looking for her, wondering where could she have gone. to not come home from work after doing something you do every single day, it left a huge mystery. what happened to her? reporter: beverly s husband carl even made a televised plea. i just would like to have my wife back. reporter: he sounded heartbroken. there s crazy people out here in the world. reporter: but not everyone was buying the distraught husband story. people were saying, oh, the husband must have had somethin to do with it. the husband must have hired somebody. you know, we all watch a lot of dateline. reporter: 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 and to search for her. you ve gone even 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 l
and then, detective allison thought of one more possibility, a cement plant called argos where lewis had recently worked. i pointblank asked him if beverly was at argo s. 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 i so i figured right then that that s that s probably where she was at. reporter: police raced over to the factory, hoping to find beverly alive. coming up, another game from aaron lewis. i was so mad. i thought, how dare you try to tarnish our sweet beverly s reputation. and at last, an answer for beverly s family. he said, we found beverly. what does life look like during your period? it s up to you, with tampax pearl. you get ultimate protection on your heaviest days and smooth removal for your lightest.
questioning. did you put carl in an interview room? yes. and treated him like this is somebody we need to take seriously. yes. anytime you do an interview like that, it s always best to get into a setting you re down at a detective s office in an interview room and i m givin an interview. so it it s it plays on their emotions. did you ever consider the possibility that carl could ve 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 started questionin me, then i knew that i was a suspect. reporter: 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. $126? yeah. sounds about right. was there a life insurance policy? yes. several thousand dollars. $100,000.
that isn t bad. reporter: he says that was many years ago and beverly never held it against him. she forgive me right then. because she knew that it i wasn t wasn t me. reporter: 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 coming up she knew something was wrong. what had happened inside that house? a new lead morphs into an all-out manhunt! the guy jumps out of a second story window. this is like a movie, this chase and this kidnapping. oh, yeah. the moment you realize your paint isn t laser proof.
and they were able to start takin the email address and the phone number, start working that, sendin out search warrants, and obtain scri subscriber information to those email and and that phone number. did names pop up? uh, yes. reporter: their real names arron 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. reporter: detective allison says he wasn t sure if the couple was even involved, he first wanted to see what arron lewis looked like. remember their eye-witness had seen a skinny white man with short brown hair the night beverly disappeared. they hadn t been sitting there long when suddenly a man matching that description walked out the door. but they didn t approach him. were you hoping he might lead you to beverly? yes. is that the idea? we felt that if we made contact with him too