and i was like, well, we re right here. andrea canning: the texts on beverly s husband s phone were just as deflating. they read, yes, sorry, phone been dead, and having drinks now. carl jr. knew his mom would never go out and not tell anyone. carl jr.: i can t even tell you like to go from this she s ok, this is all over, to the second we saw that screen and saw what those texts said, we knew. someone has her phone. totally flipped me out. i said she s she d been took. andrea canning: the patrol division who responded to the call decided they needed backup. detective jeff allison rushed over to the property. beverly hadn t really been missing for that long, so why were you called here that quickly? [inaudible] division showed up and started speaking with the husband and determined that some of the factors in the case were odd. andrea canning: not only was beverly s car parked in the driveway, her purse was locked inside.
as her 50th birthday approached, beverly was determined to get in shape. she started running, working her way up to 5k races. brenda: the reason that she started running some of the times was the medals. andrea canning: she lost nearly 60 pounds and threw herself a big birthday party, and she gave herself a present cosmetic surgery. you know, she d had the tummy tuck, but she had also had implants, because she d had stacy: a lift. a lift. and it was kind of a big joke, because when they put the implants in, they were just a little bit larger than she wanted them to be. yes, they were. brenda: and oh, we had some big laughs about that. and she was going to go have them reduced, because she was like, i mean they hadn t fallen, and they were like sitting up here, and it was but she did look good. oh, she looked fabulous. andrea canning: and being a real estate agent, she felt it was important to look her best. on an unseasonably warm september day in 2014, beverly was easing back into
and i m texting her. i m calling her. oh, gosh. what s happened here? something s wrong. craig melvin: was she in danger? was someone behind this? beverly: it s beverly. i haven t been hurt. please don t call the police. if you call the police, it could be bad. you can hear how scared she was. craig melvin: suddenly, an all out manhunt. this is like a movie, this chase and this kidnapping. oh, yeah. craig melvin: could anyone reach her in time? how to be strong for everybody i had to be. emotions were just everywhere. i know she pleaded. i know she pleaded. did you find her? is she alive? [music playing] welcome to dateline. beverly carter was well known in little rock, arkansas. she was a beloved mother, wife, and a successful real estate broker with a long list of clients. then she vanished. like all too many missing persons cases,
detective allison: he said they walked upstairs, and when they got to the top of the stairs, he pulled out a flashlight taser and told her that she was about to have a bad day. and she asked, what are you talking about? he said, you re being kidnapped. beverly must have been just absolutely terrified. i mean no doubt, no doubt. andrea canning: lewis then claimed he had an accomplice, and he wasn t talking about his wife, who had set up the meeting with beverly. it was someone else. he said if anything happened to beverly, trevor done it. who s trevor? trevor is a guy that aaron actually lived with for a short period of time. did this give you some hope that maybe there was an accomplice here and that maybe he did have beverly? detective allison: i had hope that we were going to find beverly alive. you have to. i mean it s what keeps you going. andrea canning: lewis said the last time he saw beverly, she was with trevor, and then offered evidence that she might still be alive. lewis pla
beverly s personal life. you said this case is about secret lives. what did you mean by that? in order for our defense to be correct, she would have to be living a life that was basically secret or at least doing something that other people didn t know about. andrea canning: 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 what he said, yes. andrea canning: lewis said the tryst was between beverly and crystal. he said beverly accidentally died during rough sex. she died while with his wife, and he was only just protecting his wife and trying to cover up for her. andrea canning: 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. maybe she made another one.