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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...

>> 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 far fetched was the new story about the sexual encounter? >> 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 tu...

He would sneak away from time to time trying to collect his thoughts. >> and then at 1:00. bam, bam, bam, three texts. i hollered at the officer, come here, beverly texted me. >> word that beverly was texting gave everyone hope. >> i was ecstatic, like, this is done, her phone had died, she got somewhere where it is charged, it's good. >> across town, beverly's friends, brenda and stacy, got texts of their own. >> our phones started beeping at the same time with texts. >> it was such an eerie feeling. >> what was she saying to you two? >> she said, i'm sorry, my phone has been dead and it's ba...

Ask your doctor about lyrica. welcome back to "dateline extra." getting a suspect in beverly carter's disappearance into custody was like a scene from an action movie, complete with a hot pursuit, a leap out of a second story window and ending with the suspect in cuffs. investigators wanted their burning question answered, where was beverly? here's andrea canning with more of "the client." >> police had a suspect in custody. his name was aaron lewis. he was an unemployed truck driver who had been convicted of petty crimes in several states. to beverly's son carl jr., he didn't look like a ki...

Lewis had had forgotten beverly's purse with her atm card at the property, so he went back to get it. crystal says when he got close to the house, cops were everywhere. one even pulled him over. >> this particular officer just stopped a car that was coming in to say, hey, have you seen, and just ask questions and put the person on alert. >> the officer couldn't have known that aaron lewis was the man they were looking for. >> miss carter was still alive and he just didn't know it. >> when lewis returned home, crystal told the jury that's when the couple ran out of options. >> she was in the ba...