Missing: Billy Martin

📍Brazil, Indiana | Year: 1957🎧 Chapter 48: The Final Trace of Billy MartinSeven-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 MartinReddit - Unresolved Mysteries