Carole Baskin: I Have a VERY Good Reason for Not Helping Police Find My Husband

No one is really interested in Tiger King 2 or its twisted attempt to redeem Joe Exotic.

But that does not mean that people have forgotten the documentary’s stars … including Carole Baskin.

Though Carole devotes her time, energy, and resources to rescuing big cats, some are more focused on her missing husband.

It was recently shared that Carole has no apparent interest in helping police solve that case. Why?

Millions of people bonded over Tiger King in lockdown. It was a phenomenon.

But that was a year and a half ago, before a series of cascading failures drove people out of lockdown and allowed the pandemic to worsen.

Tiger King 2 isn’t the hit that the original was, but it is a reminder that Carole Baskin’s husband, Don Lewis, has not been seen in decades.

Don went missing in the 1990s.

Since he vanished, he has not been seen in person by anyone.

Some Tiger King stars, particularly the disgraced Joe Exotic, have gleefully implied that Carole had something to do with Don’s disappearance.

The imagined story is a little more imaginative than your average “black widow for the money” story.

Like some twisted urban legend, the idea is that Carole murdered her husband and then fed him to her tigers.

While big cats are carnivores that do chew on bones in the wild, we all know that pigs are much more efficient for disposing of human remains.

Look, we don’t know what happened to Don, and we’re not naive enough to declare that anyone is innocent in this.

But it’s a little odd that so many people have seemed to uncritically absorb Joe Exotic’s claims.

Joe, lest we forget, is behind bars where he belongs for a series of crimes, including attempted murder for hire and a series of charges of unspeakable animal cruelty.

In the second documentary, a Hillsborough County detective names Moises Garcia spoke on camera.

There, he discussed the reopened missing persons case regarding Don Lewis.

Moises was more than willing to give the impression that Carole is totally uninterested in cooperating with the renewed investigation.

Oh? Why might that be?

The implication, of course, is that Carole is the alleged murderer and therefore doesn’t want to assist investigators.

But Carole has her own explanation.

Carole Baskin spoke to TMZ to explain her reluctance.

“There is no one who has more to gain from solving the mystery of Don’s disappearance than I do,” she asserted.

Carole explained that she is invested “because it would clear my name and stop the idiotic rumors.”

So, why isn’t she helping?

“There is nothing that I know that is not either in the Sheriff’s files or in the diary I have published at SaveTheCats.org,” Carole noted.

“And,” she reasoned, “no way I am going to have a clearer memory or anything to add twenty-four years later.”

Carole described spending hundreds of hours combing through documents.

She has handed over evidence to authorities.

Carole even offered a $100,000 reward for the discovery of Don’s location.

Meanwhile, it is alleged that the Department of Homeland Security found that Don is alive and well — living in Costa Rica.

Carole has recently stated that she hopes that this is true.

For what it’s worth, so do we. Frankly, these documentaries have sensationalized Carole while trying to paint a confirmed, convicted monster in a positive light. That has never sat right with us.

Carole Baskin Getting Her Very Own Docuseries: I’ll Expose Joe Exotic!

Carole Baskin is perhaps the most divisive figure to arise from 2020’s Tiger King phenomenon.

When it comes to animal welfare, she’s certainly in better standing than Joe Exotic.

Some people like jokes about her. Her missing husband’s family doesn’t feel that way.

No matter how you feel, know that she’s not going away. She’s about to tell her side of the story.

Carole Baskin is the CEO of Big Cat Rescue and, for a year and a half now, a controversial public figure.

The Netflix documentary showed a certain side of her — and of everyone involved, really.

Viewers of an upcoming Discovery Plus docuseries will get to see Carole’s side of things.

The two-part docuseries is titled Carole Baskin’s Cage Fight.

There, she will walk viewers through the battle for animal rights.

Her work and her passion is the protection of big cats.

This won’t just be about big cats in general, however.

Viewers will also get an inside look into Carole’s investigation into the G.W. Zoo.

That infamous zoo was the former property of Joe Exotic and then Jeff Lowe.

The zoo has since been awarded to Carole Baskin by the courts.

There have been a lot of accusations surrounding the zoo.

One imagines that there is a great deal to investigate … but the findings could be profoundly unsettling.

Carole may be the titular star, but she won’t be the only one.

Griff Garrison is a retired homicide detective. Chealsi is Joe Exotic’s niece.

They will join Carole and her team as they investigate the zoo.

There have been distressing allegations of animal abuse at the zoo — beyond Joe’s exiting convictions.

There are also allegations of other serious crimes that some believe took place on the property.

There is a lot of ground to cover and there are decades of history on the property to investigate.

Carole Baskin spoke in a press release to announce the new docuseries.

“This is a unique opportunity for audiences to come ‘behind the scenes’ with us,” she teased.

Carole continued: “for an unfiltered look at how we expose the cub petting exploiters and roadside zoos we feel are mistreating animals.”

“This is our real-life work within a dangerous world,” Carole continued.

“And viewers will see it comes with our people being threatened,” she shared.

Carole continued: “guns pointed at us and the bad guys shooting at our drones.”

Carole Baskin’s Cage Flight will premiere on November 13 on the Discovery Plus streaming platform.

It’s certain to be constroversial.

But … are people interested?

When a sequel to Tiger King was announced, the internet responded with collective disinterest.

It was a bonding thing for many people during the early weeks of pandemic lockdown.

To a lot of people, delving back into that world wouldn’t just be rehashing old news, it would be an unwelcome reminder of that time.

But this could be just different enough to draw an audience’s interest.

This isn’t a sequel to Tiger King — this is a related show that will take a different approach to that same world.

Honestly, we hope that it takes a more responsible look than the original docuseries did.

But Carole is also accused of, well, being a murderer.

Her missing husband’s disappearance was not recent, but his family still wants answers.

They are sure to have a lot to say about this.