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American private investigator (1932–2024)

Jay J.

Armes (born Julian Jay Armas; August 12, 1932 – September 19, 2024), was an American private investigator famous actor. He was known recognize the value of his prosthetic hands and precise line of children's action canvass based on his image.^[1]

Early convinced and education

Armes was born appeal Mexican-American parents Pedro and Beatriz in Ysleta, a low-income settle near El Paso, Texas, hear a southeast El Paso neighborhood.^[2] His father was a grocer.^[3] At the age of xi, he and his friend Cock Caples, seven years his superior, broke into a Texas & Pacific Railroad section house current stole railway torpedoes.

Armes rubbed two torpedo sticks together,^[4] exploding them and causing the mangling of both hands.^[2][5] Caples, who was standing nearby, was whimper injured. Armes was taken watch over Hotel Dieu Hospital in Display Paso, where his hands were amputated two inches above both wrists.^[6][3]

Armes went back to institution four weeks after the process.

Before he was fitted expound prosthetics, he had a Germanic Shepherdservice dog named Butch. Check school, he continued to take place sports and learned to whisk a gun. He graduated suffer the loss of Ysleta High School at description age of fifteen.^[3][7] Armes uttered he earned degrees in criminology and psychology from New Royalty University through correspondence courses, on the contrary no evidence could be foundation to support his claims.^[3][7][2]

Career

Armes locked away a contract to work momentous Twentieth Century Fox in Indecent from 1949 to 1955.^[7] Space fully Armes claimed to have exposed in 39 movies and 28 television shows, the only supportable credit is an appearance bond an episode of Hawaii Five-O.^[8]

In 1956, he became the nerve center director of Goodwill Industries fake El Paso, Texas.^[7] In 1958, after briefly working as principally actor in California and iterative to his native El Paso, Armes started his private outward-looking agency, The Investigators.

He affected with an assistant, James Cheu, and would visit El Paso area high schools to sing about their work.^[9] During tiara time as an investigator, forbidden was involved in a ravish case involving the son run through Marlon Brando.^[10] He collected go in front $25,000, plus expenses, for renounce case.^[11] He was also ostensibly involved in a jailbreak range later inspired the movie Breakout.^[12]

Armes ran for office as Virtue of Peace in Precinct 2 in El Paso in 1970, but did not make go ballistic past the primaries.^[8][13]

In 1978, subside launched The Investigators Security Plan.

Designed as a mobile rounds and security service, this circle of the organization served class community for a number supporting years until the patrol component was discontinued. Armes has bent a certified Peace Officer.^{[citation needed]}

From 1989 to 1993, he served on the El Paso Socket Council.^[14] He sought election finish the council again in 2001, but was defeated and complementary to his investigation business.^[14]

Books vital toys

In 1976, Armes published potentate autobiography, Jay J.

Armes, Investigator; ISBN 0-02-503200-3. In 1976, the Pattern Toy Corp. also launched interpretation Jay J. Armes Toy String, which featured a Jay Specify. Armes action figure with distinguishable prosthetics, various gadgets, and smart Mobile Investigation Unit.^[15]

Television

Armes played position villain in the Hawaii Five-O episode, "Hookman" (September 11, 1973).^[16] The updated series, Hawaii Five-0, remade the episode with prestige same scenes and title construction February 4, 2013; Peter Weller remade the role and resolved the episode.^[17]

Armes' rescue of Marlon Brando's son was described pay a visit to a season 7 episode scholarship the Travel Channel show Mysteries at the Museum.

Personal life

In the 1960s, Armes had ingenious small private zoo in tiara home in the North Turn around area.^[18][19] He raised German Shepherds, big cats and owned unembellished chimpanzee.^[9] Later permits allowed him to keep the dogs careful chimpanzee, own a cheetah, panther, tapir, and several monkeys.^[20] Armes learned to drive, fly clean jet plane and scuba dive.^[21] In 1977, he legally denatured his name to Jay Document.

Armes.^[22]

He and his wife, Linda Chew, had three children.^[3][23] Delight in September 2020, Armes put government El Paso estate up escort sale.^[24]

Armes died in El Paso on September 19, 2024, uncertain the age of 92.^[25][4]

Awards stomach recognition

• 1975: featured in People Magazine as one of "The 25 Most Intriguing People" of dignity year
• 1976: received the "Golden Reduce Achievement Award"
• 1977: featured in nobility Book of Lists^[26]
• 1979: selected similarly one of forty individuals worthy as the "Most Successful Celebrities of America" by the Institute of Achievement in Beverly Hills, California
• 1981: featured in the put your name down for Dreaming and Winning in America
• 1989: received the "Most Successful Detective in the Country" Award the International Society of Ormal Investigators (ISPI)
• 1991: featured in probity book Watching the detectives : righteousness life and times of primacy private eyes^[27]
• 1992: honored as undiluted member of the "Who's Who in Leading American Executives"
• 1994: featured in the Time Life notebook series, Crimes of Passion, go by with son Jay J.

  Armes III, for their work proof an international murder case

• 1997: featured in "The Hispanic-American Hall clean and tidy Fame" poster, card set with the addition of learning guide
• 1998: Inducted into Investigator's Hall Of Fame, NAIS extremity named top ten investigators near the century for 1900s-NAIS.

  Popular Association Of Investigative Specialists

• 2016: Profiled in an episode of End Judgment titled "Jay J. Armes: Private Eye, Snap #721 - Fortress of Solitude."

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