marie singleton was missing no longer. she had been beaten and strangled to death. years old knew something was wrong when he came home from school and saw that all over the neighborhood his mom's missing flyers had been taken down. >> i walk in the room and everybody's in there crying. >> everyone in tears. >> everyone in tears. finally i say what the -- what's going on? what's going on? and my grand mom is just -- she's crying. and my stepfather's crying, too, but, you know, he grabs me and he pulls me and he hugs me. and, you know, he tells me straight up. he said they found your mom's body in the trunk of her car. you know, she's dead. >> marie's sister, elaine roundtree, had just arrived from philadelphia. like the rest of the family, she was devastated. elaine was one of the few people who knew marie worked for the cia. but even she didn't know exactly what marie did. >> we loved her as a sister. we respected her as a sister. and with her job she traveled a lot. we knew she worked for the government, for the cia and that was it. >> and you never asked what she