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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. Am I ever gonna love, gonna love, gonna love again? Am I ever gonna love, gonna love, gonna love again? 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 have 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. My name is Leslie Parms. In 2016, I was driving for a company. I noticed a young lady, approximately 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? She's three years old. She's in the parking lot finishing 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 or. 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. I approached the car and I peeped through the window. Oh, my gosh. There's blood on the front seat of the car. Okay, stay on the phone with me, okay? It's a sizable amount of blood. Something was really, really, really wrong. The woman's keys and her purse are in the car. Okay, it looks like one of the other pillows are in the car. She was sleeping in a fricking car. When police arrive, the little girl begins revealing more of her story. Mommy was bleeding. She is able to describe in detail what she's seen, even if it's only in little bits and pieces. Where was it coming from? Officers run the plates and discover the car belongs to a woman named Lintel Washington. She's the mom of the little girl they found. Until Washington teacher at a middle school and no one heard from her. She just didn't show up to teach her class. And I knew instantly something is wrong. She would never allow her daughter to be alone. Never. We're not using the name or showing the face of the child to protect her privacy. Yeah, you gotta take a bath. They're gonna get you cleaned up, okay? A blood soaked car, an abandoned child, her mother missing. The police need answers and they need them fast. You know where your mommy went? Can you point the direction? She's Lancell. 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 8th 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, Lyntel 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. Lintell 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? Yeah, it really was. But I also had some. Some issues and some demons I was dealing with. When you say demons. Yeah. I was still influenced by alcohol and drugs. It was wise that we decided to go separate ways until I got myself together. We actually broke up when she became eight months pregnant. And as she moved into motherhood, her love life didn't seem to be getting any better. Did you get the impression that she was looking for love? Jamisha? Sure. But she didn't really, you know, connect with anybody. Then Lintel meets somebody new, somebody at school. His name? Dr. Robert Marks. He was the assistant principal at Brookstown. I'm assistant principal. Robert Marks is the other assistant principal. Every time I see him in the hallway, he would 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, okay, 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 he wanted to take out. And she asked him, she said, aren't you married? He has told Lintell Washington that he's very unhappy, that he is divorcing his wife and that he's in love with her and wants to have a life with her. He assured her that it's a divorce. They're separated. He did say that there was this two story house and the wife was upstairs and he was downstairs. They do live together, but they live on separate floors. He would go to her house, they would cook. Her daughter was there, so she knew that it was one of these complicated situations. But she can only go by what he was showing her. She calls, he answers. He's available, so he's not moving like a married man. Was she in love? Yes, she was. I think she had her disappointments and so now finally she gets some. Who's Dr. Robert Marks? And he wants her. He's pursuing her. A new love, the promise of a new family. It's everything Lintell's been hoping for. But she has no idea what truly lies ahead. Something horrible has happened to Lintell Washington. And where is she? 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I mean, whatever your business needs, manufacturing, accounting, HR programs, you can build a custom software suite that's perfect for your company. So what is Odoo? Well, I guess Odoo is a bit of everything. Odoo is a fertilizer, magic beanstalk building blocks for business. Yeah, that's it. Which means that Odoo is exactly what every business needs. Learn more and sign up now@odoo.com that's o d o o.com Lindell Washington is still considered missing tonight. The investigation started Thursday when Washington's three year old daughter was found wandering around a parking lot. That little girl got blood on her feet. She thought somebody hurt her mama. With her mother missing that little girl, as you can hear on this police dash cam video, soon begins innocently revealing family secrets. My mommy. Your mommy got a baby in her tummy. Who learns that she's pregnant first. Did 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 and including one announcing, I'm a girl. She says, darling, 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. A family reunion, like his mama, his daddy, you know, his sister. She saw a picture of Robert and his wife on a cruise. She saw it on social media. She says, does this look like a couple that's going through a divorce? And I said, no. She spent the whole weekend trying to get in contact with him and he was away on his trip. And so she was getting more and more upset, angry, mad. She was saying, I'm going to his house. Lintel gets to Robert's house and there's a huge revelation. Remember how she believed that they lived on separate floors because they were getting a divorce. She said, girl, that boy told me he stayed in his two story house. He lives in a damn trailer, girl. And she says, he's gonna pay child support and I'm gonna tell his wife. She said, oh, I'm gonna tell a wife. She was upset. By the time Robert returns from his cruise on June 6, he has got one angry Lintell Washington waiting for him. And he knows he's got a problem. Lintell sends a blunt text message to Marks questioning whether he's truly committed to her and to their unborn baby girl. 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 suggested 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, Lintell is missing. Lintell Washington and her daughter lived in a one bedroom apartment very close to where Lintell's car was found. So police want to know why Lintell would have parked there and why her daughter would have been left behind. It's that scared little girl who offers a crucial clue. Ms. Robbie did that lunch. If Ms. Robbie did that blood, police have no idea at that, 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. Lintell's daughter calls Robert Marks. I said to the police officer, they were in a relationship. I said, but he would be the first, the first place that I would start. Investigators know that the clock is ticking, so they waste no time in talking to Robert Marks. Hi, Mr. Marks, I'm Detective Wooder and this is my sergeant. This is an urgent situation. They need to find Lintell Washington because she's clearly injured. Rob will be looking for Lintella, you know where she's. With precious time slipping away, what will Marks reveal? It's been less than 24 hours since Lintell Washington went missing. And police are talking with Robert Marks, the man with whom she was having an affair. When's the last time you saw her? I saw her yesterday. They met, he tells them, in a Walmart parking lot near his home. How long did you see her yesterday? 38. They were in her car? Yes. What car were you in? I was riding motorcycle. Marks admits to the affair. Does your wife know about Her? I think she does now. He also claims the parking lot rendezvous was completely innocent. We shall meet for it yesterday. Just to tell her, did she ever threaten to talk to your wife? Never. So that would be news to you, that she had planned on talking to your wife? That would be. He says, yes, I was with Lintel, and then afterwards she went her separate ways, and I went and hung out at a restaurant. Where'd you go after your star? Just rode around a little bit. There's about 20 peaks. He tells police that the night before he was watching the basketball game. With one minute left to go in the game, the score remains at a local bar called Twin Peaks. She's not just missing. What do you mean, she's not just missing? Just what I said, she's not just missing. We have evidence and that she's hurt bad, and we got enough blood in the car to assume that she's dead. 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, Lintell may have been across the Mississippi river in neighboring Iberville Parish. It's remote, it's rural, it's farmland, it's sugarcane filled. 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 surge? This is a massive area. Cane fields, a lot of water. Sheriff Brett Stacy lodged 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. Because of this place 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. You see all the cane they got? Right. So you got the call, and where had they found a body? Right up in this area right here. That time they had some water in this ditch because it was. To me, it was a watery grave. And there was no question in your mind she had been dumped there? Absolutely. She was a transferred dump. It's very humid. We have a lot of flies. Bring maggots. And a body can deteriorate in such a rapid pace. Using dental records, authorities are able to confirm it is indeed Lintell Washington. The coroner rules her death a homicide. The cause, A single gunshot wound to the head. I remember I just dropped to the floor, and then my husband caught me. I couldn't even stand up. My main concern at that point was her daughter and keeping her away from the television because they were constantly running the pictures and the slang 10 and, you know, all of these different things on the news that day, just that changed my life forever. In what ways that I knew I had to do better. Now this child's gonna need her father in her life. For Melissa Mason, old conversations still haunt and hurt. She asked, well, should I meet him face to face? And I told her, yes. I say, that way you'll know if he's telling the truth. And so that was hard for me because I said yes, and I should have said no. Lintel Washington's murder is horrible enough, but according to authorities, there's a second victim. Even after the trauma of Lintel Washington being shot in the head, the coroner believed that that child in there would have been able to be saved. Through DNA testing, police determined that Lintell Washington was indeed carrying Robert Marks baby. He was the father of the child, and that Lintell was threatening to tell his wife. So we figured we had a motive. Was there any doubt in your mind once they found her body? Now that I understood that it was murder, I knew that he had done it. But police need proof, and their key witness is only three years old. Who hurt Mommy? He'll put blood in the floor. What else does that little toddler? So when I ask, what is Odoo, what comes to mind? Well, Odoo is a bit of everything. Odoo is a suite of business management software that some people say is like fertilizer because of the way it promotes growth. But, you know, some people also say Odoo is like a magic beanstalk because it grows with your company and is also magically affordable. But then again, you could look at Odoo in terms of how its individual, individual software programs are a lot like building blocks. I mean, whatever your business needs, manufacturing, accounting, HR programs, you can build a custom software suite that's perfect for your company. So what is Odoo? Well, I guess Odoo is a bit of everything. Odoo is a fertilizer. Magic beanstalk building blocks for business. Yeah, that's it. Which means that Odoo is exactly, exactly what every business needs. Learn more and sign up now@odoo.com that's o d o o dot com. I can't tell you how often I hear, oh, I'm a little ocd. I like things neat. That's not ocd. I'm Howie Mandel and I know this because I have ocd. Actual OCD causes relentless unwanted thoughts. What if I did something terrible and forgot? What if I'm a bad person? Why am I thinking this terrible thing? It makes you question absolutely everything and you'll do anything to feel better. 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To interview a child without further traumatizing them, you have to protect her because you don't know what's down the line for her psychologically. But understand that she's vital to your case. What did you hear when mommy got hurt? What did you hear with your ears? My ears? Did you say, Mr. Robbie hurt Mommy? Yes, Cam. When we found the body, we did find that she was shot in the head. So that corroborated what the little girl said. You hear the little girl in her own voice saying, my mama's asleep by a lake. Is Mommy in the lake? Yeah. That means she must have been back. This ditch was full of water. Yeah, right. And she must have been here. She must have been here. But Marks insists that he has no idea what the three year old is talking about. You know, our daughter's pretty intelligent. Absolutely. Listen to Me. Okay. We've spoken with her daughter. Why would her daughter say, you heard her hurt, don't tell her feelings, none of physically harmed her. Why would she say that? Investigators are reluctant to build their entire case on statements from a three year old. But it turns out there's another witness, a silent witness, that was with Lintel and Marks the entire time. So Robert Marks. Originally, when he's questioned by detectives, he says, yes, I was with Lintel. When's the last time you saw her? I still could yesterday. Not at Walmart. He said afterwards she went her separate ways and I went and hung out with the guys at a restaurant. It's not what happened. According to his cell phone records. My name is Cy Ray. My role in investigations like this as a subject matter expert in geolocation is to analyze data that is captured by the cell phone carriers. Investigators pull those cell phone records for both Marks and Lintell from the hours before and after she went missing. We have a system that we can map those and visualize that that's what we're looking at here. And when we look at this data, we can actually see travel patterns, how people are driving around town. Red icons are Lintel's device. Blue icons are Robert's device. Where I'm starting here is we're looking at when both of them were at home before Lintell leaves her house that night. We know that Robert Marks texted Lintell, Washington, said he wanted to meet up. She drove from her house up to Baker. The data confirms at least part of Robert Marks statement to police. He and Lintel did meet up near the Baker Walmart at a little after 8:00, the night Lintell disappeared. She comes out there in her car with her baby in the backseat. She meets Robert Marks. He pulls up on a motorcycle. He gets into the car. If you remember, red icons are Lintell's device, blue icons are Robert's device. But you can see here that when red and blue are overlaid directly on top of, of each other, we're getting this purple color. This is just a really good indication that these two devices are traveling together. The phone ends up in the north end of the parish Veterans Police department and sheriff's office has a pistol range out in that area. And it's really kind of a secluded area. Not a lot of reason for the phone to go there. Our evidence shows that she was killed there. It would not have surprised the neighbors because it's a shooting range. Investigators believe Marks might have chosen a place where nobody would be suspicious of gunshots and after staying there for about 10 minutes, records show the phones were on the move again. He takes the Huey P. Long Old Mississippi River Bridge and He takes Highway 190 and ends up going to Rhema. Lintel's daughter is in the backseat of the car while all of this is going on. We're kind of out in the middle of nowhere now off of i10 and both devices are going to stop together for a period of about 30 minutes. And there's really nothing out there to stop at. Ultimately, Lintel will be found in this area. The records then show Marks and Lintel's phones Traveling east on i10 right back into Baton Rouge. Then her phone goes offline. The assumption then was that her phone was maybe tossed into the lake at that point. According to the police's theory, Marks has managed to hide Lintel's body and gotten rid of her phone. Now he's got to deal with her blood soaked car and her three year old daughter. So he heads back towards Lintel's home. That car was parked over off of Sherwood Forest and that morning this baby, this three year old child had gotten out of the car. It's important to remember that this is an ongoing affair. They are communicating constantly and what's interesting about this is she goes missing and guess who stops calling her phone. And that's because he knows Lintel Washington is in a sugar cane field. She's dead and she's not going to answer the phone. Marks isn't contacting Lintell, but it doesn't mean he's finished making calls for the night. He calls another lady friend. He's dating another woman. That's right. He's got girlfriend number two. Once police confirm that that is indeed Lintell Washington who they found dead in a ditch, police then charge Robert Marks with her murder. They charge him with feticide and several other charges. Does it upset you that she's dead? Anything you want to say to your family? Within a couple of days of Robert Marks being arrested, he had two lawyers. They of course have to go to work. Any DNA evidence I would challenge that has been contaminated. The body lay in the field for many, many days. But police say they've got another witness. Cell phone records show that Robert Marks returns to Baker to get his motorcycle around 11 o'clock on the night Lintel is murdered. But if he leaves the three year old and Lintel's Toyota in this parking lot, who gets him all the way back to his motorcycle? I was just watching the news and they were saying about they show him Arrested, and they show the lady and stuff like that. He said, this happened Wednesday night. And I'm like, oh, my God. Wednesday night. I was with him. So another woman emerges in this story. Trameka Jackson. Trameka is also having an affair with Robert Lintell doesn't know about her. Robert's wife doesn't know about her. He actually told her he was a medical doctor. What's going on in your mind that you're creating all of these false images of yourself? What are you doing? You know, you're lying to women. You're making them think it's just them. You're getting them to trust you. I try to cooperate as much I can. I don't have. I want to give you whatever information. She's scared. She doesn't want to be involved in this. She comes in voluntarily without an attorney. Police know that Trameka and Robert Marks are in close contact, texting and calling back and forth. The night Lintel is murdered. It was like, around 10, he called me, and then he was like, well, would you come get me? It's gonna be a little later, but I'm gonna call you. I just didn't. I mean, didn't put nothing together. Trameka is able to place Robert at the scene where the car was abandoned with Lintel's little girl. It had to be 11 o'clock. He said, you know what? Your car is it. She picked him up on that street that leads into the apartment complex to the parking lot where the little girl was left. So we go out to a local bank and pull video. Trameka has a Dodge with very specific light. Think of it as a bar of lights. And it's not the greatest of video, but you can clearly see in the background his second girlfriend comes to pick him up. Tramika says after she picked up Robert, she drove him back to Baker so he could get his motorcycle. Police are convinced that Trameka was simply doing what Robert asked her to do and that she. She was in the dark about both Lintel's murder and the abandonment of her daughter. She was very forthcoming as far as her peace and taking him away from the scene. No indication that she knew anything about what had gone on. I think it's safe to say that a lot of people in the community were pretty pleased that he was behind bars, considering what he was charged with. So it was really surprising when bail was set and he actually was able to leave jail. Bail was over $800,000. This man just murdered a pregnant woman with his child in her belly and kidnapped my child to go dump their body and y'all telling me he's not a danger of flight risk. I actually had the opportunity to interview Robert. He was leaving the East Baton Rouge parish courthouse and he came out and I said, robert, is there anything you'd like to say? First, I want to express sympathy to the family of the victim, reassure you that I had nothing to do with this. He looked me in the eye and said I had nothing to do with it. Marks lawyers also insist their client is not a murderer. The fact that crime is committed and all of a sudden this gentleman who has everything to lose is drug into this. It's about the sensationalism. As the state prepares to go to trial, the strongest piece of evidence they have against Robert Marks might be what the video doesn't show with T mobile. No. Trendspotter has to deal with trendspotty service because T mobile helps keep you connected from the heart of Portland to right where you are on America's largest 5G network. Switch now keep your phone and T mobile will pay it off at the $800 per line via prepaid card. Visit your local T mobile location or learn more@t mobile.com keepandswitch up to 4 lines via virtual prepaid card. Last 15 days qualifying unlock device credit service port in 90 plus days device knowledgeable carrier and timely redemption required. Card is no cash access and expires in six months. 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I'm gonna pull up his Google records, I'm gonna take his phone records, I'm gonna take his computer and I'm gonna Put all that in a pot and cook it up. Let's serve it to him cold, like that ice cold water that runs through his vein. The defense argues that there's no murder weapon, no DNA and no eyewitness tying Marks to the crime. They don't have a case. Of course, the prosecution maintains they do have an eyewitness. Lintel's daughter, now at nine years old, she takes the stand to confirm the statements she made to police back in 2016. What did you hear when mommy got hurt? What did you hear with your ears? My ears? Did you say Mr. Robbie hurt Mommy? Yes, ma'am. Our purpose of putting the child on the stand today was one, to show that the child was available, subject to cross examination. And two, that that was the child that gave the statement when she was three years old. It is the strongest moment in the trial and I think that they handled it so well. The defense team argues that Testimony from a 3 year old isn't exactly reliable and that some of her statements were inaccurate based on their child witness who told them to go to a water body. The body was recovered on land. So they've assisted us by discrediting their own three year old child witness. It may have been in the context of a mind of a three year old, but everything she said was accurate and backed up by the physical evidence. Clayton uses Robert Marks own words against him. Remember, his alibi was that he was at a bar. Where'd you go after you saw her? Just run around a little bit. Passed by Twin Peaks. We went to Twin Peaks and pulled up the cameras on that night. He never showed up to Twin Peaks. Oddly, the defense doesn't offer up a reason why we don't see Marks on those Twin Peaks videos. Ultimately, the prosecution lays out what it claims is the motive for the whole thing. Lintell was pregnant by Robin Marks and they were going through some problems. At some point he implied an abortion. He didn't say it directly, but the comment made her upset. Good morning. Happy Valentine's Day. I love you. Happy Valentine to you. Hurt my feelings yesterday. You really did. He fixes it by saying no. I was just saying that I support whatever it is that you want to do. That's what I meant. Clearly, this is a child that he does not want. May 24th is a really important date because that's the day that Lintell goes to the doctor, gets a sonogram and it's revealed that they are having a little girl. Guess what? Marx's Internet searches were on that day. Rather than searching for Things like, I don't know, baby bassinets. Online, he starts looking for guns. Online, he starts researching bizarre stories involving pregnant women who have gone missing or were murdered. What happens if you inject somebody with Clorox? What happens if you inject somebody with petrol? You see this thought process that he's going through. He has a life that he does not want to blow up. The defense doesn't address this point at all, doesn't call witnesses and doesn't offer a closing statement. This is a circumstantial case. And in order for him to be found guilty of a circumstantial case, the state must exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence. They knock on the door and they say, we have a verdict. We, the people, state of Louisiana, find you Robert Marks. And when she said that, he stood up and started putting his hands behind his back. So he knew before the clerk said guilty. He knew what the verdict was. In the end, it takes jurors only 30 minutes to find Robert Marks guilty on all charges, including murder and feticide. And I remember just yelling, they got it right. They got it right. After five and a half years, finally got our justice served today. I thought we had raised enough reasonable doubt that the result would have been different. After the verdict, Marks wife Kayla, divorces him, telling 2020 she was shocked to learn of his multiple affairs. Robert Marks was sentenced to life in prison. And he's actually in one of the worst prisons in this country. And there are things worse than the death penalty. In Louisiana, they call it Angola. If Lintell was still here today, I believe that she would have achieved her goal of becoming an administrator, and I think she would have had a house, very smart daughters, because education was so important for her that she would be a great. Her family keeps Lintell alive in the memory of a little girl who helped bring her mother's killer to justice. I hope that somewhere inside of her, that strong little girl realizes that she stood up for her mom Sometimes she said, I miss mommy. I wish mommy was here. And I said, I do, too, but mommy's in heaven with the angels now. Marvel Studios Thunderbolts will take the world by storm. 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Podcast Summary: "Bad Romance: Barefoot Witness" – 20/20 by ABC News
The "Bad Romance: Barefoot Witness" episode of ABC News' 20/20 delves deep into the harrowing true crime case of Lintel Washington, a dedicated middle school teacher who mysteriously disappeared on April 22, 2025. The episode meticulously unpacks the series of events leading to her disappearance, the subsequent investigation, and the eventual trial of Robert Marks, the man suspected of her murder.
Lintel Washington, affectionately known as "Puffy," was a beloved and dedicated teacher at a middle school. Recognized for her unwavering commitment, she was named Teacher of the Year, signaling a promising future ahead. Off-campus, Lintel yearned for a fulfilling personal life, grappling with past relationships and her desire for a stable family.
Notable Quote: "She was loyal, dedicated, and hardworking. Very funny. Very passionate. Very kind person." – Jamisha, Friend and Co-worker (02:15)
On a seemingly ordinary Thursday morning, security footage captured a distressing scene: a three-year-old girl, Lintel's daughter, wandering a parking lot barefoot and clutching a pillow, tears streaming down her face. Her desperate plea, "Where's your mom?" led to immediate police involvement.
Detective investigations revealed Lintel's car—a blue four-door sedan—was bloodied, and her keys and purse were left behind. The little girl's detailed yet fragmented account provided crucial leads. Authorities quickly identified Lintel as a missing teacher, heightening concerns due to her previously meticulous nature.
Notable Quote: "A blood-soaked car, an abandoned child, her mother missing. The police need answers and they need them fast." – Narrator (05:30)
Central to the case was Dr. Robert Marks, the assistant principal with whom Lintel was having an affair. Their relationship, unbeknownst to most at the school, offered a potential motive. Marks' conflicting statements and his alibi raised suspicions, especially when cell phone data placed both him and Lintel together around the time of her disappearance.
Notable Quote: "I had nothing to do with this." – Robert Marks (45:10)
The investigation expanded to Iberville Parish, a rural and remote area with vast sugarcane fields. A comprehensive search involving aerial patrols, ATVs, and ground teams scoured the region. On the sixth day, authorities discovered Lintel's body in a watery ditch, confirming her death by a single gunshot wound to the head.
Notable Quote: "I was hoping and praying that they would find her alive, but my gut instinct told me that she would probably be deceased." – Chief Criminal Deputy Ronnie Hebert (22:50)
Dental records and coroner's analysis conclusively identified Lintel Washington. The coroner ruled her death a homicide, aligning with the little girl's testimony about her mother being hurt. Additionally, it was revealed that Lintel was pregnant with Robert Marks' child, establishing a potent motive rooted in betrayal and threat.
Years of meticulous evidence collection culminated in Robert Marks standing trial five and a half years after the crime. The prosecution presented a compelling case, leveraging cell phone geolocation data, Marks' incriminating online searches, and the child's eyewitness account. The defense, however, attempted to undermine the reliability of a three-year-old's testimony and questioned the absence of direct evidence linking Marks to the murder scene.
Notable Quote: "What did you hear when mommy got hurt?" – Detective Claytor (58:20)
In a swift deliberation lasting only 30 minutes, the jury found Robert Marks guilty on all charges, including murder and feticide. Marks' conviction brought a semblance of justice to Lintel's family and community, culminating in his life sentence at the notorious Angola prison.
Notable Quote: "After five and a half years, finally got our justice served today." – Family Member (1:15:45)
"Bad Romance: Barefoot Witness" not only recounts the tragic loss of Lintel Washington but also highlights the resilience of her daughter, whose brave testimony was pivotal in securing justice. The episode underscores the profound impact of personal relationships gone awry and the relentless pursuit of truth by those seeking closure.
Final Reflection: "I hope that somewhere inside of her, that strong little girl realizes that she stood up for her mom." – Narrator (1:28:10)
This detailed summary captures the essence of the 20/20 episode, providing listeners with an in-depth understanding of the investigative process, the human emotions entwined in the case, and the ultimate pursuit of justice for Lintel Washington.