her last words was, i love and appreciate you all. reporter: the biggest surprise, marie did not take her 3-month-old baby. she left grace behind with the pastor and his wife. and right away, her sister sensed that something wasn t right. she called her family. i know i probably watch a lot of law & order, but can you find out what s going on? i have this really gut feeling. she says, oh, you watch too many of those shows. i m like, no, this is different. reporter: it was the fall of 2011, the very same time that a detective named nestle sooey moore became a mother. a fact that may have made all the difference. you get a better understanding of what it is like to love somebody, to the end of the world and back. reporter: it was almost like fate, intended to tie these two together. in a mystery of love and lies and loss.
wife had strong views about abortion. hen they discovered her situation, they offered her a solution. they would help her with the baby. reporter: they wanted another child. but one miscarriage after another. so, the pastor and his wife came to an arrangement with marie. she would stay three months to nurse the baby. and the plan, she would leave. that was my understanding from before the baby was born. with the bbaby? no. the baby was a gift for the land in flanders. reporter: a gift? it was for her to be good to her. but something about the story didn t sound quite right. the father, for example. in fact, the alleged abusive guy didn t seem to exist.
reporter: but a whole year went by. and then, what was coming couldn t be hidden. the story floating around, there had been an abusive boyfriend that abandoned her and left her pregnant. and in july 2011, marie gave birth to a baby girl and named her grace. the pastor and his wife took care of both of them. it was explained to me, they were helping her out. she was down on her luck. reporter: she was, by all appearances, saved. spiritually by faith and practically by the paster and his wife. imagine his surprise when a group text message popped up on the phones of her family and friends. do you remember the words of that mass text? she said that, yesterday, she left ft. walton beach to do something she had always wanted to do. she didn t want us to try to stop her.
isis k-leadership will pay. bill: let s hope. listen, the military did amazing work. no one will debate that. they did it because they had to. you know that. they were put in a position where they there was no way out, sir. now back on july 8th commander-in-chief talked about all the promises. no saigon choppers, i trust the afghan military, that wasn t right. interpreters will be safe. we still know that s not right and then in august on the abc interview he promised that all americans would get out. right now 90% of those who wanted to leave are out today. in addition i think we can argue that there is more al qaeda in afghanistan today than there was 20 years ago. so what are we left with here now? we are left with a counter terrorism mission that persists and the united states has conducted successfully counter terrorism missions across dozens of countries without boots on the ground.
arrived home on u.s. soil with the caption gone but never forgotten. harris, such a tragic image, starting with you, talking about rylee mccollum and his service. he used to walk around in his diaper carrying his toy rifle and play marines. that s what he wanted to be. on his 18th birthday, he signed up and said dad, you ve got to sign these papers. he said never mind, i am an adult. this was his calling. this was what he wanted to do. he got married in april. his sister and his dad felt something wasn t right and they got that harrowing visit that no one wants to get at 3:30 a.m. rylee mccollum. his baby, we don t know the gender but in three weeks that we will is going to grow up knowing their dad is a hero. harris: what i love about this story and that of the others, you get the background