Marie Fontenot is a young Louisiana girl who goes missing circa 1990. Her mother files a police report but not much is done about it as it is assumed that she ran off with her birth father and the sheriff at the time apparently felt she would be better off there.
History[]
While investigating the murder of Dora Lange, Detectives Martin Hart and Rustin "Rust" Cohle are informed of the disappearance of Marie 5 years previously, when one of the people they are questioning assumes it is her body that has been found.
They visit her uncle due to what Cohle will later call intuition. He is in poor health and can hardly talk but the woman he lives with informs the detectives that Marie had played at their house more often than her mother's and that they had cared deeply for the girl. She also claims not to know where she currently is but states that she also believes Marie to have run off with her father. Suspicion begins to shift once the detectives find a bird trap in her aunt's shed, similar to the ones found at the Dora Lang crime scene.
Her case remains untouched until 2010 when Cohle interviews Toby Boelert, a former elementary classmate of Marie at Shepards Flock in 1988 (a school funded by Tuttle's Wellspring Program). Toby explains that during their nap time he and Marie saw people in animal masks (along with an unmasked man with scars on his face) taking pornographic pictures of them and other crude things. Marie starts talking about them, causing a scandal leading the school to shut down (then reopen two years later as Light of Way). Marie is then kidnapped by the Tuttle/Childress family.
Marie's mother reports her disappears to Erath deputy Steve Garaci. The Sheriff, Ted Childress changes the file to "Report Made in Error" claiming he talked to the mother and straightened it out. Marie's whereabouts are not seen until Cohle breaks into Billy Lee Tuttle's house and takes his safe. Inside the safe he finds blindfolded pictures of Marie and what is to be assumed the pictures taken of her and her classmate at Shepard's Flock. Finally in the safe is a video tape of Marie's ritualistic rape and murder, finally confirming her death.
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- 101. "The Long Bright Dark" (Mentioned only)
- 103. "The Locked Room" (Mentioned only)
- 107. "After You've Gone" (Mentioned) (Indirect appearance in unseen video footage)
- 108. "Form and Void" (Mentioned) (Indirect appearance in unseen video footage)