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 lost her job, and how the pastor and his wife offered her a place to stay. but the questions about baby grace? esta said her relationship with marie was always supportive, and not judgmental. and when marie didn t tell her who the father was, she didn t push the subject. i ve never questioned her because marie will 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 and hopefully, find marie.
that s what this member of the inner circle believed. but i did i hear that from marie, that marie wanted james? did tanya strike back somehow? fight for her marriage by getting rid of marie? listen to how church members quoted tanya s words.e to do that, but i could. shockers? yeah. i told him, you re not capable of killing her. but tanya leans over and goes, well he couldn t, but i could. so wouldn t that lead you to, like a bloodhound, direct to tanya? she certainly would have a motive. she would. tanya, now the only mother figure in grace s life. did she know more than she was saying? did she do something? did someone in the church have a confession to make? coming up, a confrontation in
he claimed that marie was in a downward spiral mentally and erupted after he told her she should be hospitalized for depression. she hit me in the chest and i grabbed ahold of her and just hugged as tight as i could, and in the scuffle, we fell down on the floor. and when we hit the floor, we hit it hard. when i was realized somethin wasn t right, i rolled her over and she wasn t breathin . a fatal bear hug? not possible, thought nesli. and then she braced for the answer she d waited five years to hear. did you bury marie in the backyard? i ll tell you exactly where it s at. is that where you buried her? yes. at that point, the detective got up and left the room. nesli passed me a note that said, i missed her. i was pretty devastated. i was in that backyard in 2012. not like you didn t look.
free to join tanya in arizona. and grace, whose mother he killed. he s gonna get to have a life after he s done. marie s gone forever. she doesn t get a life, especially with her kids, which is, for most mothers, the world. i m sure you must formed a complex opinion of his personality is. how would you describe him? i think james loves himself more than he loves anybody else. i think he i would argue he s narcissistic. this case to make the angry? it does. getting riled up. yeah, because for almost five years, she was painted as an individual that left her children, abandon her infant child to live her own life and that wasn t the truth at all.
yeah. but, you know, human nature. you still have the guilt. the feeling of i could have found her six months after she was reported missing. the pastor insisted that tanya wasn t around, was shopping, knew nothing. did you get her buried before uh, tanya came back? oh yeah. yeah. do you wonder whether tanya had more to do with this? i think that ll always be in the back of our minds. but you know, i think she may have known more than she wants to say. but tanya was never charged. and her defense attorney said she was truly shocked by james confession. i could tell you, as a matter of fact, from having to tell her what happened she did not know. later that afternoon, nesli escorted james flanders into his former backyard, where he marked with little flags the spot where he buried marie