Plot Synopsis

48 HOURS SUSPICION -- a 48 HOURS spinoff airing Wednesdays at 10pm -- is a one-hour series that features cases where people live under suspicion but the truth is often elusive.

In the series opener, "The Tiger King Mystery," Richard Schlesinger and 48 HOURS SUSPICION uncover startling new information linked to the disappearance of Carole Baskin's former husband, Don Lewis. The nation was captivated earlier this year with the Netflix hit series TIGER KING, about an Oklahoma-based, eccentric big-cat owner named Joe Exotic and his epic battle with Tampa-based animal rights activist Carole Baskin. Throughout the series and on his own YouTube channel, Joe Exotic, the self-proclaimed Tiger King, claimed Baskin had murdered her former husband Don Lewis in 1997. Joe Exotic also made the sensational allegation that Baskin fed Lewis to their tigers. His body has never been found. Baskin has strongly denied the allegations and Hillsborough County (Fla.) Sheriff Chad Chronister has said that Baskin is neither a suspect nor a person of interest in the case. Now, in her first television interview, Trish Farr-Payne claims her ex-husband Kenny Farr may have been connected to Lewis' disappearance. Kenny Farr was a handyman who worked for Lewis and Baskin. Farr-Payne tells Richard Schlesinger that two days before Lewis was reported missing, Farr told her: "Don's gone, and I don't want you talking about him." Farr-Payne also tells Schlesinger that a large, padlocked freezer appeared on her front porch and soon vanished. She tells 48 HOURS SUSPICION she waited years to tell police about her suspicions involving the freezer and other key information. "I was afraid for my kids," she tells Schlesinger. "You know, I had my kids. I was afraid for them. I was more afraid for them than anything."