Jerry Mitchell, central to reopening long-unsolved murders from the civil rights era, saw amid the "Tiger King" lunacy an unsolved homicide.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — When investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell first tuned in to catch the Netflix documentary "Tiger King," he thought what most of us did: Who are these people?
Baskin is as zany as every other character in this misfit melange — so much that a Baskin Robbins in Kansas has posted a sign declaring"No Relation to Carole Baskin." A constantly smiling throwback to a '60s flower child, Baskin was once married to Don Lewis, a wealthy man who disappeared in 1997 after attempting to take out a restraining order against his wife.
While there, Mitchell relentlessly dug into notorious racist crimes, including the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four black girls. His work led to the prosecution and conviction of former KKK members and sympathizers who had benefited in past decades from a law enforcement and judicial system unwilling to do justice when the victims were African-American.
This, of course, is not a normal time for any undertaking, as Mitchell learned with an Easter Sunday trip to Florida for interviews. Florida is where Baskin runs her refuge for wild animals; a number of"Tiger King" characters hypothesize that she killed her husband and fed him to tigers at the sanctuary.
'Everybody under God's creation' wants to solve 'Tiger King' caseSocially distanced interviews aren't the only oddities about the investigation. Unlike his work in civil rights cases, and another investigation that helped identify a suspected serial killer, Mitchell was often working solo. That has also been a benefit. Since word broke of Mitchell's investigation, he has been contacted by numerous individuals offering to help.
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