What happened to Marie Carlson? NBC Dateline to revisit Fort Walton Beach womans murder

October 2024 · 4 minute read

Keith Morrison will examine the mystifying 2011 vanishing of a mother of two in this Friday’s NBC Dateline program. She is said to have deserted her three-month-old little girl under the watchful eye of a minister and his significant other prior to vanishing.

Marie Carlson evaporated from her Fort Walton Beach, Florida, home in October 2011, when she was most recently seen. Her family had serious worries about the conditions encompassing her vanishing.

On July 22, 2022, NBC Dateline will air an episode named Secrets on the Emerald Coast that will go further into the strange 2011 case. It will portray how a TV program called Cold Justice, made by Law and Order organizer Dick Wolf, aided the case’s goal.

NBC Dateline: Who was Marie Carlson? Marie Jane Carlson, who was born in 1974 and was initially from the Philippines, was recalled by her friends and family as having a feeling of experience. She revered to cook and chime in at karaoke evenings. She additionally appreciated her work in the law enforcement framework. Sadly, it took very lengthy for a fair consequence to be given in her own occurrence.

Marie, a mother of two, was 37 years of age when she evaporated. Her most memorable youngster was born when she was as yet hitched to Jeff Carlson. She likewise imparted a newborn girl to James Flanders, an evangelist with whom she had a polygamous relationship that additionally elaborate Tanya, Tanya’s better half.

Flanders keep going saw Marie on October 17, 2011. Her family received a secretive message two days after the fact about her going to seek after her deep rooted dream.

Marie’s family was pained and dubious, and Jeff ultimately revealed her missing on October 24, 2011.

NBC Dateline: What happened to Marie Carlson? Marie’s car was found at the close by air terminal after she disappeared, yet examiners said she never left the region.

James Flanders was at first ensnared for the situation, however no strong proof was found to propel the request.

Flanders professed to have gone out upon the arrival of the vanishing somewhere in the range of 6 and 7 PM while his significant other Tanya was out with the child, yet there was not a single dead body in sight. He affirmed that when the pair returned, Marie had left with her vehicle.

Nonetheless, something was off-base since Marie couldn’t have ever deserted her baby girl behind. She had not removed any cash from her financial balance, and her assets were currently at home.

The objective of the TV program Cold Justice in 2015 was to team up with policing rethink cold cases. At the point when the makers discovered that there had been no affirmed sightings of Marie Carlson after October 17, 2011, yet additionally no substantial proof that she had died, they became inquisitive about her nonattendance. Furthermore, a $10,000 prize as well as a FBI missing people alert had been inadequate.

Hesitant parishioners were cajoled out of their homes by the appearance of the film group. They unveiled that Marie and Flanders’ relationship had been tense and that they had contended the day she evaporated.

Specialists at last found Flanders subsequent to following his exercises upon the arrival of Marie’s vanishing and glancing through his old cell phone records.

Flanders was caught at his home in Arizona, where he had moved three months after Marie evaporated. At the point when he showed up in Florida subsequent to being removed, he alluded to Marie as his “sister spouse.”

NBC Dateline: Did James Flanders kill Marie Carlson and where is he now? https://t.co/PcDDdPAWgP

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In return for a lighter sentence, Flanders conceded that he put Marie “in a strangle hold” prior to killing her in April 2016. Furthermore, he uncovered to the specialists the area of her grave.

The most extreme sentence for deliberate murder was 15 years in jail, which was what Okaloosa County Circuit Judge William Stone gave him.

On July 22, 2022, Secrets on the Emerald Coast will air on NBC at 10/9c.

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