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little bit different than you thought. >> the whole family accepted it because it was susie's choice. >> before long, susie give birth to a little bird named mariah. followed by a son but again no real surprise. the marriage didn't last. >> she really loved her kids. they were really a big part of her life. and then when her and marty split, they were really everything in her life. >> so, late 90s now, susie was working as a medical transcriptionist in a place called glendive. that's where she met ted casey. he was the real deal. a grown-up this time. a ranch or 14 years older than susie. >> he had horses and that was just right for her. >> wedding number two. this was 1998. the kids, shea and mariah called ted dad. then there were two more kids. girls.

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out and prove it. >> but when marty walked in, the court room gasped. >> he didn't look like the picture that i was shown of him. >> he'd lost like 77 pounds. so he looked like a different person altogether. i think there was a little bit of shock and everybody's mind. >> wait, was it intentional? more on that in a minute. first prosecutor listed what he thought were modus for marti killing susie. jealousy, pride, rage. >> i think marty was absolutely convinced that they were going to get back together and i think that he thought that that was going to happen.

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unable or unwilling to do. >> he was going to get justice for our family. even if he had to do it himself. >> what do you mean by that? >> he has made several plans about how he was going to kill more ready, take marty's live just like marty took chooses. >> what would you say to him when he said things like that? >> that the case was moving forward and that that wasn't something that he needed to do and that we had a son and our son needed him and me. and that he couldn't leave us. >> eventually, it all came to that anyway. first, val and rusty divorced,

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solution. >> and in marty's apartment? >> there was an anti-bottle of toilet bowl cleaner in the kitchen garbage. detectives looked at the toilets in the residence. they didn't look like they had been recently cleaned. but yet we had an empty container of lysol bathroom cleaner. >> that was in all they found in the garbage. there was this. it appeared to be a list of expenses, as if someone was planning quite seriously, for las vegas wedding. >> basically a breakdown of the trip for a lodging, paying for a minister, to marry them. and a return trip home. >> then when investigators asked marty to take off his shirt. they saw scratches on his back. now in heaven's name did he get those? some sort of struggle, perhaps? while the search for susie was still going on, the agent suggested they all sit down for a little q and a. marty said sure, but -- >> can i ask you one question first.

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whom she had reconnected as her marriage to ted fell apart. this man, her long ago first husband. the father of her two older children. we marty larson. did she talk about him at all? >> i knew that she had had a previous marriage and had marya. but i didn't know anything more be on that. >> marty had been out of susie 's life for more than a decade. no contact, no child support, nothing. but then in 2007, marya, curious about her biological father, found him on the internet. and reached out. and marty came to visit a time or two. at least once susie took their kids to seem him, three hours across the prairie in buildings, montana. her parents were among the very few people who knew. they were not happy. >> we got into an argument and i said, susie, you don't want to do this. and i said, the family isn't

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>> i think that frustration was very hard for the family. >> what was your expectation, that they would look at this material that they had and just go in a rest marty? >> i guess i just anticipated that these things would move forward, and who was responsible would be held accountable. time just kept on going. >> the thing is at that point susie sister in law val and her husband rusty we're still hearing that marty and ted were both suspects. at the time, susie two youngest kids were with ted, the older to, shea and mariah were living with val and rusty. >> it was extremely difficult for shea and mariah both. i remember, i was excited for him to have his own bedroom and space but at night he couldn't sleep in his room. he had to sleep with maria. >> because? >> i think he was scared that

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me she was okay. and there was no answer, so i went out and cold and takes it a few times, hoping to wake her up. >> so did you ever encounter susie at all? >> no. >> okay. >> i wish i would would have seen her. >> he swore he didn't see susie arrived just before 5 am with brad. didn't see what they were doing in the truck. didn't see her cross the street to her door at 5:19 am. but he did leave town he said. and video from another nearby by seems to back him up. at 5:45 am. leaving one last frantic voice mail. >> hello. just hoping to hear you're okay. >> police of course, are paid to be skeptical. >> there is no doubt in my mind you saw her this morning. >> no i didn't. >> but marty stuck to his story. and when detectives asked him why his mini van was so freshly washed -- >> i was on the way up there, i had to do one major thing. because there was a dead there in the row that hit. and there was a bunch of deer stuck to the bottom of it. >> okay. >> so i cleaned the bugs off the ban hoping going through the drive-through car wash would spree the deer off. >> a dear? really? but --

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>> sure. >> and i underestimate something? am i being charged? something >> no. >> he said he and susie had reconnected the year before. mostly for the children. right away, said marty, they fell for each other all over again. like true soulmates. that time ten years prior when he taken a shotgun to ten and susie's house, all forgiven. he was a different manner. >> the ten years we were part, spencer thinking she hated me. she thought i hated her. and in fact, we still love each other. very much. >> were you thinking that you too would get back together? >> that was the plan. >> so, said marty, just before susie went out on the night she vanished, he talked to her on the phone. >> and i told her before she went i said, make sure you eat. make sure you don't drink too much.

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going to really go for this. and she said, everybody's gonna disown me? >> so i just backed off and i told him that i'm not going to lose my daughter over him. and that was the end of that. >> how serious it got, nobody knew. but maybe they were just friendly. maybe it was more than that. now investigator ulrich typed marty larson into the database. >> it popped up and i saw criminal trespass. >> remember, susie mary ted pretty quickly after she left marty back in 1998. but that was in the end of it. not long after the wedding, apparently in a fit, marty drove from billing stew glendive and showed up outside the house with a shotgun. what he intended to do with it was never made clear. but he was convicted of criminal trespass and was slapped with a lifetime restraining order. no contact with susie or ted. ever. >> at that point i had a red flag go up.

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