and, this was very strange, she left her three month old baby in the care of her pastor, james flanders his wife tayna and flanders and his wife tayna and not her family. not the woman she looked to as a mother figure, kay barber. >> it was heartbreaking. it was heartbreaking. >> reporter: marie's ex-husband jeff carlson got the text too. >> it didn't make sense to him that she left without calling her 7-year-old daughter paris. >> reporter: kay called jeff and said he should file a report. >> and she said, "i -- i don't know what's goin' on, but i -- i think somethin' happened." and i said, "yeah, i agree with you." >> reporter: and then jeff called the okaloosa county sheriff's office to report marie missing. >> the investigators said, "we're gonna open a case, an investigation on this." which surprised me because she's an adult. she could've just left. >> reporter: because marie was adventurous. she liked to travel. and when the mood struck her, sometimes she just took off for a few days on some whim. but -- something seemed different this time. >> reporter: she would've never have l