A proprietor’s violent death retroactively laundered his canned-lion fraud into authenticity

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Within this family tragedy, something else emerged: through his unwitting martyrdom Kleinhans had left a legacy of killer lions. The ferocious manner of his death had cleansed his animals—and the enterprise his sons inherited—of any domestic taint. Who now would dare claim he was defrauding foreign hunters with toothless circus retirees masquerading as Wild Africa? — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 511