wife back. he sounded heartbroken but not everybody was buying the distraught husband story. people were saying, oh, the husband must have had something to do with it, must have hired somebody. we all watch a lot of dateline. carl jr., so worried about his mom, now feared his dad could become a suspect. they were asking questions like, okay, you re the husband and you just went into this home to search for her, you ve gone up in the attic. your fingerprints are everywhere. you just completely contaminated our crime scene, why did you do that? and so you could just see their wheels turning. it was like, oh, no. he was right to worry. detective allison brought carl sr. in for questioning. did you put carl in an interview room? yes. and treated him like this is someone we need to take seriously? yes. any time you do an interview like that, it s best to do it in that setting. you re down at a detective s
office in an interview room and i m giving an interview. it plays on their emotions. did you ever consider the possibility that carl could have paid somebody to do this? yeah, i thought about it. 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. 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 exact dollar amount but it wasn t much. $126? that sounds about right. was there a life insurance policy? yes, several thousand dollars. $100,000. $100,000? yes. i don t remember the exact dollar amount. the detective also learned about other issues he found disturbing. he said, well, did you have any kind of affair? i said, yeah, i said, i had one. and something else that was troubling. years before, carl s
e-mail and phone number. did names pop up? yes. their real names, aaron lewis and his wife, crystal lowery. police raced over to put the couple s house under surveillance. this was a very delicate operation. yes. we were working with the expectation and the hope that she was still alive. detective allison said he wasn t sure if the couple was even involved. he first wanted to see what he looked like. remember their eyewitness had seen a skinny white man with short brown hair the night beverly disappeared. they hadn t been there long when a man matching that description walked out the door but they didn t approach him. were you hoping he would lead to you beverly? yes. was that the idea? yes. we felt if we made contact too early, if he was the one we were looking for, everything is shot. louis got into his car and that s when the detective says the plan quickly fell apart. he actually saw us sitting there. that s when he started speeding off.
welcome back. at last police in arkansas thought they knew where beverly carter was. but was she alive? a mad dash led to a discovery and an answer for her family. here s andrea canning with the conclusion of the client. four days after beverly carter disappeared, police pulled up to this remote cement plant. they frantically searched for the missing real estate agent. you just now have this gut feeling that that s where she s at? yeah. shortly after arriving, an officer stumbled on something straight out of a crime novel, an elbow sticking out of a shallow grave. it was beverly. detective allison went to see carl. you never forget the look on somebody s face when you tell them that you found their spouse. it s hard. it s probably the hardest part of it. he said we found beverly. i said, well, is she alive?
driver who had been convicted of petty crimes in several states. to beverly s son carl jr., he didn t look like a kidnapper. he just looks like a regular guy. so it was like what did this punk want with my mom? like it didn t make sense. i almost was like are we sure we have the right guy? 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, where is she? come on, where are you? we re ready to find you. as investigators focused on aaron louis, they backed off on beverly s husband as a suspect. now detective allison was keeping carl in the loop. he said we got him. i said, well, where s beverly? he said we re still questioning him. we re going to find out.