Carole Addresses Don Lewis’s Disappearance

This lady is crazy. And not just because she added an “e” on to the end of Carol, but because she literally addresses nearly the whole damn docuseries – including every last rumor. It feels like Carol broke down this film harder than Bill Belichick on a Monday morning.

In the few years preceding his disappearance Don’s behavior was gradually showing signs of mental deterioration. Originally Don, from time to time, would buy vehicles or other equipment at auctions with a view to reselling them, although mostly he never got around to reselling them. But gradually his hoarding of junk that he brought to the 40 acres the sanctuary now sits on increased and involved junk of no value. He deteriorated into dumpster diving and even got stuck in a dumpster and called me crying because he did not know where he was.

Back then Alzheimer’s was not a commonly used word. I had not heard of it.

Back then? This was the mid-90s, not the middle ages. Alzheimer’s was discovered in the early 1900’s. This isn’t like kids hitting you with terms like “hundo p,” “yeet,” or “Gucci.” This was a legitimate medical condition.

Someone mentioned Alzheimer’s to me and I got Don to agree to set up an appointment with a specialist, Dr. Gold. Anne McQueen intervened and convinced him to see her psychiatrist, Dr. Blasini. He referred us to a Dr. West in the same building who was not there, so Don saw Dr. Russell. He diagnosed Don with Bi-Polar Disorder and gave him a prescription to have an MRI at St. Joseph’s Hospital. I did not find the prescription until I was searching his bedside table looking for clues to his disappearance.

His behavior became increasingly strange. He started refusing to use the bathroom and defecating outside. He brought in a homeless man to stay in our house. I rescheduled an appointment for him to see the specialist Dr. Gold. But he disappeared before the appointment date.

Wow. Like Carole’s husband’s body in the septic tank, there is so much to unpack here. First off, Tiger King interviewed like a handful of people who all said there was no signs of Don’s mind deteriorating in the slightest. Second, why does she drop so many names here? The rambling does not come across looking, as the experts call it, “innocent.” Third, we didn’t need to hear about Donnie pooping outside. The man is already dead. No need to embarrass him.

She then goes on to try and talk about how Don was basically ‘not that rich.’ Ok, sure, Carole.

Anne McQueen is referred to as Don’s trusted assistant. A few months before his disappearance we caught her embezzling roughly $600,000 in properties by buying them with our funds and putting them in her name. A court ordered her to return them. Not the best sign of integrity, credibility, someone to believe.

How dare you say that about sweet lil’ Annie McQueenie. But that’s all Carole has on her? Embezzling over half a mill? So what? Who hasn’t?

Wendell Williams. We made a loan to Wendell when he purchased the 40 acres that became the sanctuary. He dug out dirt to sell for construction, digging an 18 acre 30-foot deep hole without our knowing. He then began operating the hole as an illegal dumpsite for construction debris. The hole filled up with water when he hit a spring. He stopped making payments. We foreclosed on him and ended up with the property.

I’ll actually side with Carole here in the instance of anyone who makes a career out of being simply a “handyman” is automatically shady to me.

Wendell is a very good con man and Don continued to deal with him despite this. During the time when Don was declining mentally, I repeatedly observed Wendell cheating Don. Don liked to carry a lot of cash. I heard Wendell telling Don, “Remember that two grand you owe me?” and saw Don peeled off two thousand dollars and gave it to him. A few hours later, I saw Wendell do it again, and because of Don’s dementia, Don peeled off two thousand dollars again and gave it to Wendell. I confronted Wendell about it. After that Wendell did everything he could to create a rift between me and Don. There were many, much larger, transactions where Wendell was scamming Don. He was convincing Don he was selling Don real estate properties by handing him paper he said were deeds but were not. Don, who could not read, believed him and would give him cash and checks for amounts in excess of $60,000 thinking he was purchasing property.

Let’s say this is all true. Let’s say Wendell is the crummiest man alive. That doesn’t mean everything he says for the rest of his life is a lie. It may tarnish his credibility, but him having a shady past doesn’t do much to discredit his claims – especially when they match the claims of other people who he’s probably never met before.

Then she goes after Don’s wife Gladys Lewis Cross and daughters Donna Pettis, Lynda Sanchez & Gale Rathbone. She essentially does the same thing where she tries to attack their credibility, and ended it with this note:

Gladys and her daughters had strong selfish motivations to lie and make implications about the meat grinder and Don being buried on the property 23 years ago that have absolutely no basis in fact whatsoever and they continued to do so in the series.

As if this entire thing couldn’t get crazier (much like the docuseries itself), Carole goes on to offer a rebuttal to all of the theories as to how she killed her husband… ALLEGEDLY!

Click the right arrow to read Carole’s address to Don’s disappearance.…