The Disappearance of Calvin Willie Martinez: New Mexico Part 5

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mothers Day 2019 was the last time Calvin Willie Martinez’s family heard from him. After suffering an immense loss in 2014, Calvin had struggled with depression and alcohol dependence. But he always stayed in contact with his loved ones—so when he called them from a truck stop in Albuquerque, NM, and promised he was heading home, they believed him. But Calvin never arrived.

Ever since, his sister Becky Martinez has been advocating for her brother. And as she discovered in late 2023, that persistence was vital: otherwise, his case would have remained erroneously closed.

Season 19 focuses on New Mexico and on the cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons/Missing/ Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIP/MMIWR) whose loved ones are still fighting for resolution in their cases.

Darlene Gomez’s nonprofit: https://www.mmiwr.org/

Angels’ Voices Silenced No More: https://www.angelsvoicesnm.org/

Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the first episode in a two-part series and the third and final story in a larger season.
0:05.7	This season covers Cases in New Mexico.
0:08.4	All season we're supporting the New Mexico nonprofit, Angels Voices Silence No More.
0:13.7	Please be sure to listen through the end of the episode for information.
0:17.2	This episode covers a tragedy that includes the death of a child.
0:27.0	This is the fall line. Mother's Day 2019 fell on Sunday, May 12th.
0:36.0	It's a day that the family of Calvin, Willie Martinez, won't forget.
0:40.0	It's the last time they heard from him.
0:43.0	Calvin, better known as C.W. to his family, called his mother, Aldina, that afternoon.
0:49.0	Aldina, who lives outside Farmington, had been waiting to hear from Calvin. She and the rest of the family
0:55.2	had been worried about him for a long time. For close to five years, Calvin had been struggling
1:01.2	with the after effects of an immense tragedy.
1:04.6	In 2014, Calvin lost his wife and one of his children and a horrific house fire.
1:10.5	He and his oldest son were the only survivors.
1:14.0	His grief was immense.
1:16.2	Anyones would be.
1:17.7	When his eldest sister, Becky Martinez, spoke with NBC, she explained, quote,
1:23.0	It changed him.
1:24.2	It changed all of us.
1:26.0	They were our family.
1:27.4	He was never the same after that.
1:29.5	He didn't want to work.
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