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 early, then if he was the one we were lookin for, then every
brought carl sr. in for questioning. did you put carl in an interview room? yes. and treated him like this is somebody we need to take seriously. yes. anytime you do an interview like that, it s always best to get into a setting you re down at a detective s office in an interview room and i m givin an interview. so it it s it plays on their emotions. did you ever consider the possibility that carl could ve paid somebody to do this? yeah. i thought about it. did you know why you were considered somebody that they needed to talk to? once i got in there and started questionin me, then i knew that i was a suspect. reporter: as detective allison continued to question carl, he discovered some skeletons. they were having financial issues. yeah. how much money did beverly carter have in her checking account? i don t know the exact dollar amount, but it wasn t much. $126? yeah. sounds about right. was there a life insurance policy? yes. several thousa
there was no response. the one that i got was i m out having drinks with friends. and i was like goin , well, we re right here. reporter: 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. i can t even tell you, like, to go from this this she s 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, she s she s been took. reporter: the patrol division who d 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? the patrol division showed up and started speakin with the husband and determined that some of the factors in the case were were were odd. reporter: not only was beverly s ca
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 they were asking questions like okay, you re the husband and
did you then did you have a little burst of hope? just a little bit of hope. i mean, that s all i had. really, your biggest task is to find out where beverly is. that was my biggest task and my biggest concern at that time. reporter: did lewis know where beverly was? and if he did, would he tell the detective? what was his story? where was beverly? he said that he had kidnapped beverly and it was because of money. he said that he found her on the internet, searched her out, and saw that she was a broker and felt like she had money. eporter:ewisescribed in detail what he claimed happened. he says when he contacted beverly abt thhouse showing, she told him she didn t feel comfortable meeting just himso heot his wife crystal on the phone to say she d be there too. aaron shows up. he goes in and makes some excuse as to why crystal couldn t come. and aaron tells me that he had beverly take photographs of the house with her phone. reporter: so that explained why thos