are ever going to know who killed bryan rein. . i m craig melvin. i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. i now she would never leave her kid in the middle of a hurricane. brian always knew it wasn t going to be good. . you have the brother and the husband. all the same day. i m like what is going on? the answer would have to wait. hurricane harvey is moving in this direction. i knew she would never leave her kids just in the middle of a hurricane. so i always knew it wasn t gonna be good. we re stuck in the house. immediately we went to social media. what kinds of things did you
you talk a lot about him in the lessons he taught you but, he was unsure you were doing the right thing here. in fact, he was a trump supporter. he was. he left at 47 from a very comfortable position, but they were bed in that there were possibilities from his for his children were not there and my mother was dying of cancer she wasn t gonna survive in the soviet union. he was a trump supporter. that is a common vein vein among next immigrants especially in the area where they have anything left, to, liberal and overcorrect and hue to the right. he certainly knows that was his mindset. he counseled me to try to figure out a way to reconcile with the president. he had a deep fear of what might happen to me. the consequence of my actions from my career, and maybe even channeling some of his views of what happened. i would ve not survive. that when you told him what
actually told the truth to, that it s james baby. but no room for secrets in an official investigation. the detectives invited james and tanya to voluntarily come in for a chat. but only tanya showed up. and here in this little room at the sheriff s office, she let it all come out. about that night of sake and sex, when grace was conceived. yeah. yeah. he had a little bit too. you were the only one that was sober? but, yes, i was there. yes. in the room. but of course she was, said tanya. and almost casually, she revealed the heresy that, should it ever become public, would surely ruin them. marie was gonna move in and she was gonna be number two. a plural wife. yes. or whatever you call them. a sister wife, i think. it was, in short, polygamy. or their home-grown version of it. tanya told detectives she
they were gonna adopt the baby. the flanders had an older daughter, always wanted another child. but one miscarriage after another and so, as this church elder told the detectives, the pastor and his wife came to an arrangement with marie. she would stay three months to nurse the baby and at the end of three months, the plan all along was that she would leave. that was my understanding from before the baby was born. with the baby? no, the baby was a gift for the flanders. a gift? maybe. it was just like marie to be generous toward the couple who d been so good to her. but to skeptical detectives, especially this brand new mother, something about the story didn t sound quite right. the father, for example. in fact, the alleged abusive guy didn t seem to exist. but then they talked to ex-husband jeff. and the story he heard? completely different. and it came directly from marie
i love you so much, and getting graphic details of what he wants to do with her. kinda pornographic. pornographic. even to the point that they were sending pornographic photos with each other from the church. some things are hard to un-see. we ll spare you. oh, 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. and her last conversation with a family member was she wanted out of the circumstances she was in. but she wasn t gonna leave her baby behind. and then there was this one of those sermons posted on youtube just a month before marie vanished and now in the evidence file. now whenever someone is