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

SERIES PREMIERE: Shocking new information in the disappearance of tiger activist Carole Baskin’s former husband Don Lewis. "48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger investigates. Watch Wednesday, September 9 at 10/9c on CBS.

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Brief Summary

Tiger King explores Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, and the mystery of Don Lewis's disappearance.

Key points

The Tiger King Phenomenon. The documentary series 'Tiger King' captivated over 60 million households during the pandemic.
The Disappearance of Don Lewis. Don Lewis vanished under mysterious circumstances in 1997, sparking numerous theories.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It'll be a cold day in hell before you completely stop me.

Joe Exotic's defiance against Carol Baskin.

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