The family, still embroiled in a battle with Tanya Flanders for custody of Grace, the baby Carlson bore, let the former pastor of Calvary Emerald Coast Church know Tuesday they weren’t ready to forgive his lies and deception.
Flanders revealed at that time Carlson’s body had been buried all along in the backyard of the home he lived in when she disappeared. He and his attorney, Glenn Swiatek, struck the deal in April to secure the manslaughter charge. 24, 2011.įlanders was always suspected of possible wrongdoing, but without a body authorities struggled to build a case.įlanders, who had fathered a child with Carlson while involved in a polygamous relationship with her and his present wife, Tanya, moved to Arizona shortly after the disappearance.Ī break in the case came when Carlson’s disappearance was featured on the television show “Cold Justice” in April 2015.
The state had allowed Flanders, who originally had been charged with second-degree murder, to plead guilty to the manslaughter charge earlier this year in return for his telling investigators where he had buried Carlson’s body almost five years ago.Ī search for Carlson began after her ex-husband reported her missing Oct. “I’m happy that he did receive the maximum allowed by law,” Bridges said after the hearing. Okaloosa County Circuit Judge William Stone didn’t hesitate to tag Flanders with the maximum sentence following a long hearing that featured impassioned pleas from Carlson’s family for strict punishment and Flanders’ gripping apology.įlanders’ apparent remorse didn’t move Randy Bridges, one of Carlson’s brothers. FORT WALTON BEACH - James Flanders, once the popular pastor of a Fort Walton Beach church, will serve 15 years in prison on a manslaughter charge for the 2011 killing of Marie Carlson, his “sister wife.”
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