Kimberly Norwood Part 3: Hope & Despair

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As the search for Kimberly continued, more folks who craved the spotlight emerged. There was Dallas psychic extraordinaire John Catchings, whose “visions” resulted in nothing more than heartache and wasted time and resources. There were well-meaning folks who came to help, of course, like the Heidi Search Center and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Unfortunately their altruistic efforts also resorted in nothing new being found. One man who came to help – a man who was so inspired by Kimberly’s disappearance that he began researching the nationwide problem of missing children, he said, and began an organization of his own – put the family, Kimberly’s Mother Janice said, through hell. Part 3 of 3.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Kimberly Rachelle Norwood, please call the Harrison County Sheriff's Office at 903-935-4888.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Michelle Lee Richardson, please contact the Anderson County Sheriff's Department at 903-729-6068.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcasts May Contain Violent or Graphic Subject Matter Listener Discretion is advised.
0:07.0	When 12-year-old Kimberly Norwood went missing from Halsville, Texas on the early evening of year old
0:15.0	Harry Lewis Martin was paying
0:20.0	39 year old Harry Lewis Martin was paying close attention.
0:22.0	This child's disappearance touched him, Martin would later tell reporters and was the impetus
0:28.4	for his beginning to research the problem of missing children nationwide.
0:34.0	Within a year, Martin began an organization called America's missing children,
0:39.0	set up and run from his apartment in Shreveport, Louisiana.
0:44.0	His mission was simple, to get national media attention for Kimberly's case and others like it,
0:50.0	at absolutely no cost to the missing child's family.
0:55.0	Harry Lewis Martin was not your average missing person's advocate.
0:59.0	He wore a black eye patch that covered an injury he'd sustained while serving in the Navy, and his
1:05.6	dark brown beard and six foot broad sturdy frame only emphasized the unusual accessory.
1:14.0	Something else that set him apart from most
1:16.4	was the fact that he was a felon.
1:19.5	In 1981, Martin had stolen almost $8,000 from a Shreveport Burger King, he managed, and fled to
1:26.9	Seattle, Washington when he was faced with his estranged wife's fourth attempt to get custody of their son.
1:34.0	After living life on the lamb and hiding out for two months,
1:38.0	Martin surrendered to police,
1:40.0	was ordered to pay restitution and sentenced to five years probation.
1:45.5	But the conviction was something folks could easily forgive.
1:49.3	The truth as far as those aware of his record were concerned was that Martin being a desperate father
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