beverly: carl, it s beverly. i just wanted to let you know i m ok. i haven t been hurt. just do what he says, and please don t call the police. if you call the police, it could be bad. just want you to know i love you very much. andrea canning: it was encouraging, but it only proved beverly was alive at the time of the recording. the detective told lewis he needed more. and that s when he finally says, well, i ll take you to the last place that she was. so this is a big moment now yep. andrea canning: in this whole case. this is it. detective allison: yep. that s when we load him up, and we started going to cabot, arkansas. andrea canning: beverly s family prayed this nightmare was about to end. did you note that aaron lewis was saying your mom was alive? yes. we knew that after they had him, and they were interrogating him. chad: and that was a big boost of energy. when he was telling us, it was like it was so uplifting. we re like, ok, we re about to get her back. it s great. is ev
investigators attention these blurry and dark pictures she took of the house she was trying to sell. not exactly showcase material. and when her daughter-in-law had a chance to see them you have a theory about why they re badly taken photos. kim: you can just tell that it was like quick, just quick. like she knew. i knew she knew something was wrong. andrea canning: she believed beverly was scared of those potential buyers and was rushing to finish showing the house. it was all bad news. beverly carter had now been missing for three days. carl jr.: now i ve never felt that kind of loss of control. you feel utterly hopeless. and helpless. carl jr.: yes. you can t do anything. yeah. andrea canning: what they didn t know was that detectives were about to crack this case wide open. the team that had discovered the buyer s contact information was fake kept investigating. detective allison: and they were able to start taking the email address and the phone numbers, start working that, sen
we got her. mm-hm. pacing. andrea canning: lewis led detective allison on a nail-biting road trip 30 miles out of town to the last place he claimed to have seen beverly alive a shed on the side of the road. what are you thinking as you re approaching this shed? that there s a really good chance she could be here or you re not so sure? i m hoping like hell she s in there. we go in, and she wasn t in there. she had never been in there. that s such a letdown. tell me about it. it was bad. it was bad. andrea canning: but lewis wasn t done. he had a captive audience, and he knew it. he took the police to a new location, a house about 35 miles away. and he says, well, this is where i initially took her right after i abducted her. [inaudible] somebody walked in. there was nothing. andrea canning: another letdown. another letdown. are you feeling like this guy is just taking us on a wild goose chase?
did you have just a grim feeling right out of the gate that this woman did not disappear voluntarily? i was hopeful, but i did have a feeling, yes. andrea canning: the detectives searched the vacant house. it was pitch black. the electricity was off. detective allison: i got down on the floor with my flashlight, and when it s dark, you can shine a light at a specific angle, where you can see disturbances in dust. there were disturbances, but it just looked like somebody had walked through there. andrea canning: no signs of a struggle inside, but he did discover a clue outside the front door. detective allison: there was a tire track in the grass, so it looked like somebody had pulled up against the next to that front door or back into the back door. the neighbor across the street had seen something. yes. she looked out the window and saw a black vehicle pulled into the driveway, and about 25 to 30 minutes later, looked outside, saw a skinny white male with short hair outside of the ho
and then detective allison thought of one more possibility a cement plant called argos, where lewis had recently worked. detective allison: i point blank asked him if beverly was at argos. and at that point, he was looking down at the table. when i said that, he looked up, and he just had this stupid look on his face. and so i figured right then that that s probably where she was at. andrea canning: police raced over to the factory hoping to find beverly alive. craig melvin: coming up, another game from aaron lewis. i was so mad about how dare you try to tarnish our sweet beverly s reputation? craig melvin: and at last, an answer for her family. he said, we found beverly. craig melvin: when dateline continues.