Nearly three decades ago, Owens and her family may have been entangled in a killing that eerily echoes throughout her best-selling novel. Here’s everything you need to know about the controversy.
The depiction of Mark in ABC’s special raised questions about his conservation practices. At different points, according to Goldberg, Mark can be seen toting a pistol, a hunting rifle, and an AR-15 automatic rifle. He is seen telling his scouts that when they spot an armed poacher, “you don’t wait for them to shoot at you. You shoot at them first, al right? That means when you see the whites of his eyes, and if he has a firearm, you kill him before he kills you.
According to Goldberg, in an April 1996 letter to donors to their Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation, the couple wrote, “We were not involved in this incident, or in any other incident of this nature.”the ABC cameraman who filmed the shooting, claimed that the alleged poacher was actually shot by Christopher Owens—Mark’s son and Delia’s stepson.
According to Goldberg, the U.S. Embassy had counseled the Owenses not to return to Zambia until the case was resolved. They heeded that warning, settling in northern Idaho before splitting up; according to her website, Delia now lives in North Carolina, whereis set. “We were great research partners and great friends, and we had a great working relationship for years and years,” Delia told
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