Martha "Marty" Goddard (c. 1941 – 2015) was an American crime victims' advocate who was instrumental in developing the rape test kit, used to methodically collect forensic evidence from victims of rape.

[4] She learned from the police that the evidence collected in hospitals from rape victims was often incomplete or poorly gathered.

[3] She brought this idea to Louis R. Vitullo, who worked in the Chicago police crime lab.

[2] Goddard continued to advocate for the rights of sexual assault victims through the 1980s, but developed a problem with alcohol and lived her later years in obscurity in Arizona.

[3] In the years after its development, the Vitullo Kit was introduced as a tool to collect evidence at over a hundred hospitals in Illinois by the Citizens Committee for Victim Assistance.