Gladys Lewis Cross: If you're talkin' about the whole 34 years I was married to him— possibly 25. Gladys Lewis Cross: And I looked up, and I thought, "Woo, he sure is good looking." Carole had set it off. Don Lewis was busy with two main interests: money and women. Richard Schlesinger: Ooh. Carole is fighting back against people who suspect her. And that only added more fuel to their feud. Anne McQueen: No. Trish Farr-Payne: I thought he was tellin' the truth. Both Baskin and Lewis were married to other people at the time, and he had children as well. Carole and Don Lewis. Instead of Costa Rica, maybe Don was under arrest in Mexico and couldn't call her. According to the Tampa Bay Tribune, “His van was found at a Pasco County airport with the keys on the floor. Tiger King star Carole Baskin is facing a lawsuit from the family of her former husband Don Lewis, who disappeared in 1997 and is presumed dead. Then he started buying and selling Florida real estate. “So he was busy that night, so we can refute the fact that there was even suspicion that he was a part of it that night. Joe took to his YouTube channel – Joe Exotic TV – to air his grievances in his own exotic way. Gladys Lewis Cross: Well, when I would find out, I would tell him I was leaving, and he would say, "There'll be no more.". I can’t say she’s been uncooperative by any means. Gladys Lewis Cross: He told me then, he said, "I want you to know right now, don't you or the girls or any of the grandkids or anybody be left in the room with her alone.". CAROLE BASKIN [Fox interview]: I'm very worried. In the summer of 1997, Carole reported Don missing. The judge didn't think there was enough evidence. One of the people who testified that the will was certified and that she saw people sign the will, she changed her story later on at a later date. The sheriff also addressed the meat grinder theory; the Netflix show reveals that some people speculate Lewis was put through a meat grinder and fed to tigers. For the first time on television, a woman says she may know what happened. It’s true, he is missing. Richard Schlesinger: May I be a little impolite and ask you if you know roughly how many women he was seeing besides you? “With everyone doing the right thing and staying at home, many of you have watched the Netflix documentary #TigerKing. Richard Schlesinger: Did you see him shortly before he disappeared? Don Lewis, Carole Baskin's husband. She may be a spouse, but she did not have a key at all to the gate or the office. Remember, he reportedly helped Carole get into Don's office that day. In the year news came that Don Lewis got lost and Carole is the one who reported police about this. In an online press conference, the sheriff discussed the case further, and he shed new light on a variety of details. That is why I included ‘disappearance’ as an event that would activate the Power of Attorney. However, we have to appeal, we're gonna find some answers. As the mystery got deeper, the theories got wilder. Carole Baskin's husband Don Lewis is missing, as fans of the Netflix documentary, The Tiger King, know. But it turned out there were more signs of trouble. But let's begin at the beginning. On Tuesday, September 8, she emailed CBS News saying Trish Farr-Payne's story about Kenny is false. Carole Baskin has given her theory on what happened to late ex-husband Don Lewis in extremely tense scenes in Louis Theroux's new documentary. Get a life …, Joe Exotic [Joe Exotic TV YouTube page]: Carole Baskin better never, ever … see me face to face…. Anne McQueen intervened and convinced him to see her psychiatrist, Dr. Blasini. It might seem peculiar, but even though it was Joe Exotic who went to prison in the Netflix series, many thought Carole Baskin came off as the bad guy. Gladys was pretty good about living with a serial philanderer. ", According to Carole, Don had a history of vanishing. And as years went by, no. John Phillips is an attorney now representing Doris' daughters and Anne McQueen. Don's family began to think the worst — that Don was dead, and that Carole played a role in his death. It — something wasn't right. “I thought it was interesting. You know, I had my kids. They're developing a series with Nicholas Cage as Joe Exotic. Anne kept the books and helped run things. I encouraged them to check out the rumors from Costa Rica, and separately I hired a private investigator,” she wrote in a section called the bottom line. Tiger King star Carole Baskin is facing fresh claims she was involved in the disappearance of her husband more than two decades ago.. Gladys Lewis Cross: I think she's the worst thing that ever was born in the United States of America. Don had reportedly also been having affairs and talked about getting a divorce. The organization's mission also changed. Carole gave an interview to the television show "Hard Copy," suggesting Don might have had some kind of dementia: CAROLE BASKIN [in tears on "Hard Copy"]: Maybe he doesn't know who he is. The one thing all the shows and all the investigations are still missing, after all these years, is an answer to the question: what happened to Don Lewis? He was a self-made millionaire and the husband of the famous Tiger lover named Carole Baskin.. Sheriff\'s Department release Richard Schlesinger: Do you remember how you felt when you read the stuff about how he — she threatened to kill him? According to Intelligencer, Mike was Carole’s boss at a discount department store when she was 17. CAROLE BASKIN [WTSP news report]: Our mission is to put ourselves out of business because there shouldn't have to be a place rescuing lions and tigers from people that get them as pets. And there was no evidence that any of Don's planes were missing. Gladys Lewis Cross: He was until I would get a call and say he's seein' someone. It's not a nonstop flight. The couple made a lot of money while they were together. Richard Schlesinger: Would I be wrong in assuming that that was your first thought? But before long, there was difficulty on Easy Street. There's no doubt in Harvey Levin's mind that Carole Baskin's missing wealthy husband Don Lewis was murdered. That even if she passed the polygraph it wouldn’t vindicate her or prohibit the Sheriff’s Department from filing charges at a later date.”, Chronister said he had watched the Netflix show. You'd have to open it. August 18 - Carole Baskin claims her husband Don Lewis left to run an errand before going to Costa Rica, but never returned. Both were married at the time and when Baskin was 24, she left her husband to be with Lewis. So, I said, "I guess that was me.". “In the few years preceding his disappearance Don’s behavior was gradually showing signs of mental deterioration. She says he had nothing to do with Don's disappearance and that she gave him Don's guns long after Don vanished. She wrote: "if he knew anything about Don's history, he probably would not have even bothered to drive out here …". Lewis was married to his first wife, Gladys Lewis Cross, and had three daughters and an adopted son. There were some not-so-subtle signs that there were problems in Don and Carole's marriage. And — he left home, and — was headed to another girlfriend's house for the night, which I found out later. The Joe Exotic theory of him being fed to tigers by Carole Baskin is definitely a possibility. The sheriff also addressed questions about Lewis’s will. The other saying, I saw him last week and these were two individuals who worked closely together… the last dealings we had were back in 2011. But — he said, "Don's gone. For Joe, nothing was off limits and he gleefully revived those suspicions about Don Lewis' disappearance. He vanished seemingly without a trace. All said the signature did not look authentic. Trish Farr-Payne: Everything started kinda coming together. Carole Baskin’s husband Don Lewis: Kidnapped – or fed to tigers? He actually called me … and said that we — we really needed to pursue some type of action … against her. Carole Baskin [reading from diary, YouTube video]: "Gladys Lewis Cross, the kids' mom, had tried to kill Don on at least three occasions that he told me about.". Another theory in the show has people speculating that Lewis might have been placed in a septic tank on the property. “This is the most ludicrous of all the lies. Neither of his two passports showed him leaving the country, according to the sheriff. Gladys Lewis Cross: He could tear anything apart, put it back together. ", The search for Don Lewis seemed to go cold and things might have stayed that way if Carole hadn't picked a fight with a man who called himself "The Tiger King.". The article paints a bizarre story of how Baskin met Lewis. It wasn’t even there during the time of his disappearance.”. Gladys Lewis Cross: We had had an argument. He started refusing to use the bathroom and defecating outside. They just showed a bigger grinder.”, She also addressed the word disappearance being added to legal documents, saying, “Don had told me about people going to Costa Rica and disappearing. 10. His only lifeline to reach you? Trish Farr-Payne: He said, "Help me carry these in." Bottom line: I guess you could do it, but there are easier ways to get rid of a body. Richard Schlesinger: Was he a good husband? We’re not sure we’ll ever hear the truth about Don Lewis. Carole was still a teenager, and in a bad marriage. Carole Baskin And Don Lewis Carole Baskin ran away from home in 1977 at the age of 15 . Richard Schlesinger: How long after Don disappeared did the freezer disappear? Trish Farr-Payne: About a week after Don disappeared. But I never threatened him and I certainly had nothing to do with his disappearance. “Nothing ever clear and definitive to say there’s enough probable cause to say this person was responsible for Mr. Lewis’s disappearance.”. Carole Baskin [YouTube video]: "Could she have been so angry over not getting the million dollars more that she thought she would get, that she would kill Don in a last ditch effort to recover the money she felt he owed her for all of her suffering?". Don and Gladys Lewis with their three daughters. “I think there are a lot of suspicions and those same suspicions stand true today,” the sheriff said. I knew then for sure. Someone mentioned Alzheimer’s to me and I got Don to agree to set up an appointment with a specialist, Dr. Gold. Police said Carole's action was legal. Kenny Farr told "48 Hours" this morning that Trish's story is "an outlandish lie." Then, if the plan was to push him out the door, that's a challenge. The sheriff declined to respond in detail to "48 Hours"' requests for comment about this case, except to say there are no suspects — and that includes Kenny Farr and Carole Baskin. He says, "I had absolutely nothing to do with Don's disappearance. Like I said, even with all the theories, all the detectives and detective supervisors back then did a great job…” said Chronister, adding that there was “no evidence to support any type of probable cause leading to the arrest of any of the individuals surrounding his disappearance, and today that stands true.”. I mean, did he do that frequently? Armchair detectives thought they might be able to solve the mystery of Don Lewis' disappearance. He wouldn't walk away and leave his business. And she says Gladys may be trying to frame her. Don Lewis wasn’t Carole Baskin’s first husband. We did offer Carole an opportunity to take a polygraph and everyone else has agreed and she declined. And that — that basically they were, you know, not accurate Don Lewis signatures. A new development in the mysterious murder case of Carole Baskin's former husband Don Lewis has been revealed and it could spell more trouble for the big cat enthusiast. And, so, there's daily lies, daily defamation. Carole also says that Trish's description of the meat grinder is "ludicrous and clearly fabricated. … [Fires gun.]. She was the arch-nemesis of its star, Joe Exotic. If all the attention is hard on Carole, she's made the most of it. Don worked hard, fixing broken machinery. His video charged that 23 years ago, Carole murdered her husband Don Lewis, and fed him to their tigers. There was no more breeding or buying big cats. She's got the ability to post daily and have thousands, if not more than thousands of people see it, and she does so. With you?! You'd have to keep it open, and you'd have to somehow wrestle the body out of here without interfering with the flight controls. 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