and i m natalie morales and this is dateline . marie was a very loving person 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 fo years. the mom with a tender heart an tough as nails career. she was part of the sheriff s department. her ultimate goal was to try t get into the fbi she found a new sense o purpose in the church. her pastor and his wife, lik family they had taken her in they were helping her out. it s like, i m proud of you you re finding god then, one baffling text and she was gone i go, i know, i probabl watch a lot of law & order but i have this really gut feeling. because i was a mom, i just knew she didn t leave on her own. there was no way she left that baby two moms at opposite ends o a mystery. could one get justice for th other? this case for sure was an investigator s worst nightmare soon, clues to a hidden life a very
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. it s like, i m proud of you. you re finding god. then, one baffling text and she was gone. i go, i know, i probably watch a lot of law & order , but i have this really gut feeling. because i was a mom, i just knew she didn t leave on her own. there was no way she left that baby. two moms at opposite ends of a mystery. could one get justice for the other? this case for sure was an investigator s worst nightmare. soon, clues to a hidden life. a very amorous, romantic, wild relationship. it was lustful. oh, my g
you. and i thought, you know, how cool is that but then. then marie gave birth, and i wasn t cool for marie, not anymore. and certainly not adoption every time we started t broach the subject with her, she did get withdrawn. so, maybe tanya would not get baby grace maybe marie wanted it all, the baby and james, all fo herself. that s what this member of the inner circle believed. but i - did i hear that from marie that marie wanted james. did tanya strike back somehow, fight for her marriag by getting rid of marie? listen to how church members quote tanya s words. she s basically like, james
and how the pastor and his wif offered her a place to stay. but the questions about baby grace? said esta her relationship wit marie was always supportive bu not judgmental and when mari didn t tell her who the father was, she didn t push the subject. i never questioned he because will marie tell me i her own time if she wants to tell me. i ve learned with my sister, i never pry. but that was the job of the detectives, nesli and keith to pry. hopefully to find marie. one of their first calls was o her church pastor, james flanders and his wife. impressive guy, they discovered james flanders what was he like very charismatic. i would say he was good at his job. i wonder what it would be like to listen to him preach you can youtube him yes, you can.
this was a come to jesus moment. this was the hardest thing i ever had to do was to confront my pastor your mentor? sure. and james admitted it. he had been sleeping with two women in the same house. and then, youth pastor jason told the detectives, in that cloistered setting, james kept talking. and told a terrible story. him and marie have had a physical or to caution before she went missing. and she had scratched him on his arms. james insisted marie was still alive the last time he saw her. i was in shock of everything. that was it. he could not continue his posturing, james would have to resign. he announced that he and tanya were leaving town. they were supposed to leave the following morning to say goodbye to some church members and lo and behold around 12:00 12:30, they got in that truck