Bad Romance: Barefoot Witness

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Speaker 1 Am I ever going to love again?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 6 A beloved teacher, dedicated.

Speaker 7 No matter what those children did, she gave them everything she had.

Speaker 4 Full of promise.

Speaker 8 She was named Teacher of the Year.

Speaker 4 Lintel, Washington, seems to have a bright road ahead, but it's about to meet an unexpected end in a very dark place.

Speaker 10 We have just the makings of a real horror story.

Speaker 4 One Thursday morning, a parking lot security camera captures something pretty disturbing.

Speaker 4 A toddler running around by herself, clutching a pillow.

Speaker 8 I mean, this is a little child.

Speaker 11 My name is Leslie Parmes. In 2016, I was driving for a company.
I noticed a young lady, probably about three years old. She was standing in the parking lot about right here.

Speaker 11 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.

Speaker 14 So I immediately called 911.

Speaker 15 I have a child.

Speaker 5 Hold on, you sweetheart.

Speaker 5 She's three years old.

Speaker 16 She's in the parking lot fanning it by herself with a pillow. No one's around.
Can't find anyone.

Speaker 5 I need an officer.

Speaker 4 It's then that Parmes notices something alarming. The little girl isn't wearing shoes and there's blood on her feet.

Speaker 16 You hurt your foot. That's why you're bleeding.

Speaker 5 Do I need to send medical attention that way? An ambulance?

Speaker 16 I don't think so.

Speaker 11 And I started asking her, where's mommy's car? And she pointed to her mom's car, which her mom's car was.

Speaker 11 On the other end of the parking lot, closer to the fire hydrant.

Speaker 12 It was a blue four-door sedan.

Speaker 17 I approached the car and I peeped through the window.

Speaker 16 Oh my gosh, there's blood on the front seat of the car.

Speaker 5 Okay, stay on the phone with me, okay?

Speaker 16 It's a sizable amount of blood.

Speaker 11 Something was really, really, really wrong.

Speaker 16 The woman's keys and a purse are in the car. Okay.

Speaker 16 It looks like one of the other pillows are in the car.

Speaker 14 She's sleeping in a freaking car.

Speaker 14 God.

Speaker 4 When police arrive, the little girl begins revealing more of her story.

Speaker 12 Mommy was bleeding.

Speaker 8 She is able to describe in detail what she's seen, even if it's only in little bits and pieces.

Speaker 18 Where was it coming from?

Speaker 4 Officers run the plates and discover the car belongs to a woman named Lintel Washington. She's the mom of the little girl they've found.

Speaker 4 Lintel Washington, teacher at a middle school,

Speaker 20 and no one heard from her.

Speaker 4 She just didn't show up to teach her class.

Speaker 21 And I knew instantly something is wrong.

Speaker 7 She would never allow her daughter to be alone. Never.

Speaker 4 We're not using the name or showing the face of the child to protect her privacy.

Speaker 5 I can't take a bath.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you gotta take a bath.

Speaker 16 We're gonna get you cleaned up, okay?

Speaker 4 A blood-soaked car, an abandoned child, her mother missing. The police need answers and they need them fast.

Speaker 15 You know where your mommy went?

Speaker 18 Can you point the direction she went?

Speaker 22 Lancelot Washington's nickname is Puffy.

Speaker 23 That was the name she had since her childhood.

Speaker 7 She was loyal, dedicated, and hardworking.

Speaker 23 Very funny, very passionate, very kind person.

Speaker 22 We didn't call ourselves friends, we called ourselves sisters.

Speaker 7 She was a great mother, very caring, very loving, and that was her whole entire world.

Speaker 26 I called her Miss Washington. She was my eighth grade social studies teacher.

Speaker 26 She always had a bright smile every time we walked into the the classroom.

Speaker 4 What made her a good teacher? Her heart.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 4 But according to Lintel's closest friends, she felt something was missing from her life.

Speaker 21 She wanted love. She wanted a relationship.
She wanted family.

Speaker 22 Lintel did not have any luck with men. I mean, probably none of us, but hers was just jaw-dropping like crazy stuff.

Speaker 4 When she was younger there was a short-lived marriage. Then a promising relationship with her daughter's father Darren Glasper also crumbled.

Speaker 4 Was there talk of marriage and really making this permanent?

Speaker 30 Yeah it really was. But I also had some some issues and some demons I was dealing with.

Speaker 4 When you say demons.

Speaker 30 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.

Speaker 4 And as she moved into motherhood, her love life didn't seem to be getting any better.

Speaker 4 Did you get the impression that she was looking for love, Jamesia? Sure.

Speaker 7 But she didn't really, you know, connect with anybody.

Speaker 4 Then Lintel meets somebody new,

Speaker 4 somebody at school.

Speaker 4 His name, Dr. Robert Marks.

Speaker 26 He was the assistant principal at Brookstown.

Speaker 7 I'm assistant principal. Robert Marks is the other assistant principal.

Speaker 26 Every time I see him in the hallway, he will always be like smiling and waving and saying hi.

Speaker 7 He was a very nice, kind

Speaker 12 man.

Speaker 20 This is a guy from the north side of Baton Rouge who was successful. He had a PhD in education.

Speaker 4 Lintel and Robert Marks begin working at the middle school at about the same time.

Speaker 4 At what point did you know that she was interested in Robert Marks?

Speaker 21 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.

Speaker 4 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?

Speaker 7 Not at all. Now,

Speaker 7 she did kind of say, I think he's so cute.

Speaker 4 Turns out, Dr. Marks is hiding more than an office romance.

Speaker 8 The thing is, Robert Marks is married.

Speaker 31 Had a wife, beautiful wife, beautiful kids.

Speaker 21 He wanted to take out and she asked him, she said, aren't you married?

Speaker 8 He has told Lintel 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.

Speaker 27 He assured her that it's a divorce. They're separated.

Speaker 27 He did say that there was this two-story house, and the wife was upstairs, and he was downstairs.

Speaker 8 They do live together, but they live on separate floors.

Speaker 27 He would go to her house, they would cook.

Speaker 27 Her daughter was there.

Speaker 21 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.

Speaker 25 So

Speaker 21 he's not moving like a married man.

Speaker 4 Was she in love?

Speaker 21 Yes, she was. I think she had her disappointments.
And so now finally she gets someone who's Dr.

Speaker 4 Robert Marks and he wants her.

Speaker 21 He's pursuing her.

Speaker 4 A new love, the promise of a new family. It's everything Lintel's been hoping for.
But she has no idea what truly lies ahead.

Speaker 8 Something horrible has happened to Lintel Washington. And where is she?

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Speaker 19 Lindell Washington is still considered missing tonight.

Speaker 10 The investigation started Thursday when Washington's three-year-old daughter was found wandering around a parking lot.

Speaker 13 That little girl got blood on her feet.

Speaker 4 With her mother missing, that little girl, as you can hear on this police dash cam video, soon begins innocently revealing family secrets.

Speaker 5 My mommy needs a food to me.

Speaker 10 Mommy got a baby in her tongue?

Speaker 4 Who learns that she's pregnant first? Did she reveal it to you?

Speaker 27 Oh, yes, she did.

Speaker 5 did.

Speaker 23 I'm two months pregnant.

Speaker 7 My baby looks so beautiful in my womb.

Speaker 7 She said,

Speaker 7 this baby is for Robert Marks.

Speaker 4 She's pregnant with Robert Marks' baby.

Speaker 24 And I'm like, oh my goodness, what is he saying?

Speaker 27 And she tells me he's happy.

Speaker 4 In Lintel's apartment, detectives will later find sonograms tracking her pregnancy, including one announcing, I'm a girl.

Speaker 27 She says, darling, that's the name. She said, oh, I love it.

Speaker 23 Then she tells it to Robert Marks.

Speaker 21 She texts me back and she says, girl, he loves the name.

Speaker 27 So he was excited about the name and he was excited about the pregnancy.

Speaker 21 So she was getting her family.

Speaker 4 But then everything comes crashing down with one click of a mouse.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 27 A family reunion like his mama, his daddy, you know, his sister.

Speaker 8 She saw a picture of Robert and his wife on a cruise. She saw it on social media.

Speaker 27 She says, does this look like a couple that's going through a divorce? And I said,

Speaker 35 no.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 8 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?

Speaker 7 She said, girl, that boy told me he stayed in his two-story house. He lives in a damn trailer, girl.

Speaker 27 And she says, he's going to pay child support and I'm going to tell his wife.

Speaker 32 She said, oh, I'm going to tell the wife.

Speaker 27 She was upset.

Speaker 8 By the time Robert returns from his cruise on June 6th, he has got one angry Lintel, Washington, waiting for him, and he knows he's got a problem.

Speaker 4 Lintel sends a blunt text message to Marks, questioning whether he's truly committed to her and to their unborn baby girl.

Speaker 7 Just keep it 100 with me.

Speaker 22 Do you really want me?

Speaker 7 Or are you quitting to run away from your responsibilities with me and our unborn daughter?

Speaker 4 At some point, he suggested they get together.

Speaker 24 She says, do you think I should meet him face to face?

Speaker 21 And I said, yes.

Speaker 24 Say, this way you'll know if he's lying. I said, look him in his face face and see if he's lying.

Speaker 4 Just days later, Lintel is missing.

Speaker 8 Lintel Washington and her daughter lived in a one-bedroom apartment very close to where Lintel's car was found.

Speaker 4 So police want to know why Lintel would have parked there and why her daughter would have been left behind.

Speaker 4 It's that scared little girl who offers a crucial clue.

Speaker 5 If it's Robbie did that lunch, if it's Robbie did that blood.

Speaker 36 The police have no idea at that point who that person is until the friend and coworker, Jamesha, shows up at the scene.

Speaker 5 I said, Mr.

Speaker 27 Robbie from the school, Mr. Robbie?

Speaker 7 And she was shaking a head.

Speaker 4 Mr. Robbie is the name Lintel's daughter calls Robert Marks.

Speaker 7 I says to the police officer, they were in a relationship. I said, but he would be

Speaker 7 the first place that I would start.

Speaker 4 Investigators know that the clock is ticking, so they waste no time in talking to Robert Marks.

Speaker 37 Hi, Mr. Marks, I'm Detective Wooder.

Speaker 5 This is my sergeant.

Speaker 8 This is an urgent situation. They need to find Lintel Washington because she's clearly injured.

Speaker 5 Probably looking for Lintel.

Speaker 5 You know where she's at.

Speaker 4 With precious time slipping away, what will Marks reveal?

Speaker 4 It's been less than 24 hours since Lintel Washington went missing, and police are talking with Robert Marks, the man with whom she was having an affair.

Speaker 24 When's the last time you saw her?

Speaker 24 I still occurred to her.

Speaker 19 Yesterday.

Speaker 4 They met, he tells them, in a Walmart parking lot near his home.

Speaker 24 How long are you serious?

Speaker 38 38.

Speaker 38 She alone?

Speaker 5 They were in her car?

Speaker 22 Yes. What car were you in? I was riding looks like.

Speaker 4 Marks admits to the affair.

Speaker 31 Does your wife know about her?

Speaker 5 I think she does now.

Speaker 4 He also claims the parking lot rendezvous was completely innocent.

Speaker 24 We shall meet for it yesterday.

Speaker 10 Just to tell him.

Speaker 5 Does she ever threaten to talk to your wife?

Speaker 5 Never?

Speaker 5 So that would be news to you, that she is planning on talking to your wife in that late game.

Speaker 10 He says, yes, I was with Lintel. And then afterwards, she went her separate ways, and I went and hung out at a restaurant.

Speaker 24 Where'd you go after you saw her?

Speaker 5 Just run around a little bit. Played by 20 peaks.

Speaker 8 He tells police 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.

Speaker 5 She's not just missing.

Speaker 5 Just what I said. She's not just missing.

Speaker 5 We have evidence that she's hurt bad. We've got enough blood in the car to

Speaker 5 assume that she's dead.

Speaker 4 It seems that Robert Marks was the last adult to see Lintel. But to know for sure, police need to find her.

Speaker 10 An active scene is unfolding as detectives search for Lintel Washington.

Speaker 4 Using cell phone records, police determined that on the night she went missing, Lintel may have been across the Mississippi River in neighboring Iberville Parish.

Speaker 20 It's remote, it's rural, it's farmland, it's sugar cane field.

Speaker 19 It was a massive search effort

Speaker 20 in the air on ATVs and on foot.

Speaker 4 Chief Criminal Deputy Ronnie Aber takes me to that rural area where his investigators were searching for the missing mom.

Speaker 4 You had heard there was a woman missing and a little child that was found. Right.
Did your gut instinct tell you anything?

Speaker 5 I was hoping and praying that they would find her alive, but my gut instinct told me that she would probably be deceased.

Speaker 4 How big is the surge?

Speaker 39 This is a massive area.

Speaker 31 Cane fields, a lot of water.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 14 We were drawn here because of this place's history.

Speaker 40 You want to get rid of a body, this is a good place to go.

Speaker 40 In south Louisiana, with this heat and this humidity, a body will decompose very rapidly.

Speaker 40 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.

Speaker 4 Authorities search and search and search.

Speaker 1 Finally, on the sixth day, they catch a break.

Speaker 4 Well, this is certainly off the beaten path. It is, really.

Speaker 3 You see, all the cane they got, right?

Speaker 4 So you got the call, and where had they found a body?

Speaker 3 Right up in this area, right here. That time, they had some water in this ditch, because it was a water, to me, it was a watery grave.

Speaker 4 And there was no question in your mind she had been dumped there.

Speaker 3 Absolutely, she was a transfer dump.

Speaker 11 It's very humid. We have a lot of flies, bring maggots, and a body can deteriorate in such a rapid pace.

Speaker 4 Using dental records, authorities are able to confirm it is indeed Lintel Washington.

Speaker 4 The coroner rules her death a homicide, the cause, a single gunshot wound to the head.

Speaker 27 I remember I just dropped to the floor and then my husband caught me.

Speaker 23 I couldn't even stand up.

Speaker 7 My main concern at that point was her daughter and keeping her away from the television because um they were constantly running the pictures and the you know you know slaying teacher and you know all of these different things on the on the news that day just that changed my life forever

Speaker 30 in what ways that i knew i had to do better now this child's gonna need her father in her life

Speaker 4 For Melissa Mason, old conversations still haunt and hurt.

Speaker 24 She asked, well, should I meet meet him face to face?

Speaker 27 And I told her, Yes. I said, That way you'll know if he's telling the truth.

Speaker 24 And so

Speaker 5 that was hard for me because I said yes,

Speaker 22 and I should have said no.

Speaker 4 Lintel Washington's murder is horrible enough, but according to authorities, there's a second victim.

Speaker 20 Even after the trauma of Lintel Washington being shot in the head, the coroner believed that the child in there would have been able to be saved.

Speaker 8 Through DNA testing, police determined that Lintel Washington was indeed carrying Robert Mark's baby.

Speaker 14 He was the father of the child and that Lintel was threatening to tell his wife. So we figured we had a motive.

Speaker 4 Was there any doubt in your mind once they found her body?

Speaker 7 Now that I understood understood that it was murder, I knew that he had done it.

Speaker 4 But police need proof, and their key witness is only three years old.

Speaker 4 What else does that little toddler know?

Speaker 41 It started with a phone call. In the early hours of the morning.

Speaker 42 911, what is the address to your emergency?

Speaker 41 A terrified woman tells the operator she's been kidnapped, assaulted, and that she's trapped in a room with her attacker.

Speaker 41 He's fallen asleep, so she quietly and ever so carefully finds his phone and calls for help.

Speaker 15 Is there any way you can get out of the building? I don't know without waking him and I'm scared.

Speaker 41 This 911 call began an investigation that would turn the town of Ashland into a crime scene.

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Speaker 43 Friends of Lintel have remained hopeful, but tonight they gather to remember the person she was.

Speaker 4 Authorities suspect that Lintel, Washington, was shot and killed by Robert Marks, and to help build their case, they turned to the only known eyewitness.

Speaker 8 They do these forensic interviews of children with people who are specifically skilled in this area to interview a child without further traumatizing them.

Speaker 44 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.

Speaker 5 What did you hear

Speaker 16 when mommy got hurt?

Speaker 34 What did you hear with your ears? I hear.

Speaker 34 Did you say that you're robbing her, mommy? Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 31 When we found the body, we did find that she was shot in the head. So that corroborated what the little girl said.

Speaker 14 You hear the little girl in her own voice saying, my mama's asleep by a lake.

Speaker 8 Mommy in the lake? Yeah.

Speaker 4 That means she must have been here.

Speaker 3 This ditch was full of water.

Speaker 9 Right. And that she must have been here.

Speaker 5 Yeah. She must have been here.

Speaker 4 But Marks insists that he has no idea what the three-year-old is talking about.

Speaker 31 You know, our daughter's pretty intelligent.

Speaker 5 Absolutely.

Speaker 5 Okay, well, we've spoken with her daughter.

Speaker 16 Why would her daughter say you heard her? Her feeling.

Speaker 16 Until.

Speaker 5 Her feelings? No, no.

Speaker 5 Physically harmed her.

Speaker 38 Why would she say that?

Speaker 4 Investigators are reluctant to build their entire case on statements from a three-year-old.

Speaker 4 But it turns out there's another witness, a silent witness that was with Lintel and Marks the entire time.

Speaker 10 So Robert Marks, originally, when he's questioned by detectives, he says, yes, I was with Lintel.

Speaker 5 When's the last time you saw her?

Speaker 5 I saw her.

Speaker 19 Yesterday.

Speaker 5 I got a Walmart.

Speaker 10 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 cell phone records.

Speaker 12 My name is Cy Ray.

Speaker 12 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.

Speaker 4 Investigators pull those cell phone records for both Marks and Lintel from the hours before and after she went missing.

Speaker 12 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.

Speaker 12 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 Lintel leaves her house that night.

Speaker 20 We know that Robert Marks texted Lintel Washington. He said he wanted to meet up.
She drove from her house up to Baker.

Speaker 4 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 eight o'clock the night Lintel disappeared.

Speaker 31 She comes out there in her car with her baby in the back seat.

Speaker 31 She meets Robert Marks.

Speaker 31 He pulls up on a motorcycle, he gets into the car.

Speaker 12 If you remember, red icons are Lintel's device. Blue icons are Robert's device.
But you can see here that when red and blue are overlaid directly on top of each other, we're getting this purple color.

Speaker 12 This is just a really really good indication that these two devices are traveling together.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 Not a lot of reason for the phone to go there.

Speaker 31 Our evidence shows that she was killed there. It would not have surprised the neighbors because it's a shooting range.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 14 He takes the UAP Long Old Mississippi River Bridge and he takes Highway 190 and ends up going to Rama.

Speaker 4 Lintel's daughter.

Speaker 8 is in the backseat of the car while all of this is going on.

Speaker 12 We're kind of out in the middle of nowhere now off of I-10, 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.

Speaker 12 Ultimately, Lintel will be found in this area.

Speaker 4 The records then show Marks and Lintel's phones traveling east on I-10, right back into Baton Rouge. Then her phone goes offline.

Speaker 14 The assumption then was that her phone was maybe tossed into the lake at that point.

Speaker 4 According to the police's theory, Marks has managed to hide Lintel's body and gotten rid of her phone.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 31 That car was parked over off of Sherwood Forest.

Speaker 31 And that morning, this baby, this three-year-old child, had gotten out of the car.

Speaker 36 It's important to remember that this is an ongoing affair. They're communicating constantly.
And what's interesting about this is she goes missing, and guess who stops calling her phone?

Speaker 36 And that's because he knows Lintel Washington is in a sugarcane field. She's dead, and she's not going to answer the phone.

Speaker 4 Marks isn't contacting Lintel, but it doesn't mean he's finished making calls for the night.

Speaker 31 He calls another lady friend. He's dating another woman.

Speaker 4 That's right. He's got girlfriend number two.

Speaker 8 Once police confirm that that is indeed Lintel 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.

Speaker 43 Does it upset you that she's dead? Anything you want to say to your family?

Speaker 20 Within a couple of days of Robert Marks being arrested, he had two lawyers.

Speaker 12 They of course have to go to work.

Speaker 13 Any DNA evidence I would challenge that has been contaminated. The body lay in the field for many, many days.

Speaker 4 But police say they've got another witness.

Speaker 4 Cell phone records show that Robert Marks returns to Baker to get his motorcycle around 11 o'clock on the night Lintel is murdered.

Speaker 4 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?

Speaker 37 I was just watching the news, and they were saying about they show him on restaurant, and they show the lady and stuff like that.

Speaker 37 This happened Wednesday night.

Speaker 38 And I'm like, oh my God, Wednesday night, I was with him.

Speaker 8 So another woman emerges in this story. Tramika Jackson.

Speaker 8 Tramika is also having an affair with Robert. Lintel doesn't know about her.
Robert's wife doesn't know about her.

Speaker 7 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?

Speaker 14 What are you doing?

Speaker 7 You know, you're lying to women. You're making them think it's just them.
You're getting them to trust you.

Speaker 5 I try to prepare as much as I can.

Speaker 37 I don't have, I want to give you whatever information.

Speaker 44 She's scared. She doesn't want to be involved in this.

Speaker 41 She comes in voluntarily without an attorney.

Speaker 4 Police know that Tramika and Robert Marks are in close contact, texting and calling back and forth the night Lintel is murdered.

Speaker 37 It was like

Speaker 37 10. He called me and then he was like, well, will you come get me?

Speaker 24 It's going to be a little later, but I'm going to call you

Speaker 8 i just didn't i mean they put nothing together tramika 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 at

Speaker 14 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 pull video.

Speaker 8 Tramika has a Dodge with very specific lights.

Speaker 25 Think of it as a bar of lights.

Speaker 14 And it's not the greatest of video, but you can clearly see in the background his second girlfriend comes to pick him up.

Speaker 4 Tramika says after she picked up Robert, she drove him back to Baker so he could get his motorcycle.

Speaker 4 Police are convinced that Tramika was simply doing what Robert asked her to do and that she was in the dark about both Lintel's murder and the abandonment of her daughter.

Speaker 14 She was very forthcoming as far as her peace in taking him away from the scene.

Speaker 14 No indication that she knew anything about what had gone on.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 So it was really surprising when bail was set and he actually was able to leave jail. Bail was over $800,000.

Speaker 30 This man just murdered a pregnant woman with his child in her belly and kidnapped my child to go don't their body and y'all telling me he's not a danger or a flight risk?

Speaker 10 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?

Speaker 39 First, I want to express sympathy to the family of the victim,

Speaker 39 reassure you that I had nothing to do with this.

Speaker 10 He looked me in the eye and said, I had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 4 Marx's lawyers also insist their client is not a murderer.

Speaker 39 The fact that crime is committed, and all of a sudden, this gentleman who has everything to lose

Speaker 39 is drug into this is

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Speaker 4 It's been nearly six years since Lintel Washington was killed.

Speaker 4 And after many delays, the stage is finally set for a trial.

Speaker 10 The opening statements began today in the trial of a former assistant principal. He's on trial for her murder in Iberville Parish five years ago.

Speaker 7 The trial of Robert Marks began with high emotion.

Speaker 4 In his colorful opening statements, they cleaned them up a little bit. District Attorney Tony Clayton asks the Louisiana jury to serve up what he calls gumbo justice.

Speaker 31 In Louisiana, we love gumbo. I told the jury that I'm gonna make a gumbo.
I'm gonna pull up his Google records.

Speaker 31 I'm gonna take his phone records.

Speaker 31 I'm gonna take his computer and I'm gonna put all that in a pot. I'm gonna cook it up and serve it to him cold.
like that ice cold water that runs through his vein

Speaker 4 the defense argues that there's no murder weapon, no DNA, and no eyewitness tying marks to the crime.

Speaker 13 They don't have a case.

Speaker 4 Of course, the prosecution maintains they do have an eyewitness, Lintel's daughter.

Speaker 4 Now, at nine years old, she takes the stand to confirm the statements she made to police back in 2016.

Speaker 4 What did you hear?

Speaker 5 I

Speaker 16 my mommy got hurt?

Speaker 16 What did you hear with your ears? I hear the pop.

Speaker 16 Did you say Mr. Robbie hurt mommy? Yes now.

Speaker 42 Our purpose of putting the child on the stand today was to 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.

Speaker 8 It is the strongest moment in the trial, and I think that they handled it so well.

Speaker 4 The defense team argues that testimony from a three-year-old isn't exactly reliable, and that some of her statements were inaccurate.

Speaker 13 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.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 4 Clayton uses Robert Marks' own words against him. Remember, his alibi was that he was at a bar.

Speaker 24 Where'd you go after you saw her?

Speaker 5 Get her on around a little bit.

Speaker 5 Hey, about Twin Peaks.

Speaker 31 We went to Twin Peaks and pulled up the cameras on that night.

Speaker 5 He never showed up to Twin Peaks.

Speaker 4 Oddly, the defense doesn't offer up a reason why we don't see Marks on those Twin Peaks videos.

Speaker 4 Ultimately, the prosecution lays out what it claims is the motive for the whole thing.

Speaker 31 Lintelle was pregnant by Robin Marks, and they were going through some problems.

Speaker 27 At some point, he implied

Speaker 21 an abortion.

Speaker 27 He didn't say it directly, but the comment made her upset.

Speaker 31 Good morning.

Speaker 39 Happy Valentine's Day. I love you.

Speaker 7 Happy Valentine to you too. You hurt my feelings yesterday.
You really did.

Speaker 27 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.

Speaker 36 Clearly, this is a child that he does not want.

Speaker 8 May 24th is a really important date because that's the day that Lintel goes to the doctor, gets a sonogram, and it's revealed that they are having a little girl.

Speaker 4 Guess what Marx's internet searches were on that day?

Speaker 8 Rather than searching for things like, I don't know, baby bassinets online, he starts looking for guns online.

Speaker 8 He starts researching bizarre stories involving pregnant women who have gone missing or were murdered.

Speaker 36 What happens if you inject somebody with Clorox? What happens if you inject somebody with petrol? You see thought process that he's going through. He has a life that he does not want to blow up.

Speaker 4 The defense doesn't address this point at all, doesn't call witnesses, and doesn't offer a closing statement.

Speaker 13 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.

Speaker 31 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.

Speaker 31 So he knew before the clerk said guilty, he knew what the verdict was.

Speaker 4 In the end, it takes jurors only 30 minutes to find Robert Marks guilty on all charges, including murder. and feticide.

Speaker 27 And I remember just yelling, he got it right.

Speaker 5 they got it right.

Speaker 30 After five and a half years, finally got all justice served today.

Speaker 31 I thought we had raised enough reasonable doubt that the result would have been different.

Speaker 4 After the verdict, Marks's wife, Kayla, divorces him, telling 2020 she was shocked to learn of his multiple affairs.

Speaker 8 Robert Marks was sentenced to life in prison, and

Speaker 8 he is actually in one of the worst prisons in this country.

Speaker 12 And there are things worse than the death penalty.

Speaker 20 In Louisiana, they call it Angola.

Speaker 7 If Lintel was still here today, I believe that she would have achieved her goal of becoming an administrator.

Speaker 21 And I think she would have had a house,

Speaker 21 very smart daughters, because

Speaker 27 education was so important for her that she would be a great mom.

Speaker 4 Her family keeps Lintel alive in the memory of a little girl who helped bring her mother's killer to justice.

Speaker 8 I hope that somewhere inside of her, that strong little girl realizes

Speaker 8 that she stood up for her mom.

Speaker 30 Sometimes she says, I miss mommy. I wish mommy was here.

Speaker 30 I say, I do too. Mommy's in heaven with the angels now.

Speaker 30 Two rings, surrounded by a steel cage.

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Speaker 30 We're gonna play games.

Speaker 30 Oh my god, are you kidding me? This is gonna be a war.

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