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any time you do an interview like that, it s always best to get into a setting. you re down at a detective office in an interview room, and i m giving an interview. so that plays on their emotions. did you ever consider the possibility that carl could have paid somebody to do this? yeah, i thought about it. andrea canning: did you know why you were considered somebody that they needed to talk to? once i got in there, and they started questioning me, then i knew that i was a suspect. andrea canning: as detective allison continued to question carl, he discovered some skeletons. they were having financial issues. yeah. how much money did beverly carter have in her checking account? i don t know the exact dollar amount, but it wasn t much. andrea canning: $126? yeah, sounds about right. was there a life insurance policy? yes, several thousand dollars. $100,000. $100,000. yeah, but i don t remember the exact dollar amount. andrea canning: the detective also learned about other issues he fou
in the back of beverly s car. detective allison: i found a notebook that she kept with realtor information on it that showed a listing for that house. was there anything in that notebook that was providing you with any clues? attached to that listing was an email address and a phone number. did you call it right away? i did not call it right away, no. andrea canning: he didn t pick up the phone for a good reason. the detective had a theory. detective allison: i felt that beverly, wherever she was, she was being held against her will. andrea canning: if this was a kidnapping, he knew they had to tread lightly with any possible suspects like the couple she d met at the house. if they were involved, the last thing he wanted to do was tip them off. and the detective says there was someone else he had his eye on. craig melvin: coming up carl jr.: they were asking questions like, ok, you re the husband, and you just completely contaminated our crime scene. why did you do that? i knew that i
to beverly s son, carl jr., he didn t look like a kidnapper. carl jr.: he just looks like a regular guy, and it s almost like, what did this punk want with my mom? like it didn t make sense. and so i almost was like, are we sure we have the right guy? andrea canning: detectives believed they did, but the roller coaster ride for beverly carter s family and friends was far from over. i can remember the feeling when he was captured. we were just all like, yes, ok, now where is she? come on. where are you? you know, we re ready to find you. andrea canning: as investigators focused on aaron lewis, they backed off on beverly s husband as a suspect. now detective allison was keeping carl in the loop. and he said, maybe we got him. and i said, well, where s beverly? he said, we re still questioning him. we re going to find out. we re going to keep [inaudible]. we re going to keep on until we find her. then did you have a little burst of hope? just a little bit of hope. i mean that s all i had.
carl: she forgave me right then, because she knew that i wasn t me. andrea canning: detective allison says he wasn t ready to cross carl off his list. he had other work to do. the email address and phone numbers of the prospective buyers found in beverly s notebook were fake. tracking the couple required more digging, and he had a new clue to follow. beverly s cell carrier retrieved eerie photos from her phone taken inside the house just before she went missing. what had happened inside that house? a new lead morphs into an all out manhunt. coming up detective allison: a guy jumps out of a second story window. this is like a movie, this chase and this kidnapping. oh, yeah. craig melvin: when dateline continues.