“Tiger King” star Carole Baskin instructed British media in 2021 that her husband who vanished in 1997 was once alive and smartly in South America.
News of Don Lewis being positioned came to mild right through the most recent season of Netflix’s sequence, which Baskin had requested to be removed from. In November 2021, Baskin advised ITV’s “This Morning” that during the display, they realized from Homeland Security that Lewis was in Costa Rica.
“One of the in reality exciting things that got here out of Tiger King 2 is that they produced a letter from Homeland Security and it says that a particular agent in fee with the FBI at Homeland Security reached out to the sheriff’s detective George Fernandez, which means that this needed to have happened after 2002, because Homeland Security wasn’t even around till 2002,” she mentioned, in line with Sky News.
Around the similar time as her look on ITV, Baskin participated in an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit in which she wrote that she believes Lewis crashed over the Gulf of Mexico while flying an ultralight or experimental aircraft. She alleged that Lewis didn't have a license to fly, he didn't document a flight plan, and he flew from closed airports to steer clear of being stuck.
“He had to fly underneath two hundred toes to stick off the radar which means he would normally fly out over the Gulf since the air is smoother there, while over land there are up and downdrafts that can crash you at the peak,” she wrote.
According to Baskin, telephone records advised Lewis used to be en path to Texas when he vanished, and his van used to be positioned at a small non-public airstrip.
Lewis was once last seen leaving his Tampa, Florida, home in 1997. Despite allegations made via “Tiger King” breakout star Joe Exotic, Hillsborough County police have mentioned Baskin is not a suspect in her ex-husband’s unsolved disappearance. Lewis was declared legally dead in 2002.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister prior to now claimed that Baskin refused to take a polygraph in 2011 in connection with Lewis’ disappearance.
Not most effective has Baskin time and again denied involvement in her husband’s disappearance, but she additionally refuted rumors that she had him fed to cats or tigers at Big Cat Rescue, the animal sanctuary she based.
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