before dawn Lewis would be featured in the Netflix docu-series Tiger king
murder may have a madness opening up new questions into his disappearance if
you're watching this because he watched Tiger King I should probably tell you
who the hell I am my name is Tiffany Lewis I'm Don Lewis's
granddaughter he was the one that was allegedly murdered by Carroll Baskin
before Joe exotic would write and record the track here kitty-kitty inspired by
Dawn's disappearance and hire a Carol basket look-alike to be in the video
you can't find this taste and listen before Don Luis would become
immortalized as a meme there's this there's this there's this they crank me
up so I start marching my way down to Caroll an HR so turns out Don Louis was
always a bit of a character with no college degree he became a self-made
millionaire worth at least six million dollars but even then he would still
search for food in trash bins and he wore second-hand clothes no the time of
this recording Don Luis he's been missing for 23 years the case was never
officially closed but the last time anything significant happened was back
in 2011 when the police asked miss Vasquez to take a polygraph but she
refused one of Joe's tacks that he would take against me would be to drug me with
ketamine which is a paralyzing agent so that they could put me into the back of
a car and drive me out into a swamp or they could cut my body into pieces
that's a great plan Walter that's an ingenious my understanding correctly in
a wad since the explosion of popularity of the flake series will the Florida
police they've reopened the case and they're asking everyone for new leads
time we're gonna you know somebody wanted to kill you then they would put
like sardine oil all over you something that
the cat wants to eat not something the cat wants to fool on because the perfume
that's all they want to do is just drool all over it what's going on guys it's
bro Mike reading back at it again with another before they were gone video this
one was requested by you guys no recent drops on this channel they included
before they're famous like Carol basky and also one of Joe exotic and we did a
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nine eight six I actually got a DM the other night from a Carol Baskin no no
I'm not even lying it actually had me really worried lady I ain't going to
your big cat rescue would getting fed to the Lions for real okay let's get into
this video thanks Jack Donald Lewis was born in Dade City Florida in 1938 to a
single mother of three now his mom she sold fresh bread and she worked as a
seamstress know growing up Donn he held several jobs and he worked as a mechanic
and a farmhand while still in high school he graduated a year early from
Pasco high school in 1955 and then he continued working now it's believed that
done he was a bit of a ladies man he met his first wife Gladys cross while he was
working as a bag boy at a and P two years later the after their first date
the two got married no Donnie was 17 years old at the time
and Gladys she was 14 in another years the couple will they had their first
daughter now around this time Donnie started hauling rock and sand in Dade
City for which he saved about five trucks by the 1960s he was driving
around for Texaco and Redwing carriers in Tampa now we also began to expand his
business buying used washing machines to repair and then it would resell them at
a profit he soon I'll sue began investing in used cars and then he would
sell them at auctions and eventually he got into real estate no Don Luis he met
Carol in January of 1981 when she was 20 and he was 42 no Carol she had just run
out of the house after having a heated argument with her spouse and Don he was
driving by the area he pulled over a next door in the
Aster she needed a ride now when she declined he returned with a revolver and
asked her to hold it to his head if she like didn't trust them
now what followed was the beginning of a new romance as the two they drove
together through the night they also spent the night together where they just
talked and then fell asleep even though I picked up the gun to sit down I didn't
point it at him because I know better than to point a gun at anything unless
you intend to kill it I pretty quickly laid it on the floorboard because I felt
confident that if he meant to do me harm he wouldn't have offered me the gun in
retrospect I had no idea if it was even loaded in time Don pulled over to talk
rather than drive and talk no Carol at this point well she knew she had fallen
in love with Don the two they dated for years and eventually he broke off his
first marriage to Gladys in 1990 then she warned him that Carol she was a
nasty breath but despite this the two got married the following year they're
growing cat collection led Don to build a 40 acre wildlife sanctuary called
wildlife on easy street but over the years the sanctuary it turned into just
another business for Don now this led to several clashes between Don and Carol
over how the facility should be run and eventually it caused marital tension
between the two now there was a restraining order filed against Carol
but then it was rejected the order claimed that Carol she had threatened to
kill Don Luis in the past but the injunction it was declined because of
free speech now her side of the story well it was that her life was in danger
one of Joe's tacks that he would take against me would be to drug me with
ketamine which is a paralyzing agent so that they could put me into the back
of a car and drive me out into a swamp or they could cut my body into pieces I
don't know if you mix up who's ooh that sounds like a confession to me though it
was suggested that Louis he wished the shifter sanctuary to Costa Rica here he
had purchased 200 acres of land this is something Carole she wasn't particularly
on board with no it was also revealed that he used to visit Costa Rica
frequently for both business and for pleasure and assuming that he was still
a ladies man well there I can imagine he was up to no good no one the date of his
disappearance Don he had a deal to transport some cars to Costa Rica now on
August 18th 1997 onward from there on out Don he was never heard from again
the next day police officers they found his van in a private Airport with his
keys on the floor now the hunt it carried investigators from the 69 acre
Wildlife Sanctuary that he ran with Carol Baskin all the way to Costa Rica
where they were looking for leads but then still nothing came up Carol Baskin
has denied any involvement in Lewis's disappearance and has never been
arrested or charged in connection with it now there was something very fishy
about the legal documents and this man's will and what would happen with his
inheritance if he went missing now in 2011 Carol she
was given the opportunity to take a polygraph test but she declined
she said her attorney told her that it wouldn't vindicate her for anything so
she decided why the hell would I bother it's not gonna help me no Jo exotic and
others in the big cat community they would continuously shine light on the
man's mysterious disappearance most notably was Joe's catchy song here kitty
kitty now this was aimed directly at Carol accusing her of feeding her
ex-husband to the Tigers Oh
Mama's got some treats for you hehe
now there were all sorts of different theories floating around there was the
meat grinder there was a septic tank no one knew exactly how she did it
everyone just figured she did it now the story it got plenty of media coverage
over the years but there was never any real findings no Dawn's ex-wife Gladys
and her children they still point the blame at Carol to this day she was a
suspect by the police but without sufficient evidence the case ever maned
open it was never officially closed and he was considered legally dead in 2002
no it was at this time that Carol she finally cashed in her inheritance and
only a small percent went to Don Louis's ex-wife and her kin and that's something
that Don Louis's granddaughter still upset with today she posted this video
to tick-tock first and foremost I do want to thank the producers for shedding
some light on this horrible situation I haven't heard his voice in over 20 years
and just hearing it was a blessing so thank you for that
with the recent explosion in popularity of the Netflix series will the Florida
sheriff appointed to the case he decided to reopen the file now this is sheriff
Chronister who revealed that tips are coming in on the daily but there still
isn't anything credible now we also clarified a number of questions that the
public had for him for instance the meat-grinder Police
stated that it had been removed several weeks before his disappearance also the
septic tank well that one had actually been
installed a few years after Lois disappear it just last week Carol Baskin
will she wrote a blog post where she again denied the accusations she wrote I
never threatened them and I certainly had nothing to do with his disappearance
when he disappeared I did everything I could to assist the police I encourage
them to check out the rumors from Costa Rica and separately I hired a private
investigator it just makes for wonderful sales of newspapers I'm sure for them to
speculate that I fed him to the Tigers which is crazy for now the case remains
open but if you have any clues if you have any tips if you have any insight
information well here is the sheriff's information you can call them you could
contact them and let's let's figure out what exactly happened as for the rest of
the story well I'm gonna wrap this one up here because this is before they were
gone now let's hope it turns into a where they now and this man's family
well they get some answers to his whereabouts
I think that's the least they can ask for alright guys are gonna wrap up this
video here I think this is the last video we're making in the tiger kings
series of course this show it works off suggestions so you guys gotta let me
know who's next in the comments down below I'll see you guys in another video