The wife of a husband missing for nine years found him on Facebook, and realized that he has been living a new life without her. According to KGW, Karen Marx, 48, has spent nearly a decade looking for her husband, who went missing in 2005. He reportedly left her without leaving so much as a note, never to be heard from again. Little did Marx know that the man she was married to was still living in the same state — Wisconsin — and had moved on with his life without looking back.

“I just thought, ‘How could he get married again? Am I dead? What did he do with my identity?'” Marx explained.

The wife who’s husband went missing for nine years has somewhat of a strange past when it comes to relationships. Marx actually met Adam L. Marx at the Outagamie County Fair. She hit it off with him, but found out that he was married at the time. However, Mr. Marx had only been married for six weeks, and was willing to walk away from his wife to try things out with Karen. In 2001, he divorced his wife, and married Karen the following Valentine’s Day.

Wife finds hubby — married — 9 years after he vanished; he faces bigamy charge http://t.co/vw0GO3QqYy via @arielfab pic.twitter.com/XLIIuKNqB8 — Linda Dono (@LindaDono) October 30, 2014

Within one year, Mr. Marx left Karen, but he left a note behind. He came back into her life, but things were very shaky. Finally, after years of back and forth, Karen saw Adam in a parking lot, and approached him. She told him that she wanted a divorce, and he said he’d call her. Well, he never did.

Now with a new wife, Karen’s husband has been missing for nine years, and is living yet another lie.

“They said he told people it was his first marriage, and the (clerk) never checked vital statistics. I think people need to start doing their job and doing it thoroughly, especially when it comes to something like this,” said Karen Marx.

According to FCN, Karen still considers herself a married woman, and intends to show up at her husband’s court date. Marx has every intention of filing for divorce, and says that she will not date until her marriage is legally over.

“Adam Marx was charged in Vernon County… with bigamy, fraud, and a making false statement on a marriage license. If convicted of fraud, the most severe charge, he faces up to six years in prison. Bigamy carries a maximum penalty of 3½ years in prison.”

As previously reported by the Inquisitr, something similar happened last year, thanks to social media. A woman found out that her husband had another wife just a couple of weeks after she married him.

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