and i said, yeah. i said there was one. andrea canning: and something else that was troubling years before, carl says he got violent with beverly as she tried to stop him from driving drunk. carl: i mean i even hit her one time. that s when she got out of the truck. she says, i m not going to ride with you. i said, well, stay here, then. i mean i just drove off just straight into a ditch. did you regret it? oh, yeah. like i felt like poo-cocky as far as that goes. honestly, i really need to roll in it. so did you worry how that would look? no. i didn t worry a bit. i wanted to find beverly. one thing i wanted to find beverly. and i said, you know, i hit her, and it was that. but just one time out of 34 years, one slap upside the head that isn t bad. andrea canning: he says that was many years ago, and beverly never held it against him.
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?
andrea canning: carl carter was worried about his wife, beverly. she had promised to be home for dinner after showing this house not too far away, but it was dark now. she wasn t answering her phone, and at the property for sale, her car was in the driveway, but there was no sign of her. carl says he called the police. then, his son. he says, you know, it s almost 9 o clock, and he says, son, i haven heard from your mom. have y heard from her? and you know, i m texting her. i m calling her, and i can t i can t get any response. and my first thought was, dad, this is just the nature of the business. andrea canning: to reassure his dad and himself, carl jr. and his wife, kim, drove over to beverly s office hoping she d be there. there was no one there. i mean the place is completely black, and about that time, dad had let me know that he had made it to the property where