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[Alan Schreier] You ever see Tiger King?
[man] Yeah.
[Alan] I dated Carole Baskin for two and a half years.
[man] So did she do it?
[Alan] That's the question.
[man] That is the question.
I didn't think so,
but the more that comes out, the more I think it's possible.
[man] You ever feel like your life was threatened?
No. I wouldn't have lived with her if I did.
[intriguing music playing]
[Alan] When I met her, it was a year and a half after Don disappeared.
It was '98, and the dating apps came about,
and that's how I met Carole.
[automated voice] You've got mail!
[Alan] She says, "I don't think you know who I am."
"And if you want to see about me, I'll be in People magazine this week."
People wrote the article about her,
that maybe she killed her husband and fed him to the animals.
[Carole] What a good girl!
[Alan] But I believed in my heart that she didn't kill him.
[chuckling] And sparks flew.
"Life is wonderful. I am in love."
"Alan has taught me so much."
"He pulls me close. I feel him breathe, hot upon my shivering skin."
"This magic web around me weaved as I become one flesh with him."
[woman] And why do you think she sought you out?
Hey, man, I'm not chopped liver.
Carole was very kind to me,
but you talk to my son, Todd,
he's going to tell you a different story.
[school bell ringing]
I was coming home from high school. I throw my backpack in my room.
I gotta go take a piss.
I open the bathroom door.
There's a bobcat. [imitates cat growling]
And I'm like, "Dad, what the fuck, man?"
Carole did not want me there.
She dresses up in all this kitty cat crap,
prances around in her kitty cat robes.
And I was a kid. I'm like, "What are you doing, lady?"
And so I just hid in my room as much as I could.
I was not allowed in a certain part of the house.
I had these curfews. I could never have friends over.
But their biggest rule,
I was told very strictly, "Don't talk about Don."
"Do not talk about it."
I don't think Carole necessarily killed her husband.
I think she can point people in the right direction,
but she's not going to.
She doesn't care about people.
She cares about cats.
[dramatic music playing]
"June 1st, 2002."
"The dilemma of Don's disappearance."
"I didn't kill Don."
"I have loved him since I was 19,
and he taught me everything I know about business."
[Jerry Mitchell] My opinions of Carole beyond what I've read, what I've seen,
the main source, I guess you'd say,
is her own diaries.
[Carole] I post my diary entries every day right now
because so many people said, "Oh, she knows more than she's telling."
But I'll tell you everything I ever said,
everything I ever even thought and wrote down.
You're welcome to read through it.
It's all out there for everybody to investigate,
but they don't want to because they would rather believe the lie
than prove to themselves what the truth was.
[Joe Exotic on phone] Her diary that she's reading online, the woman is ludicrous.
I watched them all last night. I laughed my ass off.
"I remember going to elaborate extents to create a mystery story line,
where little clues would be left in places for the kids to find."
"I really like story lines
where you keep thinking you've discovered the plot,
only for it to twist and turn and surprise you again."
[Joe] I had the whole diary up until '97.
We just happened to have gotten in the mail today...
Carole's diary.
Don would never spend money on her, and he gave her this cheap wedding ring.
"Don has been so mean lately that it seems like I'm always crying."
[Joe] Then he was wanting to leave Carole, and go to Costa Rica with his animals.
[sighs] "Don got so mad that he said he wanted a divorce
and $1,000,000 to move to Costa Rica."
"He said he also wanted 47 of the cats."
[continues indistinctly]
[Jerry] So if you go back to the earliest entries,
the thing it reminds me of is just a marriage on fire.
You don't see any way this marriage is gonna make it.
[Carole on video] "He's all I've ever known and the only man I've ever loved."
"I wish there were some way out for me."
[Joe] The last line says, "I have to find a way out." It's crazy.
Hey, all you cool cats and kittens...
She overshares. What is behind that, I don't know.
But you can begin searching for clues within her words.
It's just a puzzle, and you're just trying to piece it together.
[mysterious music playing]
[Anne McQueen] Honey, I'll be leaving! I love you.
[mysterious music continues]
[man on radio] Sheriff Chronister, in between being ruled out
and being called a person of interest,
where does Carole fall on the list?
[Chronister on radio] We'll continue to look at everybody.
When you have a cold case, you're looking at everyone.
There is absolutely enough circumstantial evidence
for them to bring her in at least for questioning.
Chad Chronister can't be making those comments
unless he knows what the heck he's talking about.
[Nancy Grace] What's your next move, Sheriff?
Trying to figure out exactly, "Who was Don Lewis 23 years ago?"
What was his life like then?
There's been a theory
he had fled the country and just left everyone behind.
We know he was dealing with some shady characters
down in Costa Rica.
Well, you know what? That opens up a Pandora's Box.
[mysterious music continues]
The sheriff assured us they have their own suspicions,
but they can't share those with us.
They just have to keep eliminating things.
You know, they, um...
all but apologized for how it was handled years and years ago.
So they said, "We can't do anything about how it was handled back then,
but we want to solve it."
[Detective Garcia] The Don Lewis case is
the most high-profile missing person's case that I've ever dealt with.
But if there's one thing I've learned in the 12 years of doing homicides is
when you think you've seen it all, you haven't quite seen it all.
The Tiger King phenomena has been somewhat of a double-edged sword.
It's been good because it's got a lot of interest
and generated a lot of conversations.
On the back edge,
it's a lot of information out there that we wouldn't want out there.
As an investigator, I gotta look at things in the context of a court of law,
not what I can find on some internet and speculate on.
Hey, what's up, everyone? It's Ripper here.
I've been looking for Carole.
I can't find her. She's not returning my call.
[Garcia] I know there's a whole subculture of online investigators,
but I don't know what their backgrounds are.
I don't know what drives them.
I don't really make anything of them.
[Ripper] When it comes to the Hillsborough Sheriff's Department,
I think it's about time they get some answers for this family.
[intriguing music playing]
[Ripper] When was the last time you saw your dad?
June 14th, 1997.
[Ripper] Two months before he went missing.
He told me to come at a specific time in the afternoon.
He said Carole would not be there and that would be best.
[Carole] It's all right! Pet it. You can pet these. These are bigger ones.
[Don] Don't be scared of him!
[Gale Rathbone] I don't remember the exact conversation,
but he got the point across to me that there was trouble.
I know he was making plans to go to Costa Rica.
[Ripper] Do you think he would have left and didn't tell you guys?
- [Gale] No. - [Ripper] No?
[Gale] But law enforcement was still very divided.
Half of them thought he had just...
- flown off to Costa Rica. - Mm-hmm.
And half of them thought,
"No, there might have been something mysterious happen."
[reporter] The flamboyant entrepreneur left pending business deals, his cats,
and a very worried wife behind.
He had made that comment to me, you know?
He was gonna leave her, move to Costa Rica, and take all the cats.
He said that out loud to me one day 'cause he was mad, out on the property.
[woman] Do you remember when he said that to you?
When the clouded leopard died.
They had a clouded leopard they were moving from one enclosure to another,
and they were moving this leopard in a box.
But they forgot the box on a path.
It was hot.
The leopard died. He suffocated in that box.
Don was angry, and I guess they had a fight.
There was a lot of turmoil there, a lot of jealousy, a lot of drama,
which I avoided like the plague.
[Carole] "Don's first day back from Costa Rica, he wakes up,
and calmly tells me that he is going to tear down the caracal pens."
"He said that he would poison all of the cats with antifreeze."
"I told him to get off the property and not come back."
"I told him that if he did not go, I would have him arrested."
[Jim Moore] The whole Costa Rica project, Carole, I don't think, was a fan of that.
She was not on board with that at all.
There was talk of moving the animals down there,
and that was something
that would certainly cause friction when he came back into town.
He had talked to me about going down there with them.
They were gonna have this great facility.
Just to him, it was like his Jurassic Park.
I'm not going to discuss any other properties that he had in Costa Rica,
due to it being an open investigation.
[woman] Let me just ask you this, do you know what he was up to?
Anything relating to Costa Rica, I'm not gonna speak about.
There was very little to no regulation of anything in Costa Rica.
That's why he had a frickin' ocelot, okay?
It's a South American cat, for God's sake.
I will tell you this. After Tiger King,
I got a call from a detective at the sheriff's department.
And when you deal with a murder detective,
information is a one-way street, from you to them.
They don't give you a damn thing, but when we were talking about Don,
the detective got mad at me, and slipped up,
and told me there were federal reports of him alive and well
in Costa Rica that he had to overcome.
He did tell me that.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Joseph] So I had a buddy who's very high in federal law enforcement
search that out for me.
[suspenseful music continues]
[woman] So have you heard about this Homeland Security document?
Can you read part of it?
[Anne] "Lewis owns property in Costa Rica and has traveled regularly."
"In the latter part of August 1997,
Lewis' wife Carole filed a missing person's report."
"Blank has learned
that Don is currently alive and well in Costa Rica."
"Lewis has loaned money to various individuals
and could live quite well."
"Lewiscould reside in Costa Rica indefinitely."
[suspenseful music continues]
[airplane PA chiming]
[pilot on PA] Cabin crew, start to descend.
[Rey Rodriguez] When Don disappeared,
some detective came to Costa Rica and started asking questions.
And I told them what I knew.
And I said, "Well, I met Don Lewis in San José, Costa Rica in '96."
He needed a translator, and a driver, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
So he picks me as his, uh...
guide. Let's call it "guide."
I was his protection.
He talked about moving to Costa Rica to start all over fresh.
[Carole] "October 17th, 1996."
"On the day of our fifth wedding anniversary,
Don left for another week in Costa Rica."
"As always, no card, no flowers, no recognition of our time together."
"He is too busy creating a new life for himself."
[Rey] Don told me that he was there to get away from Carole.
And so, he'll put investments into my name.
You know, I'm a front man.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Henry Porras in Spanish] Back then, Costa Rica was a fiscal paradise.
The laws were very flexible here.
For Don, that was just perfect.
[Rey in English] We bought properties all over Costa Rica.
And I remember we acquired a house in Rohrmoser.
Then we got a building in downtown San José.
And then, of course, the Bagaces Farm.
Don was planning to fill it up with all kinds of cats.
[Valo Murillo in Spanish] Don built a little house and cage for the cats.
That's all he had on the farm before he left.
[Don in English] The mama's feeding them, taking care of them good,
and she lets me pick them up almost anytime I want to.
[Valo in Spanish] I knew him well back then. He was a good man.
But, honestly, I never saw him again.
Since he disappeared, I've never seen him again.
Never.
And I'd recognize him anywhere.
Even all these years later, I'd recognize him.
People say he lives somewhere else now.
That's the story, but I don't know if it's true.
[Joseph in English] I knew something was going on.
But far as I was concerned,
it had to do with some illegal things called importation of cats, Felidae.
And I wanted nothing to do with anything illegal.
[woman] Was he bringing cats back here?
Was he? Oh, hell yes.
Don bought and sold planes in the past.
He had a pilot's license at one time. It was revoked for the number of crashes.
But just because he didn't have a pilot's license
didn't mean he didn't fly.
It meant he flew unlicensed.
[Rey] Don used to fly a Cessna plane back and forth from Costa Rica.
He'd have to stop along the way in the banana air strips.
You can land in one of those banana plantations,
and it's under the radar, so...
People say, "No, it can't be done." No. Yes, it is done all the time.
[in Spanish] I met Don because he needed maintenance on his airplane.
One time, he wanted to take a cat with him.
He tried to fit the cage there.
He liked the jungle areas, away from the city.
He could've landed in any of those airports.
[man] Did they keep records of these flights?
No. If you wanted, you'd take off, and if you stay below 1,000 feet,
you don't have to notify air traffic control.
[in English] Don liked to play with dangerous stuff, okay?
But if you want to really know the real story,
forget the cats.
Trust me.
When he comes in to Costa Rica by private plane, he'll bring boxes.
One, two, three, sometimes four.
Used clothes on top,
$100 bills rolled up at the bottom.
[woman] Was it a couple thousand dollars? Was it ten thousand...
No, it was $200,000, $100,000 each box, you know?
It was a lot of money. A lot of money.
Heavy.
I have to fucking carry it.
[mellow music playing]
[Rey] Don would take all that cash money down to Costa Rica
and put it in different companies.
He's just hiding money.
[in Spanish] He would tell me they needed to create a company with this name,
this much capital...
So I would create those companies for him.
I would legalize their books.
What they did with those companies is their problem.
[in English] That sounds like Dad. That sounds like he would have been
trying to get his money out of the States,
so that when he divorced Carole,
there would be less that he would have to give her.
I don't think he was dealing with completely illegal things down there.
Dad always walked a fine line.
He was doing the same things he's always done.
He was doing his street hustle.
Deep down, what Don was doing, it was illegal.
He wanted clean money.
That's why he was running cash through all these properties.
The first building he bought was the Rohrmoser house.
Later on, they turned it into a hotel. It was worth a lot of money.
[Mary LeBouef] People told me that Don Lewis was a millionaire.
I couldn't believe it because he looked like a homeless person.
But he would show you the money.
Kind of bragging. Like, "This is what I got in this time."
[Rey] That's when I start thinking, "It's too much money."
I didn't want to be part of the dirty stuff.
And I was warned, through a contact from the CIA,
there was an investigation on Don with federal stuff.
They told me, "Do not get any more involved with this guy."
[woman] Do you think he was involved with mafia or criminal enterprises?
[sighs] I don't know.
And if I knew, I would not tell you either.
[Leonora LaPeter Anton] When I covered the Don Lewis disappearance,
I talked to a detective, and they didn't think he was dead.
They thought he'd fled the country.
That changed their investigation,
or the nature of their investigation initially.
They had investigated at one point in time
this lounge down the street from Don Lewis's office.
It was part of a criminal investigation.
Don would go into the bar, cash a check without it hitting his bank.
And then you can move the cash to wherever your heart desires,
take it out of the country.
He said, "Start following the money."
[Kenny Farr] Don didn't want nobody to know what he had.
He definitely didn't want the government knowing anything about his business.
He wanted his cash where it was his and nobody knew about it.
I remember one time I was asked to move
one of the semi-trailers that was way out back behind his house,
and I picked the trailer up,
and there was money underneath that trailer.
When he disappeared, Don Lewis was probably worth 20 million,
maybe a little more.
[Mary] He was very proud of his money
and he was very concerned
about Carole taking all his money in a divorce.
He said, "She's not getting a dime."
He didn't want to be married to Carole anymore. He just hated her.
He was planning his escape.
Costa Rica was the perfect place to have it done.
[Henry in Spanish] It was very easy to get a fake passport in Costa Rica.
There were gangs dedicated to falsifying passports.
They would register the person with a fake name
or the name of a dead person.
A person could travel with that.
[Mary in English] When the People magazine came out,
and I saw Don Lewis and Carole's pictures,
the first thing I thought was, "He's not dead."
"He has changed his identity. He has the money to do it."
"He's gone on with his life."
[Anne] It's a letter that I wrote to Don on September 27th, 1997.
"Dear Don, I'm writing you this letter because I need your help."
"Some think that you are dead. Some think that you just ran away
because you were scared that you were going to prison
and that Carole has something over your head."
"I am hoping that you just got tired of all the shit
and are some place that you are happy."
[voice breaking] "I need for you to, just for a little while, to come back."
"Then you can go back in hiding if that is what you want to do."
"I miss you so much. Love, Anne."
"P.S. If you will just call me or come back,
I will quit smoking no matter what,
and I will pay my debt and with all the interest."
I'd like to think that I knew more about Don than what maybe I did.
Maybe he didn't tell me because he knew that it would have completely upset me.
[Joseph] Don Lewis would not walk away from the cats he had,
he would not walk away from his daughters, period.
[woman] Even if he was in trouble and planning to escape?
Oh, hell no.
He loved his daughters. He loved his cats. He loved his assets.
[Jerry] Usually people who disappear,
you know how they eventually get found?
They make contact with somebody.
It's been 23 years without contact from Don.
If there's a disappearance,
you should treat it initially as a homicide.
And what you don't want is to wait weeks, or months, or however long
and go, "You know, I think maybe that was a homicide."
"Well, let's investigate that."
Well, you've lost some evidence.
You talk to everybody as a suspect
and you'd think about who had a motive to take Don out.
While he was with me, he was safe.
We kept him safe.
But once I started seeing all these characters showing up
and asking, "Where is he?"
I'm like, "What is going on here?"
But you see, Don, he lived two lives.
Business during the day,
fun time during the night.
I would have nothing to do with fun time.
Not me.
[Alex Mora in Spanish] Don Lewis. I remember him like yesterday.
Of all the clients I had...
Don Lewis was most important.
He always needed a beautiful woman next to him.
He was a charmer. He treated people nicely.
He had money. What more could a woman want?
Whenever he came to Costa Rica, I would take care of him.
And he always liked everything to be perfect.
I remember every day we would go and buy The Tico Times.
[in English] Don put ads in The Tico Times, the local San José paper,
looking for a female companion.
He would bring these suitcases full of old clothing from garage sales,
so the girls could come in and pick out whatever they wanted.
"I've got all this."
"You can have all this ifyou just marry me."
[soft music playing]
[Gioconda Bulgarelli in Spanish] We moved to this neighborhood in 1996.
It's a very quiet neighborhood.
But in that house next door,
lived a man we all knew as "El Gringo."
In fact, some people call it "The Cursed House."
It always had odd tenants and strange things going on.
There was a lot of movement outside that house.
A lot of women.
Men would line up outside the house and look at them.
They were all young.
[Rey in English] Don was attracted to Costa Rica because it was a paradise
where little girls are sold.
People needed money badly.
And they do all the time.
The Rohrmoser house became like a brothel.
[Alex in Spanish] I would bring girls to the house for him.
If he liked one, she would spend the night there.
He paid them well.
But he liked them young and beautiful.
[Rey in English] Don's favorite girl was Corina.
I believe she was about 15.
I told Don,
"Be careful what you're doing."
"These little girls have family."
"People will find out, and...
they'll kill you for that."
[suspenseful music playing]
[Jerry] If you're talking about suspects, look at motive and opportunity.
Who had the motive? Who had an opportunity to do it?
Maybe someone Don was having an affair with,
their family got angry and killed him.
[gun firing]
[Jerry] Or maybe someone who got mad at Don in business.
[Alex in Spanish] During his last few trips, Don looked worried.
He told me he was in danger.
He said it was over money.
He had some problems with some people in the US.
They were really bad men.
I asked, "Bad men?" He said, "Very, very bad."
"They will kill you," he said. "Bang."
[in English] Carole told me that he hung around with a lot of
unscrupulous type of people.
Maybe he stuck somebody for some money, and they caught up with him.
When I first got with her, I asked her the questions to make me feel comfortable.
"What happened? What was your husband like?"
"What was the story?"
You want to know the truth?
He was a piece of shit, Don Lewis.
He did horrible stuff to Carole.
[Rey] After all, whatever Don liked to do, I believe he was a good man.
But by the end, he made a mess.
[somber music playing]
[Rey] I remember I was driving him to the airport,
and Carole called.
So he tells me to stop, and he gets out of the Jeep.
I'm like,
"What's going on?"
He goes and talks to her,
and then he comes back.
He told me, "I'm sick and tired of it."
"I need freedom."
"If she ever finds out what I'm doing in here, she'll kill me."
[Carole] "I visit Costa Rica."
"When I arrived in town late that night,
Don was standing out front, and the room was a shambles."
"Later I found out that Don had his girlfriend Corina staying with him,
and she didn't know that Don was married and threw a temper tantrum,
which would explain the clothes all over the place."
[Rey] She used to keep tabs on him.
Obviously, she knew exactly what was going on.
"I am finding out what kind of person I am really married to,
and I think other people will realize who is the real villain."
[Jerry] When there's a homicide, the spouse is automatically a suspect,
especially if it's a situation where there's tension in the marriage.
She was not happy about some of the things that were happening in Costa Rica.
Does that mean that Carole did it? I certainly wouldn't say that.
But I just keep coming back to the fact
that she was the last known person to see Don alive.
My husband left early in the morning
and said that he wanted me to get a truck ready,
that he was gonna be driving down to Miami
to put on the freight cargo down to Costa Rica the next day.
And he didn't show up that day for feeding,
which he always comes back at least in time for feeding.
[Jerry] We've just started to scratch the surface of the truth in this case.
Nobody ever got held accountable for this.
But in order for there to be justice,
there has to be truth.
And we don't have truth.
[Donna] There's just so much out there.
We may never know the complete truth, but hopefully we will have a conclusion.
Hopefully there will be some charges brought.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Donna] But the sheriff's office can only tell us so much.
Hi, Donna. Detective Garcia. Um, the camera crew's not gonna come in.
- [Donna] No. - Okay. Fine.
[Garcia] We routinely meet with the daughters.
But Ripper Jack, I've interacted with him one time.
He had a lot of conspiracy theories
without realizing how committed the sheriff was to solving this case.
If you're gonna investigate the case, investigate the case.
Don't go around saying you are when you're not.
[Garcia] I know the daughters want some answers to what happened to their father.
And the internet investigators out there, they think they know a lot.
I can't let you guys see access to my files here.
Carole may be watching.
She might want to see what's in here, I bet.
If Carole's innocent, then fine. But she knows something.
I was searching YouTube and documenting examples
of people who are disparaging my name.
I came across RipperJack Media.
He has made a career out of trying to trash me.
He is such a troll.
She's planting a seed is what she's doing, and she's probably looking for a reaction.
Well, Carole Baskin, are you trying to scare me?
[thunder rumbling]
[Ripper] Wow! I'm wondering if Carole Baskin put a spell on me.
[thunder continues]
[Ripper] Carole needs to come forward,
but until she does,
I told Don's daughters,
"We need to get you a kick-ass attorney and go to court."
[Wayne Brady] Welcome back to Let's Make a Deal. Hey, John.
- How are you? - I'm doing well! How are you?
- Very good! - What do you do, John?
- I'm a civil rights lawyer. - Give this man a round of applause.
[audience cheering]
[John Phillips] I'm no stranger to the limelight.
[announcer] It's a new Sea-Doo!
[John] I know there are gonna be lawyers who look at Don's case
and they want this level of attention,
but I know a lot of times those lawyers fly so close to the sun
that they burn up.
You do have to be careful.
But I want to say something to Carole Baskin.
Howdy-do, ma'am. We're here. Let's just do the damn thing.
Happening Today, a major announcement from the family of Don Lewis.
[reporter] The family has teamed up with Tampa attorney John Phillips.
We've been retained to do discovery, to get subpoenas, to take depositions,
and find out more about the death and disappearance of Don Lewis.
Carole Baskin was able to provide the sheriff's office
enough information 23 years ago
to make them believe that Don Lewis just disappeared.
I'm very worried, but I don't feel that separation.
[John] We'd love to have their participation.
But at this point, we're going to do our own thing.
So, I'm out here working in Tampa and I just happen to be with...
- John Phillips. - Surprise!
John Phillips, part-time driver for Ripper, full-time attorney!
[both laughing]
[John] Ripper reached out and said
he'd befriended the family and gotten the family's trust.
We know Don Lewis was a deeply flawed man.
But that's their father, and so they deserve answers.
How long have you been waiting for justice?
- Almost 24 years. - Okay.
- You're gonna do it, aren't you? - We're gonna help you bring justice.
- Everybody grab a drink. - [camera clicking]
To Don, to finding answers for Don, with love.
[glasses clinking]
[reporter] An attorney says there is new information and a reward
in the search for aman who disappeared more than 20 years ago.
The family has erected four billboards across Tampa asking,
"Who murdered Don Lewis?"
[Ripper] There's $100,000 sitting on the table.
It's set up for someone just to come forward and say,
"Here's what I know. I want the hundred grand,
and I'll tell you what happened."
[John] Besides there being a $100,000 reward,
we are sending a message to Carole.
Carole Baskin's responded saying, "I believe it is a publicity stunt."
[thunder rumbling]
[John] She's been able to weaponize litigation,
vanquish her enemies time and time again.
But we want to sit at a table...
And there can be as many lawyers as everybody wants to have,
but I want to ask a lot of questions
about what happened to Don Lewis.
- [protester] What do we want? - [crowd] Justice for Don!
- [protester] When do we want it? - [crowd] Now!
- [protester] What do we want? - [crowd] Justice for Don!
- [protester] When do we want it? - [crowd] Now!
[reporter] Attorney John Phillips. If you could repeat that number.
[John] $100,000 reward for finding out who murdered Don Lewis.
646-450-6530.
Well, get ready for your phone to ring with all sorts of good tips, bad tips.
Yeah, um... but I mean, you knew that was coming.
Tip line. Yes, hello?
[man 1 on phone] Y'all can go ahead and stop because we all know
Carole Baskin did that.
That man did not go missing in a plane overseas.
He went missing in a cage, with a lion, turned into cat shit.
[automated voice] You have two old messages.
[beeping]
[man 2 on recording] Mr. Lewis was killed.
They took out his eyes and his tongue.
- Believe me... - [beeping]
[man 3] He is in a Wisconsin penitentiary for murdering a tattoo artist.
But I don't want nothing to do with it. I don't want to get killed, man.
- Big cat people are sick f... - [beeping]
Hello, my name is Sandra Wittkopp.
I used to be a housekeeper for Don and Carole Lewis.
I suspect that Carole's dad and Kenny Farr
had something to do with Don's murder.
- [suspenseful music playing] - [Sandra] I don't have any proof,
but somebody forged my name on a bunch of papers.
Don's will, for one thing.
So, I just wanted to let you know.
Thank you very much. Bye.
[suspenseful music continues]
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