house with a vehicle backed to the front door. i put two and two together, and that s probably where the the tire track came from. reporter: the detective found more to go on in the back of beverly s car. i found a notebook that she kept with realtor information on it that showed a listing for that house. was there anything in that notebook that was providing you with with any clues? attached to that listing was an email address and a phone number. did you call it right away? i did not call it right away, no. reporter: he didn t pick up the phone for a good reason the detective had a theory. i felt that beverly, wherever she was, she was being held against her will. reporter: if this was a kidnapping, he knew they had to tread lightly with any possible suspects. like the couple she met at the house, if they were involved, the last thing he wanted to do was tip them off. and the detective says there was someone else he had his eye on. coming up people were sa
he said, we found beverly. i said, well, sh was she alive? and and, no, i m sorry. but she wasn t. we had worked so hard, i mean to find her. i mean we just we really tried to do right and it wasn t it wasn t enough. i know she pleaded. i know she pleaded for her life and to be sent come back to us. and for her grandbabies. and i just have to know that god was there to comforting her. reporter: arron lewis was charged with murder and kidnapping. and his wife crystal lowery charged as his accomplice. they pleaded not guilty, but his words to reporter shannon miller outside the sheriff s office didn t sound like those of an innocent man. why beverly? why beverly? she was a rich broker. it was just as chilling in person as it was on tv. and then he gets into the car
beverly s personal life. you said this case is about secret lives. what did you mean by that? in order for our defense to to be correct, she would have had to be living a life that was basically secret or at least doing something that other people didn t know about. reporter: here s where lewis s story got even stranger. he was no longer implying that he had sex with beverly. he claims he was out of the house at the time? that s i mean that s what he said, yes. reporter: lewis said the tryst was between beverly and crystal he said beverly accidentally died during rough sex. she died while with his wife and that he was only just protecting his wife and trying to cover up for her. reporter: to further bolster this story, james suggested to the jury that beverly had been prone to poor judgment. he pointed out that she was broke but driving a brand new cadillac and getting expensive plastic surgery. i m just saying, she made some bad decisions.
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
there was no one there. i mean, the the place is completely black, and about that time dad had let me know that he had made it to the property where mom told him she was going. and her car was there, but she wasn t. reporter: carl jr. figured there must be an explanation, as did beverly s friends, stacey and brenda. being real estate agents themselves, they thought maybe she had gone with the potential buyers to show them other houses. we went to the two vacant houses that were beverly s listings, and went and checked the lockboxes and read em to see if anybody had opened em, and nobody had opened em. reporter: as the hours ticked by beverly s friend denise couldn t sleep, so she checked her phone. there was an e-mail from brenda. and i can still see the words that said, it is with a very heavy heart that i let you know that we can t find beverly. she went to show a house and she is missing. and i still can read that and feel the same pain. reporter: police and b