The Barefoot Witness

"Now, well, what do we do with emergency? We just walked in the door, and there's blood in the foyer."

“For the next two decades, the case remained unsolved.”

Until new technology allowed investigators to do, but had once been impossible. A new series from ABC Audio and 2020. Blood and water. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts. [Music]

Security video captures our little girl running around by herself, clutching a pillow. Hair is just sticking up on my arms, it's giving me chills. So we have this little girl in a parking lot all three-year-olds that she has blood, all of her feet. "That's your money's car, where's mommy?" "It's blood on the front seat of the car. Are you hurting sweetheart?"

The car belongs to a woman named Lintel Washington. Everybody was concerned, certainly, for this teacher, this teacher, the year, that just vanished. [Music]

It's just a huge area to cover.

Pretty remote too. Very remote. Lintel did not have any luck with me. The hers was just jaw-dropping. The thing is, it's a secret relationship.

She asked what should I mean him face to face. And I told her yes. I said yes, and I should have said no. Lintel's daughter is in the back seat of the car, while all of this is going on. Solving this crime comes down to a three-year-old child.

The only witness is she and danger too. [Music]

“I think the best way to describe Baton Rouge is that it's a smaller version of New Orleans.”

It's the capital of Louisiana.

It gives that city vibe, but mostly it's just a very small town.

[Music] It has the flavor, the culture, the people, and the history of New Orleans. But it's on a much smaller scale. Baton Rouge is right on the Mississippi River, and it is a working port. One of the busiest in the country.

If you think of Baton Rouge, you think of Garth Brooks. Collin Baton Rouge. It's the motto of that city. Garth Brooks even posted about it on Facebook. [Music]

That's where it's played at Tiger Stadium. About 102,000 people. Putting on a booming of a show. Garth got so loud. Really set up a seismograph.

Cut it a Garth quail. [Music]

“But behind that good-time vibe is a troubling problem for Baton Rouge.”

The man's body dunkilling with brutal. A murdering. Rivaling that of much larger cities. Oh yeah. They definitely have a murder problem in Baton Rouge.

[Music] Security video captures a little girl running around by herself, clutching a pillow. [Music] And she's just walking around. A little three-year-old.

And no one knows who she is. And why is she alone? I mean, this is a little child. [Music] Some place you wouldn't expect a little child to walk around by themselves.

[Music] I think it's Leslie Parm's. In 2016, I was driving for a company called Family Care, which is medical transportation. This good Samaritan season.

I noticed a young lady, a little girl, talks about three years old, she was standing in the pork alive. About right here. It comes up to this child and he starts to converse with her. And he had asked that girl where her parents were.

And she just kind of had this puzzle look on her face. And she's kind of tear-eyed and destroyed. And I actually 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. This is Leslie Parm. I'm over on New Castle. Boulevard here right off the streetwood. I have a child that you sweetheart.

She's three years old. She's here in the pork alive. I've been here by herself for the pillow. No one's around. I can't find anyone.

I need an officer. My passion is helping. And this child need of helping. I couldn't just pass by as your country will not help it.

The police scanner picked up this call.

Yeah, I don't feel comfortable. My name is Brett Buffington.

“I was a crime and breaking news reporter in Baton Rouge.”

There was a toddler walking around in the parking lot in South Baton Rouge. It sounded frantic. Then you hear, and she's got blood on her. You heard your foot. That's why you're bleeding.

You have blood on your foot because you heard it. So I asked her what she heard. She said, "No." She said, "She was bleeding. Do I need to send medical attention that way?"

And ambulance. I don't think so. I started to ask her questions. And we're really into the 911 operator. But she actually can hear the little girl in the background speaking to me,

because she's very articulate.

Very well-smoking, little girl.

She's dying to find herself. I'm talking about three years old. No one around holding a pillow. She was very affluent. It's kind of a concern as well because you're out there.

No shoes on and a parking lot. She's a black female.

“She has one of the shorts and a piece shirt with cute on it.”

Okay. We're going to send someone over there immediately. I was like you slept in the call tonight. She said yes. She's cute. She has a little shirt that says cute on it,

but she's dirty and she hasn't been taking care of. And she's by herself. And I started asking her where's mommy, 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.

Closed it to the fire hydrant. Oh my gosh. It's blurred on the front seat of the car. Okay. Stay on the phone with me.

Okay. Okay. That's the point when I walked to the car in Saltblum. Something was really, really, really wrong. For that much blood to be in the car.

I don't think this is my bad. You want me to stay on the phone with me? Okay. I'll stay on the phone with you. Okay. I'll stay on the phone with you. This baby's here. She's terrified.

I've remembered that 911 call vividly. Come on. Come on, guys. We'll yell at it. I told her something bad has happened at this location. So they need to get some officers to speed up and get over here.

The woman's cute and a person in the collar. Okay. It's blood on both sides of the seat. A lot of blood like somebody got to get with something. Yeah.

Almost you can trouble somewhere. My name is Brittany Weiss. I'm the two on your side reporter at W.B.R.Z.

“I remember that day we had a phone call.”

We had a phone call. It was from someone who said that they found a little girl wandering alone by herself in a parking lot. We went out there and we interviewed Leslie Parm's that day and he told us what he had found.

Just looking at the blood pool, I knew someone. Something happened really bad to someone. It wasn't going to be gay at all. It was hot. It was steamy. The type of heat that you would not want, you know, to leave a child in a car or a band-end.

Good mommy's leaving. Good mommy's leaving. Did you see what the moment was coming from? Where was it coming from? That can be what's important in this particular thing.

Is the audio. Do you know where your mommy is? Where? Can you point the direction she is? She is. And you're hearing the same story from the three-year-old

given to Mr. Parm's and then given to the police officer respond. Police checked the registration on the car and they find out. Police checked the registration on the car and they find out.

Police checked the registration on the car and they find out. The car belongs to a woman named Lintel Washington and she is the mother of the little girl that they have found. Lintel Washington teacher at a middle school

and no one heard from her. She didn't call in. She just didn't show up to teacher class. And I knew instantly something is wrong.

She would never allow her daughter to go to the hospital

or something is wrong. She would never allow her daughter to be alone. Never. We're not using the name or showing the face of Lintel's daughter to protect her privacy. Well, you've got a little blur in your hood.

That's what's going to get it. They're going to take care of that a thing. I think the thing is good, not good. Yeah, you're going to take it back. You're going to get you cleaned up, okay?

Okay, just be patient, all right? I drove in to that parking lot. They stopped me and they said, "Man, you can't go over that way." It is a crime scene. I said, "Where is Lintel?"

The hair is just sticking up on my arms. It's giving me chills carrying this. Immediately, it was clear that something sinister had occurred.

would happen to this woman.

And then to just find out what actually happened was extraordinary, shocking to the senses. The investigation started Thursday when Washington's three-year-old daughter was found wandering around a parking lot. When we showed up at that scene, we quickly realized

okay, this mother of this child is missing. Police have figured out a few things. They figured out who the little girl is. Who the car belongs to. But Lintel Washington herself is still missing.

The foul play is not ruled out. Where is she?

Lintel Washington and her daughter lived in a one-bedroom apartment

very close to where Lintel's car was found. Detectives want to know why Lintel's daughter and car wound up in that parking lot when her home is just down the street. Security cameras in the area are able to fill in the holes

of what happened. Detectives rewind that parking lot security video back to 1130 the night before. And being go, there's a car consistent with Lintel's Toyota Corolla heading toward her apartment.

Now watch, it stops, turns around, and pulls into the lot, parking off camera.

“Is that Lintel or is it somebody else behind the wheel?”

It's just too dark to see. So here's Lintel Washington. She's missing. We've got her little girl walking around and there's blood everywhere.

So police want to find out what's going on in her life. This friend tells me Lintel Washington is passionate, knowledgeable, and trusting. Lintel Washington, she was teacher at a middle school. She talked to her friend, she was well respected in the community.

Lintel Washington's nickname is Puffy. That was the name she has since a childhood. She was loyal, dedicated, and hard working. Very funny, very passionate, very kind person. We didn't call ourselves friends, we called ourselves sisters.

Her name was very, very important to us. She didn't want anything attached to her name. That was negative, that was bad, and she wanted to be a great mother. Lintel Washington has a twin sister named Sintel. She had a twin sister.

Yeah, identical twin. I can tell them a point, but yeah, they are identical. Lintel's friend's share that she has been married and divorced. And eventually, meets Darren Glassberg. But she meets Darren at a barbecue, and he sees Sintel.

And so he says, "Oh, they're too old, but he wanted Lintel."

“What was it about Lintel that grabbed your attention?”

My presence just lit up the whole neighborhood. Were they a solid couple? They were solid, yes, in the beginning, yes. Did she talk about family and wanting to have children?

When we first began dating, she told me she had surgery.

And at the end of her, she was unable to conceive. And so she didn't think that she could have kids. And Lintel, maybe a year after that, she found out she was pregnant. She didn't believe it, I didn't believe it. Girl, I will be married.

During this time, I was planning my wedding. And so when she found out she was pregnant, even though I knew I would be down, one prize made, I couldn't even be upset because we were so busy celebrating that she was about to be a mother. She was happy, was he happy?

She was happy. Remember, she thought she couldn't have kids. And so she is a daddy. So it's kind of a miracle pregnant. It's a miracle pregnancy, yes.

“Was there talk of marriage and really making this permanent?”

Yeah, it really was, but I also had some issues and some demons I was dealing with.

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. Plintel Washington has been recognized as teacher of the year in East Badger Rouge. This school year she worked as the instructional specialist at Brooks Town Middle. Miss Washington, I called him as Washington. She was my eighth grade social studies teacher.

Lintel Washington, she moved to Baton Rouge to start a new life. She'd come from New Orleans, and everything is actually looking great. She was a really good teacher.

She always had a bright smile, it's time to walk 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. She used to listen to this one song that I couldn't stand in song. Oh my goodness, it's just the one with a lady says,

"I need a refuel." I was like, "Oh my goodness, why did she need this refuel?" Like she's not satisfied with the wobble. And so when she was like, "Oh, this is my song. I love this song, and now I love this song."

That's what she really needed. She was looking for this refill of love that she just wasn't finding it.

“Did you get the impression that she was looking for love, Jimmy?”

Sure.

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

Lintel did not have any love with me. I mean, probably none of us, but hers was just jaw-dropping, like crazy stuff. But then Lintel meets somebody new. A relationship develops. The thing is, it's a secret relationship.

Somebody at school. And she tells me that she's seeing him and she's not supposed to say anything. Our team coverage continues with a three year old girl was found by a man, theory-eyed, carrying a pillow. The girl led palms to a car.

So we have this little girl going to park a little three year old. She has blood all over her feet. There's somebody's car. Where's mommy? You just pick with me.

You're going to be fine.

Can I get the police over here?

Yeah. We're live tonight in downtown Brightbuffington. The VBRZ News 2.

“I remember going home, and I called my mom.”

And I just said, "Hey, I just want to tell you. I love you." She said, "This is a tough story today. A little three year old girl, and it's not going to be good." When we unfortunately had to bring her back to the house and bathe her,

and we washed her the color of the water changed a bit. Because of the fact that she had blood on her. And she kept making comments about her mom and what had happened to her mother. Lintel has this identical twin named Sintel. She rushes to Baton Rouge to come get her niece.

When she walked through that door, I thought I was looking at a ghost. Did she look that much like her sister? So much like her sister. That her daughter ran to her. Instantaneously, this girl was like, "My mommy's back.

My mommy's back." Mommy. She said, "Are you okay, Mommy?" And she was looking. You could tell she was checking to see if her mother,

like physically checking to see if her mother was okay. She thinks Sintel is a mother. And wow. She had a good mama. She had a great mother.

That little girl's mother is nowhere to be found. Lintel is gone to no one knows where. So now the attention begins to turn to the people in her life. I had a dream in night before, and I called and I left a voiceman on the phone. And I said, "Uh, Puffy, I just had the crazy dream that you was pregnant with a little girl.

From there, I don't believe she ever even received that message. And I'm like, "Lord, I left this message. I want her phone. I hope these people don't think I have nothing to do with this."

Hopefully she's alive.

“So you want to find out who's in her world.”

What's happening in her world? They're different. He was a doctor, Robert Marks. He was the assistant principal at Brooks Town. I'm assistant principal.

Robert Marks is the other assistant principal. Lintel, Washington, and Robert Marks. Start work at this middle school at about the same time.

Every time I see him in the hallway, you always be 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. Just a good guy. Holly educated.

Making good money. When Lintel started working after she got the job, she didn't like Robert Marks. She was not attracted to him. No. She was like, "Oh no, girl, he does talk."

“At what point did you know that she was interested in Robert Marks?”

She started speaking a little softer about this guy who reminded me of Joseph Jefferson. She shows me a picture of him. And so I say, "Okay, he's nice looking." And she just thought it beaming like she started smiling. 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. Do you think he's cute?" You know?

And I'm like, "Oh." As she said, "You know, yeah, you know, Dr. Marks, that's a girl, no." Not at all. The thing is, it's a secret relationship because Robert Marks is married. Had a wife, beautiful wife, beautiful kids.

We knew that he was married, but never saw the wife.

And he didn't wear his wedding ring. He wanted to take on, and she asked, and she said, "Why don't you marry?"

“He is 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. 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 our house, they would cook. Her daughter was there. So she knew that it was one of these complicated situations, but she could not 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 disappointment.

And so now finally, she gets someone who's doctor Robert Marks.

And he wants her. He's pursuing her. With her mom missing, that little girl is you can hear on this police-camp video. She soon begins to innocently reveal family secrets.

Mom, we got a baby in her town. She was like, "I got something to tell y'all." And it was like, "What is this?" She was like, "I'm pregnant." Who learns that she's pregnant first?

She revealed it to you? Oh, yes, she did. I'm two months pregnant. My baby looks so beautiful in my womb. And I'm like, "Oh, my goodness, what is he saying?"

And she tells me, "He's happy." And then tells apartment detectives will later find Sonograms tracking her pregnancy, including one with an announcement on it. I'm a girl.

She says, "Daily, that's the name." She says, "Oh, I love it." Then she tells it to Robert Marks. She takes me back because she says, "Girl, he loves the name." And he was excited about the name, and he was excited about the pregnancy.

So, she was getting her family. The week before she goes missing, Lentel finally reveals the relationship to her boss and friend, Jamisha. She said, "This baby is for Robert Marks." She's pregnant with Robert Marks.

Right, I said, "Girl, I stopped playing." You know, as she said, "No, I'm serious." Jamisha Paine knew what was going on. Lentel Washington had apparently told her everything. She knew all the secrets.

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The community was baffled, everybody was concerned.

Certainly, you know, for this teacher, this teacher of the year that just vanished out of nowhere. For 20 plus years, Melissa Mason has been spending time with her best friend. They're like sisters. She says Washington has been in a relationship with Robert Marpsons early last year. He sounded like he was going to be someone that was a part of her life and the baby's life.

Robert tells Lindtell 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. In fact, he's on a cruise with his wife. 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 awake on his trip. And so she was getting more and more upset. Angry, mad, she was saying, I'm going to his house. I'm going over there and I'm going to let his wife know what's going on.

Lindtell 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 says, girl, I went to the house. It's a trailer. She said, girl, that boy told me he stayed in his two story house. He lives in a damn trailer. And she says, he thinks he's going to ruin my life and go on with his life.

He's not going to ruin my life. He's going to pay child support and I'm going to tell his wife. She says, oh, I'm going to tell the wife. She was upset. By the time Robert returns from his cruise on June 6,

he has got one angry Lindtell Washington waiting for him. And he knows he's got a problem. She said, are you lying to me? Just tell me the truth. And so she texted that.

Lindtell sends a blunt text message to Marks, questioning whether he is committed to her and to their unborn baby girl. Just keep it 100 with me. Do you really want me?

“Are you quitting the runaway from your responsibility with me?”

And I unborn daughter. It was like, you know, are you trying to skip town to avoid taking care of the baby? Are you trying to leave EBR and so forth and so on? At some point he suggests that they get together

or somebody wants to meet face to face. She says, do you think I should meet him face to face? And I say, yes. Say, this way you'll know if he's lying. I say, look at him in his face and see if he's lying.

was Robert Marks.

And the last person who had seen her was Robert Marks.

We have to find him. Find out where she was, and I'd be before.

“And talk to him and figure out where this is the only thing”

the only idea is right now. I was Marks undertaking what he was. It's like a sergeant. Baton Rouge Police take Robert Marks in for questioning. All right, we'll be looking for him too.

I don't know if you know where she's at. It's not like she is. I try to call her this morning and that's not exactly what it is. He tells police that he saw Lintel Washington last night the night before.

For about a half hour. [applause] Should it open? All right, I'm done. Are you worried?

Her car? Yes. Who car will you? That's right.

“I see he holds his hands a lot of toys his face.”

A clear sign he's like. And he explains that they just talked. He immediately admits to the affair. You're right, nobody. That his wife did not know about the affair.

I think she does that. Does she have a threat to talk to your wife? Never. She would be news to you. And she's high enough to talk to your wife.

Robert Marks originally when he's questioned by detectives. He says, yes, I was with Lintel. And then afterwards she went her separate ways and I went, hung out with a restaurant. Where did you go after your restaurant?

She's a roger on the fifth and that's one piece. And when Robert Marks was talking to investigators, we found out that he's got an alibi.

“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 again. He tells them that he's at a local bar called Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks is the equivalent to hudders. She's not just missed. She's not just missed.

If we haven't been to the she's heard mad, we've got enough blood and a car to send this she's dead. So the last person that less adult to see her alive was Marks. That is a big, big deal in investigation.

But first and even bigger deal,

finding Lintel Washington. At this point, she's not just a missing piece. She's the entire puzzle. Active scene is unfolding as detective search for Lintel Washington. So literally everybody was glued to the TV.

Everybody was glued to news coverage trying to figure out. Okay, where is this woman? One of our reporters got a tip. She's a large police presence on the other side of the river. There's a massive, 15 plus law enforcement officers in the air.

One TV's with K9's because it's huge search effort. We've learned that they have searched eight, six-mile radius from that command post. Give them real parachute, 575 square miles. You want to get rid of a body of some good place to go. Lintel Washington didn't show up to work.

Something she's never done before.

You have a woman who is five months pregnant. She's missing. Washington's three-year-old daughter was found wandering around a parking lot. Her little girl is alone and abandoned. We're told blood was around the woman's car.

The immediate concern is something horrible has happened to Lintel Washington. And where is she? It was something that I was just in shock about because this was really happening. And it was really my friend that was missing. Police say Washington lives in this area offshore with forest tonight.

They're searching for her. They were quick. We're putting clues together. Within a day they knew where they needed to be searching. Police are being guided in their search by cell phone records.

Where Lintel appeared to have been that night. One of the areas is across the Mississippi from Baton Rouge. One of our reporters got a tip that there is a large police presence on the other side of the river. Friday around 10 a.m. Chief Investigator Chris Nakamoto got a tip. BRPD's dive team was heading to Rama to search waterways.

We're here in Everville, Paris. We're an active scene as unfolding as detective search for Lintel Washington.

In an area called Everville, Paris, right adjacent to the Chaffoli of Basin.

“We have detailed information that directed us to this location.”

We have detailed information that point us to the Baker Zachary and San Francisco areas. If you leave Baton Rouge and drive west here, 30 miles here in Everville, Paris, it was a massive searcher in the air on ATVs and on foot. It's remote, it's rural, it's farmland, it's sugarcane fields. You're not around civilization out there.

I still was telling myself she's okay. But then I was thinking she's been in biology. Because I saw her and she's crazy stories about maybe he dropped in a bio.

It was a lot of crazy thoughts going through my head.

The water, the bio's, the cane fields and these different things. It was a massive area for them to end up having to search to try to find her. We've learned that they have searched a six-mile radius from that command post that you're now looking at live from Sky-I-2. Now there are members from State Police, the Everville Paris Sheriff's Office, the Baton Rouge Police Department, along with the East Baton Rouge Paris Sheriff's Office all behind me.

Police believe the former teacher of the year could be the waters of this bio. Near Raymond. We had got a call from the Baton Rouge Police Department saying, and we had a scene in the local news that they were looking for this young lady. Chief Criminal Deputy Ronnie Abert took me to that rural area

where his department conducted a massive search for lintel Washington in June of 2016. You had heard there was a woman missing and a little child that was found.

“She had blood on her feet, what did that tell you about this case?”

Well, it had tells me that the person that was responsible for it was very careless. Did your gut instinct tell you anything? I hope it didn't plan that it would find her alive, but my gut instinct told me that she would probably be deceased. Considering that there was foul play, suspected,

I don't think that hopes were high that they were going to find lintel alive. In order to find out who hurt that three-year-old little girl's mommy, in order to take that person and give them the justice for this family, they had to find lintel Washington. How big is the search?

This is a massive area, came feels a lot of water. It's just a huge area to cover. Pretty remote too. Very remote. When you get up at the end of the state, it's a different world.

The twins' fan here is I-10. I-10 West, I-10 East, coming this way to Baton Rouge. This is the main corridor between Baton Rouge and Lake Charles and Fubon into Texas.

Sure 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. It's actually beautiful back there. Pretty treacherous place. We had received some information from a cell phone tower. Immediately we thought about potential places to dump the body right here.

So that's one of the first places we look. When we heard this is where they were searching, nobody was surprised. 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. And look, all investigators, corners, they look.

We want to find the body fairly quickly, preserve evidence, things like that. In South Louisiana, with this heat and this humidity, a body will decompose very rapidly. That makes time and a fine in the body. Get it to the autopsy quick and determine calls of death, especially in a homicide case. Time is important.

“Tonight, you should spread puffington as a bobb and sky eye too.”

Brett is understand it. You've got some information you're just learning. So we had just within the last six minutes confirming with the April Perry Sheriff and the Baton Rouge Police Department's spokesperson that this search is in the phases of wrapping up.

No luck.

An unsuccessful search here in April, Perish as they look for the body of Lintel Washington.

They did not locate her.

“Police suspended the search and I think people were initially really upset about that.”

Because they knew that time was set the essence and they was flitting. Now, police are hopeful someone will come forward with information. As they work leads an attempt to figure out exactly what happened to Lintel Washington. This was the lead story in Baton Rouge. Three reporters, something is covering this from the morning through the day and into the evening.

Lintel Washington's face was on the news. Plintel Washington's been a police were asking for people to call in and give tips. If anybody saw anything that seems to be out of place, please give us a call. They had to be in the right area. They had to sell phone data.

They searched. They searched. They searched.

And finally, on the fifth day, they got to break.

Washington's cell phone was traced and rosedale. That's an irreville parish. If it were not for this three year old, they would not have had a first hand account.

“Of, who was in the car and who did this to Lintel without that girl?”

Who made the blood in the car? Solving the crime comes down to a child. When did you hear? Hi. Who is mommy got hurt?

What did you hear with your ears? Is mommy in the light? What she means she was found found where. I just couldn't process. She was found dead.

Like, what? Was there any doubt in your mind once they found her body? That was known that in my mind from day one. Now that I understood that it was murdered.

“If you want to get rid of a body, it's a good place to go.”

Would anything have led you back here just searching? It's obvious that this child sat there and watched this entire ordeal happened right in front of her. She's the key witness. She cannot identify him. Everything he's doing in the dark is now coming to light. He played all these growing women, but he couldn't play this three year old.

I have a child holding you sweetheart. She three years old. She's in the parking lot. Then he hit by herself with a pillow. When I heard that Lentea's daughter was found, wandering the parking lot, and she had blood on her feet,

I knew this is not right. I knew something else was wrong. Lentea, Washington, had been missing for about a week. And in this whole week, Jamisi and I, we would be on the phone with each other. Like during the morning, we were just waking up crying.

I was still praying that she wasn't dead, but at that point, as the days went on, you know, you're getting more and more of the likelihood of her not being alive. So yeah. Two over a swamp where police are searching for a missing teacher.

This is a huge story. It made headlines every day, led the top of our newscast every day. Everybody wanted to know where Lentea was. They searched, they searched.

And finally, on the fifth day, they got a break.

I received a call from the guy that owns the land here in Rosedale, and he said, "Money, look, I'm in Grandal. One of my workers located the body and our drainage ditch." I called me Jay Bear. He said, "Hey, look, money. I think this is probably going to be the school teacher.

We need to get on out there and secure the scene." Straight down here, this little headland, this rope, where the body was all located at. Well, this is certainly off the beaten path. It is, really. You see, all the cane they got, right?

Right? And it's miles and miles of cane. The older people that would come here would be the workers. They'd raise this cane. So you got the call, and where had they found a body?

That time, it had some water in this ditch,

because it was a water regrie.

“And there was no question in your mind. She had been dumped there.”

Absolutely. She was a transfer of dump. It's very humid. We have a lot of flies. Bring maggots. And a body can deteriorate.

And such a rapid pace. She was so badly decomposed. What I can't say is that we know it to be a female. And if all we can say is we take our time at it. You know, indications are that it's probably the person that we've been missing.

Physical evidence also indicates that the unidentified female is likely lentil.

The police had asked me where she was wearing,

and I was able to go through the school's camera system and identify where she had her own. The clothes match the clothes that lentil wore to school on the last day she was seen. On that security camera footage,

police zero in on lentil's sandals. When we discovered the body, you noticed that the left sandal was there. When we found the car with the blood in on the passenger side, we found the right foot sandal and was only one.

Two sandals match, which is actually pretty significant given the facts of the case. These investigators were very confident at that point that they'd found the body of lentil Washington. They still had to confirm it.

We were notified initially by the Iberville Parish Corner's office. They had come across the decident in a field. In this case, the manner of death was homicide, and the cause of death was gunshot wound to the head. The distinguished teacher, a mom,

a mom who was pregnant has been found dead, shot in the head, found dead in a ditch. I mean, what kind of person would do this? Melissa and I kept in touch. We were texting throughout.

“She was asking me, do you think that this is lentil?”

And then I said, well, I think we just have to wait and see. I think it was a few days later. The corner head said, we were able to identify the body as until Washington with dental records. Friends of lentil have remained hopeful,

but tonight they gather to remember the person she was. Now remember, I just dropped to the floor, and then my husband caught me. I couldn't even stand up. Because I'm like, what you mean,

she was found found where. I just couldn't process. She was found dead. Like, what? My main concern at that point was her daughter.

And keeping her away from the television, because they were constantly running the pictures and slaying teacher and all of these different things on the news. I knew her.

“Like, this is something I feel like if you would read”

on the news and you'd be like, oh, wow. I feel so bad for her students. And then you realized I am one of her students. That story was connected to the school forever. Her daughter is staying with family members now without a mom.

That was one of the hardest things I had to do with just a hit of words we found her. And that day just changed my life forever. In what ways? That I knew I had to do better.

I knew that enough was enough of the life I was living. The choices I made. This child's going to need a father and a lie. As Evelyn tells murder, wasn't devastating enough.

There was a second victim.

Her unborn child. We took a measurement of the fetus's femur. When the femur becomes a certain link, it equates to a certain gestation wage. It was about 22 weeks gestation.

Even after the trauma of Wintel Washington being shot in the head, the coroner believed that the child in there was, would have been able to be saved. Through DNA testing, police determined that Lintel Washington was indeed carrying Robert Mark's baby.

The DNA of Robert Mark's master DNA of that baby. That was his baby. Chemysia has told him that there was some bickering going back and forth between the two of them. He was a father of the child,

and that Lintel was threatening to tell his wife.

That was a huge piece of evidence to support what we had been

here and thinking.

“Was there any doubt in your mind once they found her body?”

That was known that in my mind from day one. And now that I understood that it was murder, I knew that he had done it. But police need proof. They've got a witness, Lintel's three-year-old daughter.

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Authorities now know that Lintel was indeed killed with a single bullet to her head,

“but what they don't know is who pulled the trigger?”

While they're searching for clues, and they are looking everywhere, investigators go back to that statement that Lintel's daughter made the day they found her in that parking lot. (dramatic music)

Well, here I am, see how I'm going. I'm not going to leave that promise. Okay? I'm going to say here would you still somebody come, alright? Once she became comfortable,

we were talking with me, and realized that I was there to help, and she opened up one. So, we have a copy of that I'm going to call her. Okay?

And when you're ready, you can just push play. Okay. What are you hurting sweetheart? You hurting what's wrong, tell me. (dramatic music)

“Mr. Robby Gonds, what happened to Mr. Robby?”

That's the first time she mentioned Mr. Robby.

At that point, she said, Mr. Robby's gone. She knew who left her in the parking lot. The little girl is very verbal, and she's very aware of the blood in the car. She says, "Mr. Robby, put the blood there."

(dramatic music) Mr. Robby did that lunch. He said, "Mr. Robby did that lunch." Mr. Robby made that lunch happen. Did he hit your mommy?

Did he hit your mommy? Oh. Okay. (dramatic music) At this point, I mean, it's obvious that this child

sat there and watched this entire ordeal happened right in front. But now I'm pissed because whatever happened happened in front of this child and this child was left and abandoned in the parking lot by Mr. Robby. And then he has to wait quite a while for a response from the police for all the while, getting more information.

Find out more what's happening. Okay, there are about five minutes away, okay? Oh, yeah, come on, that's about good. Okay. Then you just step it up a little bit.

Okay, three, two, two, and a sense of body out there.

When police finally get there,

the little girl keeps talking. The audio is captured on a police dashboard camera. And of course, the police are trying to figure out, well, who's Mr. Robby, like no one knows who Mr. Robby is. So who made the blood?

Who made the blood in the car? Let me surprise him. Okay, who's Mr. Robby? Are you your daddy? We've got a three-year-old who said Mr. Robby hurt my mom.

The police have no idea at that point, who that person is. Until the friend and coworker, Jamisha, shows up the scene. But she called me the lady. So she said, lady, Mr. Robby hurt my mom. That three-year-old says to you.

Yeah. And so I'm like, what, Mr. Robby?

You know, Mr. Robby, Mr. Robby.

“I said, wait, I said, Mr. Robby from the school, Mr. Robby.”

And she was shaking at it. Mr. Robby is the name Lintel's daughter called Robert Marx. Jamisha tells police that Marx is an assistant principal at the school where she and Lintel work. Then I said, okay, I said, so to the police officer,

I said, they were in a relationship.

I said, he would be the first place that I would start.

I was also responsible for taking her to the counseling center for them to get her testimony. They do these forensic interviews of children with people who are specifically skilled in this area 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. So she's a valuable asset in the investigation. As counselors are coloring with this child,

they're asking her about her favorite food. They're asking her about what her hobbies are. They're asking her about what she likes. And the midst of those questions, they're also asking her, what happened to Mommy?

What happened to your mom? You're about to hear the actual audio

“from the interview that authorities conducted with Lintel's”

three-year-old daughter. Mr. Robby, of course. Mr. Robby.

During the forensic interview,

a little bit more information comes out that's really important. What did you hear? I went on the gut hurt. What did you hear with your ears? I hear a couple.

Did you say Mr. Robby hurt Mommy? Just now. Awesome evidence. When we found the body, we did find that she was shot in hand.

So that corroborated what the little girl said. You hear the little girl in her own voice saying, "Mr. Robby, put the blood in my car, I heard a bang. My mom has started shaking. My mom is asleep by a lake."

Mommy in the lake? Yeah.

The irrigation dish is where she was in the sugar's hand bill.

What's that filter water at the time?

“Could that be the water that the daughter was talking about?”

That means that she must have died. This dish was full of water. Right. And that she must have been here. She must have been here.

He played all these grown women, but he couldn't play this three-year-old. Let's just see it. But Marx insisted that he has no idea what the three-year-old girl is talking about.

Your daughter's pretty intelligent. Absolutely. It was spoken with her daughter. But her daughter said you heard her. It's her fault.

It's her fault. Her feelings. None of them. Physically harmed her. Well, she said that.

Investigators are unwilling to pin their entire case on a three-year-old. But it turns out there is another witness, a silent witness that was with L'Intel and Marx the entire time.

Everything he's doing in a dark is now coming to life. [Music] Melissa Mason says she will forever be haunted by the advice she gave L'Intel just days before her friend disappeared.

When we got out the phone, the only thing she asked was, "Should I meet him face-to-face?" And I told her yes. I said, "That way you'll know if he's telling me truth."

And so... [Music] That was hard for me because I said yes. And I should have said no. [Music]

Now, L'Intel is dead and police are hoping that that very bone she used in her last conversation with Melissa might help solve her murder. So Robert Marx originally, when he's questioned by detectives,

he says, "Yes, so what's with L'Intel?" "What's the last time he saw her?" "That's a little bit better." "Yes, today, about a little more." "We'll call her when you get it."

"That was about a little psycho." He said, "After words, she won her separate ways and I went hung out with the guys at a restaurant. It was not what happened according to his cell phone records." He made a lot of mistakes.

And your job as an investigator is find the perpetrators mistakes and turn them into evidence. My name is Sai Ray.

as a subject matter expert in geolocation

“is to analyze data that is captured by the cell phone carriers.”

Investigators pull cell phone records for both Marx and L'Intel from the hours before and after she went missing. When we get these records back from the phone company, they're real monotonous.

They're hard to interpret. There's just a bunch of data in their hard to read. 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.

A lot of people wonder what is it that I do with my cell phone

that creates some type of record that I can be tracked by. And it's really anything in everything. Sometimes doing nothing, just having my phone set on a counter,

“completely in idle mode, but powered on, it is generating a digital exhaust”

if you will or a trail. You don't have to be on that phone. If you got Spotify, Pandora, if you got any app or anything running at any time on your phone, it's rolling.

It's pinging. You don't have to be on that phone. One of those apps is receiving some data. 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. We know that Robert marks text lintel Washington. He said he wanted to meet up. She drove from her house up to Baker.

The data confirms at least part of Robert Mark's statement to police. He and lintel did meet up near the Baker Walmart a little after eight o'clock the night that lintel disappeared. She comes out there and her car with her baby in the back seat. She meets Robert Marks.

He pulls up on a motorcycle he gets into the car. We tried to find cameras that would pick up that area. But the parking lot where the motorcycle was left had no video. So we were allowed on the phone records.

He says he left her at Baker Louisiana at a Walmart but he got into the car with her.

“If you remember, red icons are lintel's device.”

Blue icons are Robert's device. But you can see here briefly we're starting to get a purple icon. And of course what we're seeing with the purple is that when red and blue are overlaid directly on top 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. Both southern university veterans police department 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. After a time in this sparsely populated area about 10 minutes the phones are on the move again. He takes the European long old Mississippi River Bridge. And he takes highway 190 and ends up going too ramey.

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 out.

Ultimately, lintel will be found in this area.

He murders lintel, drives her to this agricultural area, dumps her body, and this whole time. Lintel's daughter, who is three years old, is in the back seat of the car while all of this is going on. The records then show marks and lintel's phones traveling east right back into Baton Rouge. He comes back heading east on Interstate 10. And then her phone goes offline.

You'll notice that we only see blue. You'll no longer see the red device because it is now powered off. It's something that was that her phone was maybe tossed into the lake at that point. So it's 11 o'clock at night. Robert Marx has hidden lintel's body and gotten rid of her phone.

Now he's got to deal with her blood so calm and her three-year-old daughter. That car was parked over for sure would force. And that morning, this baby, this three-year-old child, had gotten out of the car. This type of evidence you really want. It's irrefutable. He was with her after Walmart. He lied.

He lied then. He lied throughout this entire event. It's important to remember that this is an ongoing affair. They're communicating constantly.

And that's because he knows until Washington isn't sure he can't feel it.

She's dead and she's not going to answer the phone. Marx isn't contacting lintel but it doesn't mean that he's finished making calls for the night. He calls another lady friend. He's dating another one. He started texting the other girl, come meet me here, come meet me by sure would for us. Once police confirmed that that is indeed lintel Washington who they found dead in a ditch.

Police then charge Robert Marx with her murder. They charge him with feed aside the murder of the unborn baby and several other charges. Does it upset you that she's dead? The outside world is definitely pointing the finger at Robert Marx and saying, "Oh, he has done a lot of horrible things."

But his wife is standing up and defending him and saying he's a good man. Why Kayla says she is stunned by the arrest of her husband. She has described illegal commentator Nancy Grace, the man she loves is not a man accused of murder.

“Did you have any idea that they were having an affair?”

I did not, I did not not. One clue. I can only assume that she did that because her husband told her he was totally innocent and she was believing what Robert had to say. Within a couple of days of Robert Marx being arrested, he had two lawyers. They of course have to go to work.

They don't have a case. Any DNA evidence I would challenge that has been contaminated. The body landed a field for many, many days. But police say they've got another witness. Cellphone records show that Robert Marx returns to Baker to get his motorcycle around 11 o'clock

on the night that lintel is murdered. But if he leaves the three-year-old and lintel's Toyota in this parking lot, how does he get all the way back to Baker? I was watching a new scene that I was saying about. They show him where he's standing, he showed the lady, he has to fight there.

Is it his head and we stand there? And I'm like, "Oh my God, I missed him. I was with him." So another woman emerges in this story. Trimeka Jackson Trimeka is also having an affair with Robert. Lintel doesn't know about her.

Robert's wife doesn't know about her. But he's been having an affair with Trimeka.

So she was the third woman in Robert Marx life.

He had her believing that he was some sort of medical professional in this community. He actually told her he was a medical doctor. What's going on in your mind?

“Are you 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 in the trust you. Thanks to phone records, police know that Trimeka and Robert Marx are in close contact,

texting and calling back and forth the night lintel is murdered. When you look at Trimeka Jackson, you don't know what roles she played. Is she involved in this? Does she know what's going on? At this point, you can't have already access whether you know what or not. You see what I say?

I don't have enough. I want to give you whatever information. She's scared. She doesn't want to be involved in this. She comes in voluntarily, but that'll turn. And she's helpful.

I mean, they put nothing together.

“Trimeka provides a lot of important information for detectives.”

She is able to place Robert at the scene where the car was abandoned with lintel's little girl. It had to be 11 in five. He's saying what your father said. He calls up Trimeka Jackson and says, "Hey, can you come pick me up?"

And there she pulls up. She picked him up on that street that leads into department complex to the parking lot where the little girl was left. So we go out to a local bank and pull video and it's not the greatest of video,

but you can clearly see in the background

his second girlfriend comes to pick him up.

Trimeka has a dodge with various specific lights. Think of it as a bar of lights. And so, even though the video is grainy, the description of her car,

She picks him up and she drives him back to Baker

to get on as much as I can go home. I think with Trimeka, he sets her up. She's brought it to this thing. She was very forthcoming as far as her piece and taking him away from the scene.

No indication that she knew anything about what had gone on. Police are convinced that Trimeka was in the dark about Lintel's murder and about the abandoned metaphor daughter, the night that she gave Robert Marx a ride.

“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 Bill was set and he actually was able to leave jail. Bill was over $800,000.

I actually had the opportunity to interview Robert. He was leaving the Espatinal Rouge Parish courthouse and he came out and said Robert was starting anything you'd like to say.

I'm first I want to express sympathy to the family of the victim.

I'm really sorry that I had nothing to do with this. He was steadfast that he had nothing to do with it. It's a man just murdered a pregnant woman with his child in her belly. And kidnapped my child to go, don't dare body. And you're telling me he's not a danger of flatterers.

Now I have to leave and go to another state of a safe haven, just to protect my child to cause her home. Because they know she's to keep with. She can identify him. She's the one that I've seen.

The world who did it.

“Mark's lawyers insisting that this man, Robert March,”

he's not a murderer. The fact that crime is committed and all of a sudden, this gentleman who has everything that you lose is drugging to this. It's about this sensationalism. As the state prepares to go to trial,

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the stage is now set for a trial. The opening statements began today in the trial of a former assistant principal that he's on trial for her murder in Everville, Parish five years ago.

The trial of Robert Marks began with high emotion.

Robert Marks is finally facing a jury

after being out on bond for five and a half years. Waiting for him is prosecutor Tony Clayton. Tony Clayton is a powerhouse. People from all over this area sometimes like to go in when he's prosecuting any case

just to watch him because it really is a performance. The speaks in the way that you could only hear in a Louisiana courtroom. And his colorful opening statements. This is Lenteo.

Tony Clayton asks this Louisiana jury to serve up what he calls "Gumball Justice." In Louisiana, we love gumballs. I'll tell the jury that I'm going to make a gumball. I'm going to pull up his Google records.

I'm going to take his own records. I'm going to take his computer and look at all that in the pot and look at up the servitude and cold. Like that ice cold water that runs through his veins.

no DNA, and no eyewitness tying marks to the crime.

They don't have a case. The key witness is the victim's own child. It is the strongest moment in the trial

“and I think that they handled it so well.”

She seemed very collected. The evidence presented in court today was a video that showed the little girl being interviewed by a worker at the Children's Advocacy Center in Baton Ridge. The daughter explained that the mother was grabbing at her head

after she had been shot, and that Mr. Robby did it. The defense pins its case on questioning the reliability of a three year old, suggesting that some of her statements were inaccurate. Based on their childhoodness, 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 used his Robert Marx's own words against him.

His alibi was at a bar. "Where'd you go after you saw her? Get her a rod a bit, and that's like pizza." "Roran."

“What did Twin Peaks and pull up the cameras on that night?”

He never showed up to Twin Peaks.

Did he not know that bars have security cameras? That cellphones, ping towers? Investigators had no problem poking a hole in everything he said. Oddly, the defense doesn't offer up a reason as to why we don't see Robert Marx on those Twin Peaks videos.

Ultimately, the prosecutor lays out the motive for the whole thing. The tell was pregnant by Robin Marx, and they were going through some problems. As 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 too. 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.

We've got one of the oldest motives imaginable. He's having an affair. This woman has become pregnant with his child, and clearly this is child that he does not want. 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.

[Music] Rather than searching for things like, "I don't know, baby bass and etz online." He starts looking for guns online. He starts researching bizarre stories involving pregnant women who have gone missing or were murdered.

[Music] Again, the defense doesn't address this evidence at all. He has a life that he does not want to blow up when this Washington house in this baby. Her friends had told us she had texted Robert, and basically said, "If you don't tell your wife, I will."

He wanted to make sure that his name and his image remain unharmed. And she was a big threat to that at that point because she was going to expose him.

Throughout that whole testimony, he just never moved.

He just never, he just sat there completely cold to everything. Robert Marks attorney doesn't call any witnesses, and he doesn't do a closing argument.

“How can you defend a man who is up on murder charges without presenting one witness?”

I don't get that. 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. I can't try to read the jurors. I couldn't read them, and so caught on me, so I feel in a little nervous.

Also waiting for that verdict is Lintel's daughter, who's not so little anymore. That brave little girl is now nine years old. You'll meet her when we come back.

We the people, the 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. It only took the jury about 30 minutes to find Robert Marks' guilty of murder and feticide. All of us were on the same side, same decision.

“I don't remember anybody even arguing it was so ironclad.”

There was no upset emotions we knew we were doing the right thing. And I remember just yelling at me, got it right, they got it right.

Now the five and a half years finally got all just to serve today.

My thought we had raised enough reasonable doubt that the result would have been different. After the verdict, Mark's 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 is actually one of the worst prisons in this country. And there are things worse than the death penalty in Louisiana.

And Louisiana, they call it Angola. And he deserves every bit of what's going to happen to him of that. I hate to come across that tough, but this was just so unjustifiable. I spent some time with Lynn Tells, daughter. Really?

She's a little shy, but like most kids, she tells me she likes making those TikTok videos. If you get that, that's going to be a project.

“Do you remember anything about your mom?”

Yeah. You look at pictures he says sometimes. Yeah? What do you see in Lintel? In John?

I see that she's smart, educated. She's focused when she puts a mind to stuff. I hope that somewhere inside of her that strong little girl realizes that she stood up for her mom. My heart breaks for her.

She's got to go to middle school for her first day.

She has to go to senior prom. Mom's not going to be there to take a picture to give her a hug. It's so sad because Robert Marks made sure that her mom wouldn't be there with her.

“We have our good days with our bad days.”

Sometimes she says, I miss Mommy. I wish Mommy was here. I said, I do too. My mom isn't having the things with her. That little girl that I set with once David is now a teenager, Lintel's daughter.

And she is living with relatives. And they tell us she's enjoying life. Loves to dance. We love hearing that.

We should also point out tonight that Robert Marks appeal was denied.

And he declined to speak with ABC News. That is our program for tonight. Thank you for watching. I'm David New York. And I'm Jennifer Roberts from all of us here at ABC News and 2020.

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