Hello everyone, new guy here.
I just started listening to the True Crime BS podcast a couple days ago and finished the Israel Keyes series today. I’ve been fascinated with the cases, but one in particular caught my attention today.
The one I’m referring to is James Lamar Tidwell, who went missing from Rusk County, Texas. The reason this caught my attention is because of the amount of similarities to another missing persons case. The parents of a friend of mine live in Rusk county, on September 26th, 2018 his mom went missing. I’m a little rusty on the details so I could be wrong on a few small details but feel free to correct me if you read about the case and find anything different.
Her name is/was Kimberly Flint. Her husband came home to find that Kim and her vehicle were not there, but her purse and phone were still there. She hardly ever left the house, I believe she had slight agoraphobia, but also she had talked to her husband a little earlier and asked him to pick up some food on his way home.
Her vehicle was found abandoned on the side of Highway 84, and appeared that it had side swiped the guard rail, but she was nowhere to be found, and to this day she has not been found. Her glasses were found left inside her vehicle, exactly like when James’s vehicle was discovered.
James went missing with very similar circumstances, vehicle abandoned on the side of the highway, left his glasses in the vehicle, and both of these were in Rusk county. I know a lot of people think Keyes is responsible for James’s disappearance, and obviously Keyes was already dead when Kim went missing, but the fact that so many details are identical, it really makes me wonder if the same person is responsible for both abductions.
They conducted quite a few searches for Kim but never found anything at all, it was like she just vanished right out of her car.
What do you guys think? James went missing sometime in late February of 2012, Kim went missing in late September of 2018. I’ll post a link to a story about my friends mom Kimberly Flint below.
1 Year Later: Kimberly Flint still missing from Rusk County
and here is a link for an article about James’s disappearance.
VANISHED: James Lamar Tidwell