FDLE seeks the public’s help to crack the 1974 James Norris cold case

FDLE Contributor On the morning of Oct. 4, 1974, 24-year-old San Francisco, Calif., resident James Norris arrived on a commercial flight to Miami, Fla. He was traveling under the alias: Richard Gunning. Norris was carrying a large amount of cash with the intention of purchasing Colombian-grade marijuana that was not in California. That afternoon, Norris mailed a postcard to his family from Inglis, Fla., in Levy County on the border with Citrus County. That was the last contact his family had with him. On April 16, 1976, a bulldozer operator cutting through the woods off of U.S. Highway 19 in northern Dixie County near the Taylor County line came upon skeletal remains. The remains were