The Turning Point Documentary on Mark and Delia Owens

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Jeff Goldberg: The story of Mark and Delia Owens, conservationists in Zambia. He says they left the country after a documentary about them was aired on ABC. They went to Idaho where Dili Owens started her career as a novelist. She's now writing Where the Crawdad sing by Dili Owens is sold 1.8 million copies; it's currently number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Jeff: I'm so excited to announce that Reese Witherspoon will be starring in an upcoming movie based on this book.

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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