comes up the stairs. she says something to me. i m thinking she s going somewhere, you know, i m, like, okay, yada yada yada, i was watching television. you were zoned out. i was zoned out, and i m so zoned out finally i fall asleep. marcus woke up later that evening to the sound of his baby brother crying. so, i go downstairs, why is this little kid crying? where is everybody at? finally the phone rang. my stepfather calls me and he tells me, you know, he s saying, hey, is your mom there, is your mom home yet, whatever? and she and i m, like, no, where the heck are you guys? i ve been here and marquis won t stop crying. he just won t stop. he says, okay, okay, i ll be there soon. andre said he d last seen marie around 5:00 p. m. just before he left for his son andre jr. s football game. now when he returned home, marie and her car were gone. andre made a round of calls to friends, nobody knew where marie was. he then took all the kids to his mother s house and dropped
family. and there were two other stepsiblings in the mix, andre jr. and andrea. and you get along with them? yeah. it was pretty great. i had a brother and a sister at home, and it was a pretty cool experience. another cool experience, for the first time having a dad. he taught me how to swim. he taught me how to throw a football. he even rode me on the back of his motorcycle a few times. it was good to actually have a male figure in the house that i could, you know, do stuff with. so andre was living up to his job as your father? yeah. yeah, he was. for marcus and his mom, everything seemed just perfect. honestly, it was like a complete family. it felt like i finally had a complete family. it was the best feeling in the world. like the ultimate high. and then suddenly, the ultimate low.
for her job? yeah. marie worked for the federal government in los angeles, but friends say she was driven and ambitious in other areas, too. she was an entrepreneur, that s what i know most about her, because she talked about owning her own business. but marie wanted more than work and success. i know that she wanted to have somebody in her life. what kind of guy was she looking for? someone that will take care of her, love her, protect her. that was kind of missing. she didn t have that guy figure, the father figure for marcus. then one day, marie told her friends i met this guy, you know, they had a lunch date and he was cute and just, you know, the excitement of meeting somebody new. his name was andre jackson. a handsome single father of two. sparks flew immediately. i mean, she would just light up every time she talked about him just
he d never done before. i had to have marcus arrested. it was very hard. i ve got to have him arrested when he s a victim. it s unpleasant. very unpleasant. lewin, the prosecutor, and marcus, the witness, were at odds. and if the prosecutor s star witness didn t show up for trial, andre could easily walk free. coming up did you kill your wife? no, i did not. the case heads into court and andre jackson heads to the stand. at last, he tells his own story. i approached her in the bedroom and embraced her and kissed her. when dateline continues. birds flyin high you know how i feel breeze drifting on by you know how i feel [man: coughing] it s a new dawn, it s a new day. no matter how you got copd it s time to make a stand.
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