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she had a heart of gold. what happened to this woman? my job is to be a truth teller and seek out the truth. i wanted to solve it. >> her case was a mystery for years. the mom with a tender heart and tough as nails career. >> she was part of the sheriff s department. her ultimate goal was to try to get into the fbi. >> she found a new sense of purpose in the church. her pastor and his wife, like family. >> they had taken her in. they were helping her out. >> its like, im proud of you. ...

Cause eventually. >> shed been gone a week when the sheriff asked detectives keith matz to look into it. that takes a message, something off, said her family. >> this doesnt sound like marie. >> so when you got that one, the antenna must have gone up? >> the antennas did go up. >> detective nesli suhi-moore didnt hear about the case then. because -- on maternity leave. >> correct. and i came back two weeks after she was initially reported missing. >> and thats when nesli heard from other detecti...

Time to embrace the thought theyd frankly had all along. and it wasnt a good one. >> keith and i both no longer believed we had a missing person. we believed we were dealing with a homicide investigation. but whats the hardest homicide investigation you can be given? one without a body. >> reporter: yeah. >> and we didnt have marie. coming up, the startling secret that marie kept from just about everyone. >> i went up and i put my hand on her stomach and i said "whats going on with this?" >> w...

You know the machine that spits out tickets when you enter an airport parking lot? that very ticket goes back to the tollbooth when you leave. >> keith and i went to the little toll booth where you give the -- your ticket. >> reporter: maybe, thought the detectives, the parking ticket for maries mazda would tell them not just when it was dropped off but, a more important question, by whom. >> we were thinking lets get a thumbprint, or a fingerprint and went through every single one of them until...

Was deeply attached to both her daughters. >> she had a heart of gold and loved her -- paris more than anything in the world. enough to be able to let paris go live with jeff to have a stable life. to me, a sacrifice on her end as a mother. >> reporter: but what happened in her life? and how did she end up with another baby? from esta the detectives learned about the divorce and how marie had lost her job, and how the pastor and his wife offered her a place to stay. but the questions about baby ...

>> reporter: what was that like? >> i didnt believe it. she was going to call us eventually. >> reporter: that text message, something off, said her family. >> this doesnt sound like marie. >> reporter: when you got that one, the antenna must have gone up? >> the antennas did go up. >> reporter: the detective didnt hear about the case then because -- >> i was on maternity leave. >> reporter: on maternity leave. >> correct. and i came back two weeks after she was initially reported missing. >> re...

>> detective nesli suhi-moore didnt hear about the case then. because -- on maternity leave. >> correct. and i came back two weeks after she was initially reported missing. >> and thats when nesli heard from other detectives about the case keith was working on. >> poor keith. had no idea that i was going to come bully my way into the investigation. >> and why did you want to bully your way into the investigation? >> i think the connection of just having a child. i just knew that she didnt leave ...

>> this doesnt sound like murray. >> so when you have that one the antennas most have gone up? >> the antennas did go up. >> detective nesli suhi-moore didnt hear about the case then because -- >> i was on leave. >> on maternity leave. >> correct. so -- and i came back, two weeks after she was initially reported missing. >> and thats when nesli heard from other detectives about the case keith was working on. >> poor keith had no idea that i was gonna come bully my way into that investigation. >>...

About it and talking to paris. >> reporter: shed been gone a week when the sheriff asked detective keith matz to look into it. that text message. something off, said her family. >> this doesnt sound like marie. >> reporter: huh, so when you got that one -- the antenna must have gone up, huh? >> the antennas did go up. >> reporter: detective nesli suhi-moore didnt hear about the case then. because -- >> i was on leave. >> reporter: on maternity leave. >> correct. so -- and i came back, two weeks ...

>> reporter: she wouldve never have left without talkin to me about it. and talkin to paris. shed been gone a week when the sheriff asked detective keith matz to look into it. that text message. something off, said her family. >> this doesnt sound like marie. >> reporter: huh, so when you got that one -- the antenna must have gone up, huh? >> the antennas did go up. >> reporter: detective nesli suhi-moore didnt hear about the case then. because -- >> i was on leave. >> reporter: on maternity lea...