Kimberly Flint

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

On September 26, 2018, in rural Rusk County, Texas, a Jeep was found in a single vehicle accident with no drivers or passengers in the area. Police called the registered owner of the vehicle, James Flint, who stated that the Jeep belonged to his wife, Kim Flint. James Flint also told the police that Kim rarely drove the Jeep. He was at work when the police called him so he drove home to check on his wife. When James arrived home, Kim was nowhere to be found. The area around Kim’s vehicle was searched thoroughly by multiple police agencies, dogs, drones, and other resources, but in the time since that day, no trace of Kim Flint has ever been found.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Kim Flint, you are asked to call the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office at 903-657-3581.

You can follow Kim’s story on social media at: Find Kim Flint.

UPDATE: The Rusk County Sheriff’s Office issued the following statement on January 28, 2022: “On Thursday, January 20, 2022, members of the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office, along with Texas Rangers and a forensic anthropologist from the University of North Texas, responded to a wooded area on property located near Richey Lane, in the Reklaw Community. Investigators with the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office obtained a search warrant after confirming information that human remains had possibly been discovered at that area.

After Sheriff Valdez, RCSO investigators, the Texas Rangers and members of a forensic team responded to the location, human remains were recovered. The remains were taken to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification for DNA testing and dental recognition. Yesterday, Thursday, January 27, 2022, Sheriff Valdez received preliminary reports that confirm that the remains recovered were those of Ms. Kim Flint. The family has been notified.

As a part of the investigation, additional forensic testing will be completed in the near future.

The Sheriff's Office would like to thank everyone who assisted in the investigation, especially those with the RCSO criminal investigation division, the Texas Rangers, and the forensic scientists from the University of North Texas.”

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:19.0	When her son called on that Wednesday and said, Mom's missing.
0:24.0	I said, What do you mean, missing? He said, We can't find her.
0:28.0	And he said, But her car was wrecked. And I said, Okay, did she have her purse with her?
0:34.0	Because it's something immediately just, I don't know if something just hit me.
0:39.0	You can't meet finer people. Nobody ever deserves, I would never say that.
0:46.0	But if anybody didn't deserve to be missing like this, it would be Kim and their family.
0:54.0	The only thing in the car that was found, the keys were in it.
0:58.0	And her glasses were in the passenger side floorboard.
1:04.0	And that's about the extent of it. There was no blood in the vehicle. There was nothing in the vehicle that out of the way or abnormal.
1:13.0	On September 26, 2018, in rural Russ County, Texas, a Jeep was found in a single vehicle accident with no drivers or passengers in the area.
1:25.0	Police called the registered owner of the vehicle, James Flint, who stated that the Jeep belonged to his wife, Kim Flint.
1:33.0	James Flint also told the police that Kim rarely drove the Jeep. She was known to be more of a homebody.
1:41.0	He was at work when the police called him so he drove home to check on his wife.
1:46.0	When James arrived home, Kim was nowhere to be found. The area around where Kim's vehicle was found was searched thoroughly by multiple police agencies, dogs, drones and other resources.
1:59.0	But in the time since that day, no trace of Kim Flint has ever been found.
2:06.0	I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 231 of The Vanished. Kim Flint's story.
2:14.0	Kim Flint was a woman that anyone would want to be friends with. She had an engaging personality and loved spending time with her friends, gardening, shopping, going to church and just sharing life.
2:30.0	Kim Flint was a woman that anyone would want to be friends with. She had an engaging personality and loved spending time with her friends, gardening, shopping, going to church and just sharing life.
2:44.0	She had a husband and two grown sons that she adored and she enjoyed spending time with her family as much as anything.
2:52.0	Kim was so loved by everyone that we had many friends that wanted to talk with us about her life.
2:59.0	We spoke with Julie, a close friend of Kim's, who shared what their friendship was like.
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