FLYING low over the Gulf of Mexico in a light aircraft, Carole Baskin’s then husband Don Lewis was brutally strangled and dumped into the frothing waves below.
That’s the latest astonishing claim — made by Lewis’s lawyer — in the 23-year mystery of Don’s disappearance, a story featured in lockdown’s break-out TV hit, Netflix’s Tiger King.
Attorney Joseph Fritz is insistent Lewis was murdered, claiming: “What I had heard was that he was strangled from the back seat of an airplane over the Gulf at 50 feet and dropped out over the Gulf.” Self-made millionaire Don’s truck was found abandoned at a private airfield 40 miles from the big cat sanctuary he ran with wife Carole near Tampa, Florida.
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