The park wasn't well run. It wasn't well protected. The Zambian government was not effective in dealing with it. And at the end of the day, the Owens has walked into something that was akin to a vacuum. They took advantage of that vacuum to build their program and let's just say in non-democratic way.
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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