Ashley Flowers

But was he violent to Margie?

Was she scared of him?

Would he do something to her sons just to get back at her for leaving him?

I don't know.

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.