Maldonado-Passage is serving a 22-year prison sentence after being convicted on two counts of murder-for-hire last year for paying $3,000 to a hit man to kill Baskin.The transfer of the property to Baskin's control comes after Big Cat Rescue sued Maldonado-Passage's mother, Shirley Schreibvogel, in 2016, claiming that her son fraudulently transferred control of the zoo to her in 2011 to keep it away from creditors, including Big Cat Rescue, according to Courthouse News Service.
The G.W. Exotic Animal Memorial Park was under the control of Jeff Lowe, who was also featured in "Tiger King." The judge ordered him to vacate the premises within 120 days and remove all zoo animals on the property, according to Courthouse News Service.Make Your Own DIY Refillable Water Bowl. Are you filling up your dog water bowl multiple times a day? Create your own DIY refillable water bottle bowl.
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Eric Goode, one of the filmmakers behind "Tiger King," told Entertainment Weekly in March that the Oklahoma zoo was "running on fumes.""No one is going now and there’s no source of income, and that's been going on for a long time,'' he said. "It's not something that has just happened because of what's happening in the world today.
"But I think that it's very sad what’s happening to these animals. And it's anyone's guess as to what's going to happen to them. Some will be placed but I would suspect a lot of them will die from starvation, and probably be put down."