Missing: Billy Martin

📍Brazil, Indiana | Year: 1957 🎧 Chapter 48: The Final Trace of Billy Martin Seven-year-old Billy Martin was playing outside his family’s home on a warm summer afternoon while his mother cleaned inside, waiting for her husband to return home from National Guard training. But sometime around 3:30 PM… Billy vanished. The last person believed to have seen him was a family friend and lodger known as “Tex” Higgins — a drifter whose story would quickly come under scrutiny. Search crews combed fields, ponds, mineshafts, and nearby farmland.Rumors spread across Clay County.And over the decades, Billy’s disappearance slowly became something more than a cold case. It became a legend. Nearly seventy years later… Billy Martin has never been found. 📖 SOURCES AND READINGS: The Charley Project - Billy Earl Martin: Provides the core case facts, physical description, and the timeline of Harry "Tex" Higgins' actions. Faded Memories: The Disappearance of Billy Martin (WTWO): Features modern interviews with Billy’s brother, Robert, and details about the family’s scrapbook and search efforts. Brazil Times Archives - Missing But Not Forgotten: Details the polygraph results for the parents and Tex, as well as the $167 fund eventually donated to the Boy Scouts. Indiana Folklore Collection - Disappearance of Billy Martin: Documents local legends, including the "Pink House" (Rene/Lorine Evans) and the school haunting myths. The Daily Banner (August 15, 1957): A primary newspaper source from the week of the disappearance, detailing the early investigation into the "guitar-toting minstrel". Indiana Cold Case Chronicles (Facebook): Community discussion and additional records regarding the search locations around Brazil. [1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10] Newspapers.com - Frances L Evans/Harry Higgins/Billy Martin Reddit - Unresolved Mysteries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices