FAMOUS author of Where The Crawdads Sing Delia Owens is wanted for questioning after being charged with a gruesome murder filmed for a documentary, new reports claim.
Delia and her husband Mark were featured in a 1996 program titled Deadly Game, which examined their conservation efforts in Zambia, which have reportedly taken a deadly turn.
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Years before Delia celebrated the success of her first novel, she and her husband Mark moved to Africa with the mission of saving elephants from poachers.
ABC aired their story in a documentary in which co-anchor Diane Sawyer said, “They went halfway around the world following a dream.
“An idealistic American couple – young, in love. But a strange place and time would test that love.”
Deadly Game: The Mark and Delia Owens Story follows the American couple’s journey to Zambia to study and conserve the elephant population.
The documentary showed how they fought to save the elephants from poachers who sought them for their precious ivory tusks.
While this sounds like an idyllic tale of two brave scientists trying to conserve nature at all costs, Jeffrey Goldberg, a critic of the Owenses, described the documentary as a “sniff film.”
And this isn’t just speculation – the documentary actually aired the murder of a poacher who was killed after being caught on a game warden’s property.
“The victim is not identified by the narrator of the story, the journalist Meredith Vieira,” Goldberg wrote†
“Also, the identity of the person or people who fired the fatal shots off-camera has not been released.”
The Paley Center for Media described the warfare in the documentary of proverb“Game guards have to shoot poachers as soon as they see one or they will be shot themselves; the Owens have decided that to save the elephants, they must sacrifice humans.”
Rather than just witnessing the warfare between gamekeepers and poachers, Goldberg claimed that Mark and Delia were allegedly involved in the murder of poachers.
He said he visited Zambia where I learned that Mark Owens was gradually going to command a corps of hunting scouts in North Luangwa, outside the control of the Zambian government, buying their loyalty by providing weapons, boots and money.
Goldberg continued to claim that Mark’s adult son trained scouts in hand-to-hand combat so they could arrest poachers more effectively.
A professional hunter named PJ Fouche showed Goldberg a letter that Mark allegedly sent him during his campaign against poachers.
“To date, I have flown eight anti-poaching operations in the skies over your area, including four where I ambushed scouts,” Mark wrote, according to Fouche.
“As far as I know, two poachers have been killed and one injured so far, and we are just warming up.”
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However, Mark and Delia vehemently denied all claims that they were involved in murders or committed any wrongdoing.
“All Mark ever did was throw fireworks from his plane, but only to scare poachers, not hurt anyone,” famed author Delia told Goldberg.
‘Why don’t you understand that we are good people? We were just trying to help.’
About the letter Mark wrote to Fouche, Mark said in a statement: “‘We’re just getting started’ didn’t mean someone just started shooting poachers, just that we had just started handling patrols against poachers. in that area.”
Mark said his words were exaggerated, intended to please the professional fighter Fouche.
Despite this, Zambia’s prosecutor Lillian Shawa-Siyuni said Mark, Delia and Mark’s son, Christopher, are still wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of the alleged poacher in the documentary, Goldberg said.
“There is no statute of limitations for murder in Zambia,” Siyuna said.
“They are all wanted for questioning in this case, including Delia Owens.”
All Mark ever did was throw fireworks from his plane, but only to scare poachers, not hurt anyone.
Delia Owens
Delia’s first novel Where the Crawdads Sing has sold more than 12 million copies since its publication in 2018.
The book has been turned into a feature film that will air later this week, thanks to producer and early supporter of the book Reese Witherspoon.
Days before the film’s debut, Goldberg emphasizes that Zambian government officials still want to speak to the successful author.
“I want to know how Mark and Delia brought weapons to Zambia and turned themselves into law enforcement,” chief prosecutor Siyuni told Goldberg.
“I can’t even go to the US embassy with a camera.”
Today, Mark and Delia are said to have divorced amicably.
Delia wrote several bestselling nonfiction books before her first fiction novel catapulted her to fame.
Mark has written several non-fiction books on zoology and environmentalism.
Jeffrey Goldberg previously wrote about Delia and Mark in the 2010 article the hunted published by The New Yorker.
The Sun has reached out to the publisher of Delia and the Owens family about the matter.
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