(At 6:04 p.m., Lutz shared this information on the police radio: "Okay, we have located the owner. The cause of death seemed to be a gunshot to the head. He only looked back once, when they were about a third of the way to the barn. Hanna acknowledges that he is not universally popular for supporting what happened that night, and for supporting the laws being drafted. "Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson" is a lively and insightful documentary about the late great journalist who exploded the myth of objectivity. I set out to find some of them. He knew what he'd do: put Red in the barn, go back to the house, report what he'd seen. However, it was devastating to lose so many innocent lives, especially the Bengal tigers who are an endangered species. This 95-minute documentary follows Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, and Townes Van Zandt as they rise from obscurity to reverence. Though ultimately no action was taken concerning the animals after Thompson moved to improve his facilities, Barrie had been horrified at what he saw up there in terms of security, cleanliness, and animal cruelty. It was presumed that the remaining two animals were eaten by some of the bigger ones. I don't know what happened to it when he left.". "He raised Dobermans back then," says Stilwell. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 14, 2012 6:27 AM ZANESVILLE, OHIO -- Residents in this small, struggling town knew a few things about Terry Thompson for sure: He was once an Eagle Scout. "Apparently," Tom Stalf theorizes, "he wanted the animals to eat him. "Everything he had was fast," says Marshall. It took his heart. Hannafamous for his TV shows and his appearances on shows like Lettermanestablished his career at the Columbus Zoo and remains its director emeritus. T's World unpacks the events surrounding his 2011 animal release and suicide. Since 1957, GQ has inspired men to look sharper and live smarter with its unparalleled coverage of style, culture, and beyond. "There was never just one girl in his life," she remembers. Terry Thompson - IMDb Movies. 2011 Zanesville, Ohio animal escape - Wikipedia Read on to find out the details. Or, to spell it out: By the time the body was recovered, no part of his external genitalia remained. He had acted as an animal handler on Wild Kingdom in 2008, and provided a lion cub to a photoshoot with Heidi Klum. "I asked him what he was going to do when they turned the key on him," says Spires. The answer to that first question: It's surprisingly easy. That evening, the zoo assembled its capture-and-recovery team, armed with both tranquilizer-dart guns and regular weapons, and set out for Zanesville. The police took guidance from wildlife expert Jack Hanna, who insisted that killing the animals was a necessity in order to ensure the safety of the public. Before he retired four years ago, he used to teach seventh-grade science. The general impression seems to have been that it was a case of the good girl drawn to the wild boy. Three days before Thompson died, Chuck Spires, the guitar instructor, spoke with him for about twenty minutes. In the later years it became very overwhelming because Terry went a little off the deep end. View the profiles of people named Terry Thompson. Ohio animal Terry Thompson owner shot himself - police - BBC News He was upset with the army because he saw some horrible, ugly things." He was inspecting the body when word came over the radio that some colleagues had a lion cornered near the Thompson residence. Documentary Animation Short Over the course of 15 years Terry Thompson collected tigers, lions, bears, and other exotic animals. And [Terry] just really beat him up so bad. They need people to know that not everybody who has a tiger or three tucked away behind their house is a Terry Thompson. Ad Choices, 18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio. And I had to go and pick up the arm. "He threw up his arms," says Stilwell, "and said, 'She can just have it all.' He'd already hung up his uniform and finished his dinner when, at around 5:20 p.m., he got the call reporting that Terry Thompson had an animal out. (If you visit the Columbus Zoo, his face is everywhereeven on the Pepsi machines.) In 1977, Thompson went to an auction for exotic animals and bought his wife a baby tiger cub called Simba for her birthday. Week after week. When the 911 operator asked for her first name, Mrs. Kopchak answered "Dolores," the name on her birth certificate but one she never uses: "I've been called Dolly for eighty-four years. (2017). The final total was fifty-six. His wife-to-be, Marian Sharp, came from what was considered a good local family, and was an accomplished barrel racer and horsewoman. By the time he got there, the culling had begun. And that's when he then said, 'I'm gonna die.' On his way home from Vietnam, Thompson found himself in Columbus, Ohio. But I lean toward another theorythat in the end the animals were just what they've usually been in human history: incidental collateral damage. "He never really got over it," says Marshall. I said that he never left Vietnam. "My animals were raised in a magnificent setting, creeks going through the place and everything was gorgeous. The Crazy True Story of the Zanesville Zoo Escape | GQ I'm telling you, the lion is bad enough, and the lioness is bad enough, and the wolf is bad, and the bear, butdon't be around the tiger. After the wolf went down, Merry fired a few more times to make sure. "Jack needs to step back, take a breath, and look at Jack's history. Occasionally there were reports of more unusual creatures running free but nothing too bad had ever happened. "Back in the '70s," says Stilwell, "if you saw him with a toothbrush in his back pocket, you'd know he was going to go somewhere. Forty miles away, at the Columbus Zoo, an event was being held for the International Rhino Foundation. The solution was elegant, if unusual. Sheriff Matt Lutz was settling into an evening in front of the TV. After a while the four shooters ran low on ammo and called for more, and eventually they headed back toward where the body was. "See," says Spires, "that's the way he was." He was pretty distraught." Instead, he walked over to Walmart, bought a Schwinn cruiser bicycle and rode nearly fifty miles through the rainy night along the old Route 40 until he reached his home. He told Spires that he was broke, that all he had was sixty horses, but Spires reassured him that he'd made money before and he could make money again. I wonder how I might bring up the dark moment that the exotic-animal owners think of as his great never mentioned dirty secret, but I don't need to. There was now only one unaccounted fora macaque. I think that was a lot of it. In Taft's living room, a fence was built around his couch, and that is where he spent most of his time as he recuperated: safely inside a cage inside his own house, man looking out, tiger looking in. It kept him sane while he was there. They'd never had kids. Carried herself gracefully. And none of it was taken care of. "You couldn't buy nothing off of him. For the majority of Americans who know little about the world of exotic animals, the astonishing events in Zanesville begged some obvious questions. From there, he walked the fifty or so miles east to his parents' house. The white tiger was atop him. "I actually think that he expected this when he got home and kind of planned it," says Stilwell. They are effectively worthless, because there are usually more people trying to unload them than wanting to purchase them, which is also why across America there are a surprising number of sizable big-cat sanctuaries, several with over a hundred animals. But Thompson explained how upset he was that he used to be able to go around his own private zoo and call his animals by name but could no longer do so. A nice girl." She also helped with the feeding, and reminded him of some recent arrivals. The common assumption after the catastrophe at Zanesville was that when it came to Terry Thompson and his animals, he must have been a terrible man doing a terrible thing. Questlove Revives 'Black Woodstock' In 'Summer Of Soul' Documentary He was the type of person, you weren't real sure what he would do. I don't know how else to explain it." Terry Thompson, a Vietnam War veteran, was a lifelong collector of exotic animals. "He sold the monkey outside of the auction, because it wasn't legal to sell inside, for $3,500.". That's what happens when your death defines you. They see hypocrisy in much of what he now says, particularly given his past use of animals from private owners as props on TV shows. I will hear confident estimates of the number of big catstigers, lions, and so onin Ohio that vary from the low hundreds to the low thousands. Cages only lead to more cages, unless a far worse reality awaits them. Nobody yet knew where Thompson was, and so there was concern for his safety. Thompson did speak to other friends in those days. It didn't seem that big a dealthey all knew Thompson had animals and they'd been called out there again and again, mostly for loose horses. Two more were the macaques kept in the living room of the house in two small birdcages. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. Whatever the dynamic that drew them together, for the next four decades they presented themselves as a formidable partnership. "They told me," says one owner, Cindy Huntsman, "there were no laws on the books that would allow him to confiscate.". "Kind of uppity. "It kind of took us by surprise," says Kanavel. Month after month. Unfortunately, one of the animals, a leopard-jaguar mix, was euthanized after he was severely injured from a cage door that fell on its neck. Ten years ago, after a heart attack, Taft had a quintuple-bypass operation. Netflixs Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness offers an expansive portrayal of private ownership of exotic animals in America. A fully grown male African lion. Without a USDA license, he wasn't allowed to supply animals for photo shoots and commercial events, though he sometimes got around it by using fellow owner Cindy Huntsman's animals and accreditation. Never had to think twice about it. A Mermaid's Tale (2017) - IMDb "A little boy loses his arm to an African lion, 1972 or 1973, Tennessee," he remembers. Young Queen Charlotte's marriage to King George of England sparks an epic love story and transforms high society in this "Bridgerton" universe prequel. One time Marshall discovered that Thompson had some convertibles in the barn next to two kangaroos: "a boat-tailed roadster, a Duesenberg or something like that, covered with dust and crap. The animals were only about ten or twelve feet away. IE 11 is not supported. When it turned up toward a house, Merry got his rifle from the trunk and followed on foot. Terry Thompson is known for Red Phone 2 (2003), The Red Phone: Manhunt (2002)and Planespotting (2005).
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