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
the flanders, who said tha they fully expected that marie would return soon. at this was not the first time that she took spur of th moment trips not to the point where sh would be reported to law enforcement as missing though. she came back. although they tol detectives they were quite worried about marie s state of mind they said that it was a dow ward that spiral they said that she wa depressed? yes marie could have wild moo swings, they knew that she had a diagnosed mood disorder. did they tell you that she was bipolar? yes, told me that she was bipolar, that she was taking medication that she wa overmedication probably becaus of her giving birth of the child. but there was another prescription bottle to well and they also showed us bottle that was empty, that wa linked to the fact that she ha taken that medication and woul use it to hurt herself