left for long beach to do something that she always wanted to do. she didn t want us to try to stop her. her last words were i love and appreciate you all. but the biggest surprise? marie 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 faith intended to tie these two together. in the mystery of love and lies and loss.
testament and pulled up those few lines that suggested polygamy? that s correct. we if it was one and the very practical polygamy and the home of the pastor was carefully under wraps. so did tanya worry about what might happen? there that s what she was covering 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 got permission to look at the cell phone records of all three of them. would they prove tanya was with marie when she vanished and, 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
me. now she s got a secret. yeah at that point. at that point? the, yes that because tanya could not just leave it there. the next time, she admitted something very, very shocking. and tanya said, well we did it the old-fashioned way. james and marie had sex which, told tanya told the ladies, was okay with her. and as months passed and marie started showing, there was a baby shower. but not for marie, this baby shower it was for tanya. she put a balloon under her shirt as a funny photo with marie. but if the story came out, it could threaten everything that she had built in the past. and as i got more, and more, and more into weird stuff. it was just that the stakes got higher? right. imagine the secrecy that the inner circle, that tanya told
which is when jason, the youth pastor, remember him? out of the blue, jason came to call. he had something the detectives needed to hear, he said. it takes a certain amount of courage. absolutely. we would have never known had jason never come forward. known what? the secret incident that got junior pastor jason involved. it happens shortly after marie disappeared. will it happen after james activist church elder for help. i said what s going on? does this have to do with marie what? he said i can t tell. you he never once had anything
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 braced 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