Zambians Have Mixed Feelings About the Owens

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Bob Greene: The Owens are getting a lot of attention in the United States. He says they flew an ABC cameraman producer and his son, Chris Owens, who is then helping him in this operation out to an unknown location. A scout discovers an abandoned campsite lying on the ground, our shotgun shells; there's a dead body next to it. Greene: Witnesses told me thatChris Owens fired the fatal shots from off-camera. Nobody knows where this happened," he says.

Delia Owens’s runaway bestseller Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of a killing in North Carolina’s marshland. The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg explains Owens is wanted for questioning in Zambia regarding a real-life killing that bears striking similarities to the novel.

This episode was produced by Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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