A new truth present shoot at the personal zoo when owned by Joe Exotic — and highlighted in the hit Netflix truth clearly show, “Tiger King” — was briefly thrown into turmoil when the movie crew imagined they’d uncovered human continues to be.
Agents with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and Garvin County Sheriff’s deputies rushed to the Increased Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park Friday right after cadaver canine there alerted handlers to the likelihood of human stays, the nearby ABC affiliate claimed.
The canines were in the park for the filming of a “Ghost Adventures” episode, the zoo’s present operator, Jeff Lowe, told the outlet.
But the meant cadaver turned out to be just the stays of a smaller animal, reporter Taylor Adams of Oklahoma station KFOR tweeted just right before midnight Friday.
“!!Unique UPDATE!!” Taylor tweeted. “The Garvin County Sheriff states no human remains have been identified on-website at the GW Zoo tonight. As a substitute … a modest animal. He claims the investigation is over.”
In the course of filming, handlers had been persuaded that two cadaver dogs had picked up the scent of physique components, Lowe reported, in accordance to the ABC affiliate.
Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also acknowledged as “Joe Exotic,” had owned the park ahead of he was imprisoned following remaining convicted in April 2019 of conspiring to get rid of animal rights activist Carole Baskin — as perfectly as for killing five tigers and offering tiger cubs.
The zoo will not be in Lowe’s arms for a great deal for a longer time.
A federal decide final thirty day period granted Baskin’s Massive Cat Rescue handle of the facility, after ruling the property was fraudulently transferred a long time back to Joe Exotic’s mother, Shirley Schreibvogel, to as a way to avoid having to pay Baskin a past $1 million trademark judgment.
Weeks right after the ruling, authorities announced they were being probing the zoo right after shots of allegedly neglected and hurt animals surfaced.
Lowe has also not too long ago been sued by the point out of Oklahoma for at minimum $50,000 in again product sales taxes.
