TX TX - Martha Martinez Maxwell, 41, Forth Worth, 10 May 1992

Martha Maxwell told police that on the night of April 18, her husband had beaten her after an argument and she went to sleep on the couch, documents show. When she awoke, her hands were bound behind her back with duct tape, according to arrest and search warrant affidavits. Her husband hooked an electrical device to her breasts and shocked her, according to the affidavits, then sexually tortured her. She couldn't recall how she ended up on the side of Interstate 35, about 10 miles north of Ardmore, Okla., on the morning of April 19.

She later fled to Mexico with her child to recover. But she would reunite with Maxwell after he apologized.

Her family last heard from her on Mother's Day 1992. Jeffrey Maxwell told Fort Worth police that she left on her own. He divorced her in 1995, saying one reason was that he couldn't find her.

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