The deaths of both lions have sparked global outrage and forced both Palmer and Seski to go into hiding as death threats mount and their professional lives are put on hold.
Now-former patient Morgan Strober tells People in an exclusive interview that she had no idea Palmer’s fancy vacations to Africa entailed killing the animals there.
Palmer paid $55,000 for the hunt earlier this month in which he shot Cecil with a powerful bow and arrow outside Hwange national park in the west of Zimbabwe.
Dan Politt, 16, was with his parents at the home Wednesday afternoon bleaching the bright blotches left by the pigs feet that were staining Palmer’s driveway.
Johnny Rodrigues, a senior park official and head of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, told CNN that a hunter illegally gunned down Jericho in Hwange National Park.
Walter James Palmer, who has kept a low profile in the face of protests at his clinic, is being sought for questioning by Zimbabwe authorities but according to the U.S. embassy in the capital Harare, there is no information about any extradition request. Stapelkamp had first...
Off camera, Palmer’s next door neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, said she didn’t really know Walter Palmer but that his wife was a “great person'”.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwean authorities are expected to seek the extradition of Walter Palmer, the Minnesota man thought to be responsible for killing Cecil the lion in early July.
The Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Britain’s prestigious Oxford University, which had tracked Cecil since 2008, said more than £550,000 (S$1.2 million) had been received in donations over the past week.
Mr Rodrigues said the Task Force would raise the money for Cecil’s head to be mounted in a glass case and would ask the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority about the plan “once the dust had settled”.