and i m natalie morales and this is dateline . marie was a very loving person she had a heart of gold. what happened to this woman? my job is to be a truth teller and seek out the truth i wanted to solve it her case was a mystery fo years. the mom with a tender heart an tough as nails career. she was part of the sheriff s department. her ultimate goal was to try t get into the fbi she found a new sense o purpose in the church. her pastor and his wife, lik family they had taken her in they were helping her out. it s like, i m proud of you you re finding god then, one baffling text and she was gone i go, i know, i probabl watch a lot of law & order but i have this really gut feeling. because i was a mom, i just knew she didn t leave on her own. there was no way she left that baby two moms at opposite ends o a mystery. could one get justice for th other? this case for sure was an investigator s worst nightmare soon, clues to a hidden life a very
heated to agree to it, i knew was that was probably the only way. first, was as part of the deal, the pastor told the stor of marie of the polygamy arrangement. it was as if she was anothe wife okay although we never had ceremony, or anything like that he said marie even had name for their relationship. marie called it a throuple. throuple. then the pastor offered hi version of that last awful night. he claimed that marie was in a downward spiral, mentally, and erupted after he told her sh should be hospitalized for depression she hit me in the chest and i grabbed ahold of her and just hugged as tight as could. in the scuffle, we filled down on the floor when we hit the floor, we hi it hard.