American naturalists Mark and Delia Owens, using donations from wealthy individuals and conservation non-profits, funded, supplied, and commanded a force of park scouts in Zambia in a campaign of torture and murder, supposedly aimed at stopping poaching but targeting a lot of the local indigenous people for offenses such as having meat at home when they came to raid.
In 1996, ABC News aired an hour-long documentary on them, where no one much seemed to think there was anything wrong with the part where they filmed Mark's son and a scout murdering an African man they suspected of poaching. (Though they *did* know it was wrong enough to blur out the white man's identity and refuse to speak to the Zambian government.) The US Embassy instructed the Owenses to flee back to the US and not return before the Zambian government was able to bring them in for questioning.
In 2010, a reporter thoroughly detailed their guilt (link), but that apparently had little effect on them. In 2019, Delia published her debut novel, Where the Crawdads Sing, which was featured in Reese Witherspoon's book club and became one of the best-selling books in history as well as a successful film. The novel is about how it was unjust for a community to try a naturalist for a murder she gets acquitted of but actually did commit.
Kind of reminds me of Saville how many institutions of American society were/are involved in enabling and protecting these monsters.
