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You have a theory about why theyre badly taken photos? >> you can just tell that it was like quick, just quick. 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. >> id never felt that kind of loss of control. you feel utterly hopeless. >> and helpless. >> yes. >> you cant do anything. >> yeah. >> what they didnt know was that detect...

>> while lewis was leading detectives on this wild goose chase, another cop had tracked down this trevor, the man lewis claimed was his accomplice. >> we figured out he was in the military in little rock, assigned to the little rock air force base. we did make contact with him, actually interviewed him. >> they interrogated trevor for several hours then let him go. >> he wasnt even in town when this happened. >> he had an iron-clad alibi? >> absolutely. we confirmed through his job, through the ...

>> he said that he kidnapped beverly and it was because of money. he said he found her on the internet, searched her out, saw that she was a broker and felt like he had money. >> lewis described in detail what he claimed happened. he says when he contacted beverly about the house showing she told him she didnt feel comfortable meeting just him. so he got his wife, crystal, on the phone to say shed be there too. >> arron shows up, goes, in and makes some excuse as to why crystal couldnt come. and...

Beverly alive -- a shed on the side of the road. what are you thinking as youre approaching this shed? that theres a really good chance she could be here or are you not so sure? >> im hoping like hell shes in there. we go in and she wasnt in there. she had never been in there. >> thats such a letdown. >> tell me about it. it was bad. it was bad. >> but lewis wasnt done. he had a captive audience and he knew it. he took the police to a new location, a house about 35 miles away. >> and he says, we...

>> it was encouraging, but it only proved beverly was alive at the time of the recording. the detective told lewis he needed more. >> and thats when he finally says well, ill take you to where the last place that she was. >> so this is the big moment now in this whole case. this is it. >> yeah. thats when we load him up and we start going to cabot, arkansas. >> beverlys family prayed this nightmare was about to end. did you know that arron lewis was saying your mom was alive? >> yes, we knew tha...

>> that call set off a frantic search for beverly carter, where was she? >> coming up, what had happened to beverly? >> all of a sudden, beverly texts me, bam, bam, bam. >> we all got texts, she said, im sorry, my phone has been dead. >> the mystery was just beginning. >> i can still feel the same pain.

>> i know she pleaded. i know she pleaded for her life and to be sent to come back to us and for her grandbabies, and i just have to know theyre there to comfort her. >> 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 sheriffs office didnt sound like those of an innocent man. >> why beverly? >> she was a rich broker. >> it was just as chilling in person as it wa...

Was out of the vehicle by the time we went around the corner and saw him. >> lewis was injured. police photographed him and rushed him to the hospital. >> were not allowed to go back with them while theyre getting certain treatment, so a detective is sitting out waiting for the treatment and when they take arron back to get mri or cat scan or whatever theyre doing he decides hes going to leave the hospital. >> arron doesnt come back? >> he doesnt come back. >> arron lewis bolted from the hospita...

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 didnt have nothing to do with her showing the home. just a place to me. >> in your opinion, how far-fetched was this news story about the sexual encounter? >> it was 100% made up, so it was completely far-fetched. >> assistant district attorney john johnson was assigned the case. he believed it was a kidnapping gone wrong but needed...

Having drinks with friends." and i was like going, well, were right here. >> the texts on beverlys husbands 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. >> i cant even tell you. to go from this shes okay, 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 shes been took. >> the patrol divisi...