just say? two weeks later, shannon interviewed lewis in jail and he told a vastly different story than the one he d 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 hook-up 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 it was completely farfetched. 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 lewis s wife, crystal lowery. i thought from from the
and a successful real estate broker with a long list of clients. then she vanished. like all too many missing persons cases, police knew it was a race against time to find her before it was too late. here s andrea canning with the client. beverly carter was making a name for herself in little rock, arkansas. her face was in the paper every week. she had a billboard on one of the busiest interstates with her face on it. as a top selling realtor, beverly carter had become somewhat of a local celebrity. with her smile, he put house hunters at ease, trusted to find the perfect home like she often did. nobody can do it like beverly could. but there was a down side to celebrity. this realtor had a target on her back. she did and she didn t know it. for beverly, being a realtor
carl jr. figured there must be an explanation, as did beverly s friend stacy and brenda. being real estate agent themselves, she thought maybe she had gone with the potential buyers to show them other houses. we went to the two vacant houses that were her listings and went and checked the locked boxes to see if anyone had read them and nobody had opened them. beverly s friend couldn t sleep so she checked her phone. there s 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 we can t find beverly, she went to show a house and she is missing. i still can read that and feel the same pay. police and beverly s family gathered at the property trying to figure out where she was. how was your dad handling everything? he was hard to read. he would sneak away from time to time trying to collect his thoughts.
i was like, well, we re just here. the ones on her husband s phone were just as deflating. carl jr. knew his mom would never go out and not tell anyone. i can t even tell you, to go from she s okay, this is all over, till the second we saw the screen and saw what the texts said, we knew someone had her phone. totally flipped me out. she d been took. the patrol division that responded to the call decided they needed backup. they rushed to the property. beverly hadn t been missing that long. why were you called so quickly? the division showed up and determined some of the factors in the case were odd. not only was beverly s car parked in the driveway, her purse was locked inside. did you have just a grim feeling right out of the gate that this
area. her family, 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 her job had gone missing. and agents were already on alert. in recent years there had been a rise in crimes against real estate brokers across the country, brutal assaults and even murder. how often did you talk about safety? i mean, we always talked about it but a lot of times if someone called us and asked us to go show a house, out of instinct you d jump up and go. but this was not a last-minute showing for beverly. she said she d been in contact with the client for a few days. she wanted to make sure the wife was going to be there also. i think it made her more comfortable that the wife would be with him. the wife got on the telephone and told her, yes, she would be there.