singleton, rock solid, wife, mother, businesswoman vanished. the local police investigated, of course, but so did an fbi agent named rick hadel. we had concerns that there may be missing classified information, u. s. government information. classified information? yes. as we said before, everyone has secrets. and marie had a big one. one she had told very few people. officially marie singleton worked for the department of defense. that s what was publicly disseminated, yes. but she was really working for the cia. that s my understanding, yes. coming up it could turn into an espionage investigation, somebody s going over helping the russians, chinese, it could turn into that kind of a case. the mystery was just beginning. when dateline continues.
actually starting to become a family. and there were two other stepsiblings in the mix, andre jr. and andrea. and you get along with them? yeah. it was pretty great. i had a brother and a sister at home, and it was a pretty cool experience. another cool experience, for the first time having a dad. he taught me how to swim. he taught me how to throw a football. he even rode me on the back of his motorcycle a few times. it was good to actually have a male figure in the house that i could, you know, do stuff with. so andre was living up to his job as your father? yeah. yeah, he was. for marcus and his mom, everything seemed just perfect. honestly, it was like a complete family. it felt like i finally had a complete family. it was the best feeling in the world. like the ultimate high. and then suddenly, the ultimate low. the ultimate low because on november 11th, 1994, marie
that this was actually a reality. we had concerns that there may be missing classified information. it could turn into an espionage investigation. espionage? was this some kind of international spy caper or maybe it was something closer to home? what we got was the information that would break this case wide open. the case of a cia mom. could a clue from her son help solve this mystery? never going to give up. never going to give up on anything. hello, and welcome to dateline. for marie singleton, the sun rose and set on her boy marcus when the single mother met andre jackson, a solo dad with two kids of his own, marie thought she had
it s unusual for the bureau to get involved in a missing persons case, but it turned out that marie singleton was no ordinary missing person. not with her job. they called the department of defense. they didn t call it cia. but she s working for the u. s. government for the agency working on communications for them. unbeknownst to just about everyone in her life, marie singleton was a code clerk for the central intelligence agency. she wasn t a spy, but she did handle classified communications from agents overseas. information that might be very interesting to enemies of the united states. part of what the fbi does is investigate things like this, if a cia employee goes missing. right, exactly. it could turn into an espionage case if you have classified information
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