| Earl Carnes | |||||
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| Days Of Our Lives | |||||
| Portrayed by | Dan Priest (1978-79) Dan Barton (1979-80) | ||||
| Current status | Former; Recurring | ||||
| Duration | 1978–80 | ||||
| First appearance | October 31, 1978 | ||||
| Last appearance | February 12, 1980 | ||||
| Cause/reason | Left Town | ||||
| Created by | Ann Marcus | ||||
| Introduced by | Betty Corday and H. Wesley Kenney | ||||
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| Alias(es) | Earl Carnes | ||||
| Gender | Male | ||||
| Occupation | Loan shark Drug/Porn Distributor | ||||
| Residence | Unknown Formerly Salem, Illinois | ||||
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Earl Roscoe is a character from the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Storyline
Earl was a loan shark and porno ring leader who caused trouble for people in Salem, particular Mike Horton and later his wife Margo Anderman. A desperate Mike needing money to pay off his wife's medical bills sought Earl out for a loan. When Mike fell behind on payments, he began working for Earl to pay off his new debt. Margo attempted to pay off the debt with diamonds she was holding for her friend Trish Clayton, unaware that Trish stole them from Steve Olson who was holding them for smuggler, Durand. When Margo saved enough money buy back the diamonds, Earl gave her fake diamonds instead.
Mike continued to sink deeper into debt, and when he refused to run drugs for him, Earl terrorized Margo. First, threatening to burning their house down, fired a shot into the house while Margo was inside, and later pushing Margo down a flight of stairs. Terrified, the couple fled Salem with Mickey Horton's help, setting them up at Maggie Horton Kiriakis's old farm in Brookville until things with Earl were settled.
Later, Trish discovered the diamonds were fake and confronted Earl who gave her back the real ones. In 1980, Earl mailed a nude photo to Don Craig. His daughter, Donna Temple Craig, had refused to pose nude for him, he doctored the photo with her face. Realizing they were fake after seeing his daughter's portfolio, Don met with Earl to buy the rest of the photos and her screen test. Making too many enemies, Earl set fire to his office and fled Salem, never to be heard from again.