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Chapter 1: Who is Lintel Washington and what happened to her?
Everyone wants to be lucky in love, and Lintel Washington finally is. When she goes missing, the only person who may know what really happened is her tiny daughter, a barefoot witness.
A beloved teacher, dedicated. No matter what those children did, she gave them everything she had. Full of promise.
She was named Teacher of the Year. Lintel Washington seems to have a bright road ahead, but it's about to meet an unexpected end in a very dark place.
We had just the makings of a real horror story.
One Thursday morning, a parking lot security camera captures something pretty disturbing. A toddler running around by herself clutching a pillow.
I mean, this is a little child.
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Chapter 2: How was Lintel Washington's daughter found and what did she reveal?
My name is Leslie Parms. In 2016, I was driving for a company. I noticed a young lady, about three years old. She was standing in the parking lot about right here. She was kind of teary-eyed and distraught, and I asked her, I said, where's your mom? And she just kind of looked around, and I didn't see any adults out here with her, so I immediately called 911.
I have a child. How old are you, sweetheart? Three. She's three years old. She's in the parking lot standing here by herself with a pillow. No one's around. Can't find anyone. I need an officer.
It's then that Parms notices something alarming. The little girl isn't wearing shoes and there's blood on her feet.
You hurt your foot? That's why you're bleeding? Do I need to send medical attention that way? An ambulance? I don't think so.
And I started asking her where's mommy's car. And she pointed to her mom's car, which her mom's car was on the other end of the parking lot, closer to the fire hydrant. It was a blue four-door sedan. And I approached the car, and I peeked through the window. Oh, my gosh. There's blood on the front seat of the car. OK.
Stay on the phone with me, OK? It's a sizable amount of blood.
Something was really, really, really wrong.
The woman's keys and her purse are in the car. OK. It looks like one of the other pillows are in the car.
When police arrive, the little girl begins revealing more of her story.
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Chapter 3: What do we know about Lintel Washington's personal and love life?
Lantell Washington's nickname is Puffy. That was a name she had since her childhood.
She was loyal, dedicated, and hardworking.
Very funny, very passionate, very kind person. We didn't call ourselves friends, we called ourselves sisters.
She was a great mother, very caring, very loving, and that was her whole entire world.
I called her Ms. Washington. She was my eighth grade social studies teacher. She always had a bright smile every time we walked into the classroom.
What made her a good teacher? Her heart. You know, Lintel had a loving, caring heart. And no matter what those children did, no matter where they came from, she gave them everything she had.
But according to Lintel's closest friends, she felt something was missing from her life.
She wanted love. She wanted a relationship. She wanted family. Lentel did not have any luck with men. I mean, probably none of us, but hers was just jaw-dropping, like crazy stuff.
When she was younger, there was a short-lived marriage. Then a promising relationship with her daughter's father, Darren Glasper, also crumbled. Was there talk of marriage and really making this permanent?
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Chapter 4: Who is Robert Marks and what was his relationship with Lintel?
Every time I see him in the hallway, he will always be like smiling and waving and saying hi.
He was a very nice, kind man.
This is a guy from the north side of Baton Rouge who was successful. He had a PhD in education.
Lintel and Robert Marks began working at the middle school at about the same time. At what point did you know that she was interested in Robert Marks?
She shows me a picture of him. And so I say, OK, he's nice looking. And she just started beaming like she started smiling.
But it seems that nobody at the school knows about the affair between the teacher and the assistant principal. Did you have any inkling that they had a relationship?
Not at all. Now, she did kind of say, I think he's so cute.
Turns out Dr. Marks is hiding more than an office romance. The thing is, Robert Marks is married.
Had a wife, beautiful wife, beautiful kids.
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Chapter 5: What clues and evidence surfaced after Lintel went missing?
Lintel Washington is still considered missing tonight.
The investigation started Thursday when Washington's three-year-old daughter was found wandering around a parking lot.
With her mother missing, that little girl, as you can hear on this police dash cam video, soon begins innocently revealing family secrets. Who learns that she's pregnant first? Does she reveal it to you? Oh yes, she did.
I'm two months pregnant. My baby looks so beautiful in my womb. She said, this baby is for Robert Marks.
She's pregnant with Robert Marks' baby. Right. And I'm like, oh my goodness, what is he saying? And she tells me he's happy.
In Lintel's apartment, detectives will later find sonograms tracking her pregnancy, including one announcing, I'm a girl.
She says, Dallin, that's the name. She said, oh, I love it. Then she tells it to Robert Marks. She texts me back and she says, girl, he loves the name. So he was excited about the name and he was excited about the pregnancy. So she was getting her family.
But then everything comes crashing down with one click of a mouse.
Robert tells Lintel that he's going on a trip for a few days. He's going to Panama City to go to a family reunion.
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Chapter 6: How did the police conduct the search for Lintel Washington?
Just keep it 100 with me. Do you really want me, or are you quitting to run away from your responsibilities with me and our unborn daughter?
At some point, he suggests that they get together. She says, do you think I should meet him face to face? And I said, yes. Say, this way you'll know if he's lying. I said, look him in his face and see if he's lying.
Just days later, Lintel is missing. Lintel Washington and her daughter lived in a one bedroom apartment very close to where Lintel's car was found.
So police want to know why Lintel would have parked there and why her daughter would have been left behind. It's that scared little girl who offers a crucial clue.
Mrs. Roddy did that blood? Mrs. Roddy did that blood?
The police have no idea at that point who that person is until the friend and co-worker, Jamisha, shows up at the scene.
I said, Mr. Robbie from the school, Mr. Robbie? And she was shaking her head. Mr. Robbie is the name Lintel's daughter calls Robert Marks. I said to the police officer, they were in a relationship. I said, but he would be the first place that I would start.
Investigators know that the clock is ticking, so they waste no time in talking to Robert Marks.
This is an urgent situation. They need to find Lintel Washington because she's clearly injured.
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Chapter 7: What was discovered about Lintel Washington's death?
Does she ever threaten to talk to your wife?
He says, yes, I was with Lentel. And then afterwards, she went her separate ways and I went, hung out at a restaurant.
Where'd you go after you missed the bar?
He tells police that the night before, he was watching the basketball game.
At a local bar called Twin Peaks. She's not just missing.
It seems that Robert Marks was the last adult to see Lintel. But to know for sure, police need to find her.
An active scene is unfolding as detectives search for Lintel Washington.
Using cell phone records, police determined that on the night she went missing, Lentell may have been across the Mississippi River in neighboring Iberville Parish.
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Chapter 8: How is Lintel's family coping with the tragedy?
It's remote, it's rural, it's farmland, it's sugarcane fields. It was a massive search effort. In the air, on ATVs, and on foot.
Chief Criminal Deputy Ronnie Hebert takes me to that rural area where his investigators were searching for the missing mom. You had heard there was a woman missing and a little child that was found. Right. Did your gut instinct tell you anything?
I was hoping and praying that they would find her alive, but my gut instinct told me that she would probably be deceased.
How big is the search?
This is a massive area. Cane fields, a lot of water.
Sheriff Brett Stacey launched a couple of boats to show us one of the first places he and his deputies thought to look. It's a place called Whiskey Bay.
We were drawn here because of this place's history. You want to get rid of a body, this is a good place to go. In South Louisiana, with this heat and this humidity, a body will decompose very rapidly. That makes timing of finding the body, get it to the autopsy quick, and determine cause of death. Especially in a homicide case, time is important.
Authorities search and search and search. Finally, on the sixth day, they catch a break. Well, this is certainly off the beaten path.
It is, really. As you see, all the cane they got, right?
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