Where The Crawdads Sing has released in cinemas.
The highly anticipated film has been produced by Reese Witherspoon and stars Normal People actress Daisy Edgar-Jones.
The movie is an adaption of the best selling book by author Delia Owens.
Where The Crawdads Sing first hit the shelves in 2018 and over the past four years more than 12 million copies have sold worldwide.
The book tells the story of Kya Clark, a girl who lives in the marshland of North Carolina and is suspected of the murder of a local boy.
Author Delia Owens became a global sensation after the release of the fictional book, but she's actually wanted for questioning in a decades-old murder herself.
As the murder-mystery film hits cinemas, here's everything you need to know about the real life murder-mystery that officials want to question Owens about.
Who is Delia Owens?
Delia Owens is a 73-year-old author from Georgia in the United States.
Where The Crawdads Sing was actually Delia's debut novel.
Prior to her novelist career, Delia was also a zoologist and conservationist.
She studied Zoology at the University of Georgia and this is where she met her ex-husband Mark Owens.
In the 1970s Delia and Mark relocated to the remote Kalahari Desert of Botswana to establish a research station.
For two decades the couple worked as conservationists in Africa.
While in Kalahari they studied lions and hyenas, and the couple co-wrote the award-winning book Cry Of The Kalahari.
The Owens then moved to the North Luangwa Valley of Zambia and studied elephants.
Now, Delia lives in North Carolina.
What murder is Delia Owens wanted for questioning for?
Delia, her ex-husband Mark and his son Christopher are all wanted for questioning in relation to the murder of an alleged poacher in 1995.
The suspected poacher was killed in Zambia and the murder was even caught on camera as part of a news report about Mark and Delia Owens.
The killing didn't come to light until 1996 when the ABC news programme Turning Point aired a report titled Deadly Game: The Mark and Delia Owens Story.
During the report, the cameras captured the shooting of an alleged poacher. He was executed while lying injured on the ground after having already been shot.
The murder was broadcast on TVs across the US as anchor Meredith Vieira narrated: “On this mission, we would witness the ultimate price paid by a suspected poacher.”
In the clip, the identity of the victim wasn't revealed, and neither was the identity of the person who delivered the fatal shot.
During the time of the murder the Owens family were actively involved in anti-poaching efforts in Zambia.
Mark Owens ran anti-poaching patrols and had a team of scouts to help with the efforts; his son Christopher trained them in hand-to-hand combat.
After the ABC report aired, Zambian authorities launched an investigation into the murder.
But Delia, Mark and Christopher left the country and returned to the United States.
In 2010, American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg wrote a piece for the New Yorker titled: “The Hunted: Did American conservationists in Africa go too far?”, which was the first piece to detail the murder incident.
Goldberg has continued to investigate the case and he recently reported in the Atlantic that the Owens family were still wanted for questioning by Zambian authorities.
Lillian Shawa-Siyuni, Zambia's director of public prosecutions, told him: "There is no statute of limitations on murder in Zambia.
"They are all wanted for questioning in this case, including Delia Owens."
When Goldberg interviewed Delia 12 years ago, she denied that she or Mark had any involvement in the murder, saying: "We don’t know anything about it.
“The only thing Mark ever did was throw firecrackers out of his plane, but just to scare poachers, not to hurt anyone.”
On the Today Show, Goldberg revealed that authorities didn't think Delia committed the murder, but felt she may be a key witness.
He said: "Zambian authorities don’t believe Delia was directly involved in the murder or the disposal of the body. What they believe is that she’s the most important witness."
