Kids drove 50 miles or more to see the zoo????
Well, there’s a red flag and what the devil were the parents doing at this point?
The two brothers ran off when the friend trying to help was attacked and killed. And there is the matter of the shoe print on the wrong side of the fence which police are comparing to the shoes wore by the tiger victims.
The brothers must be hiding something, because they aren't saying much. If a friend of mine had been killed while trying to save me from an escaped tiger, I'd be telling every detail I knew to the police and his family to help.
Of course, though, I never tease zoo animals. It's not hard to suspect that the tiger had been enraged by actions of the young men (pine cone throwing, etc.), and the tiger climbed up that 12.5 ft. wall to get them.
The zoo's hung though, because that wall was supposed to be about 4 ft. higher, even though the zoo had passed the last AZA expection 3 years ago, so the national organzation is being accused of not enforcing it's own standards.
I hope you are right, but I’m not so sure that the truth will come out. From all I see so far, the cover-up is already in place.