The Disappearance of Calvin Willie Martinez: New Mexico Part 6

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In our final episode of the season, we continue the story of Calvin Willie Martinez.

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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0:00.0	This is the second episode in a two-part series,
0:02.6	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,
0:11.3	Angels Voices Silence No More.
0:13.3	Please be sure to listen through the end of the episode for more information.
0:17.0	This is the fall line.
0:25.0	Last time, we began the story of the disappearance of Calvin Willie Martinez, whose family last heard from him on May 12, 2019.
0:36.5	It was Mother's Day, and Calvin, known as C.W. to his loved ones, called his mother
0:41.5	Aldina Lopez to check in. He didn't always have a
0:45.2	cell phone at hand. Calvin's sister Becky told us that he tended to lose them so
0:50.0	he'd call from random numbers. But he would always check in with his mother, whom he was living with at the time.
0:56.0	That day, he told Aldina that he'd be home later, but the conversation was interrupted, and they lost connection.
1:03.6	When she tried to call him back, she couldn't reach him.
1:06.8	She discovered that he'd used a payphone at a love's truck stop in Albuquerque.
1:11.3	That's a few hours away from their home near Farmington, New Mexico.
1:16.0	At first, the family wasn't worried. Calvin had been in spotty contact for a few years,
1:21.9	and he spent a good deal of his time hitchhiking.
1:24.7	Becky tells us that he'd sunk into a deep depression and struggled with alcoholism
1:29.7	after the tragic death of his wife and youngest child.
1:33.4	They were killed in a house fire in 2014.
1:36.5	Calvin managed to save their oldest child.
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