showing the pastor hawking gold and silver online, apparently while running the church. valuing this coin at over $500. lemme tell you, that s exciting stuff. reporter: was james just a pastor? or part time flim-flam man? so this is where things stood when an anonymous tip came in. crimestoppers. reporter: startling. if true, it would solve the case. and in the tip, it says that james buried her in the backyard. reporter: that s some tip. yeah. i can remember getting that tip and thinking, no way. like, who would who would kill somebody and bury them in their own backyard? reporter: could be bogus, of course. just another false lead. but nesli was hopeful. we brought cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar and we didn t find anything. reporter: nothing? nothing.
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.
reporter: though look at this. marie shot this video that did survive. showing the pastor hawking gold and silver online, apparently while running the church. valuing this coin at over $500. lemme tell you, that s exciting stuff. reporter: was james just a pastor? or part time flim-flam man? so this is where things stood when an anonymous tip came in. crimestoppers. reporter: startling. if true, it would solve the case. and in the tip, it says that james buried her in the backyard. reporter: that s some tip. yeah. i can remember getting that tip and thinking, no way. like, who would who would kill somebody and bury them in their own backyard? reporter: could be bogus, of course. just another false lead. but nesli was hopeful. we brought cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar and we didn t find anything. reporter: nothing? nothing. reporter: no body. so what happened to marie? more months went by.
night 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. reporter: 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. reporter: 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.
reporter: like thieves in the night 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. reporter: 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. reporter: 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