with baby grace. it was a few days after they left when jason went to the police to tell his disturbing story. that they had a physical run-in the day that she went missing. then a piece of luck. before they left, marie s friend kay had asked the pastor and his wife for marie s belongings. they gave her marie s computer. the bad news was it had been erased but i brought it into the sheriff s department for them to take a look. we had our forensic tech reanalyze the computer and it gave us a beautiful copy of her phone download that she had done when she backed her phone up. wow. but maybe it wasn t so lucky. there were thousands of text messages, but they were an unreadable jumble of symbols and words. this particular coin though look at this, marie shot this video that did survive. showing the pastor hawking gold and silver online, apparently while running the church.
you know the machine that spits out tickets when you enter an airport parking lot? that very ticket goes back to the at toll both when you leave. keith and i went to the little toll booth where you give the maybe, thought the detectives, the parking ticket for marie s mazda would tell them not just when it was dropped off but, a more important question, by whom? we were thinking let s get a at thumbprint, or a fingerprint on one and went through every single one of them until we found the one at that marie s car had received. and yes, they got a print. but no, it wasn t clear enough to tell whose it was. then another thought hey, let s go pull surveillance video. and of course you looked at all of it. well, no. the video didn t wor
actually told the truth to, that it s james baby. but no room for secrets in an official investigation. the detectives invited james and tanya to voluntarily come in for a chat. but only tanya showed up. and here in this little room at the sheriff s office, she let it all come out. about that night of sake and sex, when grace was conceived. yeah. yeah. he had a little bit too. you were the only one that was sober? 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, would surely ruin them. marie was gonna move in and she was gonna be number two. a plural wife. yes. or whatever you call them. a sister wife, i think. it was, in short, polygamy. or their home-grown version of it. tanya told detectives she
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jeff carlson had to tell his daughter, paris, her mom was not coming back. wasn t easy. what do you say? you don t know how to prepare them for the future of living with this, he deprived her of her mother. he deserves to rot in prison for the rest of his life. he doesn t deserve to walk and society. later, marie s family and many others gathered for a celebration of marie s life. they did her favorite thing. they sang karaoke. and they told us that when her daughter comes to visit her cousin, esta s daughter, the two sit down at the piano and play. make music, just like their mothers, years ago. and grace? i wanna tell her all about her mom. it s one of those where i just i wanna show her, you know,