a huge gathering for him. he was very loved. meanwhile the murder investigation continued. detective kaplan spoke to don s neighbor who said she found something on her home security video. i started looking at the clip she s talking about. and believe it or not, there is a figure. a figure. a figure. someone in a hoodie walking to don fluitt s trash can. they lay the trash can down on its side. the individual walks off camera toward where don fluitt s door would be. he returns. pulls into the garage. you see him walk out of garage. he walks to his trash can and picks it up. and then walks into his garage again. at this point, em, you could see the light from the garage diminishing as the garage door closed. and inexplicably, the garage shoots back up. you see a series of flashes. i m the hooded figure outside. we went to the season of the crime to understand how this could happen.
and the very practical polygamy in the home of the pastor stayed carefully under wraps. so if the news got out to the rest of the church did tanya worry at what might happen there? that s what she was covering up. she had to protect james and protect their that was their world. did she do something to marie, to protect james? two months after marie 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 maybe did something to her? the cell phone tower information put her away from the area. no. nowhere near marie. so then they checked the cell towers for james s phone, and what do you know. when marie sent that mass text message saying she was leaving town, both her phone and the pastor s were pinging off the same cell tower two blocks from his house. and when marie s mazda was dropped at the airport we ve got james
flanders cellphone touching towers near the airport. why would his phone be near the airport? well, either james innocently drove marie to the airport, and neglected to reveal that, 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 needed to hear, he said. i mean, that would take a certain amount of courage. absolutely. we would ve never known about that if jason wouldn t have come forward. known what? the secret incident that got junior pastor jason involved. it happened soon after marie disappeared. when a very distraught james asked this church elder for help. he said, he goes, i need you to get me out of the country. i said what s going on? i said, does this have to do with maria
came hey hey hey vanished off this earth. a week and a half after marie vanished, or drove hey away, or whatever she did, the detectives went calling on the flanders who said they fully expected marie would return -y soon. this was not the first time she took spur of the moments trips, they said. never to the point where she shade had to be reported to law enforcement missing, though. she came back. although the flanders told the detectives, they were quite worried about marie s state of mind. they noticed a downward spiral that she was going into a depression or something? -y depression state, yes. thing was, said the pastor and his wife, marie could have wild mood swings, and they knew she had a diagnosed mood disorder. did they tell you that she was bipolar? yes, told me she was bipolar. had been taking medication and was off of her medication, probably due because of her giving birth to the child. but there was another-y
that s one thing to talk somebody into murdering somebody for you. but then to talk that same person into killing themselves if they got caught, how do you do that? reporter: christine white did not attend the trial. she declined our request for an interview, but wrote us a letter saying she had don had no custody battle in december 2016, only different ideas in school choices, tuition. regarding don s murder, she wrote reporter: prosecutors natalie and david say the investigation into christine is still open. but they don t know when, or if she might be charged. we would have to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she intended all along for terry white to do this, and more than that, that she did something concrete to aid and