Linda Martin
Appearances
Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley
There was also the gravel pit that was always open, and that was a dead end. Where is that? The gravel pit. What gravel pit?
Dark Valley
Chapter 18 | Down the Alley
Yeah, the shooting range. So that was a drinking place back then, but that's kind of a parallel road. They were hauling out of that gravel pit back then? They were, weren't they?
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
I'm an easygoing person, and I don't fight with her, but I've put up with a hell of a lot from her mouth to my family. And she has ruined things. I just stay away. I just have to stay away because I can't.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
I feel like, and you're doing a good job. I don't have a problem with that. I'm glad I met you. She drives the nails. between us, and Jason walks a fine line. Because he wants to get along with us, and we don't ever talk about April. We had plenty of times that I could tell you about that just didn't go well, and I just kept my mouth shut and did it and came home.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
She has this book personality, maybe she can't control that, but it's sad.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
Yeah, I don't understand why she keeps wanting to bring it up.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
So you were here all afternoon. Why would she come up with that?
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
Were they together? I think they were together. I wouldn't be able to swear to that now. Okay. But I think that they were still out there working when I came home. Because I think I remember talking to him and not getting too much attention.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
So, yeah, I would say that we were both here. Of course, he's not around anymore either, you know. Oh, no, Carl?
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
I know it's probably not an easy thing. No, I don't usually do it, and my kids think that I hold back too much, but, you know, you have to live the way you live. Yeah, I understand. Yeah.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
Okay. Um, Delbert had kind of curly hair. I thought that everybody had figured out that that was him, but... Maybe. I don't know.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
I think it was afternoon because I came home from work and you were out there.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
Yeah, I worked at the Holiday Inn. Okay. And I worked the lunch shift, so I didn't get home any too early, maybe 2.30, 3.00. I don't remember. Maybe as early as two, so that's pushing it. But you never know. But it was a Sunday. Yeah, it was a Sunday. And then you get home and you're like, where's Heidi? I made a few phone calls, but I don't ever remember talking to him.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
I called the co-lease, because that was one of her friends that was kind of far out. And I thought, well, she might have gone out there for some reason.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
I know. I started questioning where she was when I got home. I believe there's some record of you calling police and filing a missing persons report. Right, and I think in the beginning they told us we couldn't because it wasn't 24 hours, but then they picked up on it.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
Yeah. Well, they did the door-to-door thing that afternoon down through Martinsville.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
I was. Is that true? The rule was to have somebody with you, but she couldn't. There wasn't anybody available and she still went. Okay. Yeah. And she knew better. Did she ask permission or did she just kind of like... That was the conversation with her father.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
I think so. I think so. I think with her brother. But she was rather new to... cross country and running. I didn't really think that she would have done the loop, I guess. Hmm.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
So I know that's why they got a dog and they tried to search it, but the dog, they didn't have whatever it took because they didn't find her that night. They said they lost her when they went up around the corner. Well, all you had to do was just keep going and get back down on that road because you know she went down that road. Mm-hmm.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
And they lost their trail up Route 5. Well, they said, yeah, when they got to the place where it went down to the school, I guess there was a lot of traffic going across there. There weren't that many houses down there back then.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
There was also the gravel pit that was always open. And that was a dead end. I can't. Where is that? The gravel pit.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
Yeah, the shooting range. So that was a drinking place back then, but that's kind of a parallel road. They were hauling out of that gravel pit back then? They were, weren't they?
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
And she did not have her license yet, so we said, well, you know, you can... We'll go look and see, you know, and she was all hyper about that. So she was excited about getting a car. Right. But you guys hadn't gone looking for the car?
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
Oh, the car had turned up. We were going to probably go see that car.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
From the art teacher. What were your dealings with police during this process? Not much.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
They came and they just pulled everything out of a room downstairs. They were just grabbed everything they wanted and took. And I don't know if we got it all back.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
So let's get to Dolbert. They tried to make it to tell him it was the only possibility. Right. And, you know, I think the people, I shouldn't say it this way because it's not right, but like his class of people, people who knew him in Heartland, felt that he got railroaded. In Windsor. I think he was from Windsor. Yeah, yeah, he was from Windsor. I think that was... Yeah.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
Well, and I always thought that if he saw him and he was right there, he knew, you know, that's a start.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
I think that was why he couldn't go to it, because they were going to put him on the stand, maybe. Would that make sense? Yes. Yeah, it would.
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
Did you have to see her because of identification purposes, or did you want her?
Dark Valley
Chapter 17 | A Father's Tale
Maybe Jason would know. Well, maybe he doesn't anymore. She used to be on Facebook. She took her mom out there eventually.