This is the flyer that was posted around the area after Norman Lewis' disappearance in 1994.

Norman Lewis was the kind of man who never met a stranger. According to his sister-in-law, Virginia Lewis, Norman always had a coffee cup ready to be filled. When his brother, Joe, had to have surgery, Norman came to Williston to help Virginia take care of their storage business, L & L Storage. After making many friends here, he decided to stay awhile.

Purchasing a salvage yard south of L & L Storage, Norman worked at it several years before selling it and moving to Gulf Port, Mississippi, having decided to the live at a Navy Veteran's Home. That lasted for about a year before he came back to Williston and purchased a house in town.

Once again the friendly man folks called Chief was seen around town nearly every day, having a cup of coffee with friends or driving down the street in his red and gray pickup truck.

When Norman disappeared on Thursday, March 24, 1994, folks figured he had gone fishing, but Joe wasn't so sure. The brothers were close, and this didn't feel right. He went by Norman's house and saw that his wallet and medications were there. Norman surely had not intended to stay long, wherever he was going.

By the following morning, Friday, March 25, Joe was convinced something was wrong. He called the police.

Word spread that something had happened to Norman. Posters were put up all over town. Chief of Police Olin Slaughter and his officers weren't the only ones who drove up and down side streets and out into the country, looking for Norman's pickup. It sometimes seemed that everyone was looking for Norman.

The lead investigator in Norman's case was detective Brian Hewitt. He had followed every lead and driven every road several times, but he was out of ideas. Then he went to a seminar in Orlando, where he met Noreen Renier, a psychic who had lectured at the FBI academy at Quantico and had assisted police across the nation.

When Brian got back to Williston, he contacted Joe, telling him about Noreen and saying the hiring of a psychic was not in the police department's budget. Joe gave Brian the money for Noreen's fee, along with a pair of shoes and a wallet Norman used a lot.

Ordinarily Noreen's work with police concerns cases of murders or other types of assault, and she uses items of clothing the victims were wearing when the crime occurred. She wasn't so sure she could help when the victim was missing, but she agreed to try.

Noreen, in her book, A Mind for Murder, released this year (and reviewed in today's issue of the Williston Pioneer Sun News), explains how she was able to work with the Williston Police to find Norman and his truck.

When Noreen held shoes and a wallet that had been used a lot by Norman, she saw images she couldn't explain-numbers that turned out to be Routes, cliffs that were actually the sides of an abandoned quarry, a bridge and a pile of bricks.

When all those objects converged in one specific place, Navy Seals got in on the act. Both Joe and Norman had served during World War II in the U.S. Navy, and the seals did not give up until they found the pickup truck deeply embedded in mud and debris at the bottom of an abandoned quarry. How fitting that Navy men brought closure to a family and a town that had lost someone they loved.