Carole Baskin did not look like dropping any sleep over ex-husband Don Lewis‘ 1997 disappearance.
The Tiger King star initially waited two or three days to report him lacking to police, however in line with a regulation enforcement supply, after she filed the report, she did not even let his household, his workers and even her personal volunteers know that Lewis was gone.
The supply, who was personally linked to the preliminary investigation, claimed police talked to volunteers and paid workers on and across the expansive Florida property, however all of them stated Baskin — her title was Carole Lewis on the time — “did not even discuss to anyone about the truth that he was lacking” for greater than every week after his disappearance.
“The folks that have been going into work and volunteering there [at Big Cat Rescue], one in all them stated it was enterprise as regular together with her,” the supply advised OK! Journal in an unique interview. “Like she by no means stated that ‘Don’s lacking, we have to seek for him’ .. there was none of that.”
The truth is, Lewis’ household wasn’t ever notified by Baskin, per the supply. Considered one of his assistants who labored for him at his trucking firm allegedly knowledgeable the household that the 59-year-old had gone lacking.
In the meantime, the tv character set to work finding out authorized considerations concerning Lewis’ belongings. Over a “three week interval” following his disappearance, it has been reported Baskin filed two Energy of Attorneys, a will, and in addition went to courtroom to “get full conservatorship of the property” — all actions the supply identified weren’t regular for a spouse who was trying to find her lacking husband.
Over the course of the investigation, Baskin advised authorities that her husband had been appearing unusually and affected by reminiscence issues, claiming he had gotten MRI’s to search out out what was fallacious. Nevertheless, per the supply, “there’s completely no documentation that claims that he ever went to a physician for that or says that he was handled for that.”
“Anybody that we talked to stated that he was of sound thoughts, together with each single worker that we talked to, each volunteer that we talked to,” the supply continued.
The supply additionally shared that Baskin steered to police that her husband might have merely gotten misplaced or crashed his non-public airplane someplace attributable to his alleged well being issues, and sadly, “the Hillsborough County Sherriff’s detectives purchased into it on the time.”