Is Justice What You Want?

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Jeff Owens: The idea that somebody was murdered in a remote part of Zambia and no one cares just doesn't seem right. He says ABC News knows exactly what happened to this person, they know where the body was taken. "I saw it almost like he was waiting for years for somebody to call him," Owens says about cameraman Chris Everson.

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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