The Cry of the Kalahari by Delia Owens

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Jeffrey Goldberg: Delia Owens was one half of the conservationist duo that ABC News was profiling during the 1995 killing. He says they were naturalists who moved first to Botswana, wrote a book out of their experience called The Cry of the Kalahari. They set themselves up in remote park north of Wonga with poaching problem and became "rulers," he says. Goldberg: Over time, Mark Owens got more and more militant in his efforts to fight poaching; would fly nighttime missions.

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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