Netflix Docuseries 'Tiger King' Spotlights Criminal Zookeeper Who Tried to Have Rival Killed
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Netflix Docuseries 'Tiger King' Spotlights Criminal Zookeeper Who Tried to Have Rival Killed Joseph Maldonado-Passage, who goes by "Joe Exotic," is the subject of the Netflix docuseries
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness
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“The self-described Tiger King was not above the law,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester said in a statement after the conviction. “Rather, the jury only needed a few hours of
deliberation before finding him guilty of engaging in a murder-for-hire plot to kill a rival and violating federal laws intended to protect wildlife when he killed multiple tigers, sold
tiger cubs, and falsified wildlife records.”
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness began streaming on Netflix on March 20.
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