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
few lines that suggest polygamy? that s correct. we if it was one and the very practical polygamy in the home of th pastor was carefully under wraps. so did tanya worry about wha might happen that s what she was coverin up she had to protect james and protect their world. did she do something to marie to protect james two months after marie she disappeared, the detectives go permission to look at the cell phone records of all three o them would they prove tanya was wit marie when she vanished and, thus, did something to her cell phone tower informatio from the area no. nowhere near marie so, they check the cell towers for james s phone, and what do you know when marie sent that last text message saying she was leaving town both her phone and the pasture