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following the disappearance of carol baskin's then-husband don lewis people developed many theories as to what
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exactly happened to the millionaire however former new york city prosecutor alex spiro now hired by don lewis's
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family suggests the investigation should focus on the hours surrounding lewis's disappearance well there are all sorts
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of theories about what might have happened to don one of them was that he was tossed out
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of an airplane do you find that credible sometimes in high profile cases people come up with fanciful theories of
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you know tigers lions bears and airplanes i mean there's usually a simpler explanation of things
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carol baskin in diary entries shared with the tampa bay times says the last time she saw don lewis was the early
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morning of august 18th 1997 after she had returned home from running a late night errand
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at 11 o'clock you know she had these kittens that were in the house there was a bobcat kitten and two caracal kittens
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and um she didn't have enough ingredients for the milk in carol baskin's diary entries she says
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that she left don at their home and went out to a supermarket about six miles away only to find out that the store was
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closed baskin then explains that her car broke down forcing her to walk all the way
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home she says she didn't get home until 4am and then when she got home don wanted to
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immediately go back and get the car so at four in the morning they went back he got the radiator cap off put water in
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it and then they drove home baskin says that two hours later lewis got up and left the house
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that was the last time she saw him it's very hard in the 21st century to go missing missing as a middle-aged man who
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has a very active cellular records banking records etc carol baskin maintains she had nothing
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to do with don's disappearance i didn't kill don you