without talking to me about it and talking to paris. she d been gone a week when the sheriff asked detectives keith matz to look into it. that takes a message, something off, said her family. this doesn t sound like marie. so when you got that one, the antenna must have gone up? the antennas did go up. detective nesli suhi-moore didn t hear about the case then. because on maternity leave. correct. and i came back two weeks after she was initially reported missing. and that s when nesli heard from other detectives about the case keith was working on. poor keith. had no idea that i was going to come bully my way into the investigation. and why did you want to bully your way into the investigation? i think the connection of just having a child. i just knew that she didn t leave on her own. so here they were, partners. the young detective who happen to be a brand-new mother, and
marie did not take her three month old baby. she left grace behind with the pastor and his wife. and right away, her sister esta sensed that something wasn t right. she called her family. i go, i know i probably watch a lot of law & order , but can you find out what is going on? because i have this really gut feeling she said oh, you watched too many of those kind of shows. i m like, no, this is different. it was the fall of 2011. the very same time that a detective named nesli suhi-moore became a mother. a fact, which as you will see, may have made all the difference. you get a better understanding of what it s like to love somebody to the end of the world and back. it was almost like fate intended to tie these two together. in the mystery of love and lies and loss. where had met marie carlson gone? the detective who had just become a new mom felt a special
thus, did something to? her cell phone tower information from the area no. nowhere near marie. so, they check the cell towers for james s phone, and where do you know? when marie sent that last text message saying she was leaving town. both her phone and the pastures pinging off at the same cell tower two blocks from his house. and when marie s was drop mazda was dropped at the airport we had james s phone touching near the airport. why would his phone be near the airport? well either james innocently drove marie to the airport, or he drove her car there to cover up a crime. no way to prove it either way, so they were stuck again. which is when jason, the youth pastor, remember him? out of the blue, jason came to call. he had something the detectives
she left her three month old baby in the care of her pastor, james flanders and his wife, tanya, and not her family. not the woman she looked to as a mother figure, kay barber. it was heartbreaking. it was heartbreaking. marie s ex-husband, jeff carlson, got the text, too. didn t make sense to him that she would leave without calling her seven-year-old daughter, paris. kay called jeff and said she he should file a report. she said, i don t know what s going on but i think something happen. and i said, yeah i agree with you. and then just called the okaloosa county sheriff s office to report marie missing. the investigator said, we re going to open a case and investigation on this, which surprised me because she s an adult. she could ve just left. because marie was very adventurous, she liked to travel. and when the mood struck her, sometimes she just took off for a few days on some women. but some things seem to different this time. she would ve never have left
throuple. 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. she hit me in the chest and i grabbed ahold of her. and just hugged as tight as i could. in the scuffle, we filled down on the floor. when we hit the floor, we hit it hard. when i realized something was a right, i rolled hero for end she wasn t breathing. a fatal bear hug? not possible. thought nesli. and then she breezed for the answer she d waited five years to hear. did you bury marie in the backyard? i ll tell you exactly where it s at. is that where you buried her? yes. and at that point, the detective got up and left the room. nesli past me a note that