January 3, 1980: Joy Adamson Murdered
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🗓️ 3 January 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:27.0 | Today is Friday, January 3rd, 2020. |
| 0:35.0 | On this day in 1980, Joy Adamson, famed Austrian wildlife conservationist, |
| 0:41.8 | was found dead by her assistant. |
| 0:44.0 | Her assassin, a parcast original. |
| 0:59.0 | Today we're covering the murder of wildlife conservationist Joy Adamson by her former employee Paul |
| 1:06.3 | a Kai. Let's go back to January 3rd 1980 a little after dinner. |
| 1:15.0 | Peter Mawson was fuming. |
| 1:18.0 | Peter Mawson was fuming. |
| 1:20.0 | He couldn't believe his boss, Joy Adamson, would accuse him of stealing from her. |
| 1:26.0 | Sure, she paid him next to nothing for all the work he did, and the long hours the work entailed. |
| 1:32.0 | But the last thing he would ever do was steal. |
| 1:35.6 | He wasn't foolish enough to put his job in jeopardy. |
| 1:39.2 | For months he had been working for Joy at the Shaba National Reserve in Kenya as her personal assistant. |
| 1:46.6 | He'd heard about Joy's abrasive attitude and mistreatment of her assistance and employees, |
| 1:52.2 | but for Peter, toiling under the famous wildlife conservationist, offered him the chance to work |
| 1:58.0 | with some of the most majestic creatures in the wild, like Penny the leopard. |
| 2:03.0 | Tonight, Joy accused Peter of a string of robberies in the camp. |
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