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The sandbox original author12/17/2022 ![]() ![]() So the news continues to hang over the film like Spanish moss over a murky bayou. ![]() He quoted Delia Owens saying she had nothing to do with it.įor months, the movie's publicists have told me the author is not available to comment. But the journalist says their attorneys have issued statements of denial in the killing. According to Jeffrey Goldberg, some witnesses reportedly implicated Mark Owens and his son Christopher. You can hear the gunshots, but the shooter of the unidentified man was never seen on camera, a body was never found, and no one has been formally charged with a crime. "The bodies of the poachers are often left where they fall, for the animals to eat," narrator Meredith Viera said on the show Turning Point. In fact, an ABC news crew documenting the Owens's work in 1995 actually captured the execution of a suspected poacher. ![]() His reporting suggests the Owens set up a brutal operation to go after anyone who was a threat to the elephant reserve. Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg first wrote about this for The New Yorker in 2010, and more recently, The Atlanticmagazine, where he's now editor in chief. At the time, she and her then-husband Mark were living in Zambia as animal conservationists, trying to save elephants from poachers. With the film's release, news has resurfaced that 73-year-old Owens is still wanted for questioning by Zambian authorities as a possible witness, co- conspirator and accessory to federal crimes. "Īnd murder - a real life murder in the mid 1990s - is the big elephant in the room. She layers on this thriller element, there's a murder. "It felt like when I was reading To Kill A Mockingbird or just any sort of classic Southern literature. "It just blew me away," Witherspoon told CBS Sunday Morning. Actress Reese Witherspoon loved it so much, she added it to her popular book club and produced the new film adaptation. Her first novel has now been on the New York Times best seller list for 168 weeks (most of that time at the top). It took wildlife scientist Delia Owens a decade to write Where the Crawdads Sing. Now, there's a film adapted from the novel by an author with a mysterious past. "The marsh girl," as she's known, is reviled and shunned by those in the nearby town. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the fictional story of Kya, a girl left to raise herself along a North Carolina bayou in the 1950s and 60s. There's a lingering mystery hanging over the author of "Where the Crawdads Sing," now adapted into a film. ![]()
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