The Attempted Murder & Disappearance of Martha Martinez Maxwell

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In April of 1987, authorities in Carter County, Oklahoma found a Watauga, Texas woman on the side of the highway barely clinging to life. She was bound with duct tape, severely beaten, and covered in the blood that had poured from the slit in her throat. The woman was Martha Martinez Maxwell. After doctors at Dallas’s Parkland Hospital saved her life, she dropped charges on the man who’d left her for dead 100 miles from home – her husband, Jeffrey Allan Maxwell. The man, too, manipulated Martha into reconciling with him. Five years later, Martha went missing under suspicious circumstances. And Jeffrey Allan Maxwell’s further crimes, at least some of them, landed him in prison for life 20 years later. The man is suspected, too, in other unsolved Texas disappearances and homicides.

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The Corsicana Daily Sun, The Dallas Morning News, The Weatherford Democrat, The Fort Worth Star Telegram, D Magazine, womenagainstcrime.com, yourStephenville.com and court documents were used as sources for this episode.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
0:04.8	Listener discretion is advised.
0:08.2	This episode deals with a man who perpetrated severe acts of domestic violence.
0:14.0	But all domestic violence is extremely detrimental and dangerous.
0:19.0	If you or anyone you know is experiencing domestic abuse and or violence in any form.
0:25.9	Please stop this episode now and contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800, 799, safe. That's 800, 799, 723.
0:40.0	Many who have never experienced domestic violence, both physical and emotional abuse, often wonder
0:49.1	why the victim doesn't simply leave the abuser, which is, without question, a form of victim blame that
0:56.8	ignores the manipulation, fear, and danger that an abuser casts over their victims.
1:04.4	There is a cycle in domestic violence that extends far beyond the individual acts of abuse
1:10.0	themselves.
1:12.2	Isolated incidents don't exist.
1:15.0	Between severe and particularly violent incidents at the hands of an abuser are acts of methodical manipulation. The abuse becomes subtle and perhaps difficult for the victim to
1:27.9	pinpoint. To avoid another explosive incident, a victim will likely tread lightly around the abuser
1:36.0	watching what they say or do acting on their best behavior to avoid tense situations that might lead to a physically or emotionally violent
1:46.6	outburst.
1:48.3	When an event of abuse occurs, a quote, honeymoon phase will almost always follow too. The abuser will become
1:56.5	loving and affectionate, profusely apologetic, overly agreeable to the victim's
2:02.4	wants and needs and sometimes shower the victim with gifts.
2:08.0	The behavior is nothing less than an act of control and manipulation by the abuser to keep the victim from leaving and is an extension
2:16.7	of the groundwork the abuser has already laid, that the victim has little choice but to stay since no one else wants them.
2:26.7	The cycle of abuse continues.
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