[14] At UCLA Ling served as a student analyst for the Center for Communication Policy. Producer Rick Kirkham recounts the rise and fall of "Joe Exotic TV", a sort of podcast that Kirkham was hoping to develop into a TV series until his footage is mysteriously destroyed. She lives in Watsonville, California,[14] in the hills above Monterey Bay, southeast of Santa Cruz, California. [33] The US government made diplomatic efforts to oppose this sentence before their release in August 2009. I don't know anything else. was called Society X with Laura Ling, which aired on October 3, 2013. Born in Oakland, California, King earned a degree in comparative religion from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1977 and a masters in theology from the Graduate Theological Union in 1984, where her thesis was on "Feminine Aspects of Yahweh". [28] Ling also created and reported on Rituals with Laura Ling, which was also posted to the Seeker Stories YouTube channel. Laura Ling and fellow journalist Euna Lee were detained in North Korea after they started filming refugees from North Korea who had crossed the river and entered China; many of these refugees were women, and once across the border, they were often sold as brides. The series then records the events leading up to Joe Exotic's conviction under federal murder-for-hire statutes when it comes to light that he paid a hitman to murder Baskin; his conviction also includes violations of the Lacey Act and Endangered Species Act, and results in a 22-year federal prison sentence. CLUES: A Journal of Detection 25.4 (Summer 2007): her mother Mary Mei-yan (née Wang) is an immigrant from Tainan, Taiwan. [3] This was followed by the 1996 Nero Award, for A Monstrous Regiment of Women,[4] the 2002 Macavity Award for Best Novel, for Folly,[5] the 2007 Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Mystery, for The Art of Detection,[6] and the 2015 Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel, for Dreaming Spies.
[39][40][41][42][24] In 2012, Ling was inducted into the San Juan Education Foundation Hall of Fame. Among King's books are the Mary Russell series of historical mysteries, featuring Sherlock Holmes as her mentor and later partner, and a series featuring Kate Martinelli, a fictional lesbian police officer in San Francisco, California. A special hosted by Joel McHale was released on April 12, 2020, with McHale interviewing several of the stars about Exotic and the series itself.
[6], Variety magazine's Caroline Framke called the series "messy yet compelling" and that for "those who love Netflix's particular flavor of true crime and docuseries, [...] Tiger King will undoubtedly scratch a particular itch. [15], Ling's career as a journalist began when she became a correspondent for KCET's SoCal Connected and producer at Channel One News. [30] In June 2009, they were sentenced to 12 years in a labor prison for illegal entry into North Korea, and unspecified hostile acts. [11], At an April press conference regarding the coronavirus, U.S. President Donald Trump was questioned about the possibility of pardoning the series' key subject, Joe Exotic. [43], While she was the vice president of Vanguard, the show won several awards including a Peabody Award, two Emmy nominations, a Prism Award, and an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award. [31] Saffery clarified to Esquire, .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, On a daily basis, I am called 17 different things. She later received an honorary doctorate from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.[1]. [37] Ling was pardoned along with Lee, and they returned to the United States following an unannounced visit to North Korea by former US President Bill Clinton on August 4, 2009.
Laura Checkley is an English actress known for playing the regular character Louise throughout three series of Detectorists on BBC Four, Monica in Action Team on ITV2, and Terri King, wife of the titular character played by Tom Davis, in the BBC One sitcom King Gary. "[28] Media outlets criticized the series for misgendering and deadnaming Saffery. [25], Hawaii-born Saffery, a veteran who served in both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, worked as a manager for Joe Exotic's Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park for almost ten years. Ling identifies as Chinese American. The two exchange threatening videos, legal allegations, protests, and targeted harassment campaigns, in which PETA and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service become involved. Many in the media called it a show trial. She was the host and reporter on E!Investigates, a documentary series on the E!Network. Other characters from the exotic animal community are introduced, including Bhagavan Antle, an animal breeder accused of leading a personality cult; Mario Tabraue, a former drug lord who became a federal informant and is now involved in animal trafficking; Jeff Lowe, a Las Vegas playboy to whom Joe Exotic turns over his zoo for legal reasons; and James Garretson, who became a confidential informant for the federal government and a key figure in making the case against Joe Exotic.