Sneak peek: The Missing Millionaire: A “Tiger King” Mystery | Forensic Files

you believe he was killed correct uh yes my name is alex spyro i'm a former prosecutor and i'm an attorney and i'm
investigating the disappearance of don lewis there's witnesses and information that
shed light on further facts and circumstances surrounding this have you met these witnesses yes
and you believe that yes there are new leads tonight in the strange case of missing millionaire don
lewis a man who seemed to vanish without a trace we had lost all hope of ever knowing
what happened to dad and then they got some hope from a tv series tiger king was an addictive netflix
documentary series i'm julie miller i'm the senior feature writer for vanity fair
tiger king centers around joe exotic my name is joe exotic and this is sarge an oklahoma-based animal cat owner and his
sworn enemy his rival carol basket talking about a woman down in tampa florida named carol baskin joe exotic is
this wild cartoonish flamboyant openly gay mulleted tattooed gun-toting large animal owner kind of the mick
jagger i'd say of the large cat animal world carol has fashioned herself as more of
an animal activist big cats don't belong in cages she says that what joe is doing
is not humane and should be stopped it'll be a cold day in hell before you completely stop me but also woven into
this entertainment uh was this cold case don lewis the owner of wildlife on easy
street disappeared carol's second husband don lewis disappeared under very mysterious circumstances it was in 1997
and he just vanished there have been all sorts of theories there's one that he was drugged and put
in one of the small planes and dumped out in the gulf if the plan was to push him out this
door that's a challenge the most insane theory probably being that carol baskin had her husband ground up in a
meat grinder and fed them to the animals word has it that carol snuck up on gun in the middle of the night beat him in
the head ground him up and fed him to the tigers as bizarre as that sounds this woman believes her ex-husband who
once worked for don and carol may have revealed something about don's fate during a fight he said if you try to
leave me again i will put you in the grinder like i did dawn in a meat grinder yeah
her ex-husband denies her story do you believe her husband told her that he'd put her in a meat grinder the
way he did to don i will tell you that there is certain information she's provided that has been
independently corroborated who would you like to interview the most carol baskin
i didn't kill don people want answers they want to know what happened to don lewis

A new look into the disappearance of Carole Baskin’s husband. Famed lawyer investigates “meat grinder” theory. "48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger reports Saturday, July 30 at 9/8c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

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Brief Summary

The episode investigates Don Lewis's disappearance, featuring insights from Alex Spyro and Julie Miller, and discusses theories involving Carol Baskin.

Key points

The Disappearance of Don Lewis. Investigating the mysterious case of millionaire Don Lewis who vanished in 1997.
Tiger King and the Cold Case. The Netflix series Tiger King intertwines with the cold case of Don Lewis.
Bizarre Theories Surrounding Don's Fate. Various theories emerge about Don Lewis's disappearance, including a shocking claim about a meat grinder.

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Episode quotes

There's new leads tonight in the strange case of missing millionaire Don Lewis.

An intriguing update on a mysterious disappearance.

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