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is advised. Like most small Texas towns, the Anderson County seat, Palestine
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came into its own in the post Civil War reconstruction period. It was the
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prison built by convicts in nearby Rusk that truly opened up the area's economy.
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Rusk Penitentiary was among the first privately operated prisons in Texas, and by leasing
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out inmates to construct the area railroads, local taxpayers were spared much of the
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financial burdens that came with growth. When railroad lines opened up through Palestine,
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the timber industry there boomed, and iron ore was shipped into Rusk Penitentiary to
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be made into pig iron at the impressively large and efficient blast furnaces at the
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prison, further supplementing the local economy. Ultimately, however, the prison iron
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operations proved unprofitable, and for the short remainder of Rusk Penitentiary's existence as a
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prison, it became a prisoner management facility, a role aimed at reform that
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might have actually worked had it not been for the guard's harsh mistreatment of inmates.
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The building itself reopened as Rusk State Hospital for the mentally ill, a
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hell hole in its own right for the first several decades of its existence.
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Ten years after the prison's closure, and just in time, economically speaking,
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oil was struck just east of town. Dollar signs reflected off the pupils of
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Palestine's more enterprising folks, and before you could say the words black gold,
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businesses that catered to the industry oil, well servicing and supplies businesses were up
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and running. The modest city, in fact, became a center for oil
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production in the region, thanks in large part to the advanced railway system that
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the area's prisoners helped build. Like most towns that went on to serve as
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a reminder of a simpler, perhaps bygone age of the attainable American dream,
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Palestine did okay thanks to the strength of its backbone the working class. Crime
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statistics through the years suggest that area residents fall on hard times here and there,
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as burglary, theft, and other property crimes make up a vast majority
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of the city's rate, though the violent crime rate was about average in nineteen
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eighty nine for Palestine and most of the surrounding area that makes up East Texas,
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It's often impossible to know beyond a shadow of a doubt whether a missing
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person's case fits into a violent crime category. At around five thirty pm on
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Monday May one, nineteen eighty nine, sixteen year old Michelle Lee Richardson asked
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her little brother Jeff if he was ready to go on their daily walk.
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Not today, Jeff told her so. Michelle headed out on her own just
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after telling her mother Linda she was going. Linda watched Michelle begin her walk
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down their street, a short road that branches off Farm to Market Road three
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twenty two, a well traveled thoroughfare in Palestine, also known as South Sycamore
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Street. She then saw Michelle turn onto FM three twenty two. About five
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minutes later, Jeff changed his mind and decided to try and catch up with
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his big sister, but he couldn't find her on the route they usually took
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together. He told his mom this when he got back to the house,
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and about twenty minutes after that, Linda became worried. She loaded up Jeff
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in the car and set out looking for her daughter. Michelle was nowhere to
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be found. Linda called the cops, investigators for the Anderson County Sheriff's office
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believed Michelle Lee Richardson was a runaway. At first. She was a teenager,
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and just a couple months earlier, she'd given birth to a little boy,
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a big responsibility for a sixteen year old. Police figured Michelle was just
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shirking her responsibilities as a parent, never mind the facts that she had a
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pretty good support system around her, and that she'd taken no belongings, not
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a single change of clothing or even her purse. The handful of friends Michelle
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kept told Sheriff's deputies they knew nothing of her whereabouts. Not a one had
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seen her. There was a bottom line fact that Michelle's mother, Linda,
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leaned on her daughter, would never have abandoned her child. However, the
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unfortunate reality at the time was that at the get go, investigators often refused
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to listen to the folks who knew the missing person the most, the family,
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opting instead to trust their own grandiose opinion that they knew more about such
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matters and situations than the mere civilians who only awoke, ate, socialized,
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and argued with the missing person on a daily basis for days, if not
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weeks. This was the reality as far as Michelle was concerned. Only a
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couple newspaper articles exist in the case. The local media outlets seemed uninterested in
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covering the disappearance, perhaps due to the missing sixteen year old's status as an
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unwed teenage mother. Almost as soon as police suspected foul play in Michelle Lee
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Richardson's case, another East Texas girl went missing under similar circumstances. Kimberly Rochelle
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Norwood was born in greg County, Texas, on October twelfth, nineteen seventy
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six, to Janice Lee and Bobby Wayne Norwood. Born and raised in the
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Hallsville area, Kimberly's childhood was relatively normal for kids of her time. She
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grew up playing outside till the sun went down, coming in only for supper
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or to grab a toy. Hallsville is a small East Texas city in Harrison
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County that originated as a cotton and wool town. In nineteen eighty nine,
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there were only about two thousand folks living there, the older of whom complained
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over coffee about the only stoplight at Central and Maine, the heart of the
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town. Hallsville is nearly dead center between Longview and Marshall, and a short
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drive to and from both through forests of towering oak and pine. East Texas,
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a majority of which is also referred to as the Piney Woods region,
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is its own world, just as the other six regions of Texas are.
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The dense thickets of the Piney Woods are interrupted only by streets and highways,
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sporadic towns, small cities, and rural homes. The largely untamed forests of
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pine and oak stretch into Louisiana and Arkansas, and to give way to majestic
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bald cypress trees in the region's southern swamps. The Norwoods lived on several acres
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of land deep inside the Caney Creek subdivision off FM four forty nine in Harrison
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County. Their brown and white mobile home almost blended into the beautiful scenery surrounding
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it. At twelve years old, Kimberly Norwood was bright an exceptional student.
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Her report card for the second nine weeks of nineteen eighty nine at Hallsville Intermediate
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School was straight a's, not exactly a surprise to anyone, since she had
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tested into accelerated learning classes well before then. Kimberly's favorite subjects were science and
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social studies. Unlike most of her friends, she liked school. The sixth
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grader was looking forward to moving on to Hallsville Junior High in the fall,
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a new life chapter. Kimberly spent a lot of her time with family and
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could often be found at her aunt's house hanging with her cousins who were close
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in age. She also enjoyed spending time with her sister, Pam. Cubby,
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a cat Kimberly was responsible for taking care of, showed that she was
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maturing, but like all kids her age, she had her moments. Kimberly
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seemed to love life and attempted to live it to its fullest, and sometimes
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that meant throwing responsibility out the window. After having Cubby for about five months,
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Kimberly had slacked a little on her agreement with her parents to keep her
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room and the feline's litter box clean. Nothing unusual. Kimberly was a regular
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girl navigating her way through a difficult age. On the morning of Saturday,
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May twentieth, nineteen eighty nine, Kimberly Norwood woke up at a friend's house
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she'd spent the night, and at some point early in the day returned home.
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To bring her dirty clothes and other items back. After that, she,
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her mother, Janie, and sister Pam headed to another piece of property
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in the Caney Creek subdivision. There, Pam and Kimberly rode horses while Janie
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tended to a garden. Kimberly loved riding horses and had gotten quite good at
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it. Later, three neighbor girls approached and asked if Kimberly would come and
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play. She said yes, asked her mom, and the four girls went
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on their way. At around four fifty pm, Kimberly phoned her mother from
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a friend's house. She asked if her friend could come over and spend the
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night, and her mother, Janie, told her no. A small argument
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ensued. Kimberly, after all, was a twelve year old girl experiencing the
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trials and tribulations brought on by her transformative age. Kimberly was mostly a good
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kid, but her father, who was self employed, was doing some work
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at the house and Janie didn't want to deal with her daughter and her friend.
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There was already three kids in the house as it was, Kimberly,
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her sister, and one of her three brothers. Janis told her to come
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on home. Kimberly gave up and told her mom she was walking back to
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the house, along with three other girls who were headed in that direction too.
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It was nothing new. The kids walked to and from each other's houses
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just about every day, often multiple times a day. When the foursome reached
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the Caney Creek Bridge on FM four forty nine, somewhere around Franklin Road,
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and sometime around five point fifteen pm, they all said their goodbyes and went
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their separate ways, each each heading to their own house. Kimberly had less
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than a mile to go down the twisting dirt roads that cut through the pines.
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The Caney Creek subdivision was mostly made up of trailer homes, spread at
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least a quarter mile apart and buried in the backwoods. After the four girls
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went their separate ways, Kimberly Norwood was never seen again. When Kimberly Norwood
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didn't make it home on the evening of May twentieth, nineteen eighty nine,
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the family didn't immediately think the worst. Janie and Kimberly's sister Pam had gone
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into town to mess around and do a little shopping and brought back what a
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burger for everyone. They got back to the house around at seven thirty or
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so. Where's kim Bobby, her father asked. Janis responded, she isn't
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in her room. She wasn't. Pam offered to go around looking for Kimberly.
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She jumped on her four wheeler and sped off to search for her sister.
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It was getting dark when Pam got back and reported that she couldn't find
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Kimberly. Janice felt the first tingling of panic. She went out looking while
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Bobby stayed home by the phone. Janis visited Kimberly's friends and asked anyone else
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she ran into if they'd seen her daughter, but no one had. She
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searched the back roads and looked in the few abandoned houses she knew of in
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the area. After searching, this time visiting all the neighbors, Janis showed
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up at the door of Harrison County Chief Deputy Tom Finley, who also lived
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in the Caney Creek subdivision. It was about ten pm. Finley wasted no
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time. The law man called deputies to the scene to begin searching. Volunteers,
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neighbors and friends of Kimberly joined in on the search. Throughout the night
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Saturday and into the early morning hours of Sunday, May twenty first, civilians
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searched alongside law enforcement on horseback, four wheeler, dirt bike, and by
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foot. As luck would have it, the moon was full and helped to
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supplement the unnatural illumination of flashlights and headlights. Still, finding anything in the
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blackness beneath the tall trees and on the brushy ground was difficult. When the
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sun finally came up, clouds invaded the sky, which helped keep the merciless
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Texas sun from blistering those still searching. By that time there were thirty five
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of them. The searchers continued for the rest of the day, some following
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the narrow pass that cut through the deep thickets, and others trampling through the
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tall grass and weeds. The Caney Creek addition consisted of nearly six hundred and
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fifty acres. There was a large amount of ground to cover. By the
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morning of Monday, May twenty second, nineteen eighty nine, about thirty six
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hours since Kimberly Norwood was last seen, had come up empty handed. No
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Kimberly and no clues as to her whereabouts, Not even bloodhounds could catch the
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scent of her trail. Harrison County Chief Deputy Tom Finley told the Marshall News
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Messenger that the tract had been searched extensively. He believed Kimberly had either gone
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or was taken away from the area, perhaps picked up by someone in a
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vehicle, and he didn't mean kidnapped. Friends Kimberly was with told police that
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she'd said she didn't want to go home because she hadn't cleaned a room like
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she was supposed to, and she didn't want to be punished. While it
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seems unrealistic to consider that statement much more than a normal preteen thing to say,
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certainly not enough of an indication to suggest she actually ran away, it
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seems to be the seed planted in the mind of Chief Deputy Finley that would
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grow into a full fledged theory in record time. To his credit, Chief
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Deputy Finley was quick to point out Kimberly's character. She'd never been in trouble
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with the law or run away from home. Since she was last seen walking
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in the direction of home, it wasn't difficult to deduce it was where she
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was most likely heading. Her mom, Janis said that no part of the
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terrifying situation was normal. Kimberly was afraid of the darkness of the dense forest,
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and especially the snakes within. Janis told a reporter, and she'd have
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taken her bb gun had she gone into the woods, but it was still
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resting against the wall of her closet. Appearances, the anguished mother continued,
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were incredibly important to Kimberly. Her hair had to be just right, her
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clothing neat, but she'd taken no change of clothes and was wearing a ragged
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old T shirt that day, something she'd never have worn into town or anywhere
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else. She'd be running into a bunch of folks. Kimberly hadn't even taken
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her purse, which had a little money in it, nor had she taken
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the big jar of cash and coins she'd been saving. On the day Kimberly
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went missing, another county deputy reported that he had seen a late model blue
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car with Colorado license plates leaving the Caney Creek area shortly after five pm.
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There appeared to have been two teenaged boys and two young girls in the vehicle.
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The deputy said both the males and females were white. He didn't get
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a good enough look to know if either of the girls resembled Kimberly Norwood when
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he saw the car. She hadn't been reported missing yet, of course,
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so he had no reason to closely inspect the situation. That Monday, Kimberly's
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family made and posted missing persons flyers throughout Hallsville, the rest of Harrison County,
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including Marshall, and even in Longview. Within days, Kimberly Norwood was
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reported as being seen in Longview in fact, as well as Tyler and other
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cities across the state of Texas. None of the sidings checked out. Harrison
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County Sheriff's deputies interviewed dozens of folks, subpoenaed phone records, and had several
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individuals offered to take polygraph tests to presumably clear their names. Kimberly's case stayed
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in the headlines and on the local newscasts for quite some time, her parents
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continually pleading for the twelve year old to be returned safely to them. They
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continued to plaster flyers on telephone poles, trees, and in businesses as far
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away as they could and certainly around the county, But as the days turned
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to weeks, and the weeks two months, no sign of Kimberly Norwood emerged.
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After two weeks, the Norwoods hired longview private investigator David Sally to help
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find Kimberly. They were disappointed in the Harrison County Sheriff's Office investigation. They
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said the family had been doing most of the heavy lifting. After the first
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few days, they created and posted all the missing persons posters, conducted further
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searches, set up a reward fund, and continually spoke to media outlets.
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They'd even enlisted the help of area psychics, one from Marshall and one from
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Henderson. Neither, of course, progressed the investigation in any way. The
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Sheriff's department seems to have had similar luck when they hypnotized one of the three
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girls who last saw Kimberly. On Wednesday, June fourteen, law enforcement conducted
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their second search in a better late than never scenario, perhaps a cadaver dog,
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a tracking dog and their handler on loan from the Texas Department of Corrections
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searched alongside one of Harrison County Sheriff's Office bloodhounds. Nothing was found anywhere near
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the area Kimberly Norwood was last seen the Caney Creek subdivision. Meanwhile, that
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very same day, Bobby and Janis Norwood were in Longview undergoing polygraph exams given
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by a Texas Department of Public Safety machine operator and a Texas ranger. They
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passed the Harrison County Sheriff's office said with flying colors. Another man who worked
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for Bobby Norwood and was staying on the family's property was given a test,
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though those results weren't given to the public. The Norwoods were holding out hope
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that Kimberly was still alive. They didn't think she'd run away, but if
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she had, they didn't care. They just wanted her back home. Janice
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believed instead, that someone had taken her daughter. She pleaded with Kimberly's abductor
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to return her unharmed. Janie was going crazy as the pit of her gut
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grew deeper and emptier. She relied on mundane everyday tasks like brushing her teeth
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and cooking meals to keep her grounded in reality and to give her the strength
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to keep hoping. But no matter where she turned, a reminder of Kimberly
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was there, her dolls or the posters of celebrity heart throbs pulled from teen
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Beat magazine on the walls of her bedroom. For reasons that will become quite
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clear later, Harrison County Sheriff Bill Oldham asked the Marshall new U's messenger to
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look over the reports detailing the investigation into Kimberly Norwood's disappearance. He wanted the
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newspaper to let him know if there was anything else he and his men could
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do. If this sounds strange, it's because it is. The request was
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a hard, passive, aggressive response to the newspaper's relatively liked criticisms about the
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investigation, but reporter Anne McAdams was up to the task. The initial missing
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person's report has a time of ten ten PM on May twentieth, nineteen eighty
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nine, and was filed by Chief Deputy Tom Finley under the box titled mode
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of Operation. Finley wrote, walk Away. An incredibly brief summary with virtually
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no detail follows. Kimberly Norwood was last seen at approximately five PM by her
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friends. It read names, addresses, or any other identifying information concerning the
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friends can be found. McAdams reported also no clothing description for Kimberly is listed
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on the report. The next report given to the Marshall News Messenger was dated
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May twenty fifth, nineteen eighty nine. This supplement, in contrast to the
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initial report, is a detailed twelve pager written by Deputy Clay Madrano. Names,
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addresses, and phone numbers of interviewees were detailed meticulously by Deputy Madrano,
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as were leads. Some of the activity described within was even performed while the
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policeman was off duty. Madrano's report showed that the deputy was diligent and dedicated.
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His investigation took him to Kimberly's school, where he spoke with teachers and
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the principle. He obtained a notebook where the missing girl had build many frustrations
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about her family life. The entries detailing troubles between Kimberly and her mom ended
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in February, three months before the disappearance. The counselor at the school told
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Deputy Madrano that the two had worked things out. The ex wife of Kimberly
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Norwood's half brother, a woman named Amy, had apparently told the deputy that
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the missing girl would often get in trouble for things her sister had done and
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made a plea that should they find Kimberly to not let her go back home.
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However, the Martial News Messenger reported Amy as saying Kimberly often got mad
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when things didn't go her way, and she'd get mouthy and say hateful things
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to her parents. Again, these issues closer reflect the difficulty of her transformative
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age than proof that she ran away from home. Kimberly's ex sister in law,
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anyway, told the newspaper that she would never have run away. Things
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just weren't that bad at home, Amy insisted, and Kimberly was a good
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kid. By telling Deputy Madrano to not let her go home if she had
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run away and they found her, Amy said what she meant was to get
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Kimberly and her parents counseling before letting her go back. One thing was for
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sure, she went on. Kimberly could not have lasted this long as a
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runaway. She was not street smart, Amy said. In mid July nineteen
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eighty nine, a group of volunteer searchers from North Richland Hills, Texas,
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attempted to enter the investigation. CAESAR, or Child Education Search and Recovery,
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was a nonprofit organization whose members included civilian volunteers, school teachers, firemen,
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paramedics, and police officers. The group to assist law enforcement departments by providing
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search, rescue, and recovery efforts with absolutely no cost to the agency.
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When Caesar asked Harrison County Sheriff Bill Oldham if they could come in and search,
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the answer wasn't simply no. Rather it was more akin to a hell
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no. I don't want nobody else interfering in my business. I don't want
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no private organization doing the job that I'm elected to do. The good sheriff
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exclaimed in what the Marshall News Messenger described as an outburst. It was a
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recorded conversation between the sheriff and the Norwoods. It was his county. Oldham
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told the Norwood family when they asked why he wouldn't let Caesar, the Texas
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Rangers, or the FBI come into the investigation, and he didn't want any
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outsiders coming in and getting into his files. Caesar member and North Richland Hill's
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police EFE officer Tim Samson insisted they wouldn't come without the Sheriff's permission, so
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they didn't. Roy Norwood, Kimberly's uncle, was pissed, and rightfully so.
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Caesar officials had been told by Harrison County Chief Deputy Tom Finley that,
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as far as he and his department were concerned, Kimberly was a runaway and
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they were investigating the case accordingly. There was no evidence to indicate otherwise.
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Finley said, never mind the fact that she took nothing and told her closest
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friends nothing. On Friday, July fourteenth, Kimberly's uncle Roy, joined a
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group of about twenty protesters outside the Harrison County Courthouse in Marshall. One boy
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held a sign that read, would you look for me if I was missing?
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On another sign was Sheriff Oldham, lay your pride aside, ask for
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outside help. On yet another poster, big black letters spelled out, mister
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Oldham, you embarrass me. The peaceful demonstration was not organized by the Norwoods.
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Rather, concerned citizens of Marshall became angry about statements their top lawman was
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making to the missing girl's family. Passers by honked, waved, and shouted
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out their car windows in support of the protesters. The entire county seat,
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it seemed, was disappointed, if not infuriated. I think their main problem
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is one of complacency. One demonstrator from Western Harrison County said. Bobby and
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Janis Norwood, Kimberly's parents, were not at the protest, though they were
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incredibly touched by the small event. Roy Norwood, the missing girl's uncle,
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was at the event. He wasn't happy Sheriff Oldham thought of his niece as
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a runaway, and I wondered if the department was even keeping a file on
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the case. Maybe he's got a file. Maybe he don't have a file.
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Roy said, Maybe that's the reason he don't want people to look in
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there, because maybe he don't even have a file. We just believe Kim
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is not a runaway. When I read the newspaper and the sheriff said,
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this was his county, This is Kim's county too. This county does not
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belong to him. It's the people's county. Truth of the matter was that
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Sheriff Bill Oldham was territorial, an old school Texas sheriff who took care of
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his own problems, even at the furtherance of those problems, and to the
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detriment of his constituents, a lawman of a bygone age. He told the
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Norwoods in the recorded conversation that he knew Kimberly wasn't a runaway, and no
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one in the department had ever said that it was more of Norwood's bull as
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he put it, But according to officials, as reported by Anne McAdams of
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the Marshall News Messenger, that's exactly what his chief deputy said. Oldham went
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on to say he'd cooperated with everyone. The Texas Rangers and the FBI and
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Caesar could come down if they want, but he was not going to tell
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them they could himself, which is what they required to come in the first
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place. His deputies had spent more than twelve hundred hours working the case,
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Oldham said, but now that the Norwood family was downing his men his words
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by questioning the course of the investigation, he didn't owe it to them to
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visit their home for a meeting. In fact, in the seven weeks since
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Kimberly went missing, he'd never come to their home, as he demanded the
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county let in outside help. Marshall News Messenger publisher George Smith poignantly wrote in
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a July thirteenth editorial, quote the disappearance of the girl, the ensuing search
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of the wooded area near Hallsville, where she was last seen. The missing
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posters plastered on fence posts and trees around the county, the continuous pleased by
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her parents for her safe return, all have touched the lives and hearts of
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Harrison County residents, But it seems this case has failed to touch Sheriff Oldham
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end quote. The hardships the Norwoods endured hardly stopped there. In a newspaper
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article that documented the feud between Sheriff Oldham and the Norwoods, letters found in
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the missing twelve year old school locker, letters her family had never seen nor
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even heard of, were published printed verbatim on the next episode of Gone Cold,
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Texas True Crime. The clash between the Norwood family and the Harrison County
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Sheriff's office continues. Other predatorial folks insert themselves into the case, and the
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chance Kimberly left of her own free will continues to grow less likely by the
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day. Kimberly Norwood would be forty seven years old today. She's a white
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female with brown eyes and brown hair that can appear to have a red tint
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in light. She stood approximately five feet five inches tall and weighed about one
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hundred pounds. She has a two inch scar on her abdomen from kidney surgery.
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When she was last seen, Kimberly was wearing a white T shirt with
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either a Teddy bear or red and black cows on the front, dark blue
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jeans, and black Kead's tennis shoes. She was also wearing a black bow
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in her hair, a Swatch watch, and a gold ring with an aquamarine
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stone. If you have any information about the disappearance of Kimberly Rochelle Norwood Police,
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call the Harrison County Sheriff's Office at nine zero three nine three five for
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eight. Michelle Lee Richardson, whose case we talked about at the top of
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the episode, is a white female and was sixteen years old when she went
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missing from Palestine, Texas. She stood five feet six inches tall, weighed
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about one hundred and fifty pounds, had reddish blonde hair, and blue eyes.
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Michelle occasionally wore glasses and has a U shaped scar on her left arm.
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Michelle was last seen wearing a pink and white pullover sweatshirt, pink jogging
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