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Nearly three decades ago, Owens and her family may have been entangled in a killing that eerily echoes throughout her best-selling novel. Here’s everything you need to know about the controversy.

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The movie adaptation of the best-selling novel "Where the Crawdads Sing" hits theaters Friday — but the author’s connection to a murder in Zambia that’s nearly three decades old shared the spotlight with opening day.

Zambian authorities want to question Delia Owens, author of best-selling novel-turned-movie “Where the Crawdads Sing” about a deadly shooting that became a nationally televised snuff film.

Where the Crawdads Sing author Delia Owens has been accused of murdering suspected poachers in Zambia. Here's what we know.

TOM LEONARD: Early morning in a remote national park in Zambia, a khaki-uniformed game scout, rifle at the ready, is moving stealthily through the bush.

The author of the best-selling novel Where The Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens, is wanted for questioning as a witness with a 1996 murder.

Delia Owens novel is a bestseller and now a film — but does it have a chilling deeper meaning?

Author Delia Owens is wanted for questioning in relation to the fatal shooting of a suspected poacher in the mid 1990s.

Is "Where the Crawdads Sing" based on a true story? The answer to that is the subject of heated debate, and there are a lot of questions that have still gone unanswered. Go inside the Delia Owens controversy behind the book and film.