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Carl Kolchak is a young, dedicated reporter eager to make a name for himself. In Las Vegas he independently investigated a major graft operation and then took the story to Anthony Vincenzo. Vincenzo gave Kolchak his chance and the reporter broke the story with the aid of his FBI contact and friend, Bernard Fain. However, on the day of the trial, Kolchak choose to stay home with his sick wife Irene.

The defining moment of Kolchak's life was when he and his wife were driving in the desert and pulled over after a near-collision. Some... thing shattered the windshield, knocked out Carl, and pulled Irene into the desert to kill her and pull their unborn child from her womb.

Kolchak spent six months in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in the psych ward, dealing with the trauma. He also had to deal with the suspicions of Bernard Fein, a FBI agent and friend in Las Vegas who came to believe that Kolchak killed Irene and made up the story as a cover.

With his sanity in question, Kolchak had difficulty getting a job and spent much of his time obsessing over a mysterious red mark that appeared on his wife's wrist after her death. Kolchak soon discovered any number of mysterious deaths across the country. Some of the victims had the mark, some didn't.

Vincenzo moved to Los Angeles and offered Carl a job as crime reporter for the Beacon. Carl gratefully accepted the job and moved into a house bought with the inheritance from his wife, who was wealthy. Kolchak immediately ran up against the Beacon's current crime reporter, Perri Reed, but Vincenzo assigned them to work together and the two have slowly become friends.

Kolchak is a determined reporter and good at getting information from people, as well as dealing with a wide net of contacts. He has difficulty relating to his co-workers and considers himself a lone wolf. Part of this is his desire to prove himself and get the story at any cost, and part of it is the fact he trusts no one after his wife's death. Perri's initial betrayal of him to Bernard Fein hasn't helped that attitude.

Carl is sarcastic and doesn't make friends easily. He's suspicious of authority but is always willing to protect the "common man." He's a thorough researcher and is capable of tying together disparate strings from across the country.