The Disappearance of Don Lewis: A "Tiger King" Mystery
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty
CBS News
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The 1997 disappearance of Don Lewis remains a mystery, even after its coverage on the Netflix documentary Tiger King. Erin Moriarty revisits her conversation with her now retired colleague Richard Schlesinger about his reporting and investigation into the Don Lewis' missing persons case, plus the allegations tossed between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin.
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| 0:50.0 | aka the Tiger King. |
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| 0:56.3 | discusses his investigation into this very bizarre case, |
| 1:01.2 | including going up in a plane to see if someone could really dump a body mid-air into the ocean. |
| 1:08.6 | Joe Exotic is this wild cartoonish, flamboyant, |
| 1:21.1 | mulleted, tattooed, gun-toting, large animal owner, |
| 1:27.4 | kind of the Mick Jagger, I'd say, of the large cat animal world. |
| 1:31.1 | Carol's more a hippie, new age vibe, where's flower crowns. |
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