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 tack seriously? yes. any time you do an interview like that, it s best to do it in that setting. you re town at a down at a detective s office and i m giving an interview. 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. 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
and was rushing to finish showing the house. it was all bad news. beverly carter had now been missing for three days. i ve never felt that kind of loss of control. you feel utterly hopeless. and helpless. you can t do anything. yeah, yeah. what they didn t know was that detectives were about to crack this case wide open. the team that had discovered the buyers contact information was fake kept investigating. and they were able to start taking the e-mail address and phone numbers and sending out search warrants and obtaining subscriber information to that e-mail and phone number. did names pop up? yes. their real names, aaron lewis and his wife, crystal lowrie. police raced over to put the couple s house under surveillance. this was a very delicate operation. yes. we were working with the expectation with the hope that she was still alive. detective allison said he wasn t sure if the couple was
i ll take you to the last place that she was. so this is a big moment now. yup. in this whole case. this is it. yup. that s when we load him up and we start going to cabot, arkansas. beverly s family prayed this nightmare was about to end. did you know that aaron louis was saying your mom was alive? yes. we knew that after they had him and they were interrogating him. there was a big boost of energy. when he was telling us, it was so uplifting. we were like, okay, we re about to get her back. it s great. is everybody sit big the phone, waiting for the call, we got her? mm-hmm. pacing. louis led detective allison on a nail-biting road trip 30 miles out of town to the last place he claim to have seen beverly alive, a shed on the side of the road. what are you thinking as you are approaching the shid, that
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. we re going to keep on till we find her. then did you have a little burst of hope? just a little bit of hope. that s all i had. really your biggest task was to find out where beverly was? that was my biggest task and concern at that time. did louis know where beverly was? if he did, would he tell the detective? what was his story? where was beverly? he said that he kidnapped beverly and it was because of money. he said he found her on the internet, searched her out, saw
he was an unemployed truck driver who d 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. and so it was 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? reporter: 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 when he was captured, we were just all like, yes! okay. okay now, where is she? come on. where are you? uh-huh. you know, we re ready to find you. reporter: as investigators focused on arron lewis, they backed off on beverly s husband as a suspect. now, detective allison was keeping carl in the loop. he said, maybe we got him. and i said, well, where s beverly? he said, we re still questioning him. we re gonna find out. we re gonna keep we re gonna keep on till we find her.