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 for years. the mom with a tender heart and tough as nails career. she was part of the sheriff s department. her ultimate goal was to try to get into the fbi. she found a new sense of purpose in the church. her pastor and his wife, like 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 probably 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 of a mystery. could one get justice for the other? this case for sure was an investigator s worst nightmare. soon, clues to a hidden life. a very amorous, romantic, wild relationship. it was lustful. oh, my g
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, jeff carlson, got the text, too. didn t make sense to him that she would leave without calling her seven-year-old daughter, paris. kay called jeff and said she he should file a report. she said, i don t know what s going on but i think something happen. and i said, yeah i agree with you. and then just called the okaloosa county sheriff s office to report marie missing. the investigator said, we re going to open a case and investigation on this, which surprised me because she s an adult. she could ve just left. because marie was very adventurous, she liked to travel. and when the mood struck her, sometimes she just took off for a few days on some women. but some things seem to different this time. she would ve never have left
was behind me karaoke club. so that we could just go there all the time. we were stars. and she wore pink. always pink. it was her personality. it s full of life. and always trying to perk up everyone else with her favorite word, beautiful. my gosh, she so beautiful. you know, i want to be like her. but she always used to tell me no, you are beautiful. she loved that word. kay barber was like a mother to marie. her s the second family to take marie in when she was 18. marie s nickname that i gave her was rosy. because she was always just peachy and rosy and happy. but she was when she met jeff carlson. and he fell hard. and it was like, instant. so, they married. and then they had a daughter named paris. and they thought their life together would be grand. marie got a college degree in
carlson, got the text, too. didn t make sense to him that she would leave without calling her seven-year-old daughter, paris. kay called jeff and said he should file a report. she said, i don t know what s going on but i think something happen. and i said, yeah i agree with you. and then just called the okaloosa county sheriff s office to report marie missing. the investigator said, we re going to open a case and investigation on this, which surprised me because she s an adult. she could ve just left. because marie was very adventurous, she liked to travel. and when the mood struck her, sometimes she just took off for a few days on some women. but some things seem to different this time. she would ve never have left without talking to me about it and talking to paris. i think i didn t want to believe it like no, she s gonna
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