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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:10,468 --> 00:00:12,220 [Alan Schreier] You ever see Tiger King? 2 00:00:12,303 --> 00:00:13,138 [man] Yeah. 3 00:00:13,221 --> 00:00:15,765 [Alan] I dated Carole Baskin for two and a half years. 4 00:00:15,849 --> 00:00:17,100 [man] So did she do it? 5 00:00:18,435 --> 00:00:19,811 [Alan] That's the question. 6 00:00:19,894 --> 00:00:21,146 [man] That is the question. 7 00:00:21,229 --> 00:00:22,063 I didn't think so, 8 00:00:22,147 --> 00:00:24,774 but the more that comes out, the more I think it's possible. 9 00:00:24,858 --> 00:00:26,818 [man] You ever feel like your life was threatened? 10 00:00:26,901 --> 00:00:28,778 No. I wouldn't have lived with her if I did. 11 00:00:29,571 --> 00:00:31,990 [intriguing music playing] 12 00:00:36,286 --> 00:00:39,831 [Alan] When I met her, it was a year and a half after Don disappeared. 13 00:00:39,914 --> 00:00:44,252 It was '98, and the dating apps came about, 14 00:00:44,335 --> 00:00:45,962 and that's how I met Carole. 15 00:00:46,046 --> 00:00:47,406 [automated voice] You've got mail! 16 00:00:47,464 --> 00:00:49,549 [Alan] She says, "I don't think you know who I am." 17 00:00:49,632 --> 00:00:53,219 "And if you want to see about me, I'll be in People magazine this week." 18 00:00:53,303 --> 00:00:55,346 People wrote the article about her, 19 00:00:55,430 --> 00:00:59,684 that maybe she killed her husband and fed him to the animals. 20 00:00:59,768 --> 00:01:01,394 [Carole] What a good girl! 21 00:01:01,478 --> 00:01:04,689 [Alan] But I believed in my heart that she didn't kill him. 22 00:01:04,773 --> 00:01:06,399 [chuckling] And sparks flew. 23 00:01:06,483 --> 00:01:09,444 "Life is wonderful. I am in love." 24 00:01:09,527 --> 00:01:11,362 "Alan has taught me so much." 25 00:01:11,446 --> 00:01:16,284 "He pulls me close. I feel him breathe, hot upon my shivering skin." 26 00:01:16,367 --> 00:01:20,914 "This magic web around me weaved as I become one flesh with him." 27 00:01:21,498 --> 00:01:23,583 [woman] And why do you think she sought you out? 28 00:01:23,666 --> 00:01:25,627 Hey, man, I'm not chopped liver. 29 00:01:27,545 --> 00:01:29,005 Carole was very kind to me, 30 00:01:29,089 --> 00:01:30,924 but you talk to my son, Todd, 31 00:01:31,007 --> 00:01:33,093 he's going to tell you a different story. 32 00:01:33,176 --> 00:01:35,345 [school bell ringing] 33 00:01:35,428 --> 00:01:38,890 I was coming home from high school. I throw my backpack in my room. 34 00:01:38,973 --> 00:01:40,391 I gotta go take a piss. 35 00:01:40,475 --> 00:01:42,018 I open the bathroom door. 36 00:01:42,102 --> 00:01:44,395 There's a bobcat. [imitates cat growling] 37 00:01:44,479 --> 00:01:48,316 And I'm like, "Dad, what the fuck, man?" 38 00:01:49,692 --> 00:01:51,903 Carole did not want me there. 39 00:01:52,529 --> 00:01:54,614 She dresses up in all this kitty cat crap, 40 00:01:55,198 --> 00:01:57,242 prances around in her kitty cat robes. 41 00:01:57,325 --> 00:02:00,245 And I was a kid. I'm like, "What are you doing, lady?" 42 00:02:00,328 --> 00:02:02,455 And so I just hid in my room as much as I could. 43 00:02:02,539 --> 00:02:05,041 I was not allowed in a certain part of the house. 44 00:02:05,125 --> 00:02:08,336 I had these curfews. I could never have friends over. 45 00:02:08,962 --> 00:02:10,255 But their biggest rule, 46 00:02:10,797 --> 00:02:14,717 I was told very strictly, "Don't talk about Don." 47 00:02:14,801 --> 00:02:16,344 "Do not talk about it." 48 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:20,515 I don't think Carole necessarily killed her husband. 49 00:02:21,182 --> 00:02:23,518 I think she can point people in the right direction, 50 00:02:24,269 --> 00:02:25,436 but she's not going to. 51 00:02:26,688 --> 00:02:28,940 She doesn't care about people. 52 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,401 She cares about cats. 53 00:02:32,610 --> 00:02:34,612 [dramatic music playing] 54 00:02:41,161 --> 00:02:43,246 "June 1st, 2002." 55 00:02:43,788 --> 00:02:46,416 "The dilemma of Don's disappearance." 56 00:02:46,499 --> 00:02:48,042 "I didn't kill Don." 57 00:02:48,585 --> 00:02:51,212 "I have loved him since I was 19, 58 00:02:51,296 --> 00:02:53,840 and he taught me everything I know about business." 59 00:02:54,966 --> 00:02:59,220 [Jerry Mitchell] My opinions of Carole beyond what I've read, what I've seen, 60 00:02:59,304 --> 00:03:02,265 the main source, I guess you'd say, 61 00:03:02,348 --> 00:03:04,851 is her own diaries. 62 00:03:06,144 --> 00:03:09,564 [Carole] I post my diary entries every day right now 63 00:03:09,647 --> 00:03:13,484 because so many people said, "Oh, she knows more than she's telling." 64 00:03:13,568 --> 00:03:16,196 But I'll tell you everything I ever said, 65 00:03:16,279 --> 00:03:18,948 everything I ever even thought and wrote down. 66 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:20,617 You're welcome to read through it. 67 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:23,369 It's all out there for everybody to investigate, 68 00:03:23,453 --> 00:03:27,373 but they don't want to because they would rather believe the lie 69 00:03:27,457 --> 00:03:30,084 than prove to themselves what the truth was. 70 00:03:30,168 --> 00:03:34,589 [Joe Exotic on phone] Her diary that she's reading online, the woman is ludicrous. 71 00:03:34,672 --> 00:03:37,592 I watched them all last night. I laughed my ass off. 72 00:03:37,675 --> 00:03:42,931 "I remember going to elaborate extents to create a mystery story line, 73 00:03:43,014 --> 00:03:46,935 where little clues would be left in places for the kids to find." 74 00:03:47,018 --> 00:03:48,686 "I really like story lines 75 00:03:48,770 --> 00:03:51,481 where you keep thinking you've discovered the plot, 76 00:03:51,564 --> 00:03:55,276 only for it to twist and turn and surprise you again." 77 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,239 [Joe] I had the whole diary up until '97. 78 00:03:59,322 --> 00:04:02,283 We just happened to have gotten in the mail today... 79 00:04:03,368 --> 00:04:04,535 Carole's diary. 80 00:04:05,119 --> 00:04:08,873 Don would never spend money on her, and he gave her this cheap wedding ring. 81 00:04:08,957 --> 00:04:13,044 "Don has been so mean lately that it seems like I'm always crying." 82 00:04:13,628 --> 00:04:17,632 [Joe] Then he was wanting to leave Carole, and go to Costa Rica with his animals. 83 00:04:17,715 --> 00:04:21,094 [sighs] "Don got so mad that he said he wanted a divorce 84 00:04:21,177 --> 00:04:24,138 and $1,000,000 to move to Costa Rica." 85 00:04:25,098 --> 00:04:27,642 "He said he also wanted 47 of the cats." 86 00:04:27,725 --> 00:04:29,102 [continues indistinctly] 87 00:04:29,185 --> 00:04:31,980 [Jerry] So if you go back to the earliest entries, 88 00:04:32,563 --> 00:04:36,651 the thing it reminds me of is just a marriage on fire. 89 00:04:38,194 --> 00:04:41,364 You don't see any way this marriage is gonna make it. 90 00:04:41,447 --> 00:04:45,326 [Carole on video] "He's all I've ever known and the only man I've ever loved." 91 00:04:46,035 --> 00:04:48,246 "I wish there were some way out for me." 92 00:04:48,329 --> 00:04:53,084 [Joe] The last line says, "I have to find a way out." It's crazy. 93 00:04:53,167 --> 00:04:54,752 Hey, all you cool cats and kittens... 94 00:04:54,836 --> 00:04:59,882 She overshares. What is behind that, I don't know. 95 00:05:00,466 --> 00:05:05,430 But you can begin searching for clues within her words. 96 00:05:06,014 --> 00:05:09,183 It's just a puzzle, and you're just trying to piece it together. 97 00:05:11,060 --> 00:05:13,062 [mysterious music playing] 98 00:05:13,563 --> 00:05:16,524 [Anne McQueen] Honey, I'll be leaving! I love you. 99 00:05:17,025 --> 00:05:19,027 [mysterious music continues] 100 00:05:21,612 --> 00:05:24,324 [man on radio] Sheriff Chronister, in between being ruled out 101 00:05:24,407 --> 00:05:25,992 and being called a person of interest, 102 00:05:26,075 --> 00:05:27,827 where does Carole fall on the list? 103 00:05:27,910 --> 00:05:30,288 [Chronister on radio] We'll continue to look at everybody. 104 00:05:30,371 --> 00:05:33,041 When you have a cold case, you're looking at everyone. 105 00:05:33,708 --> 00:05:37,545 There is absolutely enough circumstantial evidence 106 00:05:37,628 --> 00:05:40,798 for them to bring her in at least for questioning. 107 00:05:41,382 --> 00:05:43,468 Chad Chronister can't be making those comments 108 00:05:43,551 --> 00:05:45,970 unless he knows what the heck he's talking about. 109 00:05:46,054 --> 00:05:48,097 [Nancy Grace] What's your next move, Sheriff? 110 00:05:48,181 --> 00:05:52,310 Trying to figure out exactly, "Who was Don Lewis 23 years ago?" 111 00:05:52,393 --> 00:05:54,103 What was his life like then? 112 00:05:54,979 --> 00:05:56,230 There's been a theory 113 00:05:56,314 --> 00:05:59,442 he had fled the country and just left everyone behind. 114 00:05:59,525 --> 00:06:02,195 We know he was dealing with some shady characters 115 00:06:02,278 --> 00:06:03,279 down in Costa Rica. 116 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:06,991 Well, you know what? That opens up a Pandora's Box. 117 00:06:07,075 --> 00:06:09,202 [mysterious music continues] 118 00:06:13,206 --> 00:06:16,584 The sheriff assured us they have their own suspicions, 119 00:06:16,667 --> 00:06:19,003 but they can't share those with us. 120 00:06:19,504 --> 00:06:21,798 They just have to keep eliminating things. 121 00:06:22,590 --> 00:06:24,300 You know, they, um... 122 00:06:24,384 --> 00:06:28,596 all but apologized for how it was handled years and years ago. 123 00:06:29,389 --> 00:06:32,934 So they said, "We can't do anything about how it was handled back then, 124 00:06:33,017 --> 00:06:34,727 but we want to solve it." 125 00:06:37,814 --> 00:06:39,774 [Detective Garcia] The Don Lewis case is 126 00:06:39,857 --> 00:06:43,319 the most high-profile missing person's case that I've ever dealt with. 127 00:06:43,403 --> 00:06:47,281 But if there's one thing I've learned in the 12 years of doing homicides is 128 00:06:47,365 --> 00:06:50,284 when you think you've seen it all, you haven't quite seen it all. 129 00:06:51,202 --> 00:06:54,497 The Tiger King phenomena has been somewhat of a double-edged sword. 130 00:06:54,580 --> 00:06:56,791 It's been good because it's got a lot of interest 131 00:06:56,874 --> 00:06:58,793 and generated a lot of conversations. 132 00:06:58,876 --> 00:06:59,710 On the back edge, 133 00:06:59,794 --> 00:07:02,547 it's a lot of information out there that we wouldn't want out there. 134 00:07:02,630 --> 00:07:06,717 As an investigator, I gotta look at things in the context of a court of law, 135 00:07:06,801 --> 00:07:10,763 not what I can find on some internet and speculate on. 136 00:07:10,847 --> 00:07:13,266 Hey, what's up, everyone? It's Ripper here. 137 00:07:13,891 --> 00:07:15,685 I've been looking for Carole. 138 00:07:15,768 --> 00:07:18,354 I can't find her. She's not returning my call. 139 00:07:18,980 --> 00:07:23,359 [Garcia] I know there's a whole subculture of online investigators, 140 00:07:23,443 --> 00:07:25,403 but I don't know what their backgrounds are. 141 00:07:25,486 --> 00:07:26,988 I don't know what drives them. 142 00:07:27,071 --> 00:07:29,198 I don't really make anything of them. 143 00:07:30,032 --> 00:07:34,203 [Ripper] When it comes to the Hillsborough Sheriff's Department, 144 00:07:34,996 --> 00:07:39,167 I think it's about time they get some answers for this family. 145 00:07:39,250 --> 00:07:41,461 [intriguing music playing] 146 00:07:42,170 --> 00:07:44,922 [Ripper] When was the last time you saw your dad? 147 00:07:45,756 --> 00:07:50,553 June 14th, 1997. 148 00:07:50,636 --> 00:07:53,097 [Ripper] Two months before he went missing. 149 00:07:53,181 --> 00:07:55,892 He told me to come at a specific time in the afternoon. 150 00:07:55,975 --> 00:07:58,436 He said Carole would not be there and that would be best. 151 00:07:59,395 --> 00:08:02,565 [Carole] It's all right! Pet it. You can pet these. These are bigger ones. 152 00:08:02,648 --> 00:08:03,858 [Don] Don't be scared of him! 153 00:08:03,941 --> 00:08:06,319 [Gale Rathbone] I don't remember the exact conversation, 154 00:08:06,402 --> 00:08:10,656 but he got the point across to me that there was trouble. 155 00:08:10,740 --> 00:08:14,035 I know he was making plans to go to Costa Rica. 156 00:08:14,994 --> 00:08:18,247 [Ripper] Do you think he would have left and didn't tell you guys? 157 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:19,665 - [Gale] No. - [Ripper] No? 158 00:08:19,749 --> 00:08:22,752 [Gale] But law enforcement was still very divided. 159 00:08:22,835 --> 00:08:25,588 Half of them thought he had just... 160 00:08:26,172 --> 00:08:28,799 - flown off to Costa Rica. - Mm-hmm. 161 00:08:28,883 --> 00:08:30,134 And half of them thought, 162 00:08:30,218 --> 00:08:33,429 "No, there might have been something mysterious happen." 163 00:08:35,014 --> 00:08:39,936 [reporter] The flamboyant entrepreneur left pending business deals, his cats, 164 00:08:40,019 --> 00:08:42,563 and a very worried wife behind. 165 00:08:43,523 --> 00:08:45,608 He had made that comment to me, you know? 166 00:08:45,691 --> 00:08:49,695 He was gonna leave her, move to Costa Rica, and take all the cats. 167 00:08:49,779 --> 00:08:54,951 He said that out loud to me one day 'cause he was mad, out on the property. 168 00:08:55,034 --> 00:08:57,453 [woman] Do you remember when he said that to you? 169 00:08:58,913 --> 00:09:00,623 When the clouded leopard died. 170 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,630 They had a clouded leopard they were moving from one enclosure to another, 171 00:09:08,130 --> 00:09:10,258 and they were moving this leopard in a box. 172 00:09:10,841 --> 00:09:13,553 But they forgot the box on a path. 173 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:17,473 It was hot. 174 00:09:18,474 --> 00:09:21,644 The leopard died. He suffocated in that box. 175 00:09:24,689 --> 00:09:27,692 Don was angry, and I guess they had a fight. 176 00:09:29,777 --> 00:09:33,614 There was a lot of turmoil there, a lot of jealousy, a lot of drama, 177 00:09:34,198 --> 00:09:36,492 which I avoided like the plague. 178 00:09:37,660 --> 00:09:40,162 [Carole] "Don's first day back from Costa Rica, he wakes up, 179 00:09:40,246 --> 00:09:43,791 and calmly tells me that he is going to tear down the caracal pens." 180 00:09:43,874 --> 00:09:47,712 "He said that he would poison all of the cats with antifreeze." 181 00:09:48,337 --> 00:09:51,424 "I told him to get off the property and not come back." 182 00:09:51,507 --> 00:09:54,885 "I told him that if he did not go, I would have him arrested." 183 00:09:56,012 --> 00:09:59,765 [Jim Moore] The whole Costa Rica project, Carole, I don't think, was a fan of that. 184 00:09:59,849 --> 00:10:02,560 She was not on board with that at all. 185 00:10:02,643 --> 00:10:05,187 There was talk of moving the animals down there, 186 00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:06,272 and that was something 187 00:10:06,355 --> 00:10:09,400 that would certainly cause friction when he came back into town. 188 00:10:11,235 --> 00:10:13,654 He had talked to me about going down there with them. 189 00:10:13,738 --> 00:10:15,615 They were gonna have this great facility. 190 00:10:16,115 --> 00:10:19,410 Just to him, it was like his Jurassic Park. 191 00:10:20,661 --> 00:10:24,665 I'm not going to discuss any other properties that he had in Costa Rica, 192 00:10:24,749 --> 00:10:26,917 due to it being an open investigation. 193 00:10:27,001 --> 00:10:29,712 [woman] Let me just ask you this, do you know what he was up to? 194 00:10:29,795 --> 00:10:32,965 Anything relating to Costa Rica, I'm not gonna speak about. 195 00:10:34,592 --> 00:10:38,304 There was very little to no regulation of anything in Costa Rica. 196 00:10:38,888 --> 00:10:41,057 That's why he had a frickin' ocelot, okay? 197 00:10:41,140 --> 00:10:43,351 It's a South American cat, for God's sake. 198 00:10:44,894 --> 00:10:47,396 I will tell you this. After Tiger King, 199 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,233 I got a call from a detective at the sheriff's department. 200 00:10:51,317 --> 00:10:53,444 And when you deal with a murder detective, 201 00:10:53,527 --> 00:10:56,197 information is a one-way street, from you to them. 202 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:00,576 They don't give you a damn thing, but when we were talking about Don, 203 00:11:01,202 --> 00:11:03,954 the detective got mad at me, and slipped up, 204 00:11:04,038 --> 00:11:07,083 and told me there were federal reports of him alive and well 205 00:11:07,166 --> 00:11:09,460 in Costa Rica that he had to overcome. 206 00:11:10,795 --> 00:11:12,088 He did tell me that. 207 00:11:12,171 --> 00:11:14,173 [suspenseful music playing] 208 00:11:14,256 --> 00:11:18,344 [Joseph] So I had a buddy who's very high in federal law enforcement 209 00:11:18,427 --> 00:11:19,887 search that out for me. 210 00:11:22,306 --> 00:11:24,308 [suspenseful music continues] 211 00:11:34,068 --> 00:11:37,446 [woman] So have you heard about this Homeland Security document? 212 00:11:38,614 --> 00:11:40,032 Can you read part of it? 213 00:11:40,658 --> 00:11:45,663 [Anne] "Lewis owns property in Costa Rica and has traveled regularly." 214 00:11:46,580 --> 00:11:50,000 "In the latter part of August 1997, 215 00:11:50,084 --> 00:11:53,796 Lewis' wife Carole filed a missing person's report." 216 00:11:53,879 --> 00:11:55,589 "Blank has learned 217 00:11:55,673 --> 00:12:00,010 that Don is currently alive and well in Costa Rica." 218 00:12:00,761 --> 00:12:03,681 "Lewis has loaned money to various individuals 219 00:12:03,764 --> 00:12:05,891 and could live quite well." 220 00:12:05,975 --> 00:12:10,312 "Lewiscould reside in Costa Rica indefinitely." 221 00:12:10,396 --> 00:12:13,315 [suspenseful music continues] 222 00:12:15,401 --> 00:12:16,819 [airplane PA chiming] 223 00:12:16,902 --> 00:12:19,238 [pilot on PA] Cabin crew, start to descend. 224 00:12:23,284 --> 00:12:25,411 [Rey Rodriguez] When Don disappeared, 225 00:12:25,494 --> 00:12:29,540 some detective came to Costa Rica and started asking questions. 226 00:12:29,623 --> 00:12:31,751 And I told them what I knew. 227 00:12:32,543 --> 00:12:38,841 And I said, "Well, I met Don Lewis in San José, Costa Rica in '96." 228 00:12:38,924 --> 00:12:44,764 He needed a translator, and a driver, and a whole bunch of other stuff. 229 00:12:44,847 --> 00:12:48,476 So he picks me as his, uh... 230 00:12:50,019 --> 00:12:51,896 guide. Let's call it "guide." 231 00:12:53,063 --> 00:12:54,857 I was his protection. 232 00:12:56,192 --> 00:13:00,237 He talked about moving to Costa Rica to start all over fresh. 233 00:13:01,155 --> 00:13:03,741 [Carole] "October 17th, 1996." 234 00:13:03,824 --> 00:13:06,160 "On the day of our fifth wedding anniversary, 235 00:13:06,243 --> 00:13:09,163 Don left for another week in Costa Rica." 236 00:13:09,246 --> 00:13:13,626 "As always, no card, no flowers, no recognition of our time together." 237 00:13:13,709 --> 00:13:16,086 "He is too busy creating a new life for himself." 238 00:13:17,463 --> 00:13:21,967 [Rey] Don told me that he was there to get away from Carole. 239 00:13:22,051 --> 00:13:26,055 And so, he'll put investments into my name. 240 00:13:26,138 --> 00:13:28,015 You know, I'm a front man. 241 00:13:28,974 --> 00:13:31,101 [suspenseful music playing] 242 00:13:31,811 --> 00:13:35,523 [Henry Porras in Spanish] Back then, Costa Rica was a fiscal paradise. 243 00:13:35,606 --> 00:13:40,653 The laws were very flexible here. 244 00:13:41,695 --> 00:13:44,281 For Don, that was just perfect. 245 00:13:45,491 --> 00:13:48,828 [Rey in English] We bought properties all over Costa Rica. 246 00:13:48,911 --> 00:13:52,998 And I remember we acquired a house in Rohrmoser. 247 00:13:53,916 --> 00:13:57,044 Then we got a building in downtown San José. 248 00:13:58,504 --> 00:14:01,298 And then, of course, the Bagaces Farm. 249 00:14:01,924 --> 00:14:05,719 Don was planning to fill it up with all kinds of cats. 250 00:14:11,684 --> 00:14:15,938 [Valo Murillo in Spanish] Don built a little house and cage for the cats. 251 00:14:16,647 --> 00:14:19,358 That's all he had on the farm before he left. 252 00:14:21,151 --> 00:14:23,904 [Don in English] The mama's feeding them, taking care of them good, 253 00:14:23,988 --> 00:14:27,157 and she lets me pick them up almost anytime I want to. 254 00:14:27,241 --> 00:14:29,721 [Valo in Spanish] I knew him well back then. He was a good man. 255 00:14:29,785 --> 00:14:32,246 But, honestly, I never saw him again. 256 00:14:32,746 --> 00:14:35,082 Since he disappeared, I've never seen him again. 257 00:14:35,916 --> 00:14:37,293 Never. 258 00:14:37,376 --> 00:14:39,503 And I'd recognize him anywhere. 259 00:14:39,587 --> 00:14:42,089 Even all these years later, I'd recognize him. 260 00:14:43,340 --> 00:14:46,844 People say he lives somewhere else now. 261 00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:51,098 That's the story, but I don't know if it's true. 262 00:14:53,559 --> 00:14:55,603 [Joseph in English] I knew something was going on. 263 00:14:56,186 --> 00:14:57,980 But far as I was concerned, 264 00:14:58,063 --> 00:15:02,902 it had to do with some illegal things called importation of cats, Felidae. 265 00:15:02,985 --> 00:15:05,654 And I wanted nothing to do with anything illegal. 266 00:15:05,738 --> 00:15:07,364 [woman] Was he bringing cats back here? 267 00:15:08,324 --> 00:15:09,324 Was he? Oh, hell yes. 268 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,121 Don bought and sold planes in the past. 269 00:15:14,204 --> 00:15:18,626 He had a pilot's license at one time. It was revoked for the number of crashes. 270 00:15:18,709 --> 00:15:21,211 But just because he didn't have a pilot's license 271 00:15:21,295 --> 00:15:22,755 didn't mean he didn't fly. 272 00:15:22,838 --> 00:15:25,049 It meant he flew unlicensed. 273 00:15:27,718 --> 00:15:32,806 [Rey] Don used to fly a Cessna plane back and forth from Costa Rica. 274 00:15:33,432 --> 00:15:38,145 He'd have to stop along the way in the banana air strips. 275 00:15:38,854 --> 00:15:41,941 You can land in one of those banana plantations, 276 00:15:42,024 --> 00:15:44,777 and it's under the radar, so... 277 00:15:45,277 --> 00:15:48,906 People say, "No, it can't be done." No. Yes, it is done all the time. 278 00:15:51,825 --> 00:15:55,663 [in Spanish] I met Don because he needed maintenance on his airplane. 279 00:15:56,914 --> 00:15:59,333 One time, he wanted to take a cat with him. 280 00:15:59,416 --> 00:16:03,671 He tried to fit the cage there. 281 00:16:04,505 --> 00:16:07,508 He liked the jungle areas, away from the city. 282 00:16:08,634 --> 00:16:11,303 He could've landed in any of those airports. 283 00:16:11,387 --> 00:16:13,597 [man] Did they keep records of these flights? 284 00:16:13,681 --> 00:16:17,559 No. If you wanted, you'd take off, and if you stay below 1,000 feet, 285 00:16:17,643 --> 00:16:19,853 you don't have to notify air traffic control. 286 00:16:22,356 --> 00:16:26,360 [in English] Don liked to play with dangerous stuff, okay? 287 00:16:28,070 --> 00:16:31,949 But if you want to really know the real story, 288 00:16:32,032 --> 00:16:33,867 forget the cats. 289 00:16:34,535 --> 00:16:35,577 Trust me. 290 00:16:36,161 --> 00:16:41,583 When he comes in to Costa Rica by private plane, he'll bring boxes. 291 00:16:42,167 --> 00:16:44,878 One, two, three, sometimes four. 292 00:16:44,962 --> 00:16:47,548 Used clothes on top, 293 00:16:48,173 --> 00:16:51,385 $100 bills rolled up at the bottom. 294 00:16:51,468 --> 00:16:54,596 [woman] Was it a couple thousand dollars? Was it ten thousand... 295 00:16:54,680 --> 00:17:00,853 No, it was $200,000, $100,000 each box, you know? 296 00:17:00,936 --> 00:17:03,772 It was a lot of money. A lot of money. 297 00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:05,190 Heavy. 298 00:17:05,274 --> 00:17:06,984 I have to fucking carry it. 299 00:17:08,318 --> 00:17:10,446 [mellow music playing] 300 00:17:10,529 --> 00:17:14,575 [Rey] Don would take all that cash money down to Costa Rica 301 00:17:14,658 --> 00:17:17,411 and put it in different companies. 302 00:17:17,995 --> 00:17:19,913 He's just hiding money. 303 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:24,877 [in Spanish] He would tell me they needed to create a company with this name, 304 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:26,920 this much capital... 305 00:17:27,004 --> 00:17:30,049 So I would create those companies for him. 306 00:17:30,632 --> 00:17:32,092 I would legalize their books. 307 00:17:32,176 --> 00:17:35,721 What they did with those companies is their problem. 308 00:17:39,767 --> 00:17:43,020 [in English] That sounds like Dad. That sounds like he would have been 309 00:17:43,103 --> 00:17:46,023 trying to get his money out of the States, 310 00:17:46,523 --> 00:17:48,776 so that when he divorced Carole, 311 00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:51,236 there would be less that he would have to give her. 312 00:17:52,404 --> 00:17:56,325 I don't think he was dealing with completely illegal things down there. 313 00:17:56,408 --> 00:17:58,368 Dad always walked a fine line. 314 00:17:58,452 --> 00:18:01,121 He was doing the same things he's always done. 315 00:18:01,205 --> 00:18:05,042 He was doing his street hustle. 316 00:18:05,667 --> 00:18:09,421 Deep down, what Don was doing, it was illegal. 317 00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:11,924 He wanted clean money. 318 00:18:12,007 --> 00:18:15,719 That's why he was running cash through all these properties. 319 00:18:17,054 --> 00:18:21,016 The first building he bought was the Rohrmoser house. 320 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:25,729 Later on, they turned it into a hotel. It was worth a lot of money. 321 00:18:28,023 --> 00:18:30,901 [Mary LeBouef] People told me that Don Lewis was a millionaire. 322 00:18:30,984 --> 00:18:34,613 I couldn't believe it because he looked like a homeless person. 323 00:18:35,531 --> 00:18:37,825 But he would show you the money. 324 00:18:38,367 --> 00:18:41,453 Kind of bragging. Like, "This is what I got in this time." 325 00:18:43,413 --> 00:18:46,583 [Rey] That's when I start thinking, "It's too much money." 326 00:18:46,667 --> 00:18:51,046 I didn't want to be part of the dirty stuff. 327 00:18:51,630 --> 00:18:55,551 And I was warned, through a contact from the CIA, 328 00:18:55,634 --> 00:19:00,430 there was an investigation on Don with federal stuff. 329 00:19:01,223 --> 00:19:05,310 They told me, "Do not get any more involved with this guy." 330 00:19:05,936 --> 00:19:10,065 [woman] Do you think he was involved with mafia or criminal enterprises? 331 00:19:10,149 --> 00:19:12,067 [sighs] I don't know. 332 00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:14,570 And if I knew, I would not tell you either. 333 00:19:18,574 --> 00:19:21,410 [Leonora LaPeter Anton] When I covered the Don Lewis disappearance, 334 00:19:21,493 --> 00:19:26,415 I talked to a detective, and they didn't think he was dead. 335 00:19:26,498 --> 00:19:28,167 They thought he'd fled the country. 336 00:19:28,250 --> 00:19:29,793 That changed their investigation, 337 00:19:29,877 --> 00:19:32,588 or the nature of their investigation initially. 338 00:19:33,338 --> 00:19:36,091 They had investigated at one point in time 339 00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:39,803 this lounge down the street from Don Lewis's office. 340 00:19:40,804 --> 00:19:43,473 It was part of a criminal investigation. 341 00:19:43,974 --> 00:19:47,936 Don would go into the bar, cash a check without it hitting his bank. 342 00:19:48,896 --> 00:19:52,065 And then you can move the cash to wherever your heart desires, 343 00:19:52,149 --> 00:19:53,692 take it out of the country. 344 00:19:54,735 --> 00:19:56,570 He said, "Start following the money." 345 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,824 [Kenny Farr] Don didn't want nobody to know what he had. 346 00:20:01,575 --> 00:20:05,162 He definitely didn't want the government knowing anything about his business. 347 00:20:05,245 --> 00:20:08,040 He wanted his cash where it was his and nobody knew about it. 348 00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:11,877 I remember one time I was asked to move 349 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,130 one of the semi-trailers that was way out back behind his house, 350 00:20:15,881 --> 00:20:17,674 and I picked the trailer up, 351 00:20:17,758 --> 00:20:19,927 and there was money underneath that trailer. 352 00:20:21,637 --> 00:20:25,682 When he disappeared, Don Lewis was probably worth 20 million, 353 00:20:25,766 --> 00:20:27,267 maybe a little more. 354 00:20:29,144 --> 00:20:31,730 [Mary] He was very proud of his money 355 00:20:31,813 --> 00:20:34,191 and he was very concerned 356 00:20:34,274 --> 00:20:37,444 about Carole taking all his money in a divorce. 357 00:20:38,237 --> 00:20:40,405 He said, "She's not getting a dime." 358 00:20:41,406 --> 00:20:45,327 He didn't want to be married to Carole anymore. He just hated her. 359 00:20:46,745 --> 00:20:48,830 He was planning his escape. 360 00:20:49,873 --> 00:20:52,834 Costa Rica was the perfect place to have it done. 361 00:20:54,086 --> 00:20:57,506 [Henry in Spanish] It was very easy to get a fake passport in Costa Rica. 362 00:20:57,589 --> 00:21:03,470 There were gangs dedicated to falsifying passports. 363 00:21:03,553 --> 00:21:06,181 They would register the person with a fake name 364 00:21:06,265 --> 00:21:08,392 or the name of a dead person. 365 00:21:08,475 --> 00:21:11,645 A person could travel with that. 366 00:21:13,397 --> 00:21:15,524 [Mary in English] When the People magazine came out, 367 00:21:15,607 --> 00:21:17,859 and I saw Don Lewis and Carole's pictures, 368 00:21:18,527 --> 00:21:21,530 the first thing I thought was, "He's not dead." 369 00:21:21,613 --> 00:21:25,909 "He has changed his identity. He has the money to do it." 370 00:21:25,993 --> 00:21:28,662 "He's gone on with his life." 371 00:21:32,082 --> 00:21:36,086 [Anne] It's a letter that I wrote to Don on September 27th, 1997. 372 00:21:36,670 --> 00:21:39,423 "Dear Don, I'm writing you this letter because I need your help." 373 00:21:39,506 --> 00:21:42,759 "Some think that you are dead. Some think that you just ran away 374 00:21:42,843 --> 00:21:45,470 because you were scared that you were going to prison 375 00:21:45,554 --> 00:21:48,056 and that Carole has something over your head." 376 00:21:48,140 --> 00:21:51,059 "I am hoping that you just got tired of all the shit 377 00:21:51,143 --> 00:21:53,145 and are some place that you are happy." 378 00:21:53,228 --> 00:21:57,524 [voice breaking] "I need for you to, just for a little while, to come back." 379 00:21:57,607 --> 00:22:01,028 "Then you can go back in hiding if that is what you want to do." 380 00:22:01,111 --> 00:22:03,155 "I miss you so much. Love, Anne." 381 00:22:04,156 --> 00:22:07,409 "P.S. If you will just call me or come back, 382 00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:10,037 I will quit smoking no matter what, 383 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:13,373 and I will pay my debt and with all the interest." 384 00:22:16,126 --> 00:22:22,424 I'd like to think that I knew more about Don than what maybe I did. 385 00:22:22,507 --> 00:22:27,512 Maybe he didn't tell me because he knew that it would have completely upset me. 386 00:22:29,931 --> 00:22:32,642 [Joseph] Don Lewis would not walk away from the cats he had, 387 00:22:32,726 --> 00:22:34,895 he would not walk away from his daughters, period. 388 00:22:34,978 --> 00:22:37,773 [woman] Even if he was in trouble and planning to escape? 389 00:22:37,856 --> 00:22:38,690 Oh, hell no. 390 00:22:38,774 --> 00:22:41,735 He loved his daughters. He loved his cats. He loved his assets. 391 00:22:43,236 --> 00:22:46,073 [Jerry] Usually people who disappear, 392 00:22:46,156 --> 00:22:48,283 you know how they eventually get found? 393 00:22:48,367 --> 00:22:50,077 They make contact with somebody. 394 00:22:50,827 --> 00:22:54,539 It's been 23 years without contact from Don. 395 00:22:55,791 --> 00:22:57,417 If there's a disappearance, 396 00:22:58,043 --> 00:23:01,463 you should treat it initially as a homicide. 397 00:23:01,546 --> 00:23:07,469 And what you don't want is to wait weeks, or months, or however long 398 00:23:07,552 --> 00:23:12,307 and go, "You know, I think maybe that was a homicide." 399 00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:14,267 "Well, let's investigate that." 400 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. 405 00:23:33,662 --> 00:23:38,875 But once I started seeing all these characters showing up 406 00:23:38,959 --> 00:23:41,420 and asking, "Where is he?" 407 00:23:42,003 --> 00:23:45,757 I'm like, "What is going on here?" 408 00:23:46,716 --> 00:23:49,594 But you see, Don, he lived two lives. 409 00:23:50,512 --> 00:23:52,556 Business during the day, 410 00:23:53,181 --> 00:23:54,724 fun time during the night. 411 00:23:55,517 --> 00:23:58,103 I would have nothing to do with fun time. 412 00:23:58,186 --> 00:23:59,396 Not me. 413 00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:06,820 [Alex Mora in Spanish] Don Lewis. I remember him like yesterday. 414 00:24:06,903 --> 00:24:10,031 Of all the clients I had... 415 00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:12,033 Don Lewis was most important. 416 00:24:13,410 --> 00:24:16,288 He always needed a beautiful woman next to him. 417 00:24:17,622 --> 00:24:21,209 He was a charmer. He treated people nicely. 418 00:24:21,293 --> 00:24:24,129 He had money. What more could a woman want? 419 00:24:25,630 --> 00:24:30,343 Whenever he came to Costa Rica, I would take care of him. 420 00:24:31,386 --> 00:24:34,473 And he always liked everything to be perfect. 421 00:24:37,893 --> 00:24:42,022 I remember every day we would go and buy The Tico Times. 422 00:24:44,065 --> 00:24:48,820 [in English] Don put ads in The Tico Times, the local San José paper, 423 00:24:48,904 --> 00:24:51,823 looking for a female companion. 424 00:24:53,033 --> 00:24:57,746 He would bring these suitcases full of old clothing from garage sales, 425 00:24:58,371 --> 00:25:01,374 so the girls could come in and pick out whatever they wanted. 426 00:25:01,458 --> 00:25:03,210 "I've got all this." 427 00:25:03,293 --> 00:25:06,546 "You can have all this ifyou just marry me." 428 00:25:06,630 --> 00:25:08,632 [soft music playing] 429 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, 432 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." 434 00:25:29,736 --> 00:25:34,741 It always had odd tenants and strange things going on. 435 00:25:36,117 --> 00:25:38,870 There was a lot of movement outside that house. 436 00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:40,705 A lot of women. 437 00:25:41,748 --> 00:25:46,336 Men would line up outside the house and look at them. 438 00:25:46,419 --> 00:25:48,296 They were all young. 439 00:25:51,007 --> 00:25:56,179 [Rey in English] Don was attracted to Costa Rica because it was a paradise 440 00:25:56,263 --> 00:25:58,473 where little girls are sold. 441 00:25:59,766 --> 00:26:02,644 People needed money badly. 442 00:26:02,727 --> 00:26:04,187 And they do all the time. 443 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:10,026 The Rohrmoser house became like a brothel. 444 00:26:11,444 --> 00:26:14,698 [Alex in Spanish] I would bring girls to the house for him. 445 00:26:14,781 --> 00:26:17,826 If he liked one, she would spend the night there. 446 00:26:18,410 --> 00:26:21,371 He paid them well. 447 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. 449 00:26:30,380 --> 00:26:32,882 I believe she was about 15. 450 00:26:34,092 --> 00:26:35,635 I told Don, 451 00:26:36,219 --> 00:26:38,138 "Be careful what you're doing." 452 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... 454 00:26:45,145 --> 00:26:46,730 they'll kill you for that." 455 00:26:46,813 --> 00:26:48,815 [suspenseful music playing] 456 00:26:50,191 --> 00:26:54,362 [Jerry] If you're talking about suspects, look at motive and opportunity. 457 00:26:54,446 --> 00:26:58,325 Who had the motive? Who had an opportunity to do it? 458 00:26:59,326 --> 00:27:03,955 Maybe someone Don was having an affair with, 459 00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:07,375 their family got angry and killed him. 460 00:27:07,459 --> 00:27:09,085 [gun firing] 461 00:27:09,878 --> 00:27:12,881 [Jerry] Or maybe someone who got mad at Don in business. 462 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. 464 00:27:19,429 --> 00:27:21,514 He said it was over money. 465 00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:25,518 He had some problems with some people in the US. 466 00:27:25,602 --> 00:27:27,145 They were really bad men. 467 00:27:27,228 --> 00:27:30,148 I asked, "Bad men?" He said, "Very, very bad." 468 00:27:30,231 --> 00:27:32,817 "They will kill you," he said. "Bang." 469 00:27:35,362 --> 00:27:37,864 [in English] Carole told me that he hung around with a lot of 470 00:27:37,947 --> 00:27:39,407 unscrupulous type of people. 471 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] 54948

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