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[Music] we were already living through this stranger than fiction time and this was a stranger than fiction
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escape hi carol baskin down there big cat rescue [Music] tiger king was an addictive netflix
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documentary series that premiered just as coveted pandemic shutdown was happening
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over 60 million households have been tuned into the show the tiger king documentary
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came out at the perfect time have you seen it is that your exotic that's so exciting
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king centers around joe exotic my name is joe exotic and this is sarge an oklahoma-based animal cat
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owner and his sworn enemy his rival carol basket talking about a woman down in tampa
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florida named carol baskin joe exotic is this wild cartoonish flamboyant openly gay mulleted
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tattooed gun-toting large animal owner kind of the mick jagger i'd say of the large cat animal world
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carol's more a hippie new age vibe wears flower crowns hey all you cool cats and
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kittens it's carol a big cat rescue carol has fashioned herself as more of an animal activist
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big cats don't belong in cages she says that what joe is doing is not humane and should be stopped
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joe saw this as an attack on himself his business it'll be a cold day in hell before you
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completely stop me and he he stops at nothing to get back but also woven into this entertainment
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uh was this cold case john lewis the owner of wildlife on easy street disappeared
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carol's second husband don lewis disappeared under very mysterious circumstances it was in 1997
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and he just vanished there have been all sorts of theories there's one that he was drugged
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and put in one of the small planes and dumped out in the gulf if the plan was to push him out this
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door that's a challenge then there's the whole carol baskin fed him to the tigers theory that she
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had her husband ground up in a meat grinder and fed them to the animals it was such a weirdly fascinating
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unsolved story i'm julie miller i'm the senior feature writer for vanity fair all of a sudden everybody wanted to know
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what happened to don lewis we had lost all hope of ever knowing what happened to dad
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there have been a sudden surge of tips that have flooded the sheriff's department in florida
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we are now assigned a homicide supervisor to look into every tip that's coming in it's kind of amazing
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people are creating memes they're creating reddit threads going through documents producing new
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theories talking to new people and tonight in her first television interview a woman who believes her
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ex-husband may have been connected to don lewis's disappearance he said if you try to leave me again
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i will put you in the grinder like i did dawn in a meat grinder yeah but carol baskin herself
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offers up another surprising suspect she clawed his face up pretty badly he said he almost had to knock her out to
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get the gun away from her because she was so intent on killing him people want answers they want to know
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what happened to don lewis