A lawyer for Tonia Haddix, the former Festus-area chimpanzee caretaker who gained fame from the HBO documentary “Chimp Crazy,” filed an appeal on Jan. 23 in federal court, seeking to reduce a 46-month ...
Haddix pleaded guilty in March 2025 for crimes related to lying about having a chimp named Tonka. But her attorneys say the ...
Tiger King got so many of us during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and no documentaries since have quite matched the series' insanity—until now. Chimp Crazy follows the case of Tonia Haddix, ...
Tonia Haddix, a Missouri woman featured on HBO Max's "Chimp Crazy" for her controversial ownership and care of chimpanzees, was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison last year. Now, her ...