isn't over. he didn't just murder someone and have nothing afterwards. he left behind family. he left behind a disaster. and if i'm the only thing to remind him of that, then that's what i'm there for. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline extra. "... this that's all for this edition of "dateline extra. "... thi [interpreter] there's something to her that people connect with. what was so beautiful about her that made her target to. >> she was the queen of the million dollars listing. the real estate broker who

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-- >> love mother, wife and a successful real estate broker with a long list of clients. then, she vanished. michael tim any missing person cases, police knew it was a race against time to find her. before it was too late. here is andrea canning with the client. >> beverley carter was making a name for herself in little rock, arkansas. >> her face is in the paper every week. >> she had a billboard on one of the busiest interstates. it had her face on. it >> as a top selling realtor, beverley carter had become somewhat of a local celebrity. with her infectious smile, she put house hundreds that he's, trusted to find the perfect home, she often did. >> beverley was also matted. nobody could do look really good. >> there was a downside to her celebrity. >> this realtor had a target on her back. >> she did a, and she didn't know it.

>> for beverley, being a realtor was more than just closing a deal. >> was she in the perfect job for her personality? >> yes. >> absolutely. >> her sons, chad and karl junior, and karl junior's wife, cam, we're always amazed at how much their mom's clients loved her. >> one of her -- and then gone to a baby shower. -- >> it was a newer client and i think that speaks for itself. >> she had a nice smile. >> a beautiful smile. and she had a laugh that would fill a room. >> she was hands down, the most genuine person you ever met. >> chad, beverley's youngest son was like it was -- closed. >> she was very radiant. i think that's what's spoke out to people, that confidence. she was naturally beautiful. >> it was that natural beauty that caught the eye ever -- they met when they were just kids. >> she was 16, i was 19. >> where did you meet her?

>> spindle would, texas. she was working at a little hamburger joint, named the bionic burger. i said, wow. -- >> you just knew? >> yeah. >> awaiting soon followed. a quick stop at city hall. >> a very small wedding, but she loved me and i loved her. we thought it was love anyway. >> a love letters three children, all boys. later, six grandchildren. they had their share of marital problems, including money issues and infidelity. but they worked them out. won their 20th anniversary rolled around, who decided to -- throw a big party. >> i asked her, would you marry me again if i asked you to? she said, well, yes. i said, okay. >> they want to renew their love, show everybody.

it was a way for her to get her dream wedding. gosh. >> a few years after that, she got a real estate license and her best friends, stacey, brenda, and denise, say didn't take long for beverley to build a loyal clientele. >> as you saw a lot of properties? >> she was a top listing in selling asian in 2013. she did over 12 million which, in central arkansas is very well. >> well was it that made her so good at closing the deal? >> she just had that magical butter. >> she had a bubbly personality that i made you fall in love with the house. >> women work together in the same office, although they say it felt more like play and work. >> we will laugh at anything. you know how it is when you're with her girlfriends. you talk about things that are personal, but things that you find funny. we would tell stories and she had this huge, goofy laugh that you could hear all the way down the hall. >> as realtors, they looked out for each other. their office even came up with a sacred code, attacks that

signaled there was trouble. >> brad folder was the code. [inaudible] >> a call they hoped they never had to use. >> as your 50th birthday approached, beverley was determined to get in shape. she started running, working her way up to five k races. the reason that you start racing, some of the times, the medals. >> she lost nearly 60 pounds and threw herself a big birthday party. she gave herself a present, cosmetic surgery. >> she had the time we talk, but she also had implants because you had a lift. and it was kind of a big joke because when they put implants in, they are a little larger than she wanted them to be. >> yes, they were. >> oh, no. >> we had some big laughs about that and she was gonna go have them reduced because she was like, they hadn't fall in and they were like sitting up here. >> but she did look good. >> oh she looks fabulous.

>> and being a real estate agent, she felt it was important to look her best. on an unseasonably warm september day and 2014, beverley was easing back into work. brenda remembers beverley telling her that she was going to show a house not far from our home. the potential buyers were offering cash. >> she didn't want to go, she was sort. but she was hoping that should be able to get a fast close, because if it's cash close, you can close a quicker. >> this is kind of an every day, one of the most showing? >> a no-brainer. >> over the left the office then hit it off to show the property to a young couple. she told her husband, she'd be home for dinner. you can hear from her? >> no. >> carl says he started to worry. beverley had given him the address, so we started to take a ride over. >> she's over there, her car -- and drove around in there was a car. >> everything is on the house? >> that's right. >> so, this is panic time? >> yeah. i thought it was weird because

beverley wouldn't leave, unless she was in a car. >> do you call the police? >> yes. instantly. >> that call set off a frantic search for beverley corridor. where was she? >> coming up, what had happened to beverley. >> all of a sudden, beverley text me, bang, bam, bam. >> our phones are to beeping at the same time with texas. she said, i'm sorry, my phone has been dead. >> some simple miscommunication? the mystery was just beginning. >> i still can feel the same pain. >> when dateline continues. the same pain your gut. ...free your gut. and your mood will follow. ♪ i'm the latest hashtag challenge. and everyone on social media is trying me. i'm trending so hard that “hashtag common sense” can't keep up.

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his wife beverley. she had promised to be home for dinner, but it was dark now and she was not answering her phone. and with the property for sale, her car was in the driveway but there was no sign of her. carl said that he called the police, then his son. >> he says, you know, it's almost 9:00. and i say son i have not heard from your mom. have you heard from her? and i'm texting her, i'm calling her, and i can't get any response. and my first thought was, dad, this is the nature of the business. >> to reach a sure his dad and himself, carl junior and his wife drove over to the office hoping she would be there. >> there was no one there, the place is completely black. and at that time, dad let me know that he had made it to the

property where mom told him that she was going. and her car was there but she wasn't. >> carl figured there had to be an explanation. he called her friends. being real with assayed engines themselves, the thought that they would know -- . >> we went to two vacant housings which were her listings, and we checked the lock box to see if she had open them. and no one had open them. >> as the hours clicked by, her friend couldn't sleep. so she tried her phone. >> i can still say the words that said, it is with a very heavy heart that i let you know. that we cannot find beverley. she went to show a house and she is missing. and i still could not read that and feel the same pain. >> police and beverley's family gathered at the property, trying to figure out where she was. >> how is your that handling everything? >> i felt like he was hard to read, he would sneak away from

time to time and collect his thoughts. >> then, around 1 am. >> i heard, bam bam bam, three knocks. an officer. i said come here. beverley texted me. >> word that bethany texted gave everyone hope. >> i said, this is great. her phone had died. she got some words charged. >> well her friends got text of their own. >> our phones started beeping at the same time with texas. and it was such an eerie feeling. >> i was like oh my gosh! >> what did she say to you too? >> she said i sorry my phone has been dead. i turned it back on. >> it sounded promising but a little bit off. concerned, she used the safety technique that the office had come up with. she texted bethany the special code. >> i said can you tell me who had left the red folder on my desk? >> if bethany was in trouble, she would text back her

location. >> no one responded. >> the one that i got was about having drinks with friends. and i was like, we are right here. >> the text on beverley's husband's phone where deflating. they read, yes, sorry, phone been dead. having drinks now. carl junior knew his mother would never go out and not tell anyone. >> i can't even tell anyone. to go from this, she is okay, this is all over. to the second we saw the screen and saw what those text said? we knew. someone had the hot phone. >> it totally flew me that she had been taken. >> the sheriff who had responded to the call decided they need backup. jeff went to the property. >> beverley had not been missing for that long, so why were you called here that quickly? >> the division showed up and started speaking with the husband, to determine that someone in the case was odd. >> not only was bevin's car

parked in the driveway, -- >> did you have a grim feeling right out of the gate that this woman did not just disappear voluntarily? >> i was hopeful but, i did have a feeling, yes. >> the detectives searched the vacant house. it was pitch black, the electricity was off. >> i got down on the floor and put the flashlight. when it's dark, you can shine a specific angle. and see if there were disturbances. this look like someone had walked through their. >> no struggle inside. but he did discover a clue outside of the front door. >> there was a tire mark in the grass. it looked like someone pulled up and went through the back door. >> the neighbor across the street had seed something? >> yes. she saw a black vehicle pull into the driveway. 25 to 30 minutes later, looked outside and saw a skinny white male with short hail outside of the house. with the vehicle back towards the front door. put two and two together,

that's where the trier track came from. >> the detective had more to go on in bethany's car. >> i saw a notebook that she kept with realtor information. it showed a listing for the house. >> was there anything in the notebook that was providing you with any clues? >> attached to the listing was an email address and a phone number. >> did you call it right away? >> i did not call it right away. no. >> he did not pick up the phone for a good reason. the detective had a theory. >> i felt that beverley, wherever she was, she was being held against her well. >> if this was a kidnapping, he knew that they had to tread lightly with any possible suspects. like the couple that she had met at the house. if they were involved, the last thing he wanted to do was tipped them off. and the type of says, there was someone else he had his eye on. >> coming up! >> we were asked questions like, okay, you are the husband. and can you just completely contaminate our crime scene. why did you do that? >> i knew i was a suspect. >> when dateline continues!

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morning, there was still no sign of beverley carter. her family and friends were out searching. >> we had beautiful eight by ten color flyers that we were posting everywhere. she >> had just had some new had shots done. >> we had hundreds. >> and hundreds of people

joined search parties all over the area. her >> family, her obvious family came together and we had realtors from all over the state helping us. by that afternoon, we have the search set up and everybody had in the side of. and >> many realtors felt this was personal. one of their own, while doing her job had gone missing. and agents were already on alert. in recent years there's a -- across the country, mueller salts and even murder. how often you talk about safety? >> we always talked about it, but if somebody would call -- it was just kind of out of instinct, you would jump up and go. >> this was not a last-minute showing for beverley. brenda said she had been in contact with clients for a few days. >> she did have a few concerns initially, because it was a man who had contacted her. >> she wanted to make sure that the wife was going to be there also. she wanted to show them both at the same time. >> that deal was made, both parties would be there. >> i think it made her feel more comfortable that the wife would be with him.

the wife actually got on the telephone and told her, yes, she will be there. >> and her friends pointed out, the neighborhood where she was showing the house was one beverley knew well. she felt very comfortable in this area? >> yes. that was your stomping ground. >> she had sold several houses on that street. she was very familiar with that area. >> her pastor lived on the street. >> that streak was now a crime scene. new stations helped get the word out. >> in arkansas -- remains missing this evening -- >> to this become immediately the lead story on every newscast? >> every newscast, all kinds of feedback from viewers. the biggest story online. the biggest story on facebook. viewers were immediately latched onto. it >> shannon miller covered the story for nbc's philly it, krqe. she said, funding beverley became a local obsession. >> people came out in droves looking for her, wondering where she went. -- something you do every day.

it left a huge mystery. what happened to her? >> beverley's husband, carl, even made a televised plea. >> i would just like to have my wife back. >> he sounded heartbroken. >> crazy people out here in the world. >> but not everyone was buying a distraught husband story. >> people were saying, oh, the husband must of had something to do with. it he must of heart somebody. >> we all watched a lot of dateline. >> carl junior, so worried about his mom, now feared his dad could become a suspect. >> they were asking questions like, okay, you're the husband, and you just went into this home to search for her -- your fingerprints were everywhere. if completely contaminated our crime scene. why did you do that? you could just see their wheels turning it was like, oh, no. >> he was right to worry. detective allison brought karl senior in for questioning. >> did you put carl in an interview room? >> yes. >> and treated him like, this

is someone we need to take seriously? >> yes. >> every time we do an interview like that, it's always best to get into a setting -- in an interview room, and i'm giving an interview. it plays on their emotions. >> did you ever consider the possibility that carl could've paid somebody to do this? >> yeah, i thought about it. >> did you know why you were considered somebody they needed to talk to? >> once i got in there, and i started questioning me, i knew that i was a suspect. >> as detective allison continue to question carl, he discovered some skeletons. >> they were having financial issues. >> yeah. >> how much money did beverley carter have in her checking account? >> i don't know the exact dollar amount. it ones in much. >> under $26? >> that sounds about right. >> was your life insurance policy? >> yes, several thousand dollars. $100,000. i don't remember the exact amount. >> the detective also learned about other issues he found disturbing. >> he said, well, did you --

acid, yeah. i said, i had one. >> and something else that was struggling, use before, carl said he got violent with beverley, as she tried to stop him from driving drunk. >> i even hit her one time. that's when she got out the truck. i said, okay, we'll stay here than. i just drove off. straight into a ditch. >> did you regret it? >> oh, yeah. -- >> did you worry how that would look? >> no. i didn't worry a bit. i wanted to find cleverly. one thing, i wanted to find beverley. as it, you know, i hit her, and it was that. this one time, that of 34 years, one slap upside the head isn't that bad. >> he says, that was many years

ago. and beverley never held it against him. >> she forgave me right there, because she knew that -- it wasn't me. >> she houthi wasn't ready to cross colonel of the list. he had other work to do. the email address and phone numbers of the prospective buyers found in beverly's no book or fake, tracking the couple required more digging. >> he had new -- barely solid carrier retrieved eerie photos from her phone, taken inside the house just before she went missing. >> what had happened inside that house? a new lead morphs into an all-out man hunt. coming up, -- >> jumps out a second story. window >> it's like a movie. chasing, kidnapping -- >> oh, yeah. >> when dateline continues. g, kidnapping -- >> oh, ...free your gut. and your mood will follow.

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tokyo on saturday. this comes just one day after he was assassinated in japan. funeral service for abe is expected to take place early next week. the white house announced another $400 million in middle terry aid for ukraine on friday. the package includes for more advanced weapon systems. it puts them in ukraine's eastern donbas region. now back to dateline! welcome back. i'm craig melvin. the hours said turned into davidson's family and friends at the real estate agent of beverley carter. it was the good old fashioned detective work that gave detectives the first big clue. once again, here's andrea canning with the client. >> detectives searched detective phone records and data was pouring in. they're hoping it would lead to the

missing real estate agent. beverley carter's cell carrier turned over everything on her phone, and there was one thing that caught investigators attention, these blurry and dark pictures she took of the house she was trying to sell. not exactly showcase material. when her daughter in law had a chance to see them -- >> you have a theory about why they are badly taken photos? >> you can just tell it was like, quick, quick. >> like she knew. >> i knew she knew something was wrong. >> she believed beverley was scared of those potential buyers, and was rushing to finish showing the house. it was all bad news. beverley carter had now been missing for three days. >> i have never felt that kind of loss of control. you feel utterly hopeless. >> and helpless? >> yeah. you can't do anything. >> what they didn't know was that detectives were about to crack this case wide open. the team that had discovered the virus contact information was fake, kept investigating. >> they were able to start taking the email address and

phone records, sending out warning answers, grabber information to the email and phone number. >> the names pop-up? >> yes. >> their real names, aaron lewis and his wife crystal lowrie. police reached over to put the couples house under surveillance. >> this is a delicate information. >> we were working with hope she was still alive. >> detective allison said he wasn't sure if they were still alive. they first wanted to see what they looked like. there our witness had seen a skinny white man was short brown hair the night beverley disappeared. they hadn't been sitting near long, when suddenly, a man matching that description walked out the door. but they didn't approach him. >> were you hoping he might lead you to beverley? >> yes. >> was that the idea? >> yes. >> we felt we made contact with him too early. if he was the one we were looking for, everything was shot. >> lewis got into his car, and that's when the detective said

the plan quickly fell apart. >> he was sitting there, that's when he started speeding off. >> he knew you were following him? >> oh, yeah. he actually went around a 90-degree corner, and wrecked -- he was almost out of the vehicle by the time we one of the corner and saw him. >> lewis was injured. police photographed him and rushed him to the hospital. >> we are not allowed to go back out with him while they're getting certain treatment, so the detective was sitting out waiting for the treatment. when they take aaron back to get mri, cat scan, whatever they do, he decides he can leave the hospital. >> aaron doesn't come back? >> he doesn't come back. >> aaron lewis bolted from the hospital, what's seen the closest link to beverley carter had slipped through their fingers. police launched a citywide man hunt. >> was that one of the first things you did, get his photo out to the news media? >> yes. >> everybody knows him. >> everybody knows that you gotta get this guy. beverley's life is at stake. >> reporter shannon miller

remembers her station cut into programming with the breaking news. >> authorities are searching for a man wanted for kidnapping beverley carter, a realtor. >> was the whole city glued to the tv set as the hunt for this individual was on? >> absolutely. so many people knew this picture, knew this face. >> and everyone was on the lookout. ben and conan who knew beverley from real estate deals were discussing the case in her office. >> as we're in this room looking out the window open, aaron lewis walks out right in front of the window. >> then immediately, ben called 9-1-1. >> it's 9-1-1. >> hey, i'm sitting over here. they're looking for a guy here that's involved with a realtor kidnapping. this guy looks like him. he is nervous, he's out here -- >> -- went out to the bus stop to confirm it really was lewis. >> i approached him. he was a

little stand off-ish at first. i made quick conversation about the bus routes, and times, which put him at ease. i think in first time and went back inside and told my colleagues absolutely this is aaron lewis without a doubt. >> the spotted lewis decking into a subway sandwich shop. he's caught on a security camera. when lewis left-- >> someone from a distance outside had made the comment hey, i think that's him. >> that's what's spooked him. >> lewis took off across the street towards this apartment complex. >> maybe five people chasing, and we knew we're in different areas. we were confident where he was. every time we turn the corner we saw the police coming. >> in police get there. aaron lewis takes off into the apartment. jumps out of a second story window before he's taken into custody. >> this is like a movie. chase, camping. did it feel like that? >> oh yeah, yeah. still does. >> the cops finally had a suspect. and what was revealed would send detectives on a hair

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custody. his name was aaron lewis. he was an unemployed truck driver who had been convicted of petty crimes in several states. beverley son carl junior said he didn't look like a kidnapper. >> it just looks like a regular guy. so it was like, what did this punk want with my mom? like, it didn't make sense. i almost was like, are you sure we have the right guy? >> detectives believed they did. but the rollercoaster ride for beverley carter's family and friends was far from over. i can remember the feeling when he was captured, we were just like, yes. okay. now, where is she? come on, where are you. we are ready to find you. >> as investigators focused on aaron lewis, they backed off as beverley's husband as a suspect. they were keeping him in the loop. >> they said, maybe we got him. where is beverley? >> we are still questioning that. >> we are going to find out. we

are gonna keep on until we find him. >> then did you have a little burst of hope? >> just a little bit of hope. that's all i had. >> really, your biggest task was to find out where beverley is? >> that was my biggest task and biggest concern at that time. >> did lewis know where beverley was, and if he did, would he tell the detective? >> what was his story? where was beverley? >> said he kidnapped beverley, because of money. he said he found her on the internet, searched her out, and saw she was a broker and felt she had money. >> lewis described in detail what he claimed happened. when he contacted beverley about the house showing, she told him she didn't feel comfortable meeting just him. so he got his wife crystal on the phone to say she would be there as well. >> aaron shows up and he goes in and makes some excuse as to why crystal couldn't come. aaron tells me he had beverley take pictures of the house with her phone. >> that explains why the photos the detective had seen were

dark and blurry. lewis said he asked beverley to send them to crystal, since she couldn't be there. >> he said they walked upstairs, and when they got to the top of the stairs brought out a flashlight taser and told or she was about to have a bad day. she asked, what are you talking about? he said, you are being kidnapped. >> beverly must have been absolutely terrified. >> no doubt. lewis then claimed he had an accomplice. he wasn't talking about his wife who had set up a meeting with beverley. it was someone else. >> he said, if anything having to beverley, trevor had done it. >> who's trevor? >> trevor is a guy that aaron actually lived with for a short period of time. >> does this give you some hope that maybe there was an accomplice here, and that maybe he did have beverley? >> i hoped we were gonna find beverley alive. you have to. that's what keeps me going.

>> lewis said the last time he saw beverley, she was with trevor. and then offered evidence that she might still be alive. lewis played a recording from his phone, and it was chilling. >> carl, it's beverley, i want to let you know i am okay. i haven't been hurt. just do what he says, and please don't call the police. if you call the police, it could be bad. just want you to know i love you very much. >> it was encouraging, but it only proved beverley was alive at the time of the recording. the detective told lewis he needed more. >> that's when he finally says, i will take you towards the last place she was. >> was this was a big moment now in this whole case, this is it? >> yeah. >> that's when we load him up, and we start going to arkansas. >> beverley's family prayed this moment was about to end. >> did you know they were saying your mom was alive?

>> yes, we knew that after they had him and they were interrogating him. >> it was a big boost of energy. when he was telling us, it was so uplifting. we are about to get it back, it's great. >> is everyone sitting by the phone waiting for the call? >> yes. pacing. >> lewis lead detective allison on the nail-biting road trip 30 miles out of town, to the last place he claims to have seen beverley alive. a shed on the side of the road. >> what are you thinking as you're approaching the shed? that there's a really good chance that she could be here, or you're not so sure? >> i'm hoping like hell she's in there. but we go in, and she wasn't in there, and she had never been in there. >> it's such a let down. it was bad. >> but lewis wasn't done. he had a captive audience and he knew it. he took the police to a new location, a house about 35 miles away. >> and he says, this is where i initially took her, after i abducted her. and as soon as we

walked in, there is nothing. it was another let down. >> are you feeling like, this guy is taking us on a wild goose chase? >> i was so mad, that i could drive him back. i had to ride back with another detective. >> there's a woman's life that could be at stake.? >> and he's playing games. >> while lewis is leaving detectives on the wild goose chase, another cop had tracked down this trevor, the man lewis claimed was his accomplice. >> we figured out that he was in the military, here in little rock. signed to the little rock air force base. we did make contact with him, i interviewed him. >> they interrogated trevor for several hours. then let him go. >> he wasn't even in town when this happened.

>> he had an iron clad alibi. >> we confirmed through his job with the air force base, with the office of special investigation, that he was on base that day. >> lies after lies. there was no accomplice. neither location turned up anything. police are running out of options and then detective allison thought of one more possibility. a cement plant called argo's, where lewis had recently worked. >> i point blank asked him if beverley was at argo's. at that point, he was looking down at the table when i said that. he looked up and had this stupid look on his face, so i figured right then, that's probably where she was. >> police raced over to the factory, hoping to find beverley alive. >> coming up, another gain for aaron lewis. >> i was so mad, i thought how dare you try to tarnish our sweet beverly hills reputation. >> and at last, an answer for her family. >> they said we found beverley. >> when dateline continues. >> when dateline continues newfound happiness and zero surprises.

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carter disappeared, police pulled up to this remote cement plant. they frantically searched for the missing real estate agent. >> you just now have this gut feeling, that that is where she's at? >> yes. >> shortly after arriving, an officer stumbled upon something straight out of a crime novel. an elbow sticking out of a shallow grave. it was beverley. detective allison went to see carl. >> i'll never forget the look on somebody's face, when you tell them that you found their

spouse, it's hard. that's probably the hardest part of it. >> he said we found beverley. i said where? was she alive? he said no. i'm sorry, but she was not. >> he worked so hard to find her, we really tried to do right, and it was not enough. >> i know she pleaded. i know she pleaded for her life, and to come back to us. and for her grand babies. and i just have to know that god was there to comfort her. >> aaron lewis was charged with murder and kidnapping. his wife krystal charged as his accomplice. they pleaded not guilty. but his words to reporters shannon miller outside the sheriff's office, did not sound like those of an innocent man. >> why beverley? >> she was a rich broker. >> it was just as chilling in person as it was on tv, and

then he gets into the car, and you are going what's did he just say. >> two weeks later, shannon interviewed lewis in jail. and he told a vastly different story from the one he told detectives. >> was he willing to cop to anything? >> no. >> i didn't kill her. i didn't murder her. anything that did occur, was an accident. >> then he tried to say that beverley played a role in her own death. he implied that she willingly met him at the house, for a sexual hookup that went wrong. >> in your opinion, how far fetched, was this news story, about the sexual encounter? >> it was 100 percent made up. so it was completely farfetched. >> the assistant district attorney john johnson was assigned the case. he believed it was a kidnapping gong wrong. but needed help proving in

court. he turned to lewis's wife, crystal lowrie. >> i thought from the very beginning that we would need to meet crystal, and it would be important in the case for her to testify. >> he made a deal with crystal, and she agreed to testify against her husband and plead guilty to murder and kidnapping, for a reduced sentence, 30 years. >> it's good for the jury to be able to hear the back story of what went on, and the why of what went on. >> aaron lewis went on trial. the prosecution star witness crystal lowrie, took the stand and told the jury all the grisly details. she claimed it was all about money, not about sex. >> she said he came up with the idea of kidnapping someone, but she went too far to say real estate agents. >> she testified she was in class at nursing school when lewis abducted beverley. >> she got a text from aaron lewis, saying look at this, or

something like that, and it was a picture of miss carter, bound in the trunk of the car. she said that's when she got home, he had brought miss carter back in the house. >> she told the jury when she got home, beverley was locked in their bathroom, and what she said next showed how little thought went into this plan. lewis had forgotten beverley's purse with her atm card at the property. so he went back to get it. crystal says when he got close to the house, cops are everywhere. >> one even pulled him over. >> this particular officer stops the car that's coming in and said hey, have you seen--and just asks questions, and put the person in the-- >> the officer could not have known that aaron lewis was the man they were looking for. >> miss carter was still alive, and he just did not know it. >> when lewis returned home, crystal told the jury, that's when the couple ran out of options. >> she was in the bathroom, with crystal's medication, and

she knew crystal's name. >> beverley had seen too much. they agree that she had to die. >> aaron took miss carter from their house, and put her in the back of the car, and drove her out to the cement plant. >> that's when prosecutors believe lewis did something horrific. he wrapped beverly's face in duct tape, and let her suffocate. >> he came home and told crystal that she was dead. >> and then the heart of the prosecution's case, that recording of beverley pleading to her husband, they played it for the jury. >> do what he says, and please don't call the police. if you call the police, it could be bad. >> prosecutors argued the recording proved beverley had been kidnapped, and contradicted lewis's claim of a hook up. so how would the defense explain that tape? attorney bill james, chose to ignore.

>> i was unable to come up with any plausible explanation for that reporting. that helped us. >> so there was this one -- obstacles than? >> everything came back to the recording. >> and steady ledger is in a different direction. beverley's personal life. >> you said this case is about secret lives. what did you mean by that? >> in order for our defense to be correct, she would've had to be living a life that was basically, secret, or doing something that other people did not know about. >> here's where lewis's story got even stranger. he was no longer implying that it was he that had sex with beverley, he claims he was out of the house at the time. >> that's what he said, yes. >> lewis said the truest was between beverley and crystal. he said beverley accidentally died during rough sex. >> she died well with his wife. and that he was the one that was protecting his wife and trying to cover up for her. >> to further bolster this story, they suggested to the jury that beverley had been prone to poor judgments. he pointed out that she was broke,

but driving a brand-new cadillac, and getting expensive plastic surgery. >> i'm saying she made some bad decisions, maybe she made another one. >> finally aaron lewis took the stand. and told the jury the story about the alleged rendezvous with beverley and his wife. >> during cross examination, prosecutors pounced. they questioned him about every detail. including that one piece of evidence that seem to contradict his entire story. beverley's voice on that tape, telling her husband that she had been kidnapped. >> what he ultimately told the jury was that he had done it himself, he had synthesized her voice created the tape. >> you'll forgive me if maybe that sounds a little silly. >> you're forgiven, and i remind you that i did not say it happened. i'm just telling you with the evidence was. i'm just saying what will happen in the trial. >> to beverley's friends and

family, lewis's story was not only preposterous, it was painful to listen to. >> we had been victimized over and over again by him. i was angry that not only was he able to do that, he continued to hurt my mom. >> i was so mad, because i thought, how dare you try to tarnish our sweet beverley's reputation? >> the verdict was back in less than an hour. >> we hear footsteps running. and we hear the verdict is in. what is it? it was very quick. >> good sign? >> yes, great sign. >> aaron lewis was found guilty on all counts, and given two life sentences. >> i felt relief. instantly relief that we got him. >> and beverley's family is working to make sure this does not happen to someone else's family. they started the beverley carter foundation. her son travels the country, training real estate agents about safety. >> it's a blessing for me. because i get to raise awareness, talk about safety. best practices. but then also use that as an opportunity for

me to slide in some great stories about my mom. and still kind of keep her alive. >> that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin, thank you for watching. thank you for watching i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> this is dateline. >> i learned that he was arrested. i was shocked. i was so confused. i didn't think it was real. >> the rarefied world of the ivy league, he was the total package. a star student, gifted athlete, wildly popular. >> he's one of the nicest guys ever! >> no one could understand how all weekend visit to his parents house -- >> did you say you