messages between marie and james. i love you. i love you so much. and getting in graphic detail of what he wants to do with her. pornographic to the point they were sending pornographic photos. to each other? from the church. some things are hard to unsee. we ll spare you. and most important, everything stopped the day she disappeared. no credit cards, no phones. i thought that was strong evidence that she was, in fact, dead, and not, in fact, missing. i think the evidence that this defendant kept her such a secret, kept that relationship such a secret from so many, because it could have cost him everything. i thought that was strong evidence. and her last conversation with a family member was she wanted out of the circumstances she was in. but she wasn t willing to leave her bibby behind. and then there was. this one of those sermons posted
thrupple. then the pastor offered his version of that last awful night. he claimed that marie was in a downward spiral mentally and erupted after he told her she should be hospitalized for depression. n a fatal bear hug? not possible, the detective thought. then she braced for the answer she waited five years to hear. r. at that point, the detective got up and left the room. she passed me a note that
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said, i missed her. i was pretty devastated. i was in that backyard in 2012. not like you didn t look. yeah, but human nature, you still have a 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 and knew nothing. do you wonder whether tonya had more to do this? i think that will always be in the back of our minds? but 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 from what happened, she did not know. later that afternoon, james
and low and behold, they fled to arizona. they fled. 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 that they had a physical 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 reporter: though look at this. marie shot this video that did survive.