mood swings, they knew that she had a diagnosed mood disorder. did they tell you that she was bipolar? yes, that was bipolar, that she was taking medication that she was overmedication probably because of her giving birth of the child. but there was another prescription bottle to well and they also showed us a bottle that was empty, that was linked to the fact that she had taken that medication and this would use it to hurt herself. the day she left, james told detectives he was so worried about her state state of mind, he stayed at home. james said that she was acting up and he didn t he was afraid the baby would yes. then, late that afternoon, said pastor, james marie said she was tired, went to lie down. tanya took the baby out shopping so marie could rest. the pastor said he waited around for a bit.
and then, there was this. one of those sermons posted on youtube just a month before marie vanished. and now in the evidence file. whenever someone is backstabbing me, lying about me, gasping about me, trying to tear me down or whatever you know what i want to do? my feeling say choke the life out of them. [laughs] is that what the pastor did too marie? the detective spelled out their case. circumstantial, difficult. but the prosecutors bought it. and james was flanders charged with second degree murder. persistence paid off. we were four and a half years in. most people would ve given up by now. but as the pastor waited in jail for his trial, his attorney and former church member glenn swiatek was optimistic. what did you think your chances were if you went to trial? i do believe they would have second degree murder.
needed to hear, he said. it takes a certain amount of courage. absolutely. we would have never known had jason never come forward. known what? the secret incident that got junior pastor jason involved. it happens shortly after marie disappeared. will it happen after james activist church elder for help. i said what s going on? does this have to do with marie what? he said i can t tell. you he never once had anything to me else but, it s bad. james seemed suicidal, said the elder. so he called a doctor friend, and the doctor committed the preacher to a psychiatric ward. for ten days. during which time, jason took over preacher duties. but then, jason hurd things, not about what happened to marie, but about the polygamy. another church leaders confronted him and tanya.
think different. an attentive church goer might have noticed the intuition of an idea and the pastor when he mentioned a couple of races in the old testament that seem to approve, somehow, of a polygamy. he wanted to justify his relationship to everybody else, through a biblical sense. so he went to the old testament and pulled up those few lines that suggested polygamy? that s correct. we if it was one and the very practical polygamy and the home of the pastor was carefully under wraps. so did tanya worry about what might happen? that s what she was covering up. she had to protect james and protect their world. did she do something to marie to protect james? two months after marie she disappeared, the detectives got permission to look at the cell phone records of all three of them. would they prove tanya was with marie when she vanished and,
i was certain leave foldable in that i didn t 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 outs filled with blushing clarity text messages between marie and james. i love you. i love you so much. and getting graphic details of what he wants to do with her. kind of prone to graphic? pornographic even to the point they were sending pornographic photos. with each other? from the church. some things are hard to see. oh, and, most important everything stopped the day she disappeared. no credit cards, no phones. i thought that was strong evidence that she was infected and not in fact missing. and her last conversation with a family member was she went out of the circumstances she was in. but she wasn t really behind it.