Tiger King (2020) s02e03 Episode Script

[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 kill 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 guns in the back.
He said, "Carole gave these to me."
I said, "Why would Carole
have all these guns?"
"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 guns 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 guns.
No doubt about it.
Money, guns, 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 guns,
and you realize Don disappeared
and has never been seen again,
maybe one of those guns
was used for that very purpose.
[Carole] "Kenny Farr's ex-wife, Trish,
claims that Kenny had brought Don's van
full of guns 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 guns ready
for the barge trip to Costa Rica."
[Jerry] The thing is about the guns
is the explanations for the guns
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 guns. I mean,
he had many like, many, many guns.
But I traded the work of moving a house
for his gun 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 guns?
- [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 guns.
- Who traded you the guns?
- Don traded me the guns.
[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 guns.
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 murdered,
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 killers."
"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 kill Don Lewis?"
And he denied it and passed the polygraph.
But the thing they didn't ask him
was about the guns.
I'm still curious about the guns.
I mean, I just feel like there's more
to the gun 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 kill 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 guns.
They said every gun
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 gun 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 guns 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 ass 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 bomb
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 murdered 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 kill 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 bitch!
[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
motherfucker 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 kill animal activist Carole Baskin.
Did I go to Florida to kill her?
No, I did not.
I had no desire of killing that lady.
None. Zero.
Joe was fucking framed
from start to fucking finish.
Anything I could possibly do
to help him get out, I would.
Now I'm ready to take a break.
- [woman] Okay.
- Jesus fucking Christ.
[dramatic music playing]