas.
3. On August 19, 1980, he and Morrison got married in Nacogdoches.
4. On December 21, 1981, he and Morrison bought a house in Nacogdoches. On October 6, 1987, the bank foreclosed the house.
5. On August 8, 1988, he and Morrison remarried in Austin, Texas, assuming Bobby and Julie Lyn Montague‘s respective identities.
6. In 1994, he fraudulently enlisted into the U.S. Coast Guard in Bobby’s identity, making himself 12 years younger than his true age. He served as an avionic electrical technician.
7. On March 30, 1999, he executed a DS-83 passport application using his real identity. On April 7, 1999, he was issued a U.S. passport.
8. On April 4, 2014, he executed a driver’s license application renewal for in Honolulu, Hawaii in Bobby’s identity.
9. In 2016, he retired from the U.S. Coast Guard and started working as a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contractor.
10. On August 28, 2018, he and Morrison presented themselves to the DOD ID card office in the Hawaii National Guard building in Kapolei, Hawaii where they conspired together to execute an application for Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) enrollment form. They used Bobby and Julie Lyn’s respective identities.
11. On March 3, 2022, he executed a Hawaii driver’s license application renewal for in Honolulu in Bobby’s identity. A Diplomatic Security Service special agent filed a criminal complaint against him and Morrison, which was signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Rom A. Trader on July 21, 2022.
12. On July 22, 2022, he was working as a DOD contractor when he and Morrison were arrested in their Kapolei residence. They were charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government. Photos of the couple in uniforms that belonged to the former Soviet Union spy agency Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) were included in the court records.
13. He was 68 years old when he and Morrison were found guilty on October 30, 2023 of conspiracy, passport fraud and identity theft.