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
family and friends she was leaving for fort walton beac and nobody could figure out wh or where she went. and this was very strange. she left her three month old baby in the care of her pastor james flanders and his wife, tanya, and not her family. not the woman she looked to as a mother figure, kay barber. it was heartbreaking. it was heartbreaking marie s ex-husband, jef carlson, got the text, too didn t make sense to him tha she would leave without callin her seven-year-old daughter, paris. kay called jeff and said she h should file a report she said, i don t kno what s going on but i thin something happened and i said, yeah i agree wit you. and then just called th okaloosa county sheriff office to report marie missing the investigator said, we r