02x03 - Bounty Hunting

[bunniefuu]

[frog croaking]

[reporter 1] And good morning, Tampa Bay.

We'll get to our top story in a moment.

[reporter 2] John Phillips

and the three daughters of Don Lewis

are setto speak here later today.

[reporter 3] Phillips plans to hold

his news conference.

He hopes to get answers

by seeking sworn statements and subpoenas.

Big lawyers want big cases, otherwise

they're not big lawyers, you know?

[suspenseful country music playing]

Carole Baskin calls this event

a publicity stunt and says the tips

should be going to the

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

[John on mic] Resolving this case

is in everyone's best interest.

It's in Carole Baskin's best interest.

I invite her to the table.

I invite her to talk

and let us know what really happened.

More than invite her,

we're going to serve her with a lawsuit.

I will ask one time

that we come together to find closure.

If that can't be done, I'm a lawyer.

I sue people.

[suspenseful country music continues]

[Ira M. Lockhart] John Phillips,

the attorney, called me and says,

"I've got a high-profile person for you."

I pick up the summons,

and it says Carole Baskin,

and I said, "Get the beep out of here."

So I drive out,

drive to the compound gate,

I see Carole coming around

on the golf cart,

and I said, "Hey, Carole,

you probably know what this is."

She said, "Yeah, I know what this is."

She looks at it,

and I said, "Carole,

do you mind if I take a selfie with you?"

- [camera shutter clicks]

- She knows, I handed her the lawsuit,

and you take a selfie with me?

I think she feels like she's untouchable.

I always win,

no matter who my opponents are.

They think they are taking on a person,

when really they are taking on the tiger.

[country music continues faintly]

[automated voice on phone]

You have two old messages.

[on phone] Hello, my name

is Sandra Wittkopp.

Somebody forged my name

on a bunch of papers.

Don's will, for one thing.

I just wanted to let you know.

Sandra was the one that notarized the will

and the power of attorney

that Carole produced.

You have Sandra as the notary,

but this signature here,

she says it's been forged.

There's no way to get around this.

I mean, this is fraud.

There's a power of attorney will

that surfaced after Don disappeared.

The person who stood to benefit

from the will was Carole.

"He had me change the will a few times

because he seemed to just delight

in making sure

that none of 'his greedy kids, '

as he said, were in it."

[Jerry] So we've got the will

and we've got the power of attorney.

They're signed on the exact same day

by the exact same notary,

but there's a problem.

Every single signature are identical.

If you talk to handwriting experts,

that's impossible.

And try it yourself. Take a piece of paper

and just sign your name twice

and you're not going to realize

what variance there is

in just normal signatures.

Don's was done

by simply tracing Don Lewis's signature

from his marriage license.

And so we've got mounting evidence

that appears to show this will was forged.

[Carole] I had brought in three firms.

They used all their tools,

all their technology on it,

and they said the documents were legit.

Now all the stuff

that has been said since then

are people that are looking

at copies on the internet

and they're sitting at home

in their armchair going,

"Nope, that's not right.

That's a copy. That's a tracing."

That's just ridiculous.

Hey, everybody.

I'm gonna put this one document up here.

[Jynx on video] Now the notary,

Sandra Wittkopp, stamps this,

but let's say this is being created

after Don went missing.

The fraud could be connected

to why Don may have disappeared.

[line ringing]

[Sandra on phone] Hello?

Are you Ripper?

I am Ripper, and I'm also Jack.

Okay. I watch you

on Facebook all the time.

I was the housekeeper.

I did their laundry,

I cooked their supper,

and helped take care of the lemurs.

I was the lemur lady.

We're trying to get to the truth.

Can I ask you just a few questions

about your voicemail?

Sure.

[Ripper] After Don went missing,

do you remember how Carole acted?

[Sandra] It was a Monday.

I was just shocked

when Carole came up to me and said,

"Don's missing.

We don't know what happened to him,

so if you see police walking around,

that's what it's all about."

[man on phone] That's enough.

Are you there?

[Sandra] My husband

wants me to cut it off.

[man] I'm just tired of hashing it

over and over and over again.

We're not going to solve it

and we're not going to help

anybody solve it.

And we just don't need the

[Sandra] The publicity.

[man] Not to be rude,

but that's the way it is.

[line disconnects]

[John] When you have somebody

who doesn't want to talk to you,

it leads you to think there's something

to be afraid of with Carole Baskin.

She's been able to intimidate people

that might have information,

but with some of the leads that we have,

can we find a way,

23 years later, to figure out

where there's inconsistencies

in Carole's story?

So much of this

has been pieced together over the years

that there are details

I got them out of order.

And people would love to say

I'm lying because I got them out of order.

It's like, you try and remember

20 some odd years ago.

[Jerry] The way you would build a case

against Carole is through a timeline.

There are questions with regard

to her version of events.

[Carole] My husband

left early in the morning.

When he didn't

come home the rest of the night,

then we turned him in as a missing person,

and we haven't seen or heard

anything since then.

[Jerry] She's told this story for years,

but we've got varying versions

of what happened.

So what's the truth?

[Carole] "June 15th, 1997."

"Out of the blue,

Don is loving, and attentive,

and really keeps me on edge,

never knowing who he's going to be

from minute to minute."

As we get closer

to the time Don disappears,

Carole's words seem to contradict

what we know about their marriage.

"When he is loving, he makes me feel

as if I am the only woman in the world."

"It was his superpower."

[Jerry] But right before that,

Don had filed

a restraining order against Carole.

He said that

she had threatened to k*ll him.

Everybody I've talked to

said Don was talking about divorce.

If that's the case, there would have been

a fight over the cats.

The only time that she and I ever talked

about anything personal

was when she took me to this convention.

[Carole] "August 6th, 1997."

"Don returned from Costa Rica

and agreed to take care of everything

so that Judy Watson and I

could drive to Jacksonville

for the Long Island

Ocelot Club Convention."

[Judy] On the way there,

we got to talk a little bit about Don.

Carole said in our conversation

that people had asked her

why she didn't just divorce him.

People were saying

that he was always running around on her.

[Don] Yeah. She gets jealous.

[Judy] And she said,

"I won't divorce Don,"

because she didn't want

half of everything. She wanted it all.

It was shortly, shortly after that,

that he disappeared.

[John] There's a big question

on when Don Lewis went missing.

Some say the 15th.

Carole points more to the 17th or 18th.

[Jerry] So what happened between Friday

and Tuesday

when Don was actually declared missing?

I mean, that's just critical.

And we've got varying versions

of what happened.

[Anne McQueen] The last time

I saw Don was August the 15th,

whenever he left my office.

And he told me that him and Carole had

had a big fuss the night before,

and that he had slept in the trailer.

[Jerry] Anne said that Don told her

that he and Carole had

had this huge fight.

What's interesting to me about that

is her journal makes zero mention

of that argument.

In the journal, she talks about

what happened every day

from Thursday through Tuesday.

The day she omits?

Friday.

Sometimes you can tell as much

from an omission

as you can from what's stated out loud.

"I haven't written much in a while

because things have been going smoothly

for a change."

"Last Thursday, he started complaining

more than usual about his diarrhea."

"Saturday he felt good enough

to go yard sale-ing

and brought home assorted junk

for his impending export to Costa Rica."

[Jim Moore] The last time I saw Don

was Sunday, the day before he disappeared.

Sundays, we told everybody we were closed

to give the owners a day off.

So it was typically a quiet day.

Don approached me.

He was really busy.

He had so much to do

to get the shipment ready

to go on Monday to go to Costa Rica.

He was really happy when he was

getting ready to go down there.

But once I went home,

I don't know what happened after that.

[ominous music playing]

[Jerry] Carole's whole story

of Sunday night

just doesn't seem to hold up at all.

At about 3:00 a.m.,

Carole was seen by deputies

walking down the street.

She's hysterical about something.

She was coming back from Albertsons.

"Sunday night I needed ingredients

for the kitten formula and trash cans."

"I thought Albertsons

was an all-night store."

[Joseph Fritz] Tiger milk at three o'clock

in the morning? Not likely.

Albertsons tiger milk? Come on.

[Jerry] Carole has come back

and said, "No, no, no."

She said it was

after the eleven o'clock feeding.

[Carole] "So after the 11:00 p.m. feeding,

I drove up there."

"Albertsons was closed."

[Jerry] That's a very big gap of time

between eleven

and three o'clock in the morning.

- What's going on during that whole time?

- [mysterious music playing]

[woman] Do you believe that

Carole Baskin went to Albertsons

the night of August 17th?

You're asking questions

that go to a timeline,

and a timeline is a very sensitive

part of the investigation.

[Carole] "The station wagon

I used overheated,

and I could not get the radiator cap off."

"I let the car sit for a long time,

and I tried to start it with no success."

[Jerry] The station wagon,

which has never been mentioned before

in her journals,

this vehicle wasn't her regular car,

comes on the scene breaking down.

It just strikes me

as very odd and suspicious.

We haven't seen an actual report

on the car itself.

There was no police report that confirms

that Carole broke down

on the side of the road.

[Carole] "My car had overheated,

so I was fussing around

with it for a while

before giving up

and starting the walk home."

"That was six miles in the dark

along Sheldon Road

and would have been a two-hour walk

in good circumstances."

"So the 3:00 a.m.

was probably around the time

I ran into Chuck and the other deputy."

[Joe Exotic on phone] Carole broke down,

and lo and behold, her brother is the one

who showed up first.

[Leonora] Another one of those things

that's just crazy about this story

is that her brother was on another call

for a burglary,

and he happened to be on the same street.

[police siren wailing]

[Carole] "My brother was on patrol

on Sheldon Road

and was in the middle of an arrest."

"I had to go a fair bit out of the way

to approach my brother

and the other deputies."

"If I was up to something nefarious,

I would have just slinked past

in the darkness."

[Jerry] She wasn't that far

from Wildlife on Easy Street

at that moment in time,

so it is possible that Carole

didn't go to Albertsons that night.

But this is potentially the time

that something happened to Don.

[mysterious music continues]

I think she's telling a tale,

trying to place herself

somewhere that she was not.

There was something going on

that Sunday night,

whether it was

disposing of the body, something.

[Jerry] What Carole has said before

is that when she gets upset,

she will pace.

I deal with stress,

I think, the same way cats do.

I just pace and pace and pace

You can't forget

the deputy said she was hysterical.

Why is she so upset?

Why is she really walking at 3:00 a.m.?

It could be connected to Don disappearing

or Don meeting foul play.

And that wasn't

the only suspicious thing that night

if you believe Kenny Farr's ex, Trish.

[Trish Payne] My ex-husband Kenneth Farr

was Don's right-hand man.

I do think that Kenny had some hand

in Don's disappearance.

The day before Don disappeared,

Kenny had been gone all afternoon.

He didn't go to work that day,

which was unusual to begin with.

Kenny came home

about 11:00, 12:00. It was late.

He had one of Don's vans.

I opened the door and I was like,

"What the hell are you doing?"

He had a load of g*ns in the back.

He said, "Carole gave these to me."

I said, "Why would Carole

have all these g*ns?"

"I don't know.

She just wanted them out of the house."

And I was kind of freaking out,

but I helped him carry them in.

We put them under the bed.

We put them in the closet in our room.

We put them in the bathroom.

Kenny said, "Listen, Don's gone.

Nobody knows where he's at."

"I don't want you talking about Don."

If those g*ns arrived at Kenny's house

on Sunday evening,

that pretty much destroys Carole's alibi.

Don wouldn't have given them away.

And Carole wouldn't have

given them away either

given that how angry

Don would have been with her.

Don had a thing about g*ns.

No doubt about it.

Money, g*ns, airplanes, and sex

is what made Don Lewis.

You come to no other conclusion than,

"Don was gone."

And obviously,

the first thing comes to mind

when you think of a bunch of g*ns,

and you realize Don disappeared

and has never been seen again,

maybe one of those g*ns

was used for that very purpose.

[Carole] "Kenny Farr's ex-wife, Trish,

claims that Kenny had brought Don's van

full of g*ns to her marital home

the day before Don disappeared."

"She makes a lot of false claims,

but Kenny did often drive our vehicles

and could have been getting the g*ns ready

for the barge trip to Costa Rica."

[Jerry] The thing is about the g*ns

is the explanations for the g*ns

have kind of been all over the map

by both Carole and Kenny.

[man 1] Slate.

- Lower. Yeah, hit it.

- [man 2] In? Big Cats.

The Kenny interview. Take one. Marker.

[man 1] Go.

Great.

Don Lewis really liked his g*ns. I mean,

he had many like, many, many g*ns.

But I traded the work of moving a house

for his g*n collection,

and it was like, "Wow, this"

- [plane flying faintly]

- [man 1] Sorry, we gotta wait a minute.

Just wait for the plane.

- Don traded you the g*ns?

- [man 2 clears throat]

- [man 1] Not Carole?

- [plane flying overhead]

- [plane continues]

- No, Carole.

- [man] What?

- It was Carole.

[man] But was Don gone already?

[plane continues overhead]

I don't remember.

[man] Because people say

Don would never part with his g*ns.

- Who traded you the g*ns?

- Don traded me the g*ns.

[intriguing music playing]

Kenny came back late that night,

and he had Don's blue van.

[Ripper] Kenny shows up with the blue van

at home Sunday evening. It's full of g*ns.

That was also the one that I read

was recovered at the airport.

[reporter] Don's blue van was found

at Pilot Country Airport in Spring Hill.

[Jerry] The van was found

at the Pilot Country Estates.

Let's presume Don was met with foul play,

that he was m*rder*d,

and someone has his van.

"Okay, what are we gonna do

with Don's van?"

"We're gonna go put it at this airport,"

trying to suggest Don flew to Costa Rica.

[reporter] Did Don Lewis really head down

this Pasco County runway

for a new life someplace else,

or did someone

just want it to look that way?

[suspenseful music playing]

[mysterious music playing]

[Judy] When Don first disappeared,

I think we all assumed he just ran off.

I used to go into Carole's office

first thing when I got there

to tell her that I was there

and "What did she want me to do?"

I found her feeding a kitten,

and she just started crying hysterically.

And that's when she told me,

"Don has either run off with somebody,

or something bad has happened to him."

So I said, "Do you need to get away?"

And she said, "No. I need to stay here.

I just don't wanna be bothered."

"I don't wanna talk to anybody."

"I don't wanna see anybody.

I don't wanna be bothered again."

The missing persons that I've had,

the families, they grieve.

They want to assist any way they can.

So it's more of a concern

and a willingness

to do anything possible

to find their loved one.

The only place I still haven't looked

that I feel somewhat hopeful

of being able to find him alive

is gonna be Mexico,

and I don't know how hard

or how long that'll take.

[intriguing music playing]

[Carole] One of our volunteers

was actually a bounty hunter.

I sent him down into Mexico

to see if he had ended up in prison.

Because of some of the weird stuff

he might do,

he might get himself hauled away to jail.

And he couldn't find him either.

His name was Tim Bengston.

[Tim on phone] Wait, wait, wait. She said

I went to Mexico and Costa Rica?

That's a big, big, big story.

I never I can swear to Holy God to you,

and I am a churchgoing person,

I never went out of Tampa.

[Carole] "Tim Bengston has

checked the prisons in Costa Rica."

"I offered him $100,000 to find Don alive,

or in the worst case,

to convict Don's K*llers."

"I asked him to come up

with an hourly figure

in the event that Don is found dead

by his own doing."

[Tim on phone] I said,

"Well, I'm not a PI or anything, Carole,"

but she asked me to look into it.

"What do you want?"

"Seven dollars an hour!"

I was charging her what I got for the cats

way back then.

Tim was there because he failed

his bounty hunter license

and couldn't get it the first time around.

And I remember he picked up this leopard.

She had a leash on, a collar on,

but he just put her over his shoulders

and walked her back to the cage

like a Tarzan type.

You know,

that just didn't sit well with me,

and I said, "Carole,

I'm really concerned about Tim."

And she told me, "You know,

I have to wonder with people like Tim

if the animals realize

that they're simpleminded,

and they don't hurt them."

Why would you hire somebody

that you say is simpleminded

to look for somebody that's missing?

[Tim on phone] I did this

for two or three weeks for her.

Just to give her peace of mind.

I never went to Mexico,

Costa Rica, anywhere. Never.

I was in the confines of Florida.

[Jim] We had a volunteer meeting.

We got all the volunteers together

and spearheaded an amateur search.

[Judy] We went out to the airport

because we were looking

for pieces of plane or body parts.

We knocked on doors

to see if anybody had heard

planes taking off or seen anything.

It was us that did that.

She wasn't with us.

[Jim] Carole had made us aware

that there was a 300-acre parcel he owned

that was right around the corner,

so we also went and searched

that piece of property.

But if you want to go look at every parcel

that Don had and that he might be on,

you're gonna do a lot of legwork,

'cause he had a lot of property

from what I understand.

[indistinct chatter on video]

I think Don's body

could be out at Seffner.

He had a 172-acre property out there.

He could be out there.

Before Don went missing,

Trish and Kenny actually lived out there.

[Donna] One of the properties

that Dad owned in Seffner, Florida,

we referred to it as "The Farm."

It had a lake on it.

As far as we can tell,

the police department have never given it

a real good investigation.

It's possible someone

could have hidden human remains there.

[Joe on phone] If we could

get a diver in that lake,

I think we could put her in jail.

'Sup, everyone? It's Ripper here.

Behind me is the gator-infested lake

where Don Lewis's remains could be.

We have a couple divers on the boat now.

[woman] Hey, there's something

that's right under us now.

- Yes, girl. Good girl. Good girl.

- [instruments beeping]

- [dog barks]

- [suspenseful music playing]

- [barking continues]

- [woman] It's a weird shape.

[Ripper] We got divers in the water.

There's two spots that have been marked.

And we have

the forensics diver right here.

It's pretty dirty in there.

So they can't see anything.

They're just feeling around the bottom.

[man] You're right in the right area.

You'll have to check the whole area.

- [Ripper] Nothing.

- [indistinct chatter]

[Ripper] I got a clear bottom here.

We're gonna pull the divers out.

[Jerry] The problem is

if you don't collect that evidence

at the time, then it gets lost forever.

Every week you delay,

every month you delay,

every year you delay,

you lose something.

[Ripper] To solve this case,

someone needs to come forward.

Of course, I'd love to talk to Kenny Farr.

What was he doing

that night Don went missing?

[Kenny] I wasn't involved

in Don Lewis's disappearance.

Around 20 years ago, the police asked me

if I would be acceptive

to taking a polygraph,

and I said, "Absolutely."

And I went down and took one.

That was done for

Ken Farr was out of the question

at that point.

They wanted nothing more to do with me.

[Jerry] They asked him directly,

"Did you k*ll Don Lewis?"

And he denied it and passed the polygraph.

But the thing they didn't ask him

was about the g*ns.

I'm still curious about the g*ns.

I mean, I just feel like there's more

to the g*n story than we know right now.

Once Don disappeared, Kenny changed.

He was not the same person,

and he just progressively got worse.

Kenny started getting very paranoid.

He started putting cameras in our yard,

put cameras in the house.

[Matthew Marvel] And that's when Kenny

went crazy on my mom.

He was beating up my mom

and threatening to k*ll her,

and me and my sister ran next door

and called the cops, and the cops came.

[Trish] I seen the blue lights

coming in the driveway,

so he called me a nice name

and left out the back door.

[officer] Should be

considered armed and dangerous

They couldn't find Kenny,

but they took all the g*ns.

They said every g*n

was loaded that day too.

[Trish] They brought in

a couple different deputies that came in

and they wrote down little tags and put

on each g*n as they carried them out.

I took my kids

and what we could fit in the car.

We left everything else behind.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Trish on phone] Hello?

Trish, this is Donna Pettis.

I'm in the car with Anne.

[Trish] Oh, okay.

[Anne] How do you think Kenny's gonna

react when we show up unannounced?

[Trish] I don't think

that he'll be evil or anything.

He may say, "I don't want to talk."

When was the last time

you physically talked to him?

[Trish] In 2000, after I gave Hillsborough

County the g*ns and I had left.

[Anne] Well, thank you, Trish.

We'll make it over here.

[Trish] You guys let me know

that everything's okay.

[Donna] We will. Thank you, Trish.

Appreciate it so much. Okay.

[Trish] All right.

You guys be careful, please.

[automated voice] Turn right

onto Exit 98 now.

- [Anne] Is it right here?

- [Donna] Uh-huh.

He's home. All right, pull in there.

Let's get it over with.

[tense music playing]

[doorbell ringing]

[woman] Yes?

[Anne] Hi, we're looking for Kenny.

[woman] I don't know.

Yeah, this is Anne.

I'd like to speak to Kenny.

[woman] Uh, you are not

allowed to come here.

Uh, if you continue with this,

I'm going to call the police.

[Donna] Tell Kenny

that I'm Don's daughter.

[woman] I don't care who you are.

This is my property.

- You are not allowed to be in my property.

- [Donna] Please tell Kenny

- [woman] I'm calling right now the police.

- [Donna] Okay.

[Donna] She's calling the police.

She's calling.

[Anne] She's upset.

[John] What do you and Anne want to do?

What are you guys thinking?

[Donna] I wrote Kenny a note and I said,

"I'm Don's daughter, Donna.

Please call me."

[John fading]

That's actually not the cops

[car door closes]

[Anne] I don't think

we should stay any longer.

[John] Good work, ladies.

That was very brave.

[Anne] Either that or very stupid.

One of the two.

[Ripper] Kenny must have been looking

from upstairs.

You know, up

looking out the window right there.

[intriguing music playing]

[Garcia] Kenny Farr

is part of this open investigation.

He wasn't willing to talk to us.

And I've attempted to do an interview

with Carole Baskins

on two different occasions,

and I was denied both times

by her attorney.

She declined to take a polygraph as well.

Most missing persons cases or homicides,

the spouse generally does talk to us,

butit's been

a different case than normal.

[disco music playing]

[reporter] She is

the shocker of the season.

The Tiger Queen roaring to the ballroom.

- [woman] Hey, Carole!

- I'm running late.

[woman] Carole, it's fantastic to see you.

I love your backpack!

As many of you have heard,

I am in Los Angeles,

and I am on Dancing with the Stars.

[Joe on phone] Oh, Dancing with the Stars?

They are literally using her for a clown.

Because they know that people are

gonna watch her make an a*s of herself.

[disco music continues]

[tiger roars]

[announcer] Dancing the pasodoble,

it's Carole Baskin.

["Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor playing]

["Eye of the Tiger" continues on TV]

[Donna] I don't know why she's doing this.

I guess it's just she's trying

to portray herself in a different light,

but honestly, these are all things

that are making her look worse.

All of the negative media attention

that came out of Tiger King

was extremely difficult.

[crying] I keep it inside

and wait until everybody is gone

before I can break down,

and I don't know how to make it better.

I would've loved for her to put the energy

that she's putting into the show

into helping find out

what happened to Daddy.

[John] The conversation I had

with the family was,

"We can't let Carole dance with the stars

and take the message away from Don Lewis."

And we had a feeling

that we could do a commercial

that would get enough attention.

[jingle playing on TV]

I'm Gale. Don Lewis was our dad.

- [Donna] Here it is.

- I'm Linda. We miss our dad.

I'm Donna. We need to know

what happened to our father.

I'm Anne.

All we're asking is justice for Don.

Don Lewis mysteriously disappeared

in 1997.

His family deserves justice.

Do you know who did this

or if Carole Baskin was involved?

[reporter 1] It was a first

on Dancing With the Stars.

[reporter 2] The b*mb

that dropped on Carole

from the family

of her missing former husband.

I was really surprised

that they actually said Carole's name.

Officially, she is not a suspect,

and so, on such a large platform,

to say her name seems risky.

It was a publicity stunt for Don Lewis.

It absolutely was.

John likes to be in front of the camera.

He said he wanted to keep the pressure on,

but we did a lot more media

than we were comfortable with.

[Ripper] Instead of

talking to his clients,

I think he was more concerned

with media coverage.

So we just felt like it was best

that we find another counsel

that was more in line with what we wanted.

[John] Not being able to

finish what I started was disappointing.

I believe that there was enough there

pointing at her involvement or knowledge

about what happened

that we wanted to take her deposition.

But, unfortunately, sometimes clients

have to learn the hard way

about what's in their best interest,

and they chose Ripper over me, in a way.

And it hurt.

We feel like Ripper's team

may be able to get to this faster.

He's very devoted, just to the nth degree.

[John] A lot of people want to actually

talk to the family lawyer.

They want to talk to somebody real,

not that sits in a gaming chair

and makes YouTube videos.

I'd like to say everything worked out

for the best but I don't know that it will

because I don't trust him.

[Ripper] My name is Jack Smith.

Some of you all know me as Ripper.

This memorial has been in the making

for almost 23 years.

I wish I could stand up here

and tell you all what happened,

but I can't.

It's a big mystery.

We're at a point in the investigation

where we're at a dead-end road.

Like, there's nothing else coming in,

and these daughters want answers so badly.

I was doing research

on psychic detectives,

people who have the ability

to work with police departments,

and I researched for several days

and I finally found Troy Griffin.

[man] Meet Troy Griffin.

Troy is a Christian, clairvoyant, empathic

psychic medium, and psychic detective.

[Troy] I'm a psychic investigator

on unsolved cold case murders

around the world.

I'm natural. I've never trained for this.

I fell into this by meeting someone

in a gift shop 16 years ago.

But I have found where bodies are located.

I have to see a picture of the victim

because I do remote view as a psychic,

where I connect through the victim's eyes,

and it's almost like they're showing me

what happened to them.

[Donna] The Farm is even further east

on the outskirts of town,

on the far east side of the county.

[Troy] So what I like to do

is I like to go to last known locations.

I let my intuition

just show me the pictures,

the things it wants to show me,

and I just let my intuition guide me.

There's some bad juju here.

[Donna] Okay.

[Troy] I feel like I wanna puke.

[Donna] He feels like he's going to puke.

[Troy] Yeah, I feel like

I could lose my cookies.

[coughing]

[Gale] He said this

was Daddy's last location.

- [woman] Right here?

- Somewhere right in here.

And that's why he's so sick.

He said he can tell me

this was my dad's last location.

[coughing]

[Troy] It's like I could see the movie

of exactly what happened.

He was m*rder*d there.

From behind.

I'm sorry.

[sniffling]

[John] You know,

the one thing about this whole world,

whether it's Carole Baskin's world

or Joe Exotic's world,

is there's a lot of people around

who wanted 15 minutes of fame.

Mostly, it's helpful,

but sometimes it's drama

that a family doesn't need.

[Troy] Did you guys notice

I've been talking about chicken all day?

Do you notice

what's laying on the ground there?

- [sinister music playing]

- Back there?

Can you go back?

Take a look by the porta potty.

- [Donna] Mmm-mmm.

- Did you see it?

No, I did not. Is there a chicken?

There's the container that you

It's a chicken.

[Donna] Okay.

[Troy] Yeah, when you guys go down there,

you'll see the yellow

[Donna] Okay.

[Troy] by the outhouse there.

- [Donna] Okay. It's a, it's a

- It's a chicken container.

Okay. Okay. All right.

I'm going to take a look at it.

[Garcia] I think the family should do

whatever the family

thinks they need to do.

They want some answers

to what happened to their father,

and I completely sympathize with them.

But we will successfully

complete this case.

I've probably got 300 cases under my belt.

I've only lost two cases.

I believe I can solve every case

that's presented to me.

[Donna] It's been a difficult year

because we've had to relive

a lot of things,

and we're learning things

that we knew nothing about.

It's been very hard to take all this in.

But it will be worth it.

We are getting answers. We just

We're ready for it to be concluded.

[Joe on phone] Well, let's hope

this is not closed as a cold case, huh?

We've got to get some truth and justice

back into the system.

That's why I've

reached out to John for help.

[John] I've got a lot of disappointment

from me not being able to solve the death

and/or disappearance of Don.

But I got traded

from Don Lewis's family to Joe Exotic.

It's a lucky fishing hat.

It's time to catch something.

[reporter] Happening today,

another twist in the Tiger King saga.

Local attorney John Phillips

is now representing

the infamous Tiger King.

[John exclaiming]

Now that's a fish!

I went to see Joe in prison.

He brought up

the Dancing with the Stars commercial.

He'd seen it.

And he said, "The one criticism I have,"

and I've heard this since then,

he's like, "You look like

you're all being held hostage,"

because we're just scrunched up.

Do you know who did this?

That happened and then he hired me.

[Joe on phone] I feel good!

I hope John is what John says he is,

but we'll see.

[John] Joe may be an imperfect individual,

but there was a lot at play

throughout his life.

The question is, was he taken

from this exercise of fantasy

into really hiring somebody

to k*ll Carole?

And would he have done that

without a setup?

If there was a scheme by Jeff Lowe,

James Garretson, Allen Glover

to set up Joe,

it is in the interest of justice

that Joe gets a new trial,

and a jury hears all of it.

- [man] Anyone got a whip?

- [people laughing]

Get back, you b*tch!

[laughing continues]

Hey, one to Allen. I got someone

I need you to take care of. Get up here.

[laughing continues]

[Allen] Jeff was the number one

m*therf*cker in this project.

Everybody else has changed their stories

but me until this moment.

I can't get through it

until I get this off my chest.

This ain't over yet.

[reporter] "Cut her head off."

That's what Joe Exotic allegedly demanded

when he hired would-be hitman Allen Glover

to k*ll animal activist Carole Baskin.

Did I go to Florida to k*ll her?

No, I did not.

I had no desire of k*lling that lady.

None. Zero.

Joe was f*cking framed

from start to f*cking finish.

Anything I could possibly do

to help him get out, I would.

Now I'm ready to take a break.

- [woman] Okay.

- Jesus f*cking Christ.

[dramatic music playing]