head, that ain t bad. he says that was many years ago and beverly never held it against him. she forgave me right then because she knew i wasn t me. detective ellisson said he wasn t ready to cross carl off his list. he had other work to do. the e-mail address and phone numbers of the perspective buyers were favenlth checking the couple had more dig. her cell carrier retrieved eerie know tos inside the house just before she went missing. what had happened inside that house? a new lead morphs into an all out manhunt. coming up. he jumps out of a second story window. it seems like a movie, a chase, kidnaping? oh, yeah. when dateline continues today is the day you re going to get motivated.
cadillac and getting expensive plastic surgery. she made some bad decisions. maybe she made another one. finally he took the stand. during cross examination prosecutors pounced. they questioned him about every detail, including that one piece of evidence that seemed to contradict his entire story, beverly s voice on that tape telling her husband she d been kidnapped. what he ultimately told the jury was that he had done it himself, he had synthesized her voice and created this tape. you ll forgive me if that maybe sounds a little silly. will you forgive me if i remind you i didn t say it happened. i m just saying what happened at the trial. to beverly s friends and family, lewis s story was not only preposterous. it was painful to listen to. we ve been victimized over
. 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 9:00, he says, son, i haven t heard from your mom. have you heard from her? and you know i m texting her, calming 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. reporter: to reassure his dad and himself, carl jr. and his wife kim drove over to beverly office hoping she would be there. there s no one there. the place is completely black
done. we had hundreds. hundreds joined search parties all over the area. her office family came together and we had realtors from all over the state helping us and by that afternoon, we had the search set up and everybody had an assignment. many realtors felt this was personal. one of their own while out doing their should be had gone missing and agents were already on alert. in recent years, there was a rice in climb i crime on real estate people, brutal assaults and murder. how often do you talk about safety? we talk about it. a lot of times if somebody called us, out of instinct you would jump up and go. but this was not a last minute showing, beverly said she had been in contact with the client for a few days. she had concerns initially, it was a man that contacted her. she wanted to make sure the wife was there also. that deal was made?
odd. not only was beverly s car parked in the driveway. her purse was locked inside. did you have a grim feeling out of the gate that this woman did not disappear voluntarily? i was hopeful. i did have a feeling, yes. reporter: the detectives searched the vacant house. it was pitch black. the electricity was off. i got down on the floor and with my flashlight when it s dark, you can slight a light at a specific angle. you can see disturbances and dust. there were disturbances. he discovered a clue outside the front door. there was a tire track in the grass. it looked like somebody pulled up next to the front door or the back door. the neighbor across the street saw something? she saw a black vehicle pulled into the driveway. about 25, 30 minutes, saw a skinny white male with short hair outside of the house with