just gets colder. and state attorney, bill eddins, wasn t optimistic it would ever be solved. what chance did you give it? i really felt that it was about a 50/50 chance of it bein solved. i know that it would make the case the law enforcement would have to be very careful and very persistent in their investigation. eddins assigned one of his most experienced prosecutors, angela mason, to work on it. she wasn t optimistic, either. i was certainly vulnerable in that i did not have a body. i was also vulnerable with the tanya element, that people thought she could be a suspect. and then three years after marie disappeared the most amazing thing happened. marie s computer yielded to a new forensics program, and out spilled in crimson blushing clarity text messages between marie and james. i love you.