The daughter of a homicide detective, Norma Mott Tillman was only 10 years old when she started sneaking reads from her father’s training manuals.
“I was amazed at how you could figure out what angle the bullet came in, how close range, what kind of knife was used in a stabbing, and how the blood splatter told another story,” Tillman said. “Law enforcement was my destiny.”
The East High School graduate started as a dispatcher. When she completed the Police Academy, Tillman was promoted to the sex abuse unit, where she stayed for 11 years. Gradually, though, local lawyers learned that the petite, polite woman had a knack for finding people.
