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>> and her life is at stake? >> yes. >> reporter shannon miller cuts in with breaking news. >> was the whole city glued to their tv sets as the hunt for beverly was on? >> absolutely. so many people knew this picture, knew this face. >> and. >> was on the lookout. these men who knew beverly were discussing the case from this office. >> as we're standing in front of this window with the window open, ben louis walks in front of this window. >> they immediately called 911. >> 911. >> they're looking for a guy here that was involved in the realtor being kidnapped and this guy looks like him and he...

Something like that and it was a picture of miss carter bound in the trunk of the car. she said that when she got home, he had brought miss carter back to the house. >> she told the jury when she got home, beverly was locked in their bathroom and what she said next showed how little thought went into this plan. louis 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...

Crystal's medication and she knew crystal's name. >> beverly had seen too much. they agreed she had to die. >> aaron took miss carter from their house and put her in the back of the car and drove her out to the cement plant. >> that's when prosecutors believe louis did something horrific. he wrapped beverly's face in duct tape and let her suffocate. >> he came home and told crystal she was dead. >> and the heart of the prosecution's case, the recording of beverly pleading to her husband, they played it for the jury. >> do what he says and please don't call the police. if you call the police it...

Obstacles? >> everything came back to the recording. >> instead he led jurors in a different direction, 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 was basically secretly doing something that other people didn't know about. >> here's where louis' 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. >> louis said the tryst was between beverly and crystal. he sa...

Spouse. it's hard. it's probably the hardest part of it. >> he said we found beverly. i said, well, is she alive? no, i'm sorry, but she wasn't. >> we had worked so hard, i mean, to find her. we just really tried to do right and it wasn't enough. >> i know she pleaded. i know she pleaded for her life and to come back to us and for her grand babies. and i just have to know they got there comforting her. >> aaron louis was charged with murder and kidnapping and his wife, crystal lowrie, charged as his accomplice. they pleaded not guilty. but his words to reporter shannon miller outside the sheri...