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Paul, I can't find or remember anything about Kathy's family. Kathy's maiden name was Parker.

Wade was kidnapped because Allen needed money fast to pay off his stockbroker after his wealthy dying wife disinherited him after discovering his affair with Fay. They were going to let Wade go after getting the ransom money from Janet. Wade got loose just before Allen and Fay came in to let him go. A drunken bum came by. Fay shot Wade and the bum in order to keep from getting found out. They tried to set it up so the bum got blamed for the kidnapping and murder. Allen was the coroner and fabricated evidence to show powder burns on victims' hands. Amy Kaslo did the tests on Wade and the bum's hands and did not find powder burns. Allen told Amy that she did not have enough experience to find the burns. Amy, Bruce Carson and Gary Walton became suspicious and investigated further. They found the money in Allen's golf bag and Fay tried to kill Janet before being caught by Gary and the police.

I personally did not like that Wade was killed off. That seemed to SFT's answer in dealing with an actor (John Cunningham who played Wade) wanting off the show. The producers did the same thing with Anthony George (Tony Vincente) when he informed them he wanted off SFT two years earlier. The powers that be probably felt that bringing in a new actor replacing a popular one was too risky. The killing off of popular characters may have brought in higher ratings at the time but damaged the show in the long run.

A note on the two characters and the actors that were involved in Wade's kidnapping and murder. Conard Fowkes played Dr. Allen Ramsey who conspired with his mistress Fay Chandler to kidnap Wade and hold him for ransom. Conard went on to play Don Hughes on As The World Turns. Kathleen Devine who played Fay went next to One Life To Live playing Dr. Pamela Shepherd the love interest of Dr. Will Vernon (who was played by Anthony George, SFT's Tony Vincente).

Kathy and Jennifer were not sisters. Tony found out about his wife Marcy faking her paralysis after finding his housekeeper Agnes Lake (Anne Revere) unconscious after Marcy attacked her. Agnes had seen Marcy standing and walking about and threatened to tell Tony which she did when she regained consciousness.

To the best of my memory Kathy's liberation speak was very strident. And the critics did have a field day with the storyline.

I could not find anything that said that Nick Hunter and Sam Hunter were related.

Wade was killed off in 1977.

Stephanie married Jennifer's father after Clay. Jo was shot in May, 1976 before Stephanie married Walter Pace. Kathy's abortion story was interesting. She was from the beginning a womens lib character and a baby did not fit into starting a career as an attorney. She got the abortion shortly before she married Scott the first time in June, 1972.

The bloody shirt was actually found in the real murderer's room. Karen Dehner was a mental patient who was Clay's girlfriend, then Wade's fiance. Clay was murdered at Wade and Janet's home and Janet was put on trial and was exonerated later.

There were a number of deaths on SFT during this time. Going back to 1974, Doug Martin (Eunice's ex-husband) died. Tony Vincente (Jo's husband) died in June, 1975. Robin Kennemer died July, 1975. DA Sam Hunter was next in August, 1975. Clay Collins (Wade's brother and Stephanie's new husband) was murdered in November, 1975.

More from the summer of 1975 on SFT. Jo finally finds out from Robin what happened on the night that Tony died. Jo gets Kathy Phillips' help to send Robin back to her family. Kathy, at the time was dating the corrupt DA Sam Hunter. Sam tipped off the mob as to when Robin would be boarding the bus. The mob had Joey Kimball on the bus waiting for Robin. Joey was the one responsible for Tony's death. Scott Phillips was also on that bus drunk. Jo and Kathy did not know that Scott was also there. At the first stop off from the bus, Joey kidnapped Robin and killed her. Scott later got into an altercation with Kimball and was beaten by him. Scott later remembered that Kimball was with Robin. Robin's death was made to look like a drug overdose. but Kathy and others did not believe that. Kathy inadvertantly found out that Sam Hunter was in cahoots with the mob and she was marked for death. Kathy was put under police protection and the mob used their police contacts to find out where she was hiding. Kimball found Kathy and was about to kill her when Scott came to rescue with police officers not on the mob's payroll.

No, not at the time.

The Robin storyline was from the summer of 1975. Jennifer fell through the plate glass window right after Tony's death.

Robert Loggia also subbed for Anthony George on Search for Tomorrow in 1973.