News about Howard Baskin

The 55-year-old told NBC's News Channel 8 he is still hoping for a new trial, on a phone from a Florida Panhandle prison. The zookeeper said he has prostate cancer and possibly cancer of the lung as well, and is also pining for a presidential pardon. His alleged mark, anti big cat owner activist Carole Baskin , was not interviewed, but her third and current husband, Howard Baskin, was. Exotic has accused Baskin of killing her second husband, Don Lewis, and feeding him to her own tigers - accusations he maintained Tuesday in his filmed phone call.