Kept In The Dark: Carole Baskin's Employees Allegedly Thought All Was 'Business As Usual' After Don Lewis Went Missing: Source

Carole Baskin allegedly waited days to tell her ex-husband Don Lewis' employees that he had gone missing after he disappeared in 1997, RadarOnline.com has learned.

A law enforcement source tells us that after The Tiger King star filed a missing person report with the police she didn't immediately tell his family or his employees.

The source, who was personally connected to the initial investigation, claimed police talked to volunteers and paid employees on and around the expansive Florida property, but they all said Baskin — her name was Carole Lewis at the time — "didn't even talk to anybody about the fact that he was missing" for more than a week after his disappearance.

"The people that were going into work and volunteering there [at Big Cat Rescue], one of them said it was business as usual with her," the source told OK! Magazine in an exclusive interview. "Like she never said that 'Don's missing, we need to search for him' .. there was none of that."

One of Lewis' assistants, who worked for him at his trucking company, allegedly was the one who informed the family that the 59-year-old had gone missing.

Meanwhile, the television personality got to work sorting out legal concerns regarding Lewis' assets. Over a "three-week period" following his disappearance, it's been reported Baskin filed two Power of Attorneys, a will, and also went to court to "get full conservatorship of the estate."