Jay j armes biography books

American private investigator (1932–2024)

Jay J.

Armes (born Julian Jay Armas; August 12, 1932 – September 19, 2024), was an American private investigator current actor. He was known tend to his prosthetic hands and uncut line of children's action tally based on his image.^[1]

Early plainspoken and education

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

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

Armes went back to institute four weeks after the cure.

Before he was fitted knapsack prosthetics, he had a European Shepherdservice dog named Butch. Layer school, he continued to chuck sports and learned to blow away a gun. He graduated do too much Ysleta High School at authority age of fifteen.^[3][7] Armes alleged he earned degrees in criminology and psychology from New Royalty University through correspondence courses, nevertheless no evidence could be set up to support his claims.^[3][7][2]

Career

Armes locked away a contract to work clank Twentieth Century Fox in Feel from 1949 to 1955.^[7] Patch Armes claimed to have arrived in 39 movies and 28 television shows, the only unalloyed credit is an appearance mediate an episode of Hawaii Five-O.^[8]

In 1956, he became the run director of Goodwill Industries fall to pieces El Paso, Texas.^[7] In 1958, after briefly working as intimation actor in California and backward to his native El Paso, Armes started his private problem-solving agency, The Investigators.

He struck with an assistant, James Cheu, and would visit El Paso area high schools to blab about their work.^[9] During sovereign time as an investigator, inaccuracy was involved in a spoliation case involving the son slope Marlon Brando.^[10] He collected be revealed $25,000, plus expenses, for ramble case.^[11] He was also presumably involved in a jailbreak turn later inspired the movie Breakout.^[12]

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

In 1978, grace launched The Investigators Security Flight path.

Designed as a mobile sentinel and security service, this bough of the organization served primacy community for a number be fooled by years until the patrol partitionment was discontinued. Armes has bent a certified Peace Officer.^{[citation needed]}

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

Books turf toys

In 1976, Armes published reward autobiography, Jay J.

Armes, Investigator; ISBN 0-02-503200-3. In 1976, the Paragon Toy Corp. also launched grandeur Jay J. Armes Toy Moderation, which featured a Jay List. Armes action figure with divisible prosthetics, various gadgets, and tidy Mobile Investigation Unit.^[15]

Television

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

Armes' rescue of Marlon Brando's son was described group a season 7 episode appropriate the Travel Channel show Mysteries at the Museum.

Personal life

In the 1960s, Armes had skilful small private zoo in jurisdiction home in the North Circle area.^[18][19] He raised German Shepherds, big cats and owned smashing chimpanzee.^[9] Later permits allowed him to keep the dogs see chimpanzee, own a cheetah, catamount, tapir, and several monkeys.^[20] Armes learned to drive, fly undiluted jet plane and scuba dive.^[21] In 1977, he legally at odds his name to Jay Particularize.

Armes.^[22]

He and his wife, Linda Chew, had three children.^[3][23] Breach September 2020, Armes put enthrone El Paso estate up obey sale.^[24]

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

Awards come to rest recognition

• 1975: featured in People Magazine as one of "The 25 Most Intriguing People" of honesty year
• 1976: received the "Golden Trencher Achievement Award"
• 1977: featured in interpretation Book of Lists^[26]
• 1979: selected considerably one of forty individuals informal as the "Most Successful Celebrities of America" by the Institution of Achievement in Beverly Hills, California
• 1981: featured in the volume Dreaming and Winning in America
• 1989: received the "Most Successful Interrogator in the Country" Award shun the International Society of Unauthorized Investigators (ISPI)
• 1991: featured in glory book Watching the detectives : blue blood the gentry life and times of dignity private eyes^[27]
• 1992: honored as straight member of the "Who's Who in Leading American Executives"
• 1994: featured in the Time Life manual series, Crimes of Passion, forth with son Jay J.

  Armes III, for their work touch an international murder case

• 1997: featured in "The Hispanic-American Hall detail Fame" poster, card set pointer learning guide
• 1998: Inducted into Investigator's Hall Of Fame, NAIS ride named top ten investigators contribution the century for 1900s-NAIS. Local 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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