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[Alan Schreier] You ever see Tiger King?
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[man] Yeah.
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[Alan] I dated Carole Baskin
for two and a half years.
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[man] So did she do it?
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[Alan] That's the question.
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[man] That is the question.
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I didn't think so,
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but the more that comes out,
the more I think it's possible.
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[man] You ever
feel like your life was threatened?
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No. I wouldn't
have lived with her if I did.
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[intriguing music playing]
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[Alan] When I met her, it was
a year and a half after Don disappeared.
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It was '98,
and the dating apps came about,
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and that's how I met Carole.
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[automated voice] You've got mail!
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[Alan] She says,
"I don't think you know who I am."
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"And if you want to see about me,
I'll be in People magazine this week."
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People wrote the article about her,
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that maybe she killed her husband
and fed him to the animals.
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[Carole] What a good girl!
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[Alan] But I believed in my heart
that she didn't kill him.
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[chuckling] And sparks flew.
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"Life is wonderful. I am in love."
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"Alan has taught me so much."
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"He pulls me close. I feel him breathe,
hot upon my shivering skin."
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"This magic web around me weaved
as I become one flesh with him."
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[woman] And why
do you think she sought you out?
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Hey, man, I'm not chopped liver.
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Carole was very kind to me,
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but you talk to my son, Todd,
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he's going to tell you a different story.
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[school bell ringing]
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I was coming home from high school.
I throw my backpack in my room.
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I gotta go take a piss.
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I open the bathroom door.
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There's a bobcat. [imitates cat growling]
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And I'm like, "Dad, what the fuck, man?"
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Carole did not want me there.
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She dresses up in all this kitty cat crap,
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prances around in her kitty cat robes.
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And I was a kid.
I'm like, "What are you doing, lady?"
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And so I just hid in my room
as much as I could.
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I was not allowed
in a certain part of the house.
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I had these curfews.
I could never have friends over.
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But their biggest rule,
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I was told very strictly,
"Don't talk about Don."
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"Do not talk about it."
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I don't think
Carole necessarily killed her husband.
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I think she can point people
in the right direction,
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but she's not going to.
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She doesn't care about people.
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She cares about cats.
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[dramatic music playing]
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"June 1st, 2002."
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"The dilemma of Don's disappearance."
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"I didn't kill Don."
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"I have loved him since I was 19,
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and he taught me
everything I know about business."
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[Jerry Mitchell] My opinions of Carole
beyond what I've read, what I've seen,
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the main source, I guess you'd say,
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is her own diaries.
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[Carole] I post my diary entries
every day right now
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because so many people said,
"Oh, she knows more than she's telling."
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But I'll tell you everything I ever said,
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everything I ever even thought
and wrote down.
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You're welcome to read through it.
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It's all out there
for everybody to investigate,
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but they don't want to
because they would rather believe the lie
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than prove to themselves
what the truth was.
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[Joe Exotic on phone] Her diary that she's
reading online, the woman is ludicrous.
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I watched them all last night.
I laughed my ass off.
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"I remember going to elaborate extents
to create a mystery story line,
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where little clues would be left in places
for the kids to find."
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"I really like story lines
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where you keep thinking
you've discovered the plot,
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only for it to twist and turn
and surprise you again."
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[Joe] I had the whole diary up until '97.
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We just happened to have gotten
in the mail today...
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Carole's diary.
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Don would never spend money on her,
and he gave her this cheap wedding ring.
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"Don has been so mean lately
that it seems like I'm always crying."
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[Joe] Then he was wanting to leave Carole,
and go to Costa Rica with his animals.
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[sighs] "Don got so mad
that he said he wanted a divorce
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and $1,000,000 to move to Costa Rica."
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"He said he also wanted 47 of the cats."
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[continues indistinctly]
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[Jerry] So if you
go back to the earliest entries,
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the thing it reminds me of
is just a marriage on fire.
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You don't see any way
this marriage is gonna make it.
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[Carole on video] "He's all I've ever
known and the only man I've ever loved."
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"I wish there were some way out for me."
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[Joe] The last line says,
"I have to find a way out." It's crazy.
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Hey, all you cool cats and kittens...
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She overshares.
What is behind that, I don't know.
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But you can begin searching for clues
within her words.
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It's just a puzzle, and you're just trying
to piece it together.
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[mysterious music playing]
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[Anne McQueen] Honey, I'll be leaving!
I love you.
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[mysterious music continues]
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[man on radio] Sheriff Chronister,
in between being ruled out
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and being called a person of interest,
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where does Carole fall on the list?
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[Chronister on radio]
We'll continue to look at everybody.
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When you have a cold case,
you're looking at everyone.
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There is absolutely
enough circumstantial evidence
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for them to bring her in
at least for questioning.
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Chad Chronister
can't be making those comments
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unless he knows
what the heck he's talking about.
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[Nancy Grace] What's your next move,
Sheriff?
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Trying to figure out exactly,
"Who was Don Lewis 23 years ago?"
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What was his life like then?
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There's been a theory
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he had fled the country
and just left everyone behind.
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We know he was dealing
with some shady characters
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down in Costa Rica.
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Well, you know what?
That opens up a Pandora's Box.
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[mysterious music continues]
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The sheriff assured us
they have their own suspicions,
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but they can't share those with us.
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They just have to keep eliminating things.
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You know, they, um...
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all but apologized for
how it was handled years and years ago.
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So they said, "We can't do anything
about how it was handled back then,
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but we want to solve it."
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[Detective Garcia] The Don Lewis case is
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the most high-profile missing person's
case that I've ever dealt with.
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But if there's one thing I've learned
in the 12 years of doing homicides is
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when you think you've seen it all,
you haven't quite seen it all.
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The Tiger King phenomena has been
somewhat of a double-edged sword.
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It's been good
because it's got a lot of interest
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and generated a lot of conversations.
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On the back edge,
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it's a lot of information out there
that we wouldn't want out there.
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As an investigator, I gotta look at things
in the context of a court of law,
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not what I can find
on some internet and speculate on.
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Hey, what's up, everyone?
It's Ripper here.
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I've been looking for Carole.
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I can't find her.
She's not returning my call.
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[Garcia] I know there's a whole
subculture of online investigators,
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but I don't know
what their backgrounds are.
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I don't know what drives them.
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I don't really make anything of them.
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[Ripper] When it comes to
the Hillsborough Sheriff's Department,
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I think it's about time
they get some answers for this family.
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[intriguing music playing]
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[Ripper] When was the last time
you saw your dad?
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June 14th, 1997.
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[Ripper] Two months
before he went missing.
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He told me to come
at a specific time in the afternoon.
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He said Carole would not be there
and that would be best.
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[Carole] It's all right! Pet it.
You can pet these. These are bigger ones.
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[Don] Don't be scared of him!
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[Gale Rathbone] I don't
remember the exact conversation,
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but he got the point across to me
that there was trouble.
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I know he was making plans
to go to Costa Rica.
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[Ripper] Do you think he would have left
and didn't tell you guys?
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- [Gale] No.
- [Ripper] No?
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[Gale] But law enforcement
was still very divided.
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Half of them thought he had just...
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- flown off to Costa Rica.
- Mm-hmm.
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And half of them thought,
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"No, there might have been
something mysterious happen."
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[reporter] The flamboyant entrepreneur
left pending business deals, his cats,
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and a very worried wife behind.
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He had made that comment to me, you know?
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He was gonna leave her,
move to Costa Rica, and take all the cats.
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He said that out loud to me one day
'cause he was mad, out on the property.
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[woman] Do you
remember when he said that to you?
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When the clouded leopard died.
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They had a clouded leopard they
were moving from one enclosure to another,
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and they were moving
this leopard in a box.
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But they forgot the box on a path.
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It was hot.
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The leopard died.
He suffocated in that box.
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Don was angry,
and I guess they had a fight.
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There was a lot of turmoil there,
a lot of jealousy, a lot of drama,
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which I avoided like the plague.
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[Carole] "Don's first day
back from Costa Rica, he wakes up,
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and calmly tells me that he
is going to tear down the caracal pens."
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"He said that he would poison
all of the cats with antifreeze."
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"I told him to get off
the property and not come back."
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"I told him that if he did not go,
I would have him arrested."
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[Jim Moore] The whole Costa Rica project,
Carole, I don't think, was a fan of that.
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She was not on board with that at all.
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There was talk
of moving the animals down there,
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and that was something
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that would certainly cause friction
when he came back into town.
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He had talked to me
about going down there with them.
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They were gonna have this great facility.
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Just to him,
it was like his Jurassic Park.
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I'm not going to discuss any other
properties that he had in Costa Rica,
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due to it being an open investigation.
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[woman] Let me just ask you this,
do you know what he was up to?
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Anything relating to Costa Rica,
I'm not gonna speak about.
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There was very little to no regulation
of anything in Costa Rica.
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That's why he had a frickin' ocelot, okay?
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It's a South American cat, for God's sake.
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I will tell you this. After Tiger King,
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I got a call from a detective
at the sheriff's department.
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And when you deal with a murder detective,
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information is a one-way street,
from you to them.
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They don't give you a damn thing,
but when we were talking about Don,
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the detective got mad at me,
and slipped up,
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and told me there were federal reports
of him alive and well
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in Costa Rica that he had to overcome.
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He did tell me that.
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[Joseph] So I had a buddy who's very high
in federal law enforcement
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search that out for me.
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[suspenseful music continues]
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[woman] So have you heard
about this Homeland Security document?
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Can you read part of it?
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[Anne] "Lewis owns property in Costa Rica
and has traveled regularly."
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"In the latter part of August 1997,
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Lewis' wife Carole
filed a missing person's report."
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"Blank has learned
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that Don is currently alive and well
in Costa Rica."
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"Lewis has loaned money
to various individuals
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and could live quite well."
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"Lewiscould reside
in Costa Rica indefinitely."
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[suspenseful music continues]
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[airplane PA chiming]
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[pilot on PA] Cabin crew,
start to descend.
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[Rey Rodriguez] When Don disappeared,
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some detective came to Costa Rica
and started asking questions.
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And I told them what I knew.
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And I said, "Well, I met Don Lewis
in San José, Costa Rica in '96."
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He needed a translator, and a driver,
and a whole bunch of other stuff.
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So he picks me as his, uh...
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guide. Let's call it "guide."
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I was his protection.
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He talked about moving to Costa Rica
to start all over fresh.
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[Carole] "October 17th, 1996."
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"On the day
of our fifth wedding anniversary,
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Don left for another week in Costa Rica."
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"As always, no card, no flowers,
no recognition of our time together."
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"He is too busy
creating a new life for himself."
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[Rey] Don told me that he was there
to get away from Carole.
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And so,
he'll put investments into my name.
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You know, I'm a front man.
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[Henry Porras in Spanish] Back then,
Costa Rica was a fiscal paradise.
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The laws were very flexible here.
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For Don, that was just perfect.
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[Rey in English] We bought properties
all over Costa Rica.
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And I remember
we acquired a house in Rohrmoser.
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Then we got a building
in downtown San José.
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And then, of course, the Bagaces Farm.
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Don was planning
to fill it up with all kinds of cats.
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[Valo Murillo in Spanish] Don built
a little house and cage for the cats.
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That's all he had on the farm
before he left.
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[Don in English] The mama's feeding them,
taking care of them good,
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and she lets me pick them up
almost anytime I want to.
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[Valo in Spanish] I knew him
well back then. He was a good man.
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But, honestly, I never saw him again.
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Since he disappeared,
I've never seen him again.
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Never.
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And I'd recognize him anywhere.
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Even all these years later,
I'd recognize him.
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People say he lives somewhere else now.
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That's the story,
but I don't know if it's true.
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[Joseph in English]
I knew something was going on.
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But far as I was concerned,
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it had to do with some illegal things
called importation of cats, Felidae.
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And I wanted nothing to do
with anything illegal.
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[woman] Was he bringing cats back here?
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Was he? Oh, hell yes.
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Don bought and sold planes in the past.
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He had a pilot's license at one time.
It was revoked for the number of crashes.
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But just because
he didn't have a pilot's license
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didn't mean he didn't fly.
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It meant he flew unlicensed.
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[Rey] Don used to fly a Cessna plane
back and forth from Costa Rica.
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He'd have to stop along the way
in the banana air strips.
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You can land
in one of those banana plantations,
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and it's under the radar, so...
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People say, "No, it can't be done." No.
Yes, it is done all the time.
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[in Spanish] I met Don because he needed
maintenance on his airplane.
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One time,
he wanted to take a cat with him.
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He tried to fit the cage there.
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He liked the jungle areas,
away from the city.
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He could've landed
in any of those airports.
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[man] Did they keep
records of these flights?
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No. If you wanted, you'd take off,
and if you stay below 1,000 feet,
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you don't have to
notify air traffic control.
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[in English] Don liked to
play with dangerous stuff, okay?
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But if you want to really know
the real story,
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forget the cats.
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Trust me.
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When he comes in to Costa Rica
by private plane, he'll bring boxes.
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One, two, three, sometimes four.
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Used clothes on top,
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$100 bills rolled up at the bottom.
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[woman] Was it a couple thousand dollars?
Was it ten thousand...
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No, it was $200,000,
$100,000 each box, you know?
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It was a lot of money. A lot of money.
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Heavy.
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I have to fucking carry it.
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[mellow music playing]
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[Rey] Don would take all that cash money
down to Costa Rica
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and put it in different companies.
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He's just hiding money.
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[in Spanish] He would tell me they
needed to create a company with this name,
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this much capital...
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So I would create those companies for him.
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I would legalize their books.
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What they did with those companies
is their problem.
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[in English] That sounds like Dad.
That sounds like he would have been
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trying to get his money out of the States,
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so that when he divorced Carole,
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there would be less
that he would have to give her.
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I don't think he was dealing
with completely illegal things down there.
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Dad always walked a fine line.
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He was doing
the same things he's always done.
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He was doing his street hustle.
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Deep down, what Don was doing,
it was illegal.
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He wanted clean money.
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That's why he was running cash
through all these properties.
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The first building he bought
was the Rohrmoser house.
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Later on, they turned it into a hotel.
It was worth a lot of money.
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[Mary LeBouef] People told me
that Don Lewis was a millionaire.
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I couldn't believe it
because he looked like a homeless person.
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But he would show you the money.
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Kind of bragging.
Like, "This is what I got in this time."
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[Rey] That's when I start thinking,
"It's too much money."
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I didn't want to be part
of the dirty stuff.
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And I was warned,
through a contact from the CIA,
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there was an investigation on Don
with federal stuff.
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They told me, "Do not get
any more involved with this guy."
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[woman] Do you think he was involved
with mafia or criminal enterprises?
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[sighs] I don't know.
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And if I knew,
I would not tell you either.
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[Leonora LaPeter Anton] When I covered
the Don Lewis disappearance,
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I talked to a detective,
and they didn't think he was dead.
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They thought he'd fled the country.
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That changed their investigation,
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or the nature
of their investigation initially.
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They had investigated at one point in time
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this lounge down the street
from Don Lewis's office.
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It was part of a criminal investigation.
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Don would go into the bar,
cash a check without it hitting his bank.
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And then you can move the cash
to wherever your heart desires,
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take it out of the country.
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He said, "Start following the money."
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[Kenny Farr] Don didn't
want nobody to know what he had.
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He definitely didn't want the government
knowing anything about his business.
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He wanted his cash where it was his
and nobody knew about it.
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I remember one time I was asked to move
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one of the semi-trailers
that was way out back behind his house,
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and I picked the trailer up,
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and there was money
underneath that trailer.
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When he disappeared,
Don Lewis was probably worth 20 million,
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maybe a little more.
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[Mary] He was very proud of his money
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and he was very concerned
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about Carole taking all his money
in a divorce.
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He said, "She's not getting a dime."
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He didn't want to be married
to Carole anymore. He just hated her.
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He was planning his escape.
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Costa Rica was the perfect place
to have it done.
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[Henry in Spanish] It was very easy
to get a fake passport in Costa Rica.
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There were gangs
dedicated to falsifying passports.
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They would register the person
with a fake name
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or the name of a dead person.
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A person could travel with that.
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[Mary in English]
When the People magazine came out,
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and I saw Don Lewis and Carole's pictures,
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00:21:18,527 --> 00:21:21,530
the first thing I thought was,
"He's not dead."
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"He has changed his identity.
He has the money to do it."
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"He's gone on with his life."
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[Anne] It's a letter that I wrote to Don
on September 27th, 1997.
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"Dear Don, I'm writing you this letter
because I need your help."
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"Some think that you are dead.
Some think that you just ran away
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because you were scared
that you were going to prison
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and that Carole has something
over your head."
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00:21:48,140 --> 00:21:51,059
"I am hoping
that you just got tired of all the shit
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and are some place that you are happy."
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[voice breaking] "I need for you to,
just for a little while, to come back."
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"Then you can go back in hiding
if that is what you want to do."
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00:22:01,111 --> 00:22:03,155
"I miss you so much. Love, Anne."
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"P.S. If you will just call me
or come back,
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I will quit smoking no matter what,
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and I will pay my debt
and with all the interest."
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00:22:16,126 --> 00:22:22,424
I'd like to think that I knew
more about Don than what maybe I did.
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00:22:22,507 --> 00:22:27,512
Maybe he didn't tell me because he knew
that it would have completely upset me.
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00:22:29,931 --> 00:22:32,642
[Joseph] Don Lewis would not
walk away from the cats he had,
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00:22:32,726 --> 00:22:34,895
he would not
walk away from his daughters, period.
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[woman] Even if he was in trouble
and planning to escape?
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Oh, hell no.
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00:22:38,774 --> 00:22:41,735
He loved his daughters.
He loved his cats. He loved his assets.
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[Jerry] Usually people who disappear,
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you know how they eventually get found?
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They make contact with somebody.
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00:22:50,827 --> 00:22:54,539
It's been 23 years
without contact from Don.
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00:22:55,791 --> 00:22:57,417
If there's a disappearance,
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you should treat it initially
as a homicide.
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And what you don't want is to wait weeks,
or months, or however long
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and go, "You know,
I think maybe that was a homicide."
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00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:14,267
"Well, let's investigate that."
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00:23:14,351 --> 00:23:16,353
Well, you've lost some evidence.
401
00:23:17,729 --> 00:23:21,191
You talk to everybody as a suspect
402
00:23:21,274 --> 00:23:26,738
and you'd think about
who had a motive to take Don out.
403
00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:31,660
While he was with me, he was safe.
404
00:23:31,743 --> 00:23:33,578
We kept him safe.
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00:23:33,662 --> 00:23:38,875
But once I started seeing
all these characters showing up
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00:23:38,959 --> 00:23:41,420
and asking, "Where is he?"
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00:23:42,003 --> 00:23:45,757
I'm like, "What is going on here?"
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00:23:46,716 --> 00:23:49,594
But you see, Don, he lived two lives.
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00:23:50,512 --> 00:23:52,556
Business during the day,
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00:23:53,181 --> 00:23:54,724
fun time during the night.
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00:23:55,517 --> 00:23:58,103
I would have nothing to do with fun time.
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Not me.
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00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:06,820
[Alex Mora in Spanish] Don Lewis.
I remember him like yesterday.
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00:24:06,903 --> 00:24:10,031
Of all the clients I had...
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00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:12,033
Don Lewis was most important.
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00:24:13,410 --> 00:24:16,288
He always needed
a beautiful woman next to him.
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00:24:17,622 --> 00:24:21,209
He was a charmer.
He treated people nicely.
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00:24:21,293 --> 00:24:24,129
He had money.
What more could a woman want?
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00:24:25,630 --> 00:24:30,343
Whenever he came to Costa Rica,
I would take care of him.
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00:24:31,386 --> 00:24:34,473
And he always liked
everything to be perfect.
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00:24:37,893 --> 00:24:42,022
I remember every day
we would go and buy The Tico Times.
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00:24:44,065 --> 00:24:48,820
[in English] Don put ads in
The Tico Times, the local San José paper,
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00:24:48,904 --> 00:24:51,823
looking for a female companion.
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00:24:53,033 --> 00:24:57,746
He would bring these suitcases
full of old clothing from garage sales,
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00:24:58,371 --> 00:25:01,374
so the girls could come in
and pick out whatever they wanted.
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00:25:01,458 --> 00:25:03,210
"I've got all this."
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00:25:03,293 --> 00:25:06,546
"You can have all this
ifyou just marry me."
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00:25:06,630 --> 00:25:08,632
[soft music playing]
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00:25:11,218 --> 00:25:14,763
[Gioconda Bulgarelli in Spanish]
We moved to this neighborhood in 1996.
430
00:25:14,846 --> 00:25:17,182
It's a very quiet neighborhood.
431
00:25:17,265 --> 00:25:19,809
But in that house next door,
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00:25:19,893 --> 00:25:24,689
lived a man we all knew as "El Gringo."
433
00:25:25,357 --> 00:25:28,902
In fact, some people call it
"The Cursed House."
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00:25:29,736 --> 00:25:34,741
It always had odd tenants
and strange things going on.
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00:25:36,117 --> 00:25:38,870
There was a lot of movement
outside that house.
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00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:40,705
A lot of women.
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00:25:41,748 --> 00:25:46,336
Men would line up outside the house
and look at them.
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00:25:46,419 --> 00:25:48,296
They were all young.
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00:25:51,007 --> 00:25:56,179
[Rey in English] Don was attracted
to Costa Rica because it was a paradise
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where little girls are sold.
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00:25:59,766 --> 00:26:02,644
People needed money badly.
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00:26:02,727 --> 00:26:04,187
And they do all the time.
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00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:10,026
The Rohrmoser house became like a brothel.
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00:26:11,444 --> 00:26:14,698
[Alex in Spanish] I would bring girls
to the house for him.
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00:26:14,781 --> 00:26:17,826
If he liked one,
she would spend the night there.
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00:26:18,410 --> 00:26:21,371
He paid them well.
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00:26:21,454 --> 00:26:25,667
But he liked them young and beautiful.
448
00:26:27,419 --> 00:26:30,297
[Rey in English] Don's favorite girl
was Corina.
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00:26:30,380 --> 00:26:32,882
I believe she was about 15.
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00:26:34,092 --> 00:26:35,635
I told Don,
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00:26:36,219 --> 00:26:38,138
"Be careful what you're doing."
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00:26:38,221 --> 00:26:40,515
"These little girls have family."
453
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:43,643
"People will find out, and...
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00:26:45,145 --> 00:26:46,730
they'll kill you for that."
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00:26:46,813 --> 00:26:48,815
[suspenseful music playing]
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00:26:50,191 --> 00:26:54,362
[Jerry] If you're talking about suspects,
look at motive and opportunity.
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00:26:54,446 --> 00:26:58,325
Who had the motive?
Who had an opportunity to do it?
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00:26:59,326 --> 00:27:03,955
Maybe someone
Don was having an affair with,
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00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:07,375
their family got angry and killed him.
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00:27:07,459 --> 00:27:09,085
[gun firing]
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00:27:09,878 --> 00:27:12,881
[Jerry] Or maybe someone
who got mad at Don in business.
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00:27:13,798 --> 00:27:17,260
[Alex in Spanish] During his
last few trips, Don looked worried.
463
00:27:17,344 --> 00:27:19,346
He told me he was in danger.
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00:27:19,429 --> 00:27:21,514
He said it was over money.
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00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:25,518
He had some problems
with some people in the US.
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00:27:25,602 --> 00:27:27,145
They were really bad men.
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00:27:27,228 --> 00:27:30,148
I asked, "Bad men?"
He said, "Very, very bad."
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00:27:30,231 --> 00:27:32,817
"They will kill you," he said. "Bang."
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00:27:35,362 --> 00:27:37,864
[in English] Carole told me
that he hung around with a lot of
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00:27:37,947 --> 00:27:39,407
unscrupulous type of people.
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00:27:39,491 --> 00:27:43,370
Maybe he stuck somebody for some money,
and they caught up with him.
472
00:27:45,622 --> 00:27:49,250
When I first got with her, I asked her
the questions to make me feel comfortable.
473
00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:51,544
"What happened?
What was your husband like?"
474
00:27:51,628 --> 00:27:52,712
"What was the story?"
475
00:27:53,546 --> 00:27:55,048
You want to know the truth?
476
00:27:55,131 --> 00:27:58,134
He was a piece of shit, Don Lewis.
477
00:27:58,218 --> 00:28:00,679
He did horrible stuff to Carole.
478
00:28:02,263 --> 00:28:07,727
[Rey] After all, whatever Don liked to do,
I believe he was a good man.
479
00:28:07,811 --> 00:28:11,439
But by the end, he made a mess.
480
00:28:12,148 --> 00:28:14,150
[somber music playing]
481
00:28:16,069 --> 00:28:20,073
[Rey] I remember I was driving him
to the airport,
482
00:28:20,907 --> 00:28:22,450
and Carole called.
483
00:28:23,576 --> 00:28:26,287
So he tells me to stop,
and he gets out of the Jeep.
484
00:28:26,996 --> 00:28:27,996
I'm like,
485
00:28:28,915 --> 00:28:30,250
"What's going on?"
486
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,712
He goes and talks to her,
487
00:28:34,379 --> 00:28:35,714
and then he comes back.
488
00:28:36,881 --> 00:28:40,135
He told me, "I'm sick and tired of it."
489
00:28:40,218 --> 00:28:42,804
"I need freedom."
490
00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:47,434
"If she ever finds out
what I'm doing in here, she'll kill me."
491
00:28:52,105 --> 00:28:53,606
[Carole] "I visit Costa Rica."
492
00:28:54,190 --> 00:28:56,651
"When I arrived in town late that night,
493
00:28:56,735 --> 00:29:00,113
Don was standing out front,
and the room was a shambles."
494
00:29:00,697 --> 00:29:05,076
"Later I found out that Don had
his girlfriend Corina staying with him,
495
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,663
and she didn't know that Don was married
and threw a temper tantrum,
496
00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:11,666
which would explain the clothes
all over the place."
497
00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:14,627
[Rey] She used to keep tabs on him.
498
00:29:14,711 --> 00:29:17,881
Obviously, she knew exactly
what was going on.
499
00:29:17,964 --> 00:29:21,593
"I am finding out what kind of person
I am really married to,
500
00:29:21,676 --> 00:29:25,805
and I think other people will realize
who is the real villain."
501
00:29:27,348 --> 00:29:31,644
[Jerry] When there's a homicide,
the spouse is automatically a suspect,
502
00:29:31,728 --> 00:29:35,148
especially if it's a situation
where there's tension in the marriage.
503
00:29:36,107 --> 00:29:40,779
She was not happy about some of the things
that were happening in Costa Rica.
504
00:29:40,862 --> 00:29:44,491
Does that mean that Carole did it?
I certainly wouldn't say that.
505
00:29:44,574 --> 00:29:46,826
But I just keep coming back to the fact
506
00:29:46,910 --> 00:29:51,706
that she was the last known person
to see Don alive.
507
00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:53,500
My husband left early in the morning
508
00:29:53,583 --> 00:29:55,627
and said that he wanted me
to get a truck ready,
509
00:29:55,710 --> 00:29:57,545
that he was gonna be driving down to Miami
510
00:29:57,629 --> 00:30:01,716
to put on the freight cargo
down to Costa Rica the next day.
511
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,219
And he didn't show up
that day for feeding,
512
00:30:04,302 --> 00:30:07,055
which he always comes back
at least in time for feeding.
513
00:30:07,138 --> 00:30:12,310
[Jerry] We've just started to scratch
the surface of the truth in this case.
514
00:30:12,393 --> 00:30:16,731
Nobody ever got held accountable for this.
515
00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:21,194
But in order for there to be justice,
516
00:30:21,277 --> 00:30:23,613
there has to be truth.
517
00:30:23,696 --> 00:30:24,989
And we don't have truth.
518
00:30:28,117 --> 00:30:30,078
[Donna] There's just so much out there.
519
00:30:30,870 --> 00:30:37,418
We may never know the complete truth,
but hopefully we will have a conclusion.
520
00:30:37,502 --> 00:30:40,171
Hopefully there will
be some charges brought.
521
00:30:40,255 --> 00:30:42,257
[suspenseful music playing]
522
00:30:43,550 --> 00:30:47,303
[Donna] But the sheriff's office
can only tell us so much.
523
00:30:49,597 --> 00:30:53,685
Hi, Donna. Detective Garcia.
Um, the camera crew's not gonna come in.
524
00:30:53,768 --> 00:30:54,808
- [Donna] No.
- Okay. Fine.
525
00:30:55,478 --> 00:30:58,690
[Garcia] We routinely
meet with the daughters.
526
00:30:58,773 --> 00:31:02,110
But Ripper Jack,
I've interacted with him one time.
527
00:31:02,193 --> 00:31:04,654
He had a lot of conspiracy theories
528
00:31:04,737 --> 00:31:08,074
without realizing how committed
the sheriff was to solving this case.
529
00:31:08,157 --> 00:31:11,494
If you're gonna investigate the case,
investigate the case.
530
00:31:11,578 --> 00:31:14,706
Don't go around saying you are
when you're not.
531
00:31:15,248 --> 00:31:18,459
[Garcia] I know the daughters want some
answers to what happened to their father.
532
00:31:18,543 --> 00:31:23,423
And the internet investigators out there,
they think they know a lot.
533
00:31:23,506 --> 00:31:27,176
I can't let you guys
see access to my files here.
534
00:31:27,260 --> 00:31:28,469
Carole may be watching.
535
00:31:28,553 --> 00:31:30,972
She might want to
see what's in here, I bet.
536
00:31:31,598 --> 00:31:36,352
If Carole's innocent, then fine.
But she knows something.
537
00:31:36,436 --> 00:31:39,272
I was searching YouTube
and documenting examples
538
00:31:39,355 --> 00:31:41,608
of people who are disparaging my name.
539
00:31:41,691 --> 00:31:44,402
I came across RipperJack Media.
540
00:31:45,028 --> 00:31:48,489
He has made a career
out of trying to trash me.
541
00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:50,283
He is such a troll.
542
00:31:51,117 --> 00:31:55,788
She's planting a seed is what she's doing,
and she's probably looking for a reaction.
543
00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:59,626
Well, Carole Baskin,
are you trying to scare me?
544
00:32:00,251 --> 00:32:02,587
[thunder rumbling]
545
00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:06,925
[Ripper] Wow! I'm wondering
if Carole Baskin put a spell on me.
546
00:32:07,008 --> 00:32:09,093
[thunder continues]
547
00:32:12,555 --> 00:32:14,682
[Ripper] Carole needs to come forward,
548
00:32:15,350 --> 00:32:17,185
but until she does,
549
00:32:17,268 --> 00:32:18,895
I told Don's daughters,
550
00:32:19,395 --> 00:32:24,609
"We need to get you a kick-ass attorney
and go to court."
551
00:32:30,073 --> 00:32:32,408
[Wayne Brady] Welcome back
to Let's Make a Deal. Hey, John.
552
00:32:32,492 --> 00:32:34,252
- How are you?
- I'm doing well! How are you?
553
00:32:34,285 --> 00:32:35,954
- Very good!
- What do you do, John?
554
00:32:36,037 --> 00:32:39,165
- I'm a civil rights lawyer.
- Give this man a round of applause.
555
00:32:39,248 --> 00:32:40,708
[audience cheering]
556
00:32:40,792 --> 00:32:43,670
[John Phillips] I'm no stranger
to the limelight.
557
00:32:43,753 --> 00:32:45,630
[announcer] It's a new Sea-Doo!
558
00:32:45,713 --> 00:32:49,550
[John] I know there are gonna
be lawyers who look at Don's case
559
00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:52,178
and they want this level of attention,
560
00:32:52,845 --> 00:32:57,850
but I know a lot of times those lawyers
fly so close to the sun
561
00:32:57,934 --> 00:32:59,018
that they burn up.
562
00:33:00,436 --> 00:33:02,271
You do have to be careful.
563
00:33:02,355 --> 00:33:06,067
But I want to say something
to Carole Baskin.
564
00:33:06,818 --> 00:33:10,196
Howdy-do, ma'am.
We're here. Let's just do the damn thing.
565
00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:13,616
Happening Today, a major announcement
from the family of Don Lewis.
566
00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:17,412
[reporter] The family has teamed up
with Tampa attorney John Phillips.
567
00:33:17,495 --> 00:33:22,709
We've been retained to do discovery,
to get subpoenas, to take depositions,
568
00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:27,130
and find out more about the death
and disappearance of Don Lewis.
569
00:33:28,297 --> 00:33:31,300
Carole Baskin was able to provide
the sheriff's office
570
00:33:31,384 --> 00:33:33,720
enough information 23 years ago
571
00:33:33,803 --> 00:33:37,390
to make them believe
that Don Lewis just disappeared.
572
00:33:37,473 --> 00:33:41,144
I'm very worried,
but I don't feel that separation.
573
00:33:41,686 --> 00:33:44,147
[John] We'd love to
have their participation.
574
00:33:44,230 --> 00:33:49,360
But at this point,
we're going to do our own thing.
575
00:33:50,153 --> 00:33:54,282
So, I'm out here working in Tampa
and I just happen to be with...
576
00:33:55,074 --> 00:33:57,035
- John Phillips.
- Surprise!
577
00:33:57,118 --> 00:34:01,122
John Phillips, part-time
driver for Ripper, full-time attorney!
578
00:34:01,205 --> 00:34:02,206
[both laughing]
579
00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:03,666
[John] Ripper reached out and said
580
00:34:03,750 --> 00:34:07,962
he'd befriended the family
and gotten the family's trust.
581
00:34:08,755 --> 00:34:12,967
We know Don Lewis was a deeply flawed man.
582
00:34:13,801 --> 00:34:16,888
But that's their father,
and so they deserve answers.
583
00:34:20,224 --> 00:34:21,976
How long have you
been waiting for justice?
584
00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:23,728
- Almost 24 years.
- Okay.
585
00:34:23,811 --> 00:34:27,315
- You're gonna do it, aren't you?
- We're gonna help you bring justice.
586
00:34:27,398 --> 00:34:29,084
- Everybody grab a drink.
- [camera clicking]
587
00:34:29,108 --> 00:34:33,780
To Don, to finding answers for Don,
with love.
588
00:34:33,863 --> 00:34:35,490
[glasses clinking]
589
00:34:35,573 --> 00:34:38,133
[reporter] An attorney says
there is new information and a reward
590
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:40,703
in the search for aman
who disappeared more than 20 years ago.
591
00:34:40,787 --> 00:34:43,956
The family has erected four billboards
across Tampa asking,
592
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,291
"Who murdered Don Lewis?"
593
00:34:45,875 --> 00:34:47,960
[Ripper] There's $100,000
sitting on the table.
594
00:34:48,044 --> 00:34:51,047
It's set up for someone
just to come forward and say,
595
00:34:51,130 --> 00:34:53,674
"Here's what I know.
I want the hundred grand,
596
00:34:53,758 --> 00:34:55,510
and I'll tell you what happened."
597
00:34:56,094 --> 00:34:59,013
[John] Besides there
being a $100,000 reward,
598
00:34:59,097 --> 00:35:02,391
we are sending a message to Carole.
599
00:35:02,475 --> 00:35:07,105
Carole Baskin's responded saying,
"I believe it is a publicity stunt."
600
00:35:07,188 --> 00:35:08,189
[thunder rumbling]
601
00:35:08,272 --> 00:35:11,484
[John] She's been
able to weaponize litigation,
602
00:35:11,567 --> 00:35:14,570
vanquish her enemies time and time again.
603
00:35:14,654 --> 00:35:16,781
But we want to sit at a table...
604
00:35:16,864 --> 00:35:20,284
And there can be as many lawyers
as everybody wants to have,
605
00:35:20,368 --> 00:35:24,580
but I want to ask a lot of questions
606
00:35:24,664 --> 00:35:27,416
about what happened to Don Lewis.
607
00:35:28,167 --> 00:35:30,878
- [protester] What do we want?
- [crowd] Justice for Don!
608
00:35:30,962 --> 00:35:32,842
- [protester] When do we want it?
- [crowd] Now!
609
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,591
- [protester] What do we want?
- [crowd] Justice for Don!
610
00:35:35,675 --> 00:35:38,678
- [protester] When do we want it?
- [crowd] Now!
611
00:35:38,761 --> 00:35:41,681
[reporter] Attorney John Phillips.
If you could repeat that number.
612
00:35:41,764 --> 00:35:45,184
[John] $100,000 reward for finding out
who murdered Don Lewis.
613
00:35:45,268 --> 00:35:48,938
646-450-6530.
614
00:35:49,814 --> 00:35:53,651
Well, get ready for your phone to ring
with all sorts of good tips, bad tips.
615
00:35:53,734 --> 00:35:56,988
Yeah, um...
but I mean, you knew that was coming.
616
00:35:57,071 --> 00:35:59,490
Tip line. Yes, hello?
617
00:35:59,574 --> 00:36:02,493
[man 1 on phone] Y'all can go ahead
and stop because we all know
618
00:36:02,577 --> 00:36:04,203
Carole Baskin did that.
619
00:36:04,745 --> 00:36:07,665
That man did not go missing
in a plane overseas.
620
00:36:07,748 --> 00:36:12,086
He went missing in a cage,
with a lion, turned into cat shit.
621
00:36:12,587 --> 00:36:16,132
[automated voice] You have
two old messages.
622
00:36:16,215 --> 00:36:17,215
[beeping]
623
00:36:17,633 --> 00:36:19,802
[man 2 on recording] Mr. Lewis was killed.
624
00:36:19,886 --> 00:36:22,889
They took out his eyes and his tongue.
625
00:36:22,972 --> 00:36:24,932
- Believe me...
- [beeping]
626
00:36:25,016 --> 00:36:29,145
[man 3] He is in a Wisconsin penitentiary
for murdering a tattoo artist.
627
00:36:29,228 --> 00:36:32,231
But I don't want nothing to do with it.
I don't want to get killed, man.
628
00:36:32,315 --> 00:36:34,901
- Big cat people are sick f...
- [beeping]
629
00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:38,988
Hello, my name is Sandra Wittkopp.
630
00:36:39,071 --> 00:36:42,950
I used to be a housekeeper
for Don and Carole Lewis.
631
00:36:43,743 --> 00:36:49,957
I suspect that Carole's dad and Kenny Farr
632
00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:52,835
had something to do with Don's murder.
633
00:36:52,919 --> 00:36:56,005
- [suspenseful music playing]
- [Sandra] I don't have any proof,
634
00:36:56,088 --> 00:37:00,551
but somebody forged my name
on a bunch of papers.
635
00:37:01,135 --> 00:37:03,721
Don's will, for one thing.
636
00:37:04,597 --> 00:37:06,724
So, I just wanted to let you know.
637
00:37:08,351 --> 00:37:10,353
Thank you very much. Bye.
638
00:37:11,354 --> 00:37:13,356
[suspenseful music continues]
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