A Florida sheriff is using the hype surrounding the wildly popular Netflix series 'Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness' to seek new leads in the case of Jack Donald 'Don' Lewis, who's been missing since 1997.
A Florida sheriff is using the hype surrounding the wildly popular Netflix series"Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness" to seek new leads in the case of Jack Donald"Don" Lewis, who's been missing since 1997.
Lewis was married to Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin, the intended target of the murder-for-hire plot at the center of the docuseries. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister told CNN that the show has generated a lot of new interest in the case. His office is receiving about six tips a day, he said.'Tiger King:' Where are they now?"We are already receiving new tips and we hope to close this cold case soon with the help of the public," Chronister told CNN.
— Chad Chronister March 30, 2020 Oklahoma zoo owner"Joe Exotic" , serving a 22-year prison sentence for his role in the Baskin murder-for-hire plot and other charges, has repeatedly accused Baskin of killing her husband and feeding his body to the tigers at her animal rescue center.He claimed that a septic tank on the Big Cat Rescue property might hold evidence.Chronister said the septic tank wasn't even there at the time that Lewis disappeared.
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