Ashley Flowers

She clearly had no problem with him picking up her boys from the theater that night, which I think says something.

But Margie and other family members did appear to suspect Carl.

And she eventually followed through with the divorce after the boys were gone.

Carl, for his part, maintained that he had nothing to do with their disappearance.

But he drew a line in the sand when it came to cooperating, turning down the polygraph that police wanted to use to help rule him in or out.

So that's really where this case stalled.

Three weeks into October, police were already convinced that the boys were dead, but they couldn't even prove that much.

And to complicate any case that they were trying to make against Carl, there were tips about possible sightings of Terry and Alan from all over.

Calls came in from as far away as Arizona and as close as Mississippi.

They went nowhere.

So within a year or two, the case essentially went cold.

And Carl remained law enforcement's only person of interest in the case.

There was one other person who may have been suspicious of Carl.

And that's the boy's biological father, Melville.

He was actually one of the first people police contacted when the boys came up missing.

Early hope was that maybe, somehow, Terry and Alan were with him.

But that wasn't the case, and he was quickly cleared.

Melville never gave up hope of finding out what happened to his sons, and he went on to start his own investigation.

He followed any leads that he could find and grew desperate enough to speak with multiple mediums, hoping that they could help.

But no matter what he did or who he turned to, he appeared to end up in the same places as the Fayetteville Police Department, with nothing.