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Jack Donald Lewis, known to his enormous family and devout fans as a big cat

expert and businessman extraordinaire, was a shrewd and incredibly successful

leader of the exotic animal enterprise. His deep -rooted connection with tending

to wildlife and building businesses, as well as his unparalleled real estate

resourcefulness, was cut short by an unexplainable, unsolved disappearance on

August 18th.

1997, leaving all who knew him across Tampa, Florida grasping for answers in a

sea of evidence that drowned us all in doubt.

As a hope to provide more substantial reasoning built on observable evidence

situational analysis, this is an examination of the disappearance of Don

and the dumbfounding mystery born at his famous Wildlife on Easy Street.

This is Cold Case Detective.

Don Lewis was born as Jack Donald Lewis on April 30th, 1938 in Dade City,

Florida. In Don's early years as a child, his father abandoned the family

left Don's mother to raise him and his two siblings.

While Don's mother did her best to support her children through freelance

as a for -hire seamstress and bread baker, her income wasn't quite enough.

Thus, to help aid his mother and take care of the family, Don started working

a young age, forming the foundation to his business ethics.

As an adolescent, Don helped out a local mechanic and worked as a farmhand for

nearby ranch owners, and successfully graduated from Pasco High School in

When he was only 17 years old, Don married his first wife, known today as

Lewis Cross.

Together, the couple had three daughters and adopted a son.

just as Don continued to expand his economic prowess. He worked countless

jobs around Florida, and eventually settled in the used car business and

automotive trade.

Slowly but surely, Don built his brand, scrapping old machines, selling parts

and metal resources, while simultaneously investing in real estate

opportunities. Don would buy parcels of land to develop and resell, sometimes

keeping tracts of land for himself for future business ideas.

Before long, Don was a self -made millionaire and the prime example of the

American dream in action, starting from nothing and forging his own path to

success. Friends and associates of Don would say that no one could tell his

success just by looking at him. He always dressed like a normal laborer and

his public life simple. However, he would keep a $500 bill in his pocket at

times, a symbol of his ability to turn anything he touched into profits, a true

green thumb.

However, Don's personal life wasn't quite so perfect.

It was a well -known fact after his first marriage that he was a womanizer

often found mistresses or second girlfriends to take care of, despite

family back home.

One such instance occurred in 1981, when Don met a young woman named Carol

Murdock at the time, on Nebraska Avenue in Tampa, Florida.

Carol was walking alone at night and crying after struggling with her then

-husband Michael Murdock.

Don asked Carol if she needed a ride, and initially Carol rejected him.

Don circled around in his truck anyway, even offering the gun in his passenger

seat to Carol to use as protection while he drove, explaining that he needed

someone to talk to as well.

Carol finally agreed, and after conversing with one another for a while,

stayed with him that night, and the two fell in love.

Of course, this sent shockwaves through Don's family, and tensions arose between

him and his then -wife Gladys. Nevertheless, Don continued his

Carol, who joined his real estate business and helped increase his profits

through major land sales.

Not long afterwards, Don and Carol's relationship became too serious to

and they divorced their respective spouses and married in 1991.

With the excess money from Don's empire, he brought his new cat -loving wife, a

bobcat. called Wind Song, at an auction. The couple then began buying big cats

from a breeder in Minnesota who was planning on slaughtering them for the

trade. As was perhaps in his nature, Don viewed this as another chance to create

a business, and in 1992 founded Wildlife on Easy Street with Carol, and what

would later become Big Cat Rescue.

Carol, however, thought the initiative should be a charity, and not just for

profit, but Don disagreed.

and slowly tensions arose between the two.

Over the next few years, Don continued developing Wildlife on Easy Street and

started buying more animals.

In 1995, he bought his first tiger from Dennis Hall, and around the same time

was beginning the process of taking his beloved Emporium and moving it to Costa

Rica, where he'd been buying vast tracts of land and making connections and

associates on the tropical island.

At the same time, others began thinking that Don was using Costa Rica as a means

to attract women unbeknownst to Carol and escaping away with Costa Rican

mistresses. This continued to damage the pair's relationship, and soon it fell

beyond repair.

In early 1997, Don Lewis began preparing for divorce, gathering his assets

together and planning for a future away from Carol. Carol claims that at this

same time, he began showing early signs of dementia, his short -term memory

declining, while digging through dumpsters and collecting junk for

good reason.

Don's lawyer and business associates later said this wasn't proven.

and they had never witnessed Don in a worsening state of mind. Regardless,

frantic behavior did include a growing fear of Carol, and in June of 1997, he

filed a restraining order against her after she verbally threatened to kill

According to Don, Carol was in possession of multiple guns, but the

granted him protection due to her freedoms of speech under the First

and they felt she posed no true physical harm to him. Don was a worried man, and

soon his paranoia was proven correct when, at the end of that same summer,

threats, confusion, and anxiety gave way to a tragic mystery.

Let us now review the timeline of events that led to the disappearance of Don

Lewis.

In June of 1997, Don Lewis begins exhibiting signs of paranoia, anxiety,

fear centering around his then -wife, Carol Lewis, now known as Carol Baskin.

gives his executive assistant at the time, Anne McQueen, an envelope

a restraining order against Carol to be submitted to the local courts. This

document contains unnerving quotes by Don, such as, quote, This is the second

time Carol has gotten angry enough to threaten to kill me. Carol got in a big

fuss. She ordered me out the house or she would kill me. She has a .45

and she took my .357 and hid it.

Later that June, the Florida courts deny protection from the restraining order,

saying Carol is no immediate threat and that the First Amendment granting free

speech allows her to say such things without consequence.

Throughout the summer, Don's erratic behavior continues.

He tells his former wife Gladys and a couple of their children to stay away

Carol, that he's done with her and planning to divorce her. He speaks his

words to them, saying Carol is one of the worst people and quite dangerous.

Not long after this encounter, Don repeats the same information about his

probable divorce to business associate Wendell Williams.

Don signals to Wendell that he is putting most of his possessions in a

protective state that would allow him to keep most of what he owns and away from

a settlement.

Sometime in July of 1997, Don gets together with another friend, Mike

and tells him that he feels his life is in danger.

As July turns to August, Don informs his lawyer, Joseph Fritz, he's in search of

another small passenger plane to add to his collection of planes. He finds one

he likes, but the aircraft needs work to be able to fly for longer durations of

time. At some point during the first two and a half weeks of that same August,

Don has a conversation with his long -time handyman of 15 years, Kenny Farr,

while they build a new complex cage for the big cats.

Don remarks that he has vague plans of some sort, plans he never fully explains

to Kenny, but is intent on carrying out.

At the end of their talk, Don says, quote, If I can pull this off, it will

been the slickest thing I've ever done in my life.

Before Kenny can ask for clarity, Don leaves to attend a phone call and never

finishes his thoughts. It would be the last thing Don ever says to Kenny.

On Friday, August 15th, Don's assistant Anne McQueen calls Don regarding

paperwork for cars he's preparing to take down to Costa Rica. Despite

attempts to reach him by phone, Anne isn't able to make contact.

Anne continues calling throughout that weekend, but she still has no luck.

In the evening of August 17th, Don prepares to drive down to Miami and then

travel on to Costa Rica. He tells Carol he needs a truck made available for

travel by his handyman, Kenny, but it's unknown if he ever secures one.

That night and into the early morning hours of August 18th, Carol makes her

plans to do chores and run errands for the Big Cat Resort.

At around 3am, Carol goes to a shop called Albertsons to buy milk by

for the cats.

Her car breaks down, but she's saved by her brother, a local sheriff's deputy,

who gives her a ride back to her home. Just a few hours later, a little prior

6am on August 18th, 1997, Don Lewis leaves his house to make an early

of real estate paperwork to his lawyer's main office.

and then to travel to Miami, and ultimately Costa Rica. This would be the

confirmed sighting of Jack Donald Lewis.

Nearly 36 hours pass by, and no one hears from Don.

Anne calls Carol with real concern, and suggests they get the authorities

involved. Carol agrees, and at about 1 .30pm on August 19th, she telephones law

enforcement to officially report Don Lewis as a missing person.

In the first 24 hours after the missing persons report is filed, police and a

few volunteers comb Don's entire 40 -acre property in Tampa, Florida,

the Wildlife on Easy Street Resort. Despite a thorough search, including

support, detectives find no clues or anything to suggest they should continue

digging at Don's residence.

On August 20th, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office discovers Don's

personal van, a 1989 Dodge Ram, parked and abandoned at the Pilot Country

Airport in Spring Hill, Florida, about 40 miles away from Don's last appearance

at his animal sanctuary.

Besides the keys to the van and a briefcase full of insignificant

nothing of note is found inside the vehicle, and the trail of clues is

once again.

Over the next four to five days, detectives travel down to Costa Rica to

progress the manhunt. While investigating every nook and cranny

enforcement discovers Don had been engaged in extramarital affairs whilst

Costa Rica. They interview possible connections to Don and those who knew of

businessmen, but still find zero leads.

The only thing remarkable that investigators learn is that two of Don's

animals, a pair of ocelots, were shipped out just before Don disappeared.

But where they went is still unknown.

Initial reports, once Don's disappearance reaches national

they believe Don probably walked away on his own. But as time goes on, both the

media and investigators start thinking something more sinister is at play.

A few days after the one -year anniversary of Don's vanishing on August

1998, Carol refuses to take a polygraph test or allow investigators to carry out

an intensive search of her wildlife sanctuary or the meat freezers, citing

advice from her attorney.

Later, in 1998, Don Lewis's ex -wife Gladys and their daughters publicly

Carroll of being responsible for Don's fate and discarding the body via the

exotic animals they own. This is heavily refuted by Carroll. In August 2002, on

the five -year and one -day mark since he first disappeared, Don is declared

legally dead by Carroll, and his wills are put solely in her possession due to

the specific verbiage used in his documents.

Nine years later, in 2011, Carol is asked one more time by investigators to

undergo a polygraph test.

Once again, she refuses this request.

Over the next decade, countless conspiracies and folktales are created

curious bystanders of the case, and by those with ties to Don, his ex -wife

Carol, and their big cat business.

However, John Mariscano, the lead homicide detective and spokesman of the

investigation for Hillsborough County Sheriff, has shot down any and all

in April of 2020, stating that authorities have no prime suspects, no

still no updates regarding the disappearance of Don Lewis, a case just

as it had been in that early August morning 23 years before.

Not a lot of physical evidence remains in the Don Lewis disappearance, and

without a final phone call recording left over, or CCTV footage capturing

penultimate movements, there's not much to run with.

However, one discovery does provide us at least a hint of what happened to Don

before he vanished, even if it does bring more confusion than clarity.

The day after Don was reported missing, investigators discovered his 1989 Dodge

Ram van.

discarded at the Pilot Country Airport in Spring Hill, Florida.

The airport was about 40 miles, give or take, from Don's personal residence, and

initially thought to be where he flew out of that August morning. The

thing was that almost nothing was left behind in the van, and the things that

were did not preclude a self -made decision to escape.

Inside were the van's keys, and Don's briefcase full of random papers.

Unfortunately, the police did not impound the vehicle right away, leaving

abandoned in that parking lot, allowing for possible tampering and for critical

physical evidence to be removed, if there was something hidden on the atomic

level. When the police did analyze the forensics, they found nothing but normal

traces of Don and a second pair of fingerprints belonging to an auto

Dale Lively.

When law enforcement interviewed Dale, he gave proof of a perfectly innocent

explanation, stating a few days before the disappearance, Don had swung by the

shop and asked Dale to work on the van.

During their interaction, Don also asked Dale to come with him to Costa Rica to

help on his land, further indicating that Don was fully committed to a

trip. Dale declined, and the van situation became just another dead end

case full of questions without answers.

Many people associated with the case believe the van is a sign that Don was

kidnapped, and not a sign that he left on his own accord.

Detectives agree, thinking the van was planted at the airport either to simply

get rid of it, or to make investigators think it was Don's final stop.

Regardless, the amount of time it took authorities to analyze the insides of

van for forensics creates a massive what -if in the search for Don, and it is

sadly the biggest clue they've received to date.

one which may have been, regrettably, squandered. With the facts of the case

understood, now let's turn to the dominant theories in the case of the

disappearance of Don Lewis.

Like so many cold cases around the world, the disappearance of Don Lewis

been the fodder for some truly outlandish claims and conspiracies.

sparked by both family members and those with disdain for Don's former partners.

Sadly, these brash and borderline barbaric theories have been glamorized

focused on by one particular documentary series and its ensuing publicity, so we

will do our best to dissect each theory with clarity and reasoning backed by

evidence to properly respect the facts of the case and the man who went

It's our belief that truth and respect to the facts of the case should always

take precedence, and it is insulting to Don Lewis's memory and potentially

damaging to his case to sacrifice these in the pursuit of an over -dramatized

quote -unquote good story.

The first real theory purported by those involved with Don Lewis's personal life

came from his daughters and his first ex -wife Gladys Lewis Cross in 1998, only

one year after Don went missing.

They made a public interview in People magazine, theorizing that Carol Baskin

had indeed killed Don and then disposed of his body via a meat grinder and then

feeding it to her tigers at the Big Cat Rescue Sanctuary.

Donna Pettis, one of Don's daughters, felt the police didn't do a thorough

enough job searching the property and should have carried out forensic

on Carol's meat grinder, testing it for Don's DNA.

Carol has vehemently denied such possibilities, claiming the meat grinder

question was too small to even handle something like a human hand, let alone

entire, full -grown, adult male body.

Not only this, but what many people fail to realize, and what one documentary

fails to make widely known, is that the meat grinder in question was removed

from the Big Cat Rescue weeks before Don went missing, confirmed by the

sheriff's office investigating Don's case.

And if Carol did try to use a corpse as food for her big cats, there's

absolutely no way bones and forensic evidence would not be left behind.

The acidity of a tiger's stomach is strong, but not strong enough to

destroy human remains.

There would be a significant amount of bones, blood, and tissue left over, and

to try to clean up every bit of the leftovers and leave absolutely no hints

the act is too far -fetched to believe.

Such a vile act.

even if utilized, would leave behind too much evidence and investigators

certainly would have picked up on something.

Nevertheless, these outlandish claims only picked up steam when notorious big

cat collector and nemesis of Carole Baskin, Joe Exotic, created an obscene

video flaunting the tiger feeding hypothesis.

But that wasn't his only crazy claim.

Joe Exotic became obsessed with another theory, that while Carol was still

responsible for her husband's disappearance, she actually hid his body

ground at Big Cat Rescue.

digging up the dirt where her septic tank rested and putting Don's body in

covering it up and pretending as if nothing had happened.

Joe made many public pleas for investigators to excavate the earth

property and check the septic tank, and this idea spread around his own exotic

zoo where employees began believing that same conclusion.

However, the documentaries covering Joe and his theories also failed to share

the information that debunks his theory as well. The septic tank in question...

in a similar vein to the meat grinder, was not installed on the Big Cat Rescue

Sanctuary until multiple years after Don went missing.

If Don was buried somewhere on the property, it was nowhere near the septic

tank. In addition, it makes little sense for Carol to bury Don on her own

property, where future digs and construction work will almost assuredly

place. and risk discovery.

Now, all this being said, to completely remove Carol Baskin as a suspect would

be premature.

While she has consistently denied any involvement, there are pieces to her

that might suggest a motive, or at least further consideration.

The major piece of the case that might preclude motivation for Carol is Don's

promiscuity, and overall stance on the wildlife projects he and Carol had

created. It is well known that Don saw the tigers and various big cats as

nothing more than a business, and thought of it as a means to make money

than any real charity.

While they were initially together in that viewpoint, Carol eventually wanted

the sanctuary to be exactly that, a place where rescued cats could live

by fellow activists, saving them from immoral breeding and cub abuse.

This requires a lot of money, and Carol had Don to fall back on.

Some in Don's inner circle said he hated losing his money to her spending, and

that being a millionaire married to someone without much money is a

combination. But we mustn't pretend that Don was perfect either.

He was also involved in various extramarital affairs, having multiple

girlfriends despite his marriage to Carol, including a secret mistress down

Costa Rica.

With a clashing philosophy and a dying marriage, Carol may have sought to end

what was becoming a toxic situation.

In fact, pages from her personal diaries exposed by various sources found

entries written by Carol stating things such as, quote, I wish there was some

way out of her relationship with Don, not to mention her verbal threats.

Eventually, her wish was granted, and, most suspiciously of all, Carol Baskin

did end up the biggest beneficiary of Don's vanishing. Not long after he went

missing, Carol cut off all the utilities to Don's office, took out his wills and

powers of attorney, and held onto them until the very first date she was

to declare him legally dead, the five -year and one -day anniversary of his

disappearance. Even stranger was that when the powers of attorney were read,

lawyers found that a special clause had been written granting Carol head of

Don's estate, not after his death.

but specifically after his disappearance.

Multiple lawyers have said this is an irregular clause for such legal

as people rarely expect to disappear.

Not only that, but Carol ended up inheriting 90 % of Don's worth, leaving

10 % behind for Don's former family.

Now, it should be stated that Don had instructed Carol to leave them with 0%,

but she decided to help them regardless, citing their blood relationship to Don

as meaningful.

Does the strange disappearance clause in Don's will, combined with his

infidelity and strict business -minded pursuits make Carol the killer? No, but

it does raise suspicion in her motivations as millions of dollars were

to keep her dream of saving Big Cat alive.

Some have pointed out that just because she had Don legally declared dead the

first day possible doesn't mean she was the mastermind either, and they have a

point. wouldn't it be ridiculously obvious to carry out such a suspicious

action? If Carol was indeed at fault, drawing attention to the matter wouldn't

be her priority.

It's also possible that she wasn't the killer, but rather had blood on her

hands, arranging for someone else to handle Don. It is undoubtedly deeply

suspicious. There are many people afraid of Carol, including Don himself, but

fear, circumstantial evidence, And speculation, unfortunately, does not

party is guilty without physical evidence.

Of course, Carole Baskin isn't the only one subject to theories of involvement.

In fact, many people wonder if Don wasn't involved with anything malicious

any third party at all, but rather left on his own accord or died trying to do

so. With his vast resources and millions of dollars, Don certainly had the

capital necessary to pull off a stunt.

and escape his previous life perhaps he was done with the big cat operation and

the hassle of dealing with such a consuming business perhaps his affairs

women were catching up with him and he wanted to start over or perhaps he was

truly fearful of carol and set up his estate so she would profit over his

disappearance while he got to start over on the far side of the world these

serious believed Don faked a kidnapping, fully intending to fly out of Miami

that August morning and never return.

He could have put his van in a different airport parking lot to throw police off

his trail, hopped on another flight, and vanished in the blink of an eye.

It's not out of the realm of possibility that Don had money outside of his known

estates or was saving up for this exact scenario.

Don was full of secrets and constantly plotting his next move, preparing for

future better than most.

In fact, Don's personal handyman, Kenny Farr, told reporters he knew Don would

bury money and gold bars around his various properties and was probably

around $20 million, $15 million more than his lawyers thought.

Remember that Kenny was the person Don told, quote, If I can pull this off, it

will be the slickest thing I've ever done in my life. Could it have been a

escape plan?

Many think it to be possible, but not Kenny.

He doesn't understand why Don would leave a van at an airport at all, even

wasn't the right one.

It would be too big a clue that Don was running away, and make it much harder to

become invisible.

Both Don's lawyer, Joseph Fritz, and lead investigator of Hillsborough County

Sheriff's Office, John Marcicano, agree, saying Don was more likely to have been

killed. The other argument, that Don left on his own will but perished

unexpectedly, is also heavily gossiped. Some followers of the case, including

Carol Baskin herself, think that Don may have got into one of his planes to fly

to Costa Rica, but crashed somewhere in the ocean.

There is, however, a lot of evidence to suggest this is false.

Detective Marcicano points to the lack of flight records going to Costa Rica

that day, and the lack of crash reports in the area for the same timeline.

Theorists then report that Don was a known illegal flyer, having lost his

pilot's license but choosing to fly anyway, operating his planes low and

radar detection.

Yet again, Detective Marcicano refutes these claims, saying every plane Don

owned was far too small to make the trip to Costa Rica in one go.

If Don did get in a plane and attempt to travel south, it would have been

desperate and unsafe, possibly hinting at a deteriorating state of mind that

some have claimed that Don was suffering from before he disappeared. As

previously noted, Don was experiencing symptoms of onset dementia, and may have

been overcome with fatigue, paranoia, or a combination of the two.

This would explain his ramblings to his friends about being in fear for his

life, and constantly looking over his shoulder, conspiring against his then

-wife, Carol.

The problem with this theory, though, is that if Don was truly dealing with

memory loss and dementia, he would not be able to successfully vanish without a

trace so easily. If his mental faculties were becoming compromised, surely he

would have made a mistake somewhere.

Plus, a lot of close associates to Don don't believe the dementia stories

anyway, saying he was of sound mind and honestly, genuinely terrified for his

life. So, if it doesn't appear that Carol killed Don, and it wasn't Don who

by choice, who was responsible for his disappearance? A few people think Joe

Exotic was actually the one to blame, wondering if he may have taken Don out

spite Carol and derail the future.

of wildlife on Easy Street, claiming the validity in such a conspiracy, knowing

John was guilty of other plots against Carol's life.

However, it should be noted that Joe and Carol's bitter rivalry did not exist in

1997, and no such evidence supports this idea.

A few others point to militant animal rights activists, or think that Don had

connections to drug lords in South America that wanted him dead.

Regardless, the fact of the matter.

is the police have no hard evidence and have no prime suspects in their sights.

Anyone could be at fault, and that's what makes Don Lewis's disappearance all

the more tragic.

Before we divulge our hypothesis of Don Lewis's unsolved disappearance, we want

to make it known that our conclusions presented in Cold Case Detective are

purely logical speculation based on evidence, circumstance, and factual

We are only privy to the same information presented in each video, and

promise certainty or an expert guarantee on the findings we reach in closing.

We simply observe, research, and report.

In the case of Don Lewis, we believe he was kidnapped, murdered, or a

combination of the two. So many of the people involved with Don and his life,

such as business associates, family members, his personal lawyer, and the

investigators looking for him, believe the same to be true, that somebody or

some bodies wanted Don dead, whether it be for vengeance, spite, or pure malice.

The tricky part of the equation is who.

Without a doubt, Don Lewis' killer was both close to him and had the resources

to carry out a seamless homicide. The perpetrator had to be close to Don to

of his planned trips to Costa Rica and multiple projects down there, and be

to use that as a blind for investigators, tricking people into

disappeared purposefully. Now, this doesn't necessarily trim down the list

suspects, because Don had a lot of friends and a lot of enemies.

each of whom knew of his Costa Rica paradise.

Yet, it does signal the killer was smart and knew how to arrange a multi

-faceted kidnapping.

In addition to smart, the killer had to have the money to hire someone to get

rid of Don or to do it themselves without ever leaving so much as a hair

follicle. In the case of a multi -millionaire like Don was, removing them

the face of the earth is going to take a pretty penny.

So, how did they do it?

A lot is left to be desired in the investigation in terms of clues and

timelines, but if the killer was an associate to Don, they probably had

arranged a meeting early that August 18th morning with him. He was already

to make a delivery and head to Miami for a flight, so the arrangement was

probably just another stop.

It was here they likely kidnapped him, drove his van to the airport as a fake

-out, and disposed of him elsewhere.

There's also the idea that Don could be meeting someone with his own planes, and

when they took off, he was pushed out over the ocean by his murderer, a theory

brought up by his lawyer.

Whatever the method was, it ended with a clean getaway.

Could it have been Carol Baskin? It is entirely possible.

In addition to the theories mentioned previously, Carol's own family had a

disdain for Don, and speaking of her family, she also had a brother as a

in the sheriff's office.

who was one of the last people to be around Don right before he went missing.

Plenty of people have come forward to quickly strike down theories of

in law enforcement or any involvement from Carol's brother, citing their weak

relationship to begin with.

Both Carol and Anne McQueen, the assistant who probably knew Don Lewis

than he knew himself, were intensely vetted by detectives, cleared of any

wrongdoing, and never labelled as prime suspects.

It doesn't rule them out completely, but it does give credence to the fact there

is simply no lead at the forefront of the investigation.

It's important to remember that at the center of the entire case is a man whose

fate is unknown, the humanity and tragedy of which is sometimes obscured

glorification of conspiracy theories and internet jokes.

There are loved ones and friends of Don Lewis who are desperate for answers, and

longing to know what happened to him. But instead of receiving real help, they

have to wake up every day to see his face and name abused by people looking

profit off his mystery and laughing at the idea that he was fed tigers.

It is so important to remember that the people in these cases were people.

Real people who deserve respect and justice.

And the abuse of their stories to make shocking headlines and quick money is

insidious. Was Don Lewis a perfect man?

No. By no stretch of the imagination.

He, like all of us, had his issues and shortcomings.

But at the end of the day, Don Lewis was a real person with a beating heart and

deserved to live out the rest of his days, no matter how badly someone didn't

like him or the businesses he involved himself with.

Because of the tone and reception of certain documentaries made since Don

disappeared, it is hard to get people to focus on finding answers rather than

supporting the nonsense.

So it is up to all of us to work to progress above the overly dramatized

conspiracy theories, looking to shock viewers and readers to earn quick money,

and humanize Jack Donald Lewis and respect his case.

If you or anyone you know has any information that could aid investigators

their search for Jack Donald Lewis, please reach out to the proper

No piece of information is too small or insignificant, for it could be the key

to unlocking the chilling mystery of Don Lewis and his legacy left at wildlife

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