trouble. she d been missing for a few hours and her husband was in a panic. then a text. but was it from beverly and what did it mean? here s andrea canning with more of the client. 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 said, son, i haven t heard from your mom. have you heard from her? 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. to reassure his dad and himself, carl jr. and his wife, kim, drove over to beverly s office hoping she d be there.
violent with beverly as she tried to stop him from driving drunk. i mean, i even hit her one time. that s when she got out of the truck and said i m not going to ride with you. i said stay here then. 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. i said, you know, i hit her, and that was that. just one time out of 34 years, one slap up side the head, that is bad. he says that was many years ago and beverly never held it against him. she forgave me right then because she knew that i wasn t it wasn t me.
not exactly showcase material. when her daughter-in-law had a chance to see them you have a theory about why they re badly taken photos. you can just tell that it was like quick, just quick. like she knew i knew she knew something was wrong. 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. 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
to figure out where she was. how was your dad handling everything? i felt like he was hard to read. he would sneak away from time to time trying to collect his thoughts. and then at 1:00 a.m. bam, bam, bam, three texts. i hollered at the officer, come here, beverly texted me. word that beverly texting gave everyone hope. i was ecstatic. this is done. i was like her phone it died, she got it charged, it s good. brenda and stacy got texts of their own. our phones both started beeping at the same time with texts. it was such an eerie feeling. i was just like, oh, my gosh. what was he saying to you two? she said, i m sorry, my phone has been dead and i just turned it back on. it sounded promising but a little off. concerned brenda used that safety technique the office came up with and texted beverly with the special code.
two weeks later, shannon interviewed louis in jail and he told a vastly different story from the one he told detectives. was he willing to cop to anything? no. i didn t kill her. i didn t murder her. and anything that did occur was an accident. then he tried to say beverly played a role in her own death. he implied she willingly met him at the house for a sexual hookup that went wrong. it didn t have nothing to do with her showing the home. just a place to meet. in your opinion, how farfetched was this new story about the sexual encounter? well, it was 100% made up. so completely far-fetched. assistant district attorney john johnson was assigned the case. he believed it was a kidnapping gone wrong but needed help proving it in court. he turned to louis s wife, crystal lowrie. i thought from the very beginning we would need to flip crystal and it would be important for the case for her to testify.