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,
led by this place was a beacon of charity to. the pastor and his church sacrifice their own needs to send money to the victims of katrina. and when marie carlson needed help, they took her into. that s what pastors do for the congregation. but now? i m left with a missing person who s vanished off the surf. a week and a half after murray vanished, or drove away, or whatever she did. the detectives went calling on the flanders, who said that they fully expected that marie would return soon. at this was not the first time that she took spur of the moment trips. not to the point where she would be reported to law enforcement as missing though. she would come. back although they told detectives they were quite worried about marie s state of mind. they said that it was a down ward that spiral. they said that she was depressed? yes. what marie could have wild
right. imagine the secrecy that the inner circle, that tanya told the truth, to that it s james s baby. but not a lot of secrets the detectives invited james and tanya to voluntarily come in for a chat. but only tanya showed up. and here in this little room in the sheriff s office, she let it all come out. about that night of sake and sex, when grace was conceived. yeah he had a little bit too. i was the only one that was. but yes, i was there. yes, in the room. but of course she was, said tanya. and almost casually. she revealed the heresy that, should it ever become public it should ruin. was marie going to move in and she would be number two. for a? wife or whatever you call them. sister wife. it was, in short, polygamy,
she didn t fly out. so, why would marie one s car be at the airport if she didn t fly out of there? of course, she could be trying to hide her tracks from snooty friends and family. or, what if someone else took the car to the airport. someone who wanted to make it look like she d left town. rather fishy. then the detectives had an idea. you know the machine that spits out tickets when you enter an airport parking lot? that very take it was goes back to the toll booth when you leave. keith and i went to the little toll booth where you give them your take it. maybe, thought the detectives, the parking ticket for must us marries mazda s would be there. but a more important question would be by whom. we were thinking it we would get a thumbprint, or a fingerprint, and we went through every single one of them until we found the one marie that s car had received.
the veteran who had seen just about everything. and who soon learned from friends and family that marie was deeply attached to both her daughters. she had a heart of gold and loved her paris more than anything in the world. but what happened in her life? and how did she end up with another baby? from esta, the detectives learned about the divorce and how marie had loved her lost her job. and how the pastor and his wife offered her a place to stay. but the questions about baby grace? said esta her relationship with marie was always supportive but not judgmental and when marie didn t tell her who the father was, she didn t push the subject. i never questioned her because will marie tell me in her own time. if she wants to tell me. i ve learned with my sister, i never pry. but that was the job of the detectives, nesli and keith to pry. hopefully to find marie. one of their first calls was on her church pastor, james flanders and his wife.