Writer Delia Owens, author of the novel Where the Crawdads Sing, the basis of a film due out this week in the United States, is wanted by the Zambian authorities for the murder of a man in 1996.
The revelation was made on Monday (2/11) in a report by The Atlantic magazine’s chief editor, Jeffrey Goldberg.
According to the investigation, Delia and her husband Mark Owens dedicated themselves to the mission of saving African elephants from poachers and corrupt officials in the 1990s against anyone they deemed a threat to the reserve they patrolled, committing torture, kidnapping and murder.
In 1996, an ABC News crew was filming the couple for the “Turning Point” news when they recorded a man – who may have been a hunter, although his identity has never been confirmed – shot dead while lay on the ground. The killer was not caught on camera.
In 2010, Goldberg had previously written an article for The New Yorker in which he quoted one of the ABC cameramen who filmed the murder as saying that it was Mark Owens who fired the fatal shots. Now, he adds, a detective in charge of the investigation has concluded that Owens, “with the help of his scouts, put the victim’s body in a cargo net, tied it to his helicopter and then unloaded it in a nearby pond “.
The body was never found and former Zambian National Police Commissioner Graphael Musamba said the investigation was not carried out due to the missing body: “The forest is the perfect place to commit murder. … Animals eat evidence “.
Although neither of the Owens have been formally charged with a crime, Zambian officials say both are wanted for questioning not only for their deaths on camera, but for the extent of their activities during their stay in Africa.
According to the report, Zambian police are more interested in speaking to Mark Owens and the couple’s son Chris – allegedly in charge of training and disciplining the recruits – but “they also believe that Delia Owens should be questioned as a possible witness, as a conspirator.” and complicit in willful crimes “.
So far, there have been no demonstrations from the literary representatives of Delia Owens, the production company Hello Sunshine, Reese Witherspoon (“Big Little Lies”), responsible for the adaptation of “A Far Away From Here”, and the studio Sony Pictures, which will release the film.
The drama starring Daisy Edgar-Jones (“Normal People”), which features Taylor Swift’s new music, revolves around Kya, a young woman who grew up alone in a small town swamp and was treated like a animal. . But she is a sweet girl, who ends up attracting the interest of two guys. When one of them is found dead, she is hunted down by the police and needs to prove her innocence in front of a population that hates her.
The film was written by Lucy Alibar (Oscar nominated for “Indomitable Dreamer”), directed by Olivia Newman (“My First Fight”) and will only be released on September 1 in Brazil, a month and a half after the US premiere.
Source: Terra
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