Two Burglars Sodomized For Five Days Straight After Breakg Into The Hoe Of Notor Gay Rapist | Thugify

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• TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST
• SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO 2 NOTORIOUS BURGLARS WHEN THEY BROKE INTO AN EQUALLY NOTORIOUS GAY-RAPIST HOME AS HE RAPED THEM NON-STOP FOR 5 DAYS, SEE PICS
• 2 BURGLARS EXPERIENCE 5 DAYS OF HELL AFTER BREAKG TO HOME OF NOTOR GAY PREDATOR
• TWO BURGLARS BREAK TO HOME OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST
• INFAMO GAY-BASHER REVEREND JSE LEE PETERSON EXPOSED AS HOMOSEXUAL SUPER PREDATOR
• THE ALT-RIGHT'S ONGOG OBSSN WH DEMONIZG GAY PEOPLE AS PREDATORS
• JOE EXOTIC BUILT A WILD ANIMAL KGDOM. HE WAS THE MOST DANGERO PREDATOR OF THEM ALL.WELCOME TO THE JUNGLEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST / PHOTOS FACEBOOK/GETTYA CUNNG AND CUDDLY PERSONA CREATED AN EMPIRE. A MURR PLOT BROUGHT CRASHG DOWN.SEAN WILLIAMSUPDATED JUN. 22, 2019 10:25AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 22, 2019 8:01AM EDT JOE EXOTIC SAID KILL HER AND DO SOON.THE “GAY, GUN-TOTG WBOY WH A MULLET,” AS HE LIKED TO LL HIMSELF, STOOD ON THE ONT PORCH OF HIS OKLAHOMA ZOO AROUND MIDNIGHT, SPEAKG TO THE MAN HE’D CID WOULD KILL HIS ARCH-RIVAL. HE PROPOSED $5,000 UPONT AND A FEW THOAND MORE AFTER THE ED, TO BE FANCED BY SELLG OFF A RARE LN-TIGER HYBRID—NOT A DIFFICULT TASK FOR NORTH AMERI’S MOST NOTOR BIG-T BREER.IT WAS OCTOBER 2017 AND JOE WAS SPERATE. THE ANIMAL KGDOM HE’D CREATED OVER TWO S, HOME TO ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGT LLECTNS OF BIG TS, NOW BELONGED TO A BELLIGERENT FORMER BS PARTNER. HIS WHE HOE N END IC FAILURE. CRICS AND ANIMAL WELFARE GROUPS CLAIMED JOE RAN A SHABBY “ROADSI ZOO” OF DAILY ABE, CELTY, AND ILLEGAL TRAFFICKG.CAROLE BASK, A BIG T SANCTUARY-OWNER OM TAMPA, FLORIDA, HAD WON A LN-DOLLAR LAWSU AGAST HIM. SHE HUNTED HIS WEALTH EVER SCE, AND HOUND HIM ONLE. WH HER AD, JOE MIGHT FOC ON REBUILDG THE ZOO, AND HIS LIFE. THE RIBALD MAN ON HIS PORCH SEEMED AS GOOD A BET AS ANY TO BURY HER.ALLEN GLOVER WORKED AT THE ZOO AFTER SPENDG YEARS BEHD BARS FOR A STRG OF ATTACKS BEGNG AT 17. HE REMBLED STEVE AT, THE PROFSNAL WRTLER, AND JOE ASSUMED THE TEARDROP TATTOO BENEATH GLOVER’S EYE MEANT HE’D KILLED BEFORE. JOE TOLD HIM THAT CAROLE LIKED TO WALK TO WORK ALONG A LEAFY PATH AND OFFERED GLOVER HUNTG MOUFLAGE. GLOVER SUGGTED CUTTG HER HEAD OFF WH A KNIFE. JOE LIKED THE IA.THE H WAS ON, BUT CAROLE IS STILL ALIVE.NOW JOE IS BEHD BARS, AWAG SENTENCG FOR A LANY OF CRIM THAT SHATTERED HIS CUDDLY PUBLIC IMAGE. COURTY FACEBOOK “A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THE TTH,” SAID JOHN FLAY, WHO HAD AN 11-YEAR RELATNSHIP WH JOE. “AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T RE TO KNOW THE TTH… THEY WANT THE NICE STORY ABOUT THE GUY WH THE TIGERS.”JOE NTROLLED AND ABED THE ZOO’S STAFF, ACCED THEM OF BEG TRAORS AND THREATENED TO THROW THEM BACK ON THE STREETS. HE HOOKED SOME ON DGS. ALL OF THEM WNSED ANIMAL ABE ON AN ASTONISHG SLE. MANY FELT THEY ULD NEVER LEAVE. SOME WHO DID SAID THEY’D PED A CULT. ADVERTISEMENT MEDIA LAPPED UP JOE’S LI—A DNK DRIVER KILLED HIS BROTHER, HE RCUED A METH ADDICT WHO BEME HIS HBAND—KEEN TO BUY TO HIS QUIRKY, ANIMAL-LOVG CHARACTER.THE TTH IS FAR, FAR DARKER. JOSEPH SCHREIBVOGEL WAS BORN GARN CY, KANSAS, 1963 TO FRANCIS AND SHIRLEY, VOUT GERMAN FARMERS WHO HLED THEIR KIDS TO CATHOLIC CHURCH EACH SUNDAY. FRANCIS WAS A SPDLY KOREAN WAR VET WHO SMOKED HEAVILY AND SPOKE LTLE OF WAR. SHIRLEY, SHORT AND ROUND-FACED, HAD A SOFTER SI. SHE DOTED ON HER YOUNGT SON. HE WON SCHOOL-FAIR AWARDS HORS, POULTRY, RABBS AND CROPS. BUT HE OFTEN SHIRKED THE FARM TASKS FOISTED ON HIS SIBLGS TAMARA, PAMELA, YARRI, AND GAROLD WAYNE, KNOWN BY MOST AS “G.W.”JOE PED TO FANTASY WORLDS. HE WANRED ABOUT SHOOTG ANIMALS WH BB GUNS, THEN HE JECTED THEM WH WATER-FILLED SYRG TO “HEAL” THEM. HE TURNED PAMELA’S PLAYHOE TO A “VET CENTER.” WHEN THE FAY MOVED TO TEXAS, HE WORKED AT A LOL NURSG HOME. HE WORE FULL SCBS, WH A FANNY PACK AND STETHOSPE. ON BREAKS HE TOLD NVENIENCE-STORE CLERKS HE’D EMERGED OM SUCCSFUL SURGERY. DURG A STT WYOMG, JOE HCHED A FLASHG LIGHT TO HIS OLD BUICK AND PRETEND TO BE A P. JOE SPENT THREE YEARS BEGNG 1983 AS A P FOR REAL, PATROLLG NEARBY EASTVALE, A LANGUID, QUARTER-E-LONG DALLAS SUBURB. THAT YEAR YARRI OUTED JOE AS GAY TO HIS FATHER, WHO MA JOE SHAKE HIS HAND, AND PROMISE NOT TO ATTEND HIS FUNERAL. SOON AFTER, A VASTATED JOE DROVE HIS SQUAD R OFF A BRIDGE AN APPARENT SUICI ATTEMPT. HE SPENT 56 DAYS TRACTN FLORIDA BEFORE WORKG AT A WT PALM BEACH STORE NAMED PET CIRC. ADVERTISEMENT BY JOE’S RETURN TO TEXAS, 1986, HE HAD ADOPTED HIS LATT PERSONA: A WBOY, PLETE WH TEN-GALLON HAT AND SISTRAPPED SIX-SHOOTER. HE GREW HIS HAIR TO A MULLET, DYED BLOND, AND BEGAN VERG HIS WIRY AME TATTOOS. HE WORKED SECURY AT THE ROUND-UP SALOON, A POPULAR GAY BAR DOWNTOWN DALLAS. SOMETIM HE PERFORMED DRAG AS DOLLY PARTON. HE WORE SPURS ON HIS BOOTS, EVEN WHEN SHOPPG FOR GROCERI. ONE DAY, WHEN VISG FAY, HE WORE THEM ON THE WRONG SHO.THAT YEAR JOE MET BRIAN RHYNE, A SMOLOGY STUNT AT UT DALLAS, AND FELL EPLY LOVE. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS S AWAY, BUT JOE AND BRIAN SOON WED ANYWAY, AN UNOFFICIAL CEREMONY. IN 1989 THEY BOUGHT A PET STORE LLED PET SAFARI, ARLGTON, WH G.W., WH WHOM JOE SHARED A LOVE OF ANIMALS. “HE’S A GODDAMN, WHAT DO YOU LL , A CHARL MANSON.”— YARRI, JOE EXOTIC’S BROTHER BRIAN WAS MORE RERVED THAN JOE, AND KEPT HIS HBAND’S HOT-HEADNS CHECK. GAROLD DUMPSTER-DOVE FOR PET SAFARI’S MATERIALS AND WELD G. BRIAN KEPT THE BOOKS, AND JOE WAS THE STORE’S ENIGMATIC, GUN-TOTG FACE. HE WAS A SMOOTH TALKER, AND A GREAT SALMAN. JOE TOOK A $50,000 LOAN OM GAROLD AND BOUGHT A NEW SE, LLED SUPER PET, AND ADD A LAWN, GARN CENTER, 30,000-SQUARE-FOOT DOG OBEDIENCE TRAG AREA, WILDLIFE RCUE CENTER, AND A PETTG ZOO. IT WAS THE LARGT SUCH VENUE THE STATE, JOE TOLD PEOPLE. SUPER PET THRIVED SPE PLATS ABOUT DIRTY G. IT WAS A SIGN OF THGS TO E. GAROLD MARRIED, HAD TWO KIDS, AND ACHED SOCCER NEARBY ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA. BRIAN AND JOE BUILT A HOME FORT WORTH AND TRAVELED. “WE WORKED TOGETHER, LIVED TOGETHER: THE WHOLE NE YARDS,” JOE TOLD ME. AROUND 1995 JOE AND BRIAN TRAVELED TO PALM SPRGS, CALIFORNIA. THE PAIR THUMPED ALONG THE COACHELLA VALLEY DUN A JEEP. SOON AFTER RETURNG, BRIAN GOT ILL. DOCTORS DIAGNOSED HIM WH A LIFE-THREATENG, HIV-ACCELERATED FUNGAL FECTN.THEN, ON OCT. 7 1997, GAROLD WAS DRIVG RA NEAR DALLAS WH TAMARA, WHEN A SEMI TCK HYDROPLANED AND CSHED HIM HIS CHASSIS. A WEEK AFTER HE WAS AIRLIFTED TO A HOSPAL, THE FAY TOOK GAROLD OFF LIFE SUPPORT (JOE CLAIMS HE PULLED THE SWCH; OTHERS NY ). ADVERTISEMENT THE FAY WON A $140,000 SETTLEMENT OM THE TCKG PANY WHOSE DRIVER ED THE WRECK—NOBODY WAS DNK BEHD THE WHEEL, AS JOE REPEATEDLY CLAIMS. THEY AGREED THAT SOME OF THE MONEY OM THE PAYOUT WOULD GO TOWARD A NEW SOCCER FIELD NEAR G.W.’S HOME. ACRDG TO THE FAY, JOE THEN MANIPULATED HIS PARENTS WH TAL OF GAROLD’S LOVE FOR ANIMALS. HE PERSUAD FRANCIS AND SHIRLEY TO DCH THEIR PLANS FOR THE SOCCER FIELD, AND SPEND THE SETTLEMENT STEAD ON LAND FOR AN ANIMAL PARK THEIR AD SON’S NAME. “HE’S A GODDAMN, WHAT DO YOU LL , A CHARL MANSON,” YARRI TOLD ME. “THEY WERE STILL GRIEVG, STILL GRABBG AT ANYTHG. HE’S JT GOT A WAY OF BRAWASHG THEM.”FRANCIS, SHIRLEY, AND JOE SETTLED ON AN 11-ACRE PLOT OUTSI WYNNEWOOD (PRONOUNCED “WNIE-WOOD”), A ONE-STOPLIGHT TOWN OF 2,000 PEOPLE OFF I-35, AROUND AN HOUR SOUTH OF OKLAHOMA CY. JOE OPENED THE G.W. EXOTIC ANIMAL MEMORIAL PARK, NAMED AFTER HIS LATE BROTHER, 1999. THE MEANRG WASHA RIVER SEPARATED OM THE TOWN. JOE TRIED MOVG GAROLD’S GRAVE THERE, BUT HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN REFED. THEY HAVE BARELY SPOKEN TO THE SCHREIBVOGELS SCE.JOE OPENED WH NE G, A ER, AND A MOUNTA LN. THE PARK BEGAN TO FILL ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. OWNERS DROPPED LNS, TIGERS, MONKEYS, BIRDS, AND OTHER RARE CREATUR AT S GAT. BRIAN LOOKED AFTER THE FANC, AS HE HAD DONE TEXAS. IT WAS THE ANIMAL KGDOM JOE HAD SOUGHT ARLGTON. HE TOLD VISORS GAROLD DREAMT OF SEEG EXOTIC ANIMALS AI–SOMETHG HIS SIBLGS NY.“JOE ED [GAROLD] AND HIS MEMORY TO JT GET WHAT HE WANTED,” PAMELA TOLD ME. ADVERTISEMENT THEN ME THE EM. KUO WEI LEE, A PLANO REAL-TATE VELOPER, BOUGHT DOZENS OF THE BIRDS 1995 WHEN MARKETERS PROMISED RICH OM THEIR LEAN MEAT AND OIL—A SORT OF RED-MEAT ALTERNATIVE à LA PORK. BY 1999 THE CRAZE WANED, AND LEE THNED HIS FLOCK’S FEED TO SAVE MONEY. THAT FEBARY, PS RAID HIS RANCH RED OAK, SOUTH OF DALLAS, AND DISVERED 69 AD EM. AN ADDNAL 100-200 BIRDS WERE FEEDG ON THE REMAS. OFFICERS LLED JOE AND AN ASSOCIATE TO WRANGLE THE SURVIVG EM. JOE PLANNED TO KEEP SOME AT WYNNEWOOD.THE TWO-DAY OPERATN WAS BEDLAM. BIRDS TRAMPLED OTHER BIRDS TO ATH. HAVG SAVED OVER A HUNDRED, JOE AND HIS ASSOCIATE, TIRED, APPROACHED SEVERAL MORE SLOWLY, THEN FIRED AT THEM WH SHOTGUNS. THEY KILLED SIX. SOME DROPPED STANTLY. OTHERS, ACRDG TO LOL REPORTS, “FLOPPED AND JUMPED, REQUIRG SEVERAL SHOTS.” JOE CLAIMED HE’D BEGUN KILLG TO PREVENT EM DYG OF STRS. “WE’RE HURT, AND WE’RE TIRED, AND NOW WE’RE RPONSIBLE,” HE SAID.“YOU N’T DO SOMETHG LIKE THAT AND EXPLA AWAY,” SAID RED OAK POLICE CHIEF DOUG MCHAM. “NOBODY IS THAT SILVER-TONGUED.”MCHAM WAS WRONG. A GRAND JURY NVENED BUT REFED TO DICT JOE AND HIS ASSOCIATE, AND THE MEN WALKED EE. JOE SUED THE SPCA OF TEXAS, AN ANIMAL WELFARE GROUP, FOR RELEASG A VIO OF THE CINT THAT HE CLAIMED HURT SAL AT SUPER PET. ADVERTISEMENT FRH OM JOE’S EMU-KILLG EXPLOS, THE G.W. PARK EXPAND RAPIDLY. JOE SOLD SUPER PET, AND PLOWED S PROCEEDS TO WYNNEWOOD. HE WAS AN EXPERT SPEAKER, AND THRILLED CROWDS DURG UN-PC, CURSE-LAN TOURS OF THE PARK. “THIS A’T SEAWORLD,” HE LIKED TO SAY, WH A CHEEKY GR. HIS FATHER FRANCIS HELPED DIG PONDS AND FENC, AND HIS MOTHER SHIRLEY DID THE SHOPPG. BRIAN BALANCED THE BOOKS. HE AND JOE DIDN’T KISS ONT OF FRANCIS AND SHIRLEY. INSTEAD THEY’D GENTLY BSH PAST EACH OTHER’S ARMS. JOE’S RELATNSHIP WH WYNNEWOOD BEGAN WELL, TOO. HE SAT ON THE LOL CHAMBER OF MERCE AND VOLUNTEERED AS AN EMT. SOMETIM HE SNUCK TIGER CUBS TO THE LOL HOSPAL TO ENTERTA PATIENTS. BY 2001, JOE HAD 89 BIG TS AND 1,100 OTHER EXOTICS, AND THE PARK DREW HEALTHY CROWDS. BUT BRIAN’S HEALTH WORSENED. HIS WEIGHT PLUMMETED. A HOSPICE NURSE ME BY EACH DAY, AND JOE BEME BRIAN’S PRIMARY RER. BY MID-DECEMBER, BRIAN WAS SKELETAL, AND ULDN’T SPEAK. HE DIED FOUR DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS.JOE HELD A FUNERAL AT THE ZOO AND NAMED S ALLIGATOR NURSERY AS BRIAN’S MEMORIAL. HE WAS RELIEVED THE PA WAS OVER. BUT HAVG LOST GAROLD FOUR YEARS EARLIER, HE TOLD ME, “YOU TEND TO WONR WHAT THE HELL YOU DID WRONG.” HE THOUGHT THE WORLD HAD TURNED AGAST HIM. “WHEN BRIAN DIED, THAT’S WHEN [JOE’S] WHOLE MEANOR OF EVERYTHG CHANGED,” CHEALSI PUTNAM, JOE’S NIECE, TOLD ME. “SOMETHG JT ME OVER HIM AND HE WAS NEVER THE SAME AGA… AS FAR AS THE WAY HE EVEN DID BS.”WH A YEAR, JOE HOOKED UP WH A HARD-DRKG, DG-G 24-YEAR-OLD EVENTS PRODUCER NAMED JEFEY CHARL “J.C.” HARTPENCE. JOE ED J.C.’S EQUIPMENT TO TAKE HIS ANIMAL SHOW ON THE ROAD. INSPIRED BY DAVID COPPERFIELD, HE DONNED SEQUED WBOY SHIRTS AND TOURED AS AN “ILLNIST” AT MALLS AND FAIRS ACROSS THE UNTRY. KIDS ULD PET TIGER CUBS FOR A FEE. THEY “MONKEY PROMISED”—ON AN ACTUAL MONKEY’S PKY FGER—THAT THEY’D STEER CLEAR OF ALHOL AND DGS, A LSON TO WHICH JOE FOLD HIS FAKE STORY ABOUT GAROLD’S DNK DRIVER. HE CLAIMED ABSTENCE HIMSELF, AND TOYED WH SEVERAL STAGE NAM BEFORE SETTLG ON “JOE EXOTIC,” TRAVELG THE MIDWT A TCK LOAD WH BABY ANIMALS. PUBLIC OFFICIALS ACCED HIM OF SAFETY VLATNS—JOE OFTEN LEFT KIDS G WH ANIMALS—BUT A BATN OF SHARP W AND LIGNS SHUT THEM UP. ADVERTISEMENT “HE WOULD BREED ANYTHG HE ULD GET HIS HANDS ON.”— JAM GARRETSON, EARLY IEND OF JOE EXOTIC JOE WAS ALSO GETTG RICH, AND BEG A LOL CELEBRY. IN AUGT 2001 HE RCUED THREE EMACIATED BEARS SEIZED OM A RSIAN CIRC TRAER. THE OKLAHOMAN PROMPTED REARS TO DONATE $17,400 TOWARD THE BEARS’ UPKEEP. IT ENURAGED JOE TO REACH OUT FOR MORE DONATNS, AND ASK VISORS TO SPONSOR ANIMALS. SOON THE PARK WAS FTOONED WH MEMORIAL PLAQU AND POSTERS BEGGG FOR SH. BEG A TIGER KG RAKED SER ROYALTI. SOME QUTNED WHERE THE MONEY WENT.“IT WAS LIKE A N AL OM THE START,” YARRI TOLD ME. “I THK HE STARTED RIGHT THEN, LIKE, ‘DU, THIS IS EASY. I N EAT RED LOBSTER EVERY DAMN DAY, TWICE A DAY, AND SOMEBODY ELSE IS GONNA PAY FOR .’”JOE BOOSTED PROFS BY BREEDG AND TRADG EXOTICS. HE ALLOWED CTOMERS TO PET BIG-T AND BEAR CUBS FOR A FEE. “EVERYONE KNEW HIM AS THE PERSON TO BUY AND SELL ANIMALS,” JAM GARRETSON, AN EARLY IEND OF JOE’S, TOLD ME. “HE WOULD BREED ANYTHG HE ULD GET HIS HANDS ON.”JOE BEME APT AT BREEDG HYBRID BIG TS AT WYNNEWOOD, SUCH AS LIGERS (THE OFFSPRG OF A MALE LN AND FEMALE TIGER), LILIGERS (SEND-GENERATN MALE LN AND LIGRS OFFSPRG) OR TILIGERS (SEND-GEN MALE TIGER, LIGRS FEMALE)–ANIMALS THAT DO NOT EXIST THE WILD. (THERE ARE MORE TIGERS AMERIN BACKYARDS THAN THE WILD ANYWHERE ON EARTH, AND WILDLIFE TRAFFICKG IS A $19 BILLN DTRY.) HYBRIDS ULD FETCH MANY TIM MORE AT SALE THAN A REGULAR T. ACRDG TO FORMER CREW MEMBERS, JOE MA BETWEEN $1,500 AND $10,000 FOR HYBRID CUBS, WHICH MANY EXPERTS SAY ARE ELS TO THE GEIC DIVERSY OF BIG TS WORLDWI (MANY HAVE BRED BIRTH FECTS). JOE VIEWED HIMSELF AS A CREATOR OF CREATUR; A MIGOD. HE EVEN TOLD IENDS HE WANTED TO RETRODUCE THE SABER-TOOTHED TIGER TO AMERI, AN ANIMAL UNRELATED TO MORN TS, WHICH DIED OUT AROUND 10,000 YEARS AGO.“HE’S THE SPOKE AT THE CENTER OF THE WHEEL,” BRTANY PEET, A UNSEL AT PETA, TOLD ME. “THERE ARE OTHERS WHO BREED, BUT HE’S THE PRIMARY ONE.” ADVERTISEMENT JOE RELIED ON A PORO REGULATORY SYSTEM THAT STILL DO LTLE TO PROTECT EXOTIC ANIMALS THE UNED STAT. LAWS ARE LAX AND THORI ARE STRETCHED GOSSAMER TH. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EMPLOYS AROUND 110 RELEVANT SPECTORS FOR 10,000 LOTNS UNTRYWI.THERE ARE AROUND 2,400 ZOOS THE U.S., THE VAST MAJORY OF WHICH ARE NSIRED “ROADSI ZOOS” LIKE JOE’S. THE TERM IS NTTED, BUT THEY’RE GENERALLY PRIVATE AND UNREGULATED, WH LTLE OR NO REARCH FUNCTN. THEIR NDNS ARE POOR EVEN TO UNTRAED EY.AMONG THE MANY ROADSI ZOOS I VISED REPORTG THIS STORY, JOE’S OLD PARK WAS THE WORST. WHEN I WENT, HAD RAED, AND TIGERS SLOSHED BACK AND FORTH ANKLE-EP SLURRY. A MAN-MA LAKE WAS NEON GREEN AND STAGNANT. A BROWN BEAR SAT S OWN FEC WHILE A MAN FED POTATO CHIPS. TENPS WERE STTERED ABOUT THE G AND ONE MONKEY ENCLOSURE FEATURED A CHILD’S KCHEN PLAY SET.THE G.W. PARK IS ONE OF AROUND 80 U.S. FACILI THAT ALLOW CUB-PETTG. ACRDG TO USDA REGULATNS, CUBS MAY ONLY BE HANDLED FOR A MONTH-LONG PERD BETWEEN EIGHT AND 12 WEEKS OLD. AT MANY PARKS, CUBS ARE GED, SOLD, OR SHOT WHEN THEY “TIME OUT.” JOE FOUND MOST OF HIS STAFF THROUGH CRAIGSLIST. IN 2003, A STOCKY 19-YEAR-OLD NAMED JOHN FLAY ANSWERED AN AD. HE’D GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL DAVIS, NEAR WYNNEWOOD, AND WANTED TO BE A RPENTER. BUT JOBS WERE SRCE, AND HE DIDN’T HATE WHEN, ONE DAY AFTER APPLYG, JOE HIRED HIM. AT FIRST JOHN MUCKED OUT G AND RRIED OUT OTHER MENIAL TASKS WH HIS MISF LLEAGU. BUT THE TIGERS ENCHANTED HIM. ADVERTISEMENT JOHN ALSO THOUGHT HIS NEW BOSS WAS OL. JOE LOOKED OFF-THE-WALL, LIKE A IC BOOK’S GUNSLGER AND UNLIKE ANYBODY JOHN HAD MET OKLAHOMA, OR TEXAS, WHERE HE WAS BORN. JOE’S TREATMENT OF STAFF ULD BE CEL BORRG ON VDICTIVE—BUT JOHN LOVED THE ANIMALS. JOE TOOK JOHN TO TRAVELG SHOWS KANSAS. THE LONG TRIPS GAVE THEM PLENTY OF TIME TO GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER.JOHN LIVED WH A GIRLIEND PLS VALLEY, NEAR THE PARK. ONE NIGHT, A MONTH AFTER JOHN BEGAN WORK AT WYNNEWOOD, HE SENT JOE A TEXT MSAGE: “COME SAVE ME.” WHEN JOE ARRIVED, JOHN’S GIRLIEND WAS THROWG HIS BELONGGS OUT ONTO THE STREET. JOE DROVE JOHN TO THE PARK. HE WOULDN’T LEAVE FOR YEARS. JOE’S RELATNSHIP WH J.C. HAD ALREADY CMBLED. THE FAL STRAW ARRIVED WHEN J.C., DNK, HELD A GUN TO JOE’S HEAD THEIR BEDROOM, JOE SAID. POLICE RTED J.C. AWAY, NEVER TO RETURN. (HE IS SERVG A PRISON TERM KANSAS FOR MURR AND CHILD MOLTATN.)JOHN CUT HIMSELF AND SUFFERED SLEEPLS NIGHTS, AND OFTEN LAY BED UNTIL MID-AFTERNOON. HE AND JOE BEGAN A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP. THEY DID ALMOST EVERYTHG TOGETHER, AS JOE HAD WH BRIAN, AND EXCHANGED LOVG MSAG BY PHONE. “I LOVE THAT KID SO MUCH,” JOE TOLD ME RECENTLY. JOHN FLAY AND JOE EXOTIC.COURTY JOE EXOTIC BY 2004 THE PARK WAS UNR THE SPOTLIGHT OF THORI, WHO ISSUED THOANDS OF DOLLARS’ WORTH OF F FOR ILLEGAL ANIMAL TRADG. JOE CLAIMED THE PARK SWALLOWED $36,000 A MONTH FOOD. DAVID STEELE, A BEMED LOL P, TOLD A REPORTER: “I DON’T KNOW WHAT HIS PROBLEM IS. WE DIDN’T FORCE HIM TO TAKE THE ANIMALS. HE WANTED THEM.” ADVERTISEMENT PETA AND THE HUMANE SOCIETY ALSO UGHT WD OF JOE’S EXPLOS. IN A JULY 2004 OKLAHOMAN ARTICLE, JOE SPOKE OUT ABOUT GIVG SANCTUARY TO A TWO-MONTH-OLD CRIPPLED LN CUB LLED ANGEL, AGAST THE ADVICE OF AN OKLAHOMA USDA EXPERT. IN TYPILLY NSPIRATORIAL STYLE, JOE WARNED THAT THE ERNMENT AGENCY WOULD “PULL SOME STRGS OUT OF THE AIR TO KILL” THE T AND AME HIM.“I BELIEVE HE’S BREEDG ANIMALS FOR FANCIAL GA,” ONE ACTIVIST, A TAMPA SANCTUARY OWNER THEN NAMED CAROLE LEWIS, WAS QUOTED AS SAYG OF JOE. “HE’S THE REASON THAT POOR CUB WAS BORN CRIPPLED… PEOPLE LIKE THAT KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOG.”“IF THEY HAVE A PROBLEM WH MY MORALS,” JOE UNTERED, “THEN THEY N WRE ME A CHECK SO I N BUILD SEPARATE G FOR MY MAL AND FEMAL.” IT WAS THE FIRST PUBLIC FIGHT BETWEEN JOE AND CAROLE. BIG CAT RCUE SS AT THE END OF A ROUGH, TREE-LED TRACK OFF A BY STREET SUBURBAN TAMPA. IT HO MORE THAN 80 TS WHOSE LARGE G NNECT ACROSS 67 ACR OF ROLLG PARKLAND. THE WALLS OF CAROLE’S OFFICE, LOTED FAR OM THE SANCTUARY’S WELE CENTER, ARE LED WH PICTUR OF BIG TS, AND HER 4X4’S LICENSE PLATE IS CAT RESQ. ADVERTISEMENT FROM THE AGE OF 9 OR 10, CAROLE WANTED TO SAVE TS, BUT REFED TO BE A VET WHEN SHE DISVERED THEY THANIZED ANIMALS. SHE LEFT HOME AT 15, NEVER FISHED HIGH SCHOOL, AND PAID FOR GAS WH PENNI, FOR A $100 IMPALA SHE DROVE BETWEEN THREE JOBS. EVENTUALLY CAROLE SETTLED ON REAL TATE, AND MA GOOD MONEY FLIPPG LQUENT FLORIDA PROPERTI WH A LOL MAGNATE NAMED DON LEWIS, WHOM SHE MARRIED 1991.CAROLE NEVER LEFT HER LOVE OF ANIMALS. SHE RCUED BOBTS OM THE AGE OF 17, AND ED LLAMAS TO TRIM THE LAWNS OF NEW-BUYS. A YEAR AFTER THEY WED, DON AND CAROLE VISED AN ANIMAL CTN OH TO BUY A PET BOBT. A BIDR BI CAROLE SAID HE PLANNED TO KILL ONE ON THE WAY OUT, AND STUFF . WHEN CAROLE CRIED, DON OUTBID THE MAN AND THEY TOOK THE T, WDSONG, HOME. SOON AFTERWARD THE UPLE RCUED 56 MORE, AND OPENED WILDLIFE ON EASY STREET, A BIG-T BED-AND-BREAKFAST, WHERE VISORS PAID $75 TO SPEND THE NIGHT WH A PREDATOR. WH A YEAR HELD 200 TS OM 17 DIFFERENT SPECI. CAROLE LOOKED THE PART OF BIG-T HOTELIER, DRSG OM HEAD TO TOE TIGER AND LEOPARD PRT, AND EXUDG A KD OF GREY GARNS MANIA MEDIA TERVIEWS. SHE CLAIMED THE TERACTNS AT EASY STREET WOULD MAKE VISORS THK TWICE ABOUT OWNG A BIG T. “I THOUGHT, IF PEOPLE ULD GO A GE WH ONE OF THOSE TS AND SEE THAT THEY’RE NOT AFFECTNATE—ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS PEE ON YOU—THAT THEY WON’T WANT THEM AS PETS,” SHE TOLD ME. RIGHTS GROUPS LLED THE HOTEL A ROADSI ZOO. IN 1997, LEWIS, THEN 60, DISAPPEARED WHOUT A TRACE. HIS CHILDREN SUGGTED CAROLE MAY EVEN HAVE FED HIM TO THE TIGERS. IN 2000 THE AMERIN ZOOLOGIL ASSOCIATN, AN DTRY BODY, REFED ACCREDATN FOR WILDLIFE ON EASY STREET. THE TER MEANT PEOPLE WERE POSTG PICTUR OF THEIR NIGHTS THERE. CAROLE GREW NCERNED SHE WAS ACTUALLY ENURAGG BIG T OWNERSHIP, AND EXECUTED A VOLTE FACE. SHE STOPPED VISORS OM TOUCHG THE ANIMALS, AND EXPAND TS’ G. BY 2003 CAROLE HAD BANNED ALL VISOR TERACTN WH THE ANIMALS. WILDLIFE ON EASY STREET BEME BIG CAT RCUE.AROUND THAT TIME, CAROLE MET HOWARD BASK, A RAWBONED NEW YORK BANKG SALARYMAN WH A JEFF GOLDBLUM-QUE VOICE, ON A BLD DATE. HE’D BEEN TO WILDLIFE ON EASY STREET THE ’90S, AND THE PAIR SOON MARRIED. THEY ADVOTED AGAST PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF BIG TS ALONGSI THE HUMANE SOCIETY, PETA, AND OTHERS. CAROLE ENURAGED HER FANS TO REPORT ANIMAL ABE. SHE LNCHED THE WEBSE AND BEME A PIED PIPER AGAST ROADSI ZOOS, DRAWG FANDOM THROUGH DAILY VIO LOGS WHICH SHE STILL SPORTED T-PRT CLOTHG. THAT EARNED HER PLENTY OF ENEMI. HOWARD, A LAW GRAD, HELPED AL WH THEM BEHD-THE-SCEN. ADVERTISEMENT “THERE IS THIS THG THAT IS BIGGER THAN ALL OF ,” CAROLE TOLD ME WHEN I VISED, CHANNELG HER FELE OBSSN, “AND ’S PERSONIFIED [ THE TS].” CAROLE AND HOWARD BASK AT BIG CAT RCUE TAMPA, FLORIDA.COURTY BIG CAT RCUE CAROLE’S CSA AGAST JOE AND HIS HORT CRCENDOED SLOWLY AFTER 2004. JOE HONED HIS ROADSHOW AND LLED THE “MYSTIL MAGIC OF THE ENDANGERED.” JOHN FOLLOWED HIM ALMOST EVERYWHERE. THEY ATTEND ANIMAL CTNS WH OTHER ROADSI ZOO OWNERS. THE MOST NOTOR WAS OH’S AMISH UNTRY, WHERE MEN BRIXTON HATS SOLD PARROTS, BOBTS, AND KANGAROOS AS IF THEY WERE OLD KEEPSAK. THE STATE HAD SOME OF THE UNTRY’S WEAKT ANIMAL-WELFARE LAWS AND A NTROVERSIAL ROADSI ZOO OF S OWN: MKGUM COUNTY ANIMAL FARM ZANVILLE, WHOSE OWNER TERRY THOMPSON ENJOYED RIDG HIS R WH BEARS. THOMPSON’S ZOO WAS A DISASTER WAG TO HAPPEN, RIGHTS GROUPS WARNED. HE AND JOE WERE IENDS.IN 2006 JOE PUBLISHED VIOS OF BONEDIGGER, A 320-POUND LN WH BRTLE BON WHO SHARED HIS GE WH A TY WIENER DOG. VIOS OF THE ODD UPLE WENT VIRAL. JOE ED THEIR FAME TO SUPERCHARGE DONATNS, WHICH FLOOD OM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HE NEED THEM: FOOD FOR THE PARK’S 200-OR-SO BIG TS ULD TALLY OVER HALF A LN DOLLARS YEARLY—NOT UNTG THE OTHER THOAND ANIMALS.JOE HAD A CREATIVE SOLUTN FOR THAT. AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK HE ORRED STAFF OUT A WHE LIVERY TCK, WH “NO PETA” WRTEN ON S SI, TO GATHER EXPIRED MEAT AND VEGETABL OM WAL-MARTS ACROSS OKLAHOMA. SOMETIM THE CREW WORKED UNTIL 2 A.M. CUTTG FOOD OUT OF S PACKAGG FOR E THE FOLLOWG DAY. OFTENTIM THEY ATE THE MEAT THEMSELV: JOE JOKED WAS A MIRACLE NOBODY GOT SICK. OTHER TIM CREW KILLED AND BUTCHERED THE ZOO’S “HOOF STOCK”—LOW-VALUE HORS, WS, AND GOATS—TO BE “FED OUT” TO THE EXOTICS, HIS BREADWNERS. SOME CREW BID FOR HORS AT CTN JT TO BRG THEM BACK, KILL THEM, AND FEED THEM OUT.AUTHORI NTUED TRYG TO CRACK DOWN ON THE ZOO. IN 2006 THE USDA SPEND JOE’S EXHIBOR’S LICENSE AND FED HIM $25,000 FOR FAILG TO KEEP HIS G CLEAN OR PROVIDG THE ANIMALS WH AQUATE MEDIL RE. PETA FILMED AN UNRVER VIO AT THE PARK THAT YEAR, CLAIMG STAFF KICKED AND H ANIMALS WH SHOVELS AND RIFLE BUTTS. ONE MANAGER WAS FILMED SAYG HE’D “BEAT THE FUCK” OUT OF A WHE TIGER, WHILE ANOTHER ADMTED HE DIDN’T LIKE JOE’S BREEDG PROCS. ADVERTISEMENT PETA LLED THE G.W. PARK A CUB L. JOE RPED ABOUT PETA “SPI” WHO FILTRATED THE PARK. HE THREATENED THOSE THKG OF HOPPG THE FENCE THAT HE’D PUT A “P THEIR ASS.” BUT THE CLAIMS JOE WAS CHURNG OUT CUB AFTER CUB WERE TE; BY 2006 THE PARK OFFICIALLY MA MORE THAN HALF A LN DOLLARS. JOE’S ENTREPRENRIAL STCTS SPAWNED BRAND T-SHIRTS, TTON NDY, BULLWHIPS, SKRE, UNRWEAR, WE, AND EVEN NDOMS. BY THIS TIME, HE REFERRED TO HIMSELF AS THE TIGER KG. LATER JOE ADD A WATERG HOLE LLED THE SAFARI BAR, JT OFF I-35, AND A RTRANT LLED ZOOTERS (HE HAD PREVLY DREAMT OF LLG TALLYWHACKERS—AN ALL-MALE-STAFFED VERSN OF HOOTERS).“IT WASN’T G.W. ZOO,” ONE FORMER EMPLOYEE TOLD ME. “IT WAS THE JOE SHOW.”AROUND THE SAME TIME, JOE DRIFTED AWAY OM WYNNEWOOD SELF. JOE AND HIS STAFF DROVE HIS LIMOE TO TOWN FOR THE ODD MEAL AT S LONE MEXIN RTRANT. BUT MOSTLY, THE PARK BEME S OWN, SULAR WORLD. SOME TOWNSPEOPLE WERE RELIEVED THEIR GAY, GUN-TOTG CELEBRY HAD RETREATED ACROSS THE WASHA. “THE WAY HE JT EXPRSED HIMSELF, YOU KNOW, OPENLY, LIKE HE WAS: I THK HE WENT AGAST THE GRA AROUND HERE,” MARK LEWIS, EDOR OF THE WYNNEWOOD GAZETTE, TOLD ME. “IF HE WAS LAS VEGAS OR SOMETHG, I THK HE WOULD’VE BEEN JT ANOTHER GUY ON THE STRIP.” COURTY FACEBOOK BUT THERE WAS MORE DARKNS TO JOE’S CHARACTER THAN ANYBODY TOWN IMAGED. THE G.W. PARK STAFF WAS A HODGEPODGE OF HOMELS PEOPLE, DG ADDICTS, AND OTHERS DOWN ON THEIR LUCK. SOME HAD ARRT WARRANTS OTHER STAT. ALMOST ALL WERE POWERLS, AND LIVED TRAILERS AT THE PARK, WORKG SIX DAYS A WEEK FOR AS LTLE AS $150, WH AN EXTRA $50-100 SH, WHICH JOE LLED “SUMMER PAY.” JOE TOLD ME HE WANTED TO GIVE PEOPLE A SEND CHANCE: “I SAW MY LIFE WHAT PHED A LOT OF PEOPLE TO DGS WAS BEG AN OUTST TO SOCIETY, SO BEG GAY I RELATED TO THAT.” ADVERTISEMENT THE TTH, ACRDG TO MANY STAFF WH WHOM I’VE SPOKEN, WAS THAT JOE WAS BENT ON NTROL, ABIVE—SOMETIM PHYSILLY—AND SEXUALLY AS PREDATORY AS THE ANIMALS HE LOVED TO BREED. FEW BELIEVED THEY ULD LEAVE. HE ULD BE KD ONE MOMENT, AND SPEFUL THE NEXT. SOME OF THE MORE ZOOPHILE CREW MEMBERS TOOK HIS ABE AS LLATERAL, KNOWG A REGULAR PARK WOULD NEVER ALLOW THEM SO CLOSE TO THE ANIMALS.JOE OFTEN POSTED ADS ON CRAIGSLIST FOR YOUNG MEN TO JO HIM AND JOHN FOR WEEKENRS PLS VALLEY OR OKLAHOMA CY MOTELS. THEY RETURNED OM THE TRIPS BLEARY-EYED AND BELLIGERENT. TIGER, LN, AND BEAR CUBS LIVED JOE AND JOHN’S TRAILER, AND FETED EVERYWHERE. THE SMELL WAS APPALLG. JOHN BLAM JOE FOR TRODUCG HIM TO METH, AND THE PAIR BEGAN LIFTG WEIGHTS. JOHN TOOK STEROIDS, WHICH SWUNG HIS MOOD. “AT THE DROP OF A DIME, I ULD GO OFF,” HE TOLD ME.JOE BOUGHT JOHN ALMOST ANYTHG HE WANTED, OM BELT BUCKL TO TCKS. BUT HE WAS POSSSIVE, AND KEPT HIS YOUNG BOYIEND HIGH ON DGS. “[JOE] HAD JOHN’S HEAD THAT IF HE LEFT, HE ULDN’T GO NOWHERE,” ONE OF JOHN’S FORMER GIRLIENDS TOLD ME. “HE ULDN’T DO NOTHG.” IN 2009 JOE RECEIVED ALLIGATORS OM MICHAEL JACKSON’S NEVERLAND RANCH, UPON THE POP STAR’S ATH, AND HOED THEM THE BUILDG BRIAN HAD LIVED AT THE PTH OF HIS ILLNS. SOMEHOW, THE PARK WAS STILL GROWG. BUT WAS THE SUBJECT OF EIGHT SEPARATE LEGAL S THAT YEAR. AND CAROLE WAS TURNG HER CROSSHAIRS DIRECTLY ON JOE. SHE NOTICED HE WOULD E UP TO 20 PANY NAM FOR HIS ROADSHOW TO, AS JOE PUT , “KEEP CAROLE BY,” AND SWCH IF SOMEBODY TECTED ANYTHG UNTOWARD. CAROLE REARCHED JOE’S TOUR SCHLE, AND MOBILIZED HER FOLLOWERS TO EMAIL PLATS TO VENU. SOMETIM CAROLE GENERATED A THOAND EMAILS—A LOT FOR A MIDWT MALL MANAGER’S BOX. MOST IGNORED THEM AND LET JOE NTUE. SOME, THOUGH, NCELED. OTHER TIM CAROLE WOULD LL UP REPORTERS WHERE JOE WAS, AND TE THEM ABOUT HIS ABE. ADVERTISEMENT “IT WAS HAVG SOME EFFECT AND G A PROBLEM FOR HIM,” HOWARD TOLD ME.HE WAS RIGHT. JOE ACCED CREW MEMBERS OF BEG PETA SPI, AND KEPT THEM ON THE PARK AFTER CLOSG FOR LONG, RAMBLG SCREEDS THAT MIGHT LAST THREE HOURS. AROUND 2010 HE SENT JOHN TO SPE OUT BIG CAT RCUE, AND SPRKLED CAROLE’S NAME TO DAILY NVERSATN. JOE ULD BARELY WA TO TALK ABOUT THE “BCH” WHO WAS AFTER HIS BS. ANIMAL ABE AT THE G.W. PARK GREW VVILLIAN. CREW WOULD STROLL ABOUT TOSSG LIVE CHICKENS, TS, AND OTHER ANIMALS TO BIG-T ENCLOSUR, OR SHOOTG THEM FOR FUN. CATS, GERBILS, AND RATS WERE FED TO SNAK AND BIG TS. MANY ANIMALS WENT HUNGRY FOR DAYS; SOME STARVED TO ATH. WHEN A BIG T GOT SICK, JOE TURNED TO A DONATN DRIVE, PLEADG ONLE FOR MONEY TO HEAL THEM. ONE EMPLOYEE SAID SHE SAW STAFF SHARE A JOT WH A MONKEY, AND THAT CUBS WERE “ROUTELY STCK WH FORCE ON THE NOSE, FACE, EY, AND NECK.” ONE CREW MEMBER WAS DARED TO BE THE HEAD OFF A LIVE SNAKE—HE DID. ANOTHER SAID HE WNSED JOE N OVER EM A FOUR-WHEELER SO HE ULD SELL THEIR BON TO THE MM OF OSTEOLOGY, OKLAHOMA CY. “IF SOMEBODY THKS THEY’RE GOG TO WALK HERE AND TAKE MY ANIMALS AWAY, ’S GOG TO BE A SMALL WA.”— JOE EXOTIC ANIMALS JOE AND THE CREW KILLED WERE DUMPED A SPOT TOWARD THE BACK OF THE PARK THEY LLED THE “TIGER P.” THE STENCH BEME SO BAD THAT FRANCIS SAID REMD HIM OF THE KOREAN WAR’S BATTLEFIELDS. HE AND SHIRLEY STILL VISED MOST DAYS, BUT THERE’S NOTHG TO SUGGT THEY NSPIRED THE ABE RRIED OUT BY THEIR SON, WHO WAS TURNG TO SOMETHG FAR MORE SISTER THAN THE FANTASIST HE HAD BEEN. MANY CREW MEMBERS RELLED JOE STNG OUT, OR ACTG LIKE HE WAS HIGH ON E. JOE ALLEGEDLY MOCKED DISABLED CHILDREN WHO VISED THE PARK, AND JOKED WH ONE EMPLOYEE THAT A POCKET KNIFE WAS HIS “N---ER STABBER.” “HE STARTED TO LOSE GRIP ON WHO HE ACTUALLY WAS,” JOHN TOLD ME. “HE’D JOKE ABOUT YOU TO YOUR FACE, OR CHAT SH ABOUT YOU BEHD YOUR BACK. HE JT WAS AN ALL-ROUND FUCKG ASSHOLE.” ADVERTISEMENT ON OCT. 18, 2011, TERRY THOMPSON SET 56 OF HIS ZANVILLE ANIMALS EE BEFORE SHOOTG HIMSELF THE HEAD. THE ENSUG ANIMAL MASSACRE MA HEADL WORLDWI, AS PS HUNTED THOMPSON’S ADLY MENAGERIE. JOE CLAIMED ACTIVISTS MURRED THOMPSON TO TIGHTEN OH’S ANIMAL LAWS. AT THE TIME, 13 STAT ALLOWED PRIVATE CIZENS TO OWN EXOTICS, CLUDG OKLAHOMA.IN 2012 THE HUMANE SOCIETY LLED THE G.W. PARK A “TICKG TIME BOMB, POTENTIALLY 10 TIM WORSE THAN ZANVILLE.” “IF SOMEBODY THKS THEY’RE GOG TO WALK HERE AND TAKE MY ANIMALS AWAY,” JOE TOLD A REPORTER, “’S GOG TO BE A SMALL WA.”JOE NTUED TOURG SPE CAROLE’S EFFORTS. HER EMAIL BOX FILLED WH ATH AND RAPE THREATS. ONE DAY SHE OPENED HER MAILBOX TO FD FULL OF SNAK. ON ANOTHER, SOMEBODY ATTACHED WIR TO MAKE SEEM LIKE THE MAILBOX WAS RIGGED WH A BOMB. A TRAPPER ATTACKED HER A PARKG LOT AFTER A URT HEARG. JOE NI HE WAS BEHD THE THREATS, THOUGH HE DID PROTT BIG CAT RCUE DRSED A RABB SU. “CAROLE IS A FUCKG U KE,” HE TOLD ME.IN 2011 CAROLE’S ASSOCIAT BEGAN EMAILG HER ABOUT A MALL PETTG ACT WHICH BIG CAT RCUE WAS ALLEGEDLY VOLVED. SHE REALIZED THAT JOE, A STUPID ACT OF RETALIATN, HAD ED HER PANY’S NAME TO PROMOTE HIS SHOW. IT WAS A LEGAL OPEN GOAL. CAROLE AND HOWARD FILED A PYRIGHT-GEMENT SU, BUT JOE DIDN’T BACK DOWN. HE UNTERSUED FOR LIBEL AND SLANR, MANDG $15 LN DAMAG. MEANWHILE, JOE HAD BEGUN FILMG AT THE PARK, HOPG FOOTAGE WOULD PROPEL HIM TO HOLLYWOOD. ONE NIGHT HE ADDRSED THE MERA, AND SAID: “FOR CAROLE AND ALL OF HER IENDS THAT ARE WATCHG OUT THERE, IF YOU THK FOR ONE MUTE I WAS NUTS BEFORE, I AM THE MOST DANGERO EXOTIC-ANIMAL OWNER ON THIS PLA RIGHT NOW. AND BEFORE YOU BRG ME DOWN, IS MY BELIEF THAT YOU WILL STOP BREATHG.” ADVERTISEMENT IN 2013 A JUDGE ORRED JOE TO PAY BIG CAT RCUE $1 LN DAMAG. HIS ATTORNEYS DROPPED THE $15 LN SU. HIS RELATNSHIP WH JOHN, WHO WAS HOOKED ON METH AND STEROIDS, SOURED. JOHN CHEATED ON JOE WH SEVERAL WOMEN AND TOLD ME JOE’S CULT-LIKE KGDOM WAS CMBLG, AND THAT HE ROLVED NEVER TO PAY CAROLE A CENT. HE SWCHED THE PARK’S OWNERSHIP, CHANGED S NAME, FILED FOR BANKPTCY AND HID ASSETS. CAROLE HIRED VTIGATORS TO FD THE SH. THEY PULLED JOE’S SIBLGS BACK TO HIS ORB, AND TARGETED A 235-ACRE PLOT OF FAY LAND KANSAS: THEIR HERANCE. JOE’S LEGAL SKULDUGGERY BEME KG LEAR WH WBOY HATS. AFTER ZANVILLE, OH PASSED SOME OF THE UNTRY’S TOUGHT EXOTIC-ANIMAL OWNERSHIP LAWS. TO PREVENT THAT OUTE OKLAHOMA, JOE NEED NATNAL FAME. HE POSTED CRAIGSLIST ADS FOR PRODUCTN STAFF TO FILM REALY SHOWS AT THE PARK, HOPG TO BEE THE NEXT STEVE IRW, AND HIRED MICIANS TO WRE UNTRY SONGS HE LIP-SYNCED VIOS. BUT HE ULDN’T SHAKE HIS HATRED OF CAROLE. ONE OF HIS SONGS, “HERE KTY KTY,” FEATURED A MOL FEEDG MEAT TO TIGERS OM A MANNEQU’S HEAD—SUPPOSEDLY REFERENCG CAROLE’S CEASED HBAND—WHILE JOE, DRSED SHAS, A PASTOR’S LLAR, AND BLACK HAT, MIMED L LIKE A SPAGHETTI WTERN PREACHER:SO IF YOU’RE EVER DOWN TAMPA ON A BIG-T REFUGE,DON’T PICK A FIGHT WH YOUR WIFE, ADVERTISEMENT ‘CSE ’S A BIG 40 ACR AND IF YOU’RE NOT REFUL,YOU’LL BE GONE THE BLK OF AN EYE ONE OF THOSE ASKED TO FILM JOE’S UPG WEB SHOW WAS TRAVIS MALDONADO, A HANDSOME, SIX-FOOT-FOUR-CH TALL 20-YEAR-OLD OM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. HE LOVED BIK, AND THOUGHT NOTHG OF CYCLG 300 ACROSS THE STATE ON A $4,000 MOL HIS FATHER DANNY, A 23-YEAR MARE VETERAN WH A SNOW-WHE HANDLEBAR MTACHE, BOUGHT HIM. TRAVIS HAD A ROLL-LL OF GIRLIENDS AND A JOB AT AMERIN TIRE THAT HE’D GOTTEN AFTER DCHG HIGH SCHOOL AT 18. BUT HE WAS BORED, AND EXPERIMENTED WH DGS. TRAVIS AND DANNY SAW OKLAHOMA AS A CHANCE TO CLEAN UP AND WORK ON SOMETHG FUN. TRAVIS WASN’T DOWN-AND-OUT, AS JOE WOULD LATER SIST. THE DAY HE LEFT, DANNY HAND HIM A THOAND DOLLARS TO GET TO WYNNEWOOD. “HE THOUGHT HE WAS HAVG THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME,” SHERRY PECK, DANNY’S GIRLIEND, TOLD ME. “HE DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS WALKG TO HELL.” ADVERTISEMENT AS WH JOHN, JOE TOOK AN STANT LIKG TO TRAVIS. HE, JOE, AND JOHN NTUED TO SPEND LONG WEEKENDS AT MOTELS, AND VE OTHER MEN TO THEIR RELATNSHIP. WH A MONTH OF TRAVIS’ ARRIVAL OCTOBER 2013, THE THREE MEN WED A CEREMONY AT A HALL ACROSS THE STREET OM THE G.W. PARK. DANNY BARELY KNEW ANYTHG ABOUT THE RELATNSHIP. HE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HIS SON WAS GAY—NOT THAT BOTHERED HIM.THE BIG DAY SELF, NE MONTHS BEFORE THE FIRST LEGAL GAY WEDDG WOULD BE HELD OKLAHOMA, WAS AN EXTRAVAGANZA JOE HOPED WOULD PROJECT HIM TO THE WORLD. IN A VIO POSTED TO THE JOEEXOTICTV YOUTUBE CHANNEL, JOE VED A CLOTHG STORE CLERK TO DROP BY. “IT’S FOR A TV SHOW,” HE TOLD HER WH A SHG. EVERYTHG WAS ZOO-THEMED. MONKEYS RRIED FLOWERS, THE KE WAS TIGER-STRIPED, AND A BLACK CELEB CRTED MAQUE BORE THE RGS. THE THREE MEN WORE BRIGHT PK WBOY SHIRTS, STANDG LE BI A NDLE JOE L FOR GAROLD. JOE STOOD THE MIDDLE, WEARG A BLACK, WI-BRIMMED HAT. JOE CHOREOGRAPHED THE DAY. DANNY WASN’T VED. JOE DIDN’T WANT CHERYL THERE EHER. ONLY TRAVIS’ OLR SISTERS, ASHLEY AND DANIELLE, WERE ASKED TO ATTEND. “JOE SAID NO AND WHAT JOE SAID, WENT,” DANNY TOLD ME. I ASKED HIM WHY JOE KEPT HIM AWAY. “CONTROL,” HE SAIDDPE HOW NTRIVED THE CEREMONY FELT, TRAVIS SEEMED HAPPY. JOE TREATED HIM LIKE A BIG KID. HE BOUGHT TRAVIS A FOUR-WHEELER, GAVE HIM SH, AND LET HIM ROAM THE PARK. TRAVIS LIKED TO SHOOT GUNS TO THE GROUND. HE SMOKED A LOT OF POT. HE ULD BE MEAN, THROWG LIVE CHICKENS TO THE T G. HE ALSO H CUBS. ONE STAFF MEMBER RELLED HIM AS “PARTICULARLY SADISTIC.” OTHERS LIKED HIM. “TRAVIS WAS A BLAST, MAN,” FORMER CREW MEMBER DIANNA MAZAK TOLD ME. “HE WAS LOUD AND CRAZY AND DIDN’T RE.” ADVERTISEMENT JOE NTUED TO SELL LIVE AND AD EXOTICS OFF THE BOOKS. HE WAS A LYNCHP NORTH AMERI’S ILLEGAL ANIMAL TRA. BUT AS MORE ANIMALS ARRIVED AT THE PARK, PROFS FELL. AT THE SAME TIME, JOE STEPPED UP HIS ONLE ATTACKS AGAST CAROLE. HE POSED WH A RIFLE ON FACEBOOK, WH THE PTN “BRG ON, BCH.” WHEN HOWARD MENTNED THE THREATS AT MEDIATN ONCE, JOE ADMTED HE’D DONE . THEN, ACRDG TO HOWARD, JOE WAED UNTIL THE TWO MEN WERE ALONE. “NOTHG PERSONAL,” HE SAID. “WHAT ULD BE MORE PERSONAL?” HOWARD TOLD ME. ON FEB. 17, 2014, JOE POSTED HIS MOST SURREAL AND THREATENG VIO. “YOU WANNA KNOW WHY CAROLE BASK BETTER NEVER EVER EVER SEE ME FACE-TO-FACE?” HE ASKED, BEFORE SHOOTG A BLOND-WIGGED DOLL LIVE ON MERA. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME CAROLE GENUELY BELIEVED “THAT HE WOULD PAY SOMEBODY. YOU ULD SEE HIM TRYG TO WHIP PEOPLE TO A ENZY TO KILL ME,” SHE TOLD ME. BETWEEN HIS WILD ACTNS AND THE PARK’S UNENDG ABE, MOST FILM STAFF LEFT SOON AFTER THEY ARRIVED, UNABLE TO PACKAGE THE HORROR THEY WNSED TO A FAY-IENDLY PRODUCT. RICK KIRKHAM, A FORMER INSI EDN JOURNALIST WHOSE CRACK-E ADDICTN WAS THE SUBJECT OF A 2006 DOCUMENTARY LLED TV JUNKIE, LASTED 11 MONTHS. HE WNSED THE WORST OF HIS EMPLOYER’S CULTISH BEHAVR. JOE SHOT TO WALLS, AND NEAR EMPLOYE, WHO ATE THE MEAT JOE POOLED OM OKLAHOMA WAL-MARTS. IF STAFF DID ANYTHG WRONG, JOE CUT OFF THEIR FOOD. JOE NTROLLED WHEN CREW MEMBERS SLEPT, WHEN THEY GOT UP, AND FORBA RELATNS BETWEEN THEM. ADVERTISEMENT “WE WORKED WH ANIMALS THAT KILL PEOPLE,” JOE TOLD ME. “THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR GRAB-ASS OR KISSG.”. “THEY ULD NOT LEAVE THE PARK,” RICK TOLD ME. “THEY WERE TOTALLY A TRANCE-LIKE STATE.”MANY PEOPLE WOULD ONLY SPEAK TO ME ANONYMOLY FOR THIS STORY. SOME FEAR JOE’S POWER TO HARM THEM.THE TRAILERS WERE DUMPS, AND SOME EMPLOYE SLEPT ON SECT-VERED FLOORS. ONE TIME, JOE UGHT TWO CREW MEMBERS VORTG A TRAILER. HE OGMARCHED THE YOUNG WOMAN TO THE PARK GATE AND SAID, “GOOD LUCK, BCH.” ANOTHER EMPLOYEE NAMED SAFF LOST HER ARM WHEN A TIGER MLED HER THROUGH A GE. “SHE ULDN’T FOLLOW L,” JOE TOLD ME.JOHN’S STEROID AND METH ADDICTN WORSENED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. HE OVERDOSED, AND ALMOST DIED. HE OFTEN WOKE UP THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT “READY FOR A FIGHT,” JOE TOLD ME. IN AUGT 2014, JOHN ATTACKED JOE. COPS CHARGED JOHN WH ASSLT AND BATTERY.RICK SAW JOE SHOOT ONE TIGER DURG HIS YEAR AT THE PARK. ANOTHER DAY, AN OLD LADY BROUGHT A HORSE TO THE PARK AND TOLD JOE SHE ULDN’T LOOK AFTER ANY MORE. JOE HUGGED HER AND SAID HE’D RE FOR THE CREATURE. WHEN SHE LEFT, JOE TOLD RICK TO TURN HIS MERA ON. THEN HE WHIPPED OUT HIS GUN, AND SHOT THE HORSE THE HEAD WHILE WAS STILL STANDG S TRAILER. “WHAT THE FUCK,” RICK CRIED. ADVERTISEMENT “I’M NOT A CHARY,” JOE REPLIED. THEN HE FED THE HORSE OUT TO THE LNS.JOE OFTEN GRIPED TO RICK ABOUT CAROLE: HOW SHE WAS MAD AND WOULD NEVER GET HIS MONEY. HE ETTED SHE’D GET THE PARK WHEN SHIRLEY DIED, AND TRIED PUTTG HIS SHARE OF S OWNERSHIP THE NAM OF OTHERS. IT SEEMED LIKE HE WAS STALLG FOR TIME.WHEN RICK TOLD JOE HE’D NEED TO LM DOWN FOR THE MERAS, JOE TOLD HIM TO FUCK OFF. ANOTHER TIME DECEMBER 2014, RICK THREATENED TO RELEASE FOOTAGE OF ANIMAL ABE. HE THREATENED JOE: “I’M THE GUY THAT HAS VIO THAT ULD PUT YOUR ASS JAIL AND YOU KNOW , SO DON’T FUCK WH ME.”THAT NIGHT, JOE CHANGED THE LOCKS ON THE STUD, AND ANNOUNCED HE’D LEAVE TOWN FOR THREE DAYS. RICK AND THE CREW THREW AN IMPROMPTU PARTY AT THE TRAILER. IT HAD BEEN A MISERABLE 11 MONTHS, BUT THEY’D MA . THE NEXT MORNG AROUND 7 A.M., RICK RELLS, ONE OF THE PARK MANAGERS KICKED THE DOOR OF HIS TRAILER. “GRAB YOUR MERA,” THE MANAGER YELLED.“CAMERA?” RICK REPLIED. “THE MERAS ARE ALL THE STUD.” ADVERTISEMENT “THERE IS NO STUD! THE STUD BURNED DOWN OVERNIGHT.”THE HUT THAT WAS ONCE BRIAN’S HOSPICE WAS ASH. MICHAEL JACKSON’S ALLIGATORS BOILED ALIVE THEIR TANKS. JOE BLAMED RICK AND CAROLE. RICK BLAMED JOE. WHATEVER THE TTH, RICK’S VIO WAS GONE. HE DROPPED TO HIS KNE, AND CRIED.WHETHER BY ACCINT OR SIGN, JOE’S HOP OF BEG A REALY-TV STAR WERE—TEMPORARILY, AT LEAST—OVER. AND WH HIS SH DWDLG, AND CAROLE CLOSG ON THE SETTLEMENT, HE WAS GETTG SPERATE FOR A BREAK. LUCKILY, ONE WAS ABOUT TO STROLL RIGHT ONTO HIS PROPERTY. LIKE JOE, JEFF LOWE WAS NO STRANGER TO SHOWBIZ—OR NTROVERSY. HIS GRANDFATHER FOUND A CIRC AND WORKED WH RGLG BROTHERS, AND ONE OF LOWE’S FIRST HIGH-PROFILE JOBS WAS MANAGG DAREVIL MOTORCYCLIST ROBBIE KNIEVEL, SON OF EVEL (WHO HAS SCE LLED LOWE A “D,” “FAKE,” AND A “LOSER”). IN THE EARLY 2000S LOWE RAN A LIQUIDATN STORE BEFORT, SOUTH CAROLA, AND SPENT NO SHORTAGE OF TIME URT. IN 2007 HE SETTLED A LAWSU WH PRCE THAT ACCED HIM OF SELLG CLOTH EMBLAZONED WH THE ARTIST’S TRAMARKED SYMBOL. A YEAR LATER LOWE PLEAD GUILTY TO MAIL D, HAVG POSED AS A DOMTIC-ABE CHARY TO GET MARKED-DOWN GOODS FOR HIS STORE. “HE’S KD OF TALKY, ARROGANT,” JOE BARTH, WHO RAN A DRIVE- THEATER OPPOSE LOWE’S VENUE, TOLD ME. “HE LIK TO BRAG.” ADVERTISEMENT LOWE TURNED HIS BEFORT STORE TO A ROADSI ZOO FILLED WH TIGERS. HE MET LREN DROPLA, A LOL MANY YEARS HIS JUNR, 2013. HOUND BY CY UNCILORS NCERNED ABOUT THE TIGERS, LOWE LEFT SOUTH CAROLA 2015, AND SPL OM HIS WIFE KATHY SOON AFTER. THAT YEAR LOWE AND LREN VISED THE G.W. PARK. THEY WANTED A HOME FOR 12 BIG TS AND SOUGHT A HYBRID. THEY ALSO WANTED A ZOO OF THEIR OWN, AND FLEW JOE AND TRAVIS TO THEIR 12,000-SQUARE-FOOT HOME COLORADO. LOWE WAS SHORT AND STOCKY, WH DOUGHY EY. HE ALWAYS WORE A BIKER JACKET AND DO-RAG, UNR WHICH LOCKS OF GRAY HAIR TUMBLED OUT LIKE STANT NOODL. HE ACCSORIZED HIS FERRARI SPORTS R WH A FERRARI-BRAND BASEBALL P. LREN WAS SLIM AND GLAMORO, WH SILKEN RED HAIR. JEFF AND LREN LOWE.COURTY OF JEFF LOWE SOME MIGHT HAVE SNIFFED OUT TROUBLE. JOE SMELLED SUCCS. HE NEED SH WH CAROLE OWED THE $1 LN OM HER LAWSU. “HE SAW THE FERRARIS AND THE PORSCH AND ALL THE EXOTIC VEHICL,” LOWE TOLD ME OF JOE. “AND I THK HE SAW ME AS HIS MEAL TICKET.”LOWE ALSO SAW HIS HOEGUT AS A CHANCE TO START ANEW. HE TOLD JOE TO DISSOLVE THE G.W. PARK’S LLC, OPEN ANOTHER LOWE’S NAME, AND NTUE NNG TOURS AND SHOWS AS S “ENTERTAMENT DIRECTOR.” JOE WAS OUT OF FOOD AND HADN’T PAID UTILI: LOWE WOULD KEEP THE PARK ALIVE. ACRDG TO LREN, HE SWEETENED THE AL WH AN ADDNAL $100,000. IT SEEMED FAIR. ADVERTISEMENT JOHN WAS EXPECTG HIS FIRST CHILD WH A WOMAN AT THE PARK WHEN HE AND JOE BROKE UP. JOE AND TRAVIS STUCK TOGETHER, HOWEVER, AND WED WHEN OKLAHOMA LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THE TRIP TO THE LOW’ HOME WOULD BE THEIR HONEYMOON.WH MONTHS, LOWE AND LREN WERE LIVG AT THE G.W. PARK. LOWE JOED LLS BETWEEN JOE AND HOWARD, AND NTUED TO BREED AND SELL BIG TS. IN JUNE 2017 HE OPENED NEON JUNGLE, A CUB-PETTG STOREONT A OKLAHOMA CY MALL, CHARGG CTOMERS $25 TO PET EACH ANIMAL. A MONTH LATER HE AND LREN WED AT THE MGM GRAND LAS VEGAS. JEFF WORE A BLACK DO-RAG.THE ABDINT TIGER KG, MEANWHILE, SOUGHT A NEW THRONE: THE WHE HOE. JOE LLED HIMSELF A LIBERTARIAN; HE WAS PRO-CHOICE, PRO-LGBTQ RIGHTS, PRO-GUN AND—NATURALLY—PRO-EXOTIC-ANIMAL OWNERSHIP. IN A MPAIGN VIO CIRCULATED WORLDWI, JOE, WEARG A TASSELED SUE JACKET, ANNOUNCED: “I’M NOT CUTTG MY HAIR. I’M NOT CHANGG THE WAY I DRS: I REFE TO WEAR A SU. I AM GAY. I’VE HAD TWO BOYIENDS MOST OF MY LIFE. I CURRENTLY GOT LEGALLY MARRIED. THANK GOD ’S FALLY LEGAL AMERI. I’VE HAD SOME KKY SEX. I’VE TRIED DGS THROUGH THE YOUNGER YEARS OF MY LIFE. I’M BROKE AS SH. I HAVE A JUDGMENT AGAST ME OM SOME BCH DOWN THERE FLORIDA.”JOE HIRED JOSH DIAL, A GUN-STORE CLERK PLS VALLEY, WHO ONCE ATTACKED A MAN WH A NJA SWORD, AS HIS MPAIGN MANAGER. JOE DIDN’T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REPUBLINS, DEMOCRATS, AND LIBERTARIANS. “MY JOB WAS TO MAKE HIM APPEALG TO THE LIBERTARIAN CROWD, EVEN THOUGH HE WASN’T A LIBERTARIAN,” JOSH TOLD ME. “I REALLY JT TRIED TO DRILL AS MUCH AS I ULD HIM.” ADVERTISEMENT JOE DIDN’T W THE 2016 RACE (HE BEME A DONALD TMP FAN). IN 2017 HE SET HIS SIGHTS ON THE UPG OKLAHOMA GUBERNATORIAL ELECTN. HE AGA HIRED JOSH, WHO MOVED TO ONE OF THE PARK’S TRAILERS. JOE ED THE HASHTAG #FIXTHISSH. HE SPENT PARK SH ON NDOMS RATED WH PHOTOS OF HIM A SUGGTIVE POSE. IN JUNE 2017 HE AND JOSH, WHO IS ALSO GAY, VISED THE OKC PRI PARA JOE’S LIMO. JOE JUMPED ON THE R’S ROOF AND WAVED TO THE CROWD. THEY EPTED. “THAT WAS PROBABLY THE ONLY TIME I THOUGHT, ‘WOW, THIS GUY ULD ACTUALLY DO SOMETHG,’” JOSH TOLD ME.JT WHEN THGS LOOKED UP, A TRAGEDY BROUGHT JOE’S LIFE CRASHG DOWN. AROUND LUNCHTIME ON OCT. 7, A CLEAR, SUNNY DAY, JOSH AND TRAVIS SAT THE PARK OFFICE. TRAVIS TOYED WH A .45 RUGER PISTOL THAT JOE HAD BOUGHT HIM. HE’D HEARD THE WEAPON WOULDN’T FIRE WHOUT S MAGAZE. HE RACKED S SLI, HELD THE BARREL TO HIS TEMPLE, AND FIRED. A BULLET WENT STRAIGHT THROUGH TRAVIS’ BRA, SLAPPG TO THE WALL BI HIM. FOR A FEW SENDS, JOSH THOUGHT WAS A PRANK. “IT LOOKED LIKE HOLLYWOOD SH, BLOOD SPURTG OUT OM EVERYWHERE,” HE TOLD ME.TRAVIS’ HEAD FELL BACK. HIS ADAM’S APPLE BOBBED UP AND DOWN FASTER THAN JOSH HAD EVER SEEN. ERIC COWIE, A ARY VETERAN CREW MEMBER, TOOK THE GUN OM HIS HAND AND WRAPPED TRAVIS’ HEAD A WHE SHIRT TO STEM THE BLEEDG. BUT TRAVIS, 23, DIED MUT LATER. JOSH WENT TO SHOCK. “I DON’T THK I’LL EVER BE THE SAME PERSON,” HE TOLD ME.JOE WAS PLS VALLEY. WHEN HE RETURNED, HE HOWLED. IT WAS 30 YEARS TO THE DAY SCE GAROLD’S ATH. ADVERTISEMENT THE NEXT MORNG, JOE STOOD BEFORE TV MERAS, WEEPG HIS PK WEDDG SHIRT. “ONE RELS MISTAKE SNUFFED HIM OUT,” HE SAID. DAYS LATER JOHN FOUND JOE HIS GARAGE, WH A CELLPHONE ONE HAND AND A GUN THE OTHER. HE’D BLASTED A HOLE THE TELEVISN BI HIM.DANNY ONLY DISVERED HIS SON’S ATH VIA FACEBOOK. JOE TOLD THE FAY TO STAY AWAY, AND CREMATED TRAVIS’ BODY FOUR DAYS LATER, BEFORE THEY ARRIVED OKLAHOMA FOR HIS FUNERAL. IT WAS A BIZARRE AFFAIR. JOE WORE THE FX PASTOR’S OUTF OM HIS “HERE KTY KTY” VIO, PLETE WH HAT AND WRAPAROUND SHAS. HARLEY-DAVIDSON BIKERS OM NEARBY MOORE ACPANIED THE RTEGE TO THE G.W. PARK. HUNDREDS ATTEND. JOE STOOD AT A LECTERN, FLANKED BY IENDS, FAY, AND FORMER LOVERS. THE SUN ST A HAZY PENUMBRA ACROSS HIS BLACK AME. “I MET TRAVIS WHEN HE WAS BASILLY HOMELS AND HAD A BACKPACK ON HIS BACK,” JOE LIED. HE WAXED ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIP, AND END: “IF WE N PULL ONE THG OFF WH THIS HORRIBLE TRAGEDY, IS TO NTUE TO BYPASS THE HATE AND THE JUDGMENT THAT WE ST UPON EACH OTHER NO MATTER WHAT WE DO.”DANNY WAS FUR. “HE’S NOT AN ORDAED PRIT,” HE TOLD ME. “HE’S SUCH A FAKE. IT’S ALL BS—EVERYTHG. IT’S ALL FOR PUBLICY… THE WHOLE THG’S A CIRC.” JOE GAVE TRAVIS’ FAY HIS ASH WAL-MART-BOUGHT NTAERS. DANNY HAD SEEN MANY ASH DURG HIS ARY SERVICE. THEY WERE GRAY. THE WERE WHE. “I DID NOT BELIEVE WHAT HE GAVE ME WAS MY SON’S REMAS,” DANNY TOLD ME. JOE NI THE CLAIM. “DANNY NEEDS TO LET HIS SON RT PEACE,” HE TOLD ME.SOON AFTER THE FUNERAL, JOE SET UP THE TRAVIS MALDONADO FOUNDATN, A GROUP WHOSE WEBSE CLAIMS PROVIS “NO-ST ROURC FOR THOSE STGGLG WH METH ADDICTN AND GUN-SAFETY TN.” DONATNS GO TO THE UNED STAT ZOOLOGIL ASSOCIATN, A GROUP JOE FOUND AND LED. ADVERTISEMENT JT DAYS LATER JOE WAS OUT ON THE PARK AGA. FIVE NEW TIGERS WERE ARRIVG. TO MAKE ROOM, JOE SHOT FIVE OLR TIGERS—CUDDL, DELILAH, LREN, SAMSON, AND TRY—THROUGH THE HEAD WH HIS SHOTGUN. “IF I KNEW WAS THIS EASY, I’D JT BLAST THEM ALL,” HE TOLD COWIE.LOWE FEARED THE PARK WOULD NEVER MAKE MONEY. WH JOE’S WAL-MART SCHEME OVER, FOOD ST A FORTUNE. “THERE REALLY ISN’T MUCH LEFT HERE BIS TS FOR PEOPLE TO LOOK AT,” HE TEXTED JOE. “THE PLACE JT EATS MONEY.” POLICE ARRTED SAFARI BAR STAFF FOR ALG METH. LOWE PLANNED A “JUNGLE B” MOBILE CUB-PETTG ZOO LAS VEGAS. THAT NOVEMBER, JOE APPEARED AT A LIBERTARIAN GUBERNATORIAL EVENT OKLAHOMA CY. HE CSED AND GUSED THE ETHNICY OF DIENCE MEMBERS. “IT WAS GOG OFF THE RAILS,” ONE POLIL ACTIVIST TOLD ME. JOE LOST HIS PRIMARY. “HIS EXISTENCE AS AN OKLAHOMAN IS MORE LIKE A ROADSI ATTRACTN,” THE ACTIVIST NTUED. “LIKE, HE’S THE WORLD'S LARGT PEANUT, OR WHATEVER. I THK PEOPLE KD OF VIEW HIM AS THAT. HE’S THE GOOFY PART OF OKLAHOMA. THAT’S WHAT HE REPRENTS: HOW SILLY WE N BE SOMETIM.” CAROLE DIDN’T THK JOE WAS SILLY. IN FEBARY 2017, A G.W. PARK EMPLOYEE NAMED ASHLEY WEBSTER LEFT HER A VOICEMAIL. JOE HAD ASKED ASHLEY TO KILL CAROLE, AND SHE BELIEVED HE WAS SER. “I FELT LIKE YOUR LIFE IS DANGER,” WEBSTER SAID. WEBSTER’S VOICEMAIL WAS FORWARD BY THE BASKS’ ATTORNEY TO THE FBI. THERE WAS ALREADY AN VTIGATN UNRWAY AT THE G.W. PARK. SPECIAL AGENT MATT BRYANT, WH U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, WAS EXAMG ACCATNS OF ANIMAL CELTY WHEN HE UGHT WD OF A POTENTIAL MURR PLOT. ADVERTISEMENT JAM GARRETSON HAD RECENTLY RETURNED TO JOE’S LIFE: HE WANTED TIPS ON OPENG A TIGER B&B MUCH LIKE WILDLIFE ON EAST STREET. BUT HE GREW TRATED AT THE ABE HE WNSED WYNNEWOOD. “HE WAS DOG SOME EVIL THGS DOWN THERE WH THE ANIMALS,” HE TOLD ME. JOE HAD ASKED HIM TO KILL CAROLE BASK, TOO— WAS BEG TOUGHER TO FD PEOPLE JOE HADN’T ASKED TO MURR HIS ARCH-RIVAL. “WHEN IS SHE EVER GONNA FUCKG STOP,” HE ASKED JOE SEPTEMBER. “SHE WON’T UNTIL SOMEBODY SHOOTS HER,” JOE REPLIED.LOWE SAID JOE ASKED HIM TO BRG UP GOOGLE EARTH ON HIS PUTER (“MY MONOR IS HUGE”) JOE AND TRAVIS MAPPED OUT PLAC TO KILL CAROLE. JEFF TOLD ME HE SUGGTED NOT TO KILL HER BUT TO “BURN HER SH TO THE GROUND.” “YOU M MORE CRIM THAN ANY OF BED.”— JEFF LOWE BY THE TIME ALLEN GLOVER, A RECENT STAFF ADDN, ENTERED THE AY TO KILL CAROLE, JOE WAS ALREADY UNR SURVEILLANCE. GLOVER HATED JOE, TOO. HE WAS “AN ASSHOLE,” GLOVER LATER TTIFIED. “TREAT HIS EMPLOYE LIKE DIRT… HE WOULD DOWNGRA ME TO THE POT WHERE WAS G CLOSE TO BLOWS, THAT’S HOW BAD GOT… HE’S JT—HE’S REALLY A CEL, CEL PERSON.” JOE THOUGHT GLOVER SHOULD TRAVEL TO BIG CAT RCUE WH A FAKE ID. HE ORRED JOHN TO DRIVE GLOVER TO A DALLAS LIGHTG STORE TO GET ONE, AND MAILED HIS CELLPHONE TO A LAS VEGAS ADDRS REGISTERED TO LOWE, TO VER HIS TRACKS. BUT GLOVER CID TO SPL WH JOE’S MONEY, AND FLEW TO SAVANNAH. HIS TEARDROP TATTOO WAS FACT A TRIBUTE TO HIS LATE GRANDMOTHER. GLOVER PLANNED TO WARN CAROLE PERSON, BUT DIDN’T MAKE TO TAMPA BEFORE STOPPG AT A BEACH AND BLOWG ALL THE MONEY ON PARTYG. ADVERTISEMENT BRYANT, UNAWARE OF GLOVER’S WHEREABOUTS, WARNED HOWARD AND CAROLE ABOUT AN “IMMENT THREAT.” THEY BOUGHT WDOW BLDS, BEGAN RRYG PISTOLS, AND AVOID RIDG BICYCL TO WORK. PEOPLE KNEW CAROLE TAMPA, AND OFTEN STOPPED HER THE STREET OR SUPERMARKET. ONE TIME CAROLE WAS FILLG UP AT A GAS STATN WHEN A MAN APPROACHED HER. SHE SHUDRED: DO I NEED TO GRAB THE GAS AND SPRAY THIS GUY? JOE WAS OUT THOANDS OF DOLLARS, ALLEN GLOVER WAS GONE, AND CAROLE BASK WAS STILL ALIVE. JOE GAVE UP ON HIS ADLY PLOT FOR A WHILE. BUT ON DEC. 8, GARRETSON BROUGHT A MAN NAMED MARK TO THE PARK, AND TOLD JOE HE ULD BE TSTED TO KILL CAROLE. THIS TIME JOE WAS NO MOOD FOR WORKAROUNDS. “JT FOLLOW HER TO A MALL PARKG LOT, P HER, AND DRIVE OFF,” HE SAID. BY THAT TIME, JOE HAD FOUND HIS LATT BE, A YOUNG AT MAN NAMED DILLON PASSAGE. JOE BELIEVED TRAVIS HAD SENT DILLON TO THE PARK KEEP HIM OM MTG SUICI. THE TWO APPLIED FOR A MARRIAGE LICENSE PLS VALLEY 59 DAYS AFTER TRAVIS’ ATH. LOWE AND JOE’S RELATNSHIP, MEANWHILE, WAS TATTERS. THE PARK’S FANC ALREADY HUNG BY A THREAD, BUT JOE HAD SIPHONED PARK FUNDS FOR HIS GUBERNATORIAL RACE, FG CHECKS AND SPENDG SH ON GIFTS FOR DILLON, SUCH AS A FORD MTANG. TEXT MSAG BETWEEN THE TWO MEN 2018 VOLVED OM BRO-EY IENDSHIP TO VENOMO HATRED. ADVERTISEMENT IT BOILED OVER THE PARK’S OFFICE. “YOU M MORE CRIM THAN ANY OF BED, BUT YOU NEVER GET TROUBLE BEE YOU PASS THE BUCK ON TO SOMEONE ELSE,” LOWE SHOUTED AT JOE, ACRDG TO VIO TAKEN BY LREN. DILLON WAS A “CHEERLEADG FAGGOT,” LOWE ADD. “HE’S NOT EVEN A MAN LIKE YOU. HE’S A SISSY BOY.” JOE ARGUED BACK FEEBLY, BUT HE WAS CRTFALLEN, AND PHYSILLY BROKEN. HE’D N A STOP SIGN DRIVG TO FRANCIS, BY THEN HEAVILY ILL WH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, AND WAS H BY A TCK. HE BROKE BON HIS BACK, NECK, AND RIGHT LEG. HE OPENED A DIALOGUE WH BRANNY PEET OM PETA, HOPG TO BRG DOWN LOWE AND OTHERS. JOE TOLD HER TRAVIS’ ATH HAD CHANGED HIS PERSPECTIVE. “HE FELT HE WAS WASTG HIS LIFE,” PEET SAID. “HE ALSO FELT THAT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THE EXOTIC-ANIMAL BS THAT HE HAD FEND OVER THE YEARS HAD THROWN HIM UNR THE B.”LOWE WROTE JOE OUT OF THE PARK’S OWNERSHIP. HE RENAMED THE “GREATER WYNNEWOOD EXOTIC ANIMAL PARK”, TO KEEP THE “G.W. EXOTIC PARK” SIGNS ALONG I-35. JOE WANTED OUT. HE HAD SPOKEN ABOUT FLEEG TO BELIZE WH SEVERAL PEOPLE AT THE ZOO. HE SOLD SOME TIGER CUBS, PACKED A MEL, AND SOME DOGS A TRAILER, AND DROVE TO YON, JT WT OF OKC, WH DILLON. THERE HE PAID $2,000 RENT TO LIVE ON A 6-ACRE PROPERTY. ADVERTISEMENT IT WAS REAL OKLAHOMA. FRACKG TOWERS AND GRA SILOS PEPPERED THE FLAT, BLANCHED HORIZON. JOE HAD SPENT S CREATG WORLDS TO SU HIM. NOW HE WAS A BLOND-MULLETED WBOY THE BUCKLE OF THE BIBLE BELT. HE AND DILLON RARELY LEFT. LOLS DIDN’T CHAT ACROSS THE FENCE. “THE OTHER NEIGHBORS WERE UPSET THERE WAS A MEL,” ONE TOLD ME. THE UPLE TEXTED LOVE NOT OM DIFFERENT ROOMS SO THEY WOULD NEVER BE APART. MEANWHILE, THREATS ARRIVED OM LOWE. “FUCK WH ME AND I WILL BULLDOZE YOUR HOE OFF THE PROPERTY,” HE TEXTED DILLON.ONE NIGHT AUGT, JOE AND DILLON LEFT SUDNLY. JOE POSTED A PHOTO TO INSTAGRAM WH THE HASHTAG #BELIZE. THEY WERE ACTUALLY GULF BREEZE, FLORIDA. JOE WASHED DISH AT A PIRATE-THEMED RTRANT. ON SEPT. 7, HE LEFT THEIR RENTED HOME, HOPG TO GET A JOB AT A NEARBY HOSPAL. AS JOE STEPPED OUT OF HIS FORD F-150 ON S LOT, FOUR PS SURROUND HIM. “GET ON THE GROUND!” THEY SCREAMED. JOE’S NEW LIFE HAD LASTED JT 81 DAYS. MARK WASN’T A HMAN, AS JAM GARRETSON HAD TOLD JOE; HE WAS AN FBI AGENT. GARRETSON HAD AGREED TO WEAR A WIRE AND RERD THE ENTIRE PLAN TO KILL CAROLE. JOE NEVER STUMPED UP THE SH FOR HIS SEND HMAN—BUT DIDN’T MATTER. HOURS OF DAMNG FOOTAGE WAS PLAYED TO JURORS AT A WEEKLONG TRIAL OKLAHOMA CY THIS MARCH. ADVERTISEMENT CAROLE TTIFIED FOR ONE DAY, RTED TO URT BY ARMED GUARD. SHE DIDN’T STICK AROUND FOR THE VERDICT, FEARG ONE OF JOE’S FOLLOWERS WOULD EXECUTE HER, JACK RUBY-STYLE.THE JURY TOOK JT HOURS TO NVICT JOE ON 21 UNTS, CLUDG TWO OF MURR-FOR-HIRE, FIVE FOR THE TIGERS’ ATHS, AND MORE THAN A DOZEN UNTS OF ILLEGAL ANIMAL TRAFFICKG AND SELLG. JOE’S FENSE HE WAS PLAYG ALONG TO CRIMATE LOWE AND THE OTHERS FELL FLAT, AS WAS HIS SISTENCE HE WAS ENTRAPPED. THE JUDGE BARRED JOE OM MENTNG DON LEWIS’ ATH DURG THE TRIAL.“HERE’S THE THG WH KGS,” SAID ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY AMANDA GREEN. “THEY START TO BELIEVE THEY’RE ABOVE THE LAW.”SENTENCG IS EXPECTED NEXT MONTH. JOE FAC 20-PL YEARS PRISON.WHEN CAROLE RETURNED TO FLORIDA, SHE POSTED A VIO SAYG THAT JOE WAS NOT SIMPLY “ONE CRAZY BAD APPLE,” AND LLED OUT SEVERAL OTHER ROADSI ZOO OWNERS. SHE STILL UPDAT WHEN I VISED BIG CAT RCUE JT AFTER THE VERDICT, CAROLE AND HOWARD’S BLDS WERE OPEN, AND SUN POURED THROUGH THEIR OFFICE WDOW. “FOR JOE, WAS VERY PERSONAL,” CAROLE TOLD ME. “WHEREAS FOR , WAS JT ANOTHER ONE OF THE BAD GUYS THAT WE ARE TRYG TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF.” ADVERTISEMENT CAROLE BASK AT BIG CAT RCUE TAMPA, FLORIDA. COURTY BIG CAT RCUE CAROLE SAID ONE OF THEM IS LOWE. WHEN I VISED THE G.W. PARK MAY, S SQUALID NDNS WERE UNR HIS AND LREN’S STEWARDSHIP. LOWE TOLD ME HE’S HAD “FIVE NSECUTIVE PERFECT UNANNOUNCED USDA SPECTNS”, SPENDS $4,000 WEEKLY ON FOOD, AND THAT THE BIG TS ARE “HAPPY.”ONE EMPLOYEE, TARYN WALKER, SAID THE NEW OWNERS ARE PETENT, AND FEED THE TS CHICKEN RATHER THAN MORE EXPENSIVE AND NUTR RED MEAT. WHEN TARYN REPORTED THE PARK FOR MISTREATG S HORS, LOWE LLED HER A “C-NT” ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE, AND REERATED TO ME, CLAIMG SHE TASERED TIGERS: “SHOW YOUR FACE HERE AGA YOU BCH, I HAVE A RAKE AND SHOTGUN WH YOUR NAME ON THEM.”LOWE TOLD MARK LEWIS HE WAS STALLG A DRIVE- THEATER AT THE PARK. HE’D NVCED JOE BARTH, HIS BEFORT NEIGHBOR, TO MOVE HIS THEATER. THEN HE RENEGED ON THE AL AND, BARTH CLAIMS, STOLE THE MOVIE EQUIPMENT. HE STILL FEARS FOR HIS SAFETY.IN NOVEMBER 2017, PS RAID THE LOW’ LAS VEGAS PROPERTY AND IMPOUND A TIGER, A LILIGER, AND A LEMUR, WHICH VETS ANNOUNCED WERE SICK. THEY CED LOWE FOR DOG BS AND HANDLG ANIMALS WHOUT A LICENSE. “WHO R?” JEFF TOLD ME. “I GOT UGHT WH EXOTIC ANIMALS A CY THAT BANS EXOTICS. IT’S A MUNICIPAL URT TICKET JT LIKE JAYWALKG.” LOWE PLANNED TO CLOSE WYNNEWOOD AND REOPEN A FAR BIGGER PARK, LLED RED RIVER SAFARI, THACKERVILLE, NEAR THE GIANT WSTAR WORLD CASO ON THE OKLAHOMA-TEXAS BORR. HE ADVERTISED LABOR TO BUILD THE SE ON CRAIGSLIST, BUT AS YET THE SCHEME HASN’T PROGRSED. ADVERTISEMENT JOE HASN’T EXPRSED ANY REMORSE FOR HIS ACTNS. THE FIRST TIME WE SPOKE VIA PHONE, JOE ASKED IF I ULD PASS A MSAGE TO DONALD TMP JR. HE BELIEV HE’S BEEN SET UP LIKE TERRY THOMPSON OM ZANVILLE—A “POLIL PRISONER,” HE TOLD ME. AFTER THE NVICTN, JOE WROTE TO PRINT TMP, BEGGG FOR A PARDON. HE PLAED TO ME ABOUT NDNS JAIL, SAYG HUMANS ARE TREATED WORSE AMERIN JAILS THAN ANIMALS UNR USDA REGULATNS.JOE AND DILLON PASSAGE ARE STILL MARRIED. DILLON WOULDN’T SPEAK TO ME AND JOE WOULDN’T REVEAL HIS LOTN. DANNY MALDONADO QUTNS WHETHER TRAVIS’ ATH WAS ACCINTAL. HE WANTS THE ASH JOE GAVE HIM TTED.JOHN FLAY LIV DAVIS AND HOLDS A STEADY WELDG JOB. HAVG A DGHTER HELPED HIM FOC AFTER HIS YEARS AT THE PARK, HE TOLD ME, WHEN WE MET AT A FE NORMAN, NEAR OKLAHOMA CY. HE’S HAPPY, AND HAS A GIRLIEND. “WHETHER HE KNOWS OR NOT, HE DID MENTALLY ABE ME AND NTROLLED ME,” HE TOLD ME. “BUT I’VE ACTUALLY GOT FIGURED OUT NOW.” JOHN WILL NEVER STEP FOOT ON THE PARK AGA: LOWE THREATENED TO SHOOT HIM IF HE DO. “TRPASSG ANIMAL ABERS WILL BE SHOT AND KILLED,” LOWE TOLD ME. “HE’S AS BAD AS JOE, IF NOT WORSE,” JOHN SPAT. JEFF LOWE AND BIG TS.COURTY OF JEFF LOWE ADVERTISEMENT FRANCIS AND SHIRLEY ARE AIL AND MAY NEVER SEE THEIR YOUNGT SON EE AGA. YARRI, PAMELA, AND TAMARA AREN’T CLOSE. THEY ALL SQUABBLE OVER THE LAND KANSAS, WHOSE RIGHTS THEY NOW SHARE WH THE BASKS.DPE HIS LI AND MANIPULATN, I ENJOYED SPEAKG TO JOE. HE’S CHARMG AND AN ENGAGG SPEAKER. HE MA ME FEEL I WAS HIS BT IEND, TELLG ME THAT, AS A BRISH WRER, I ULD STICK TO THE AMERIN PRS WHO “MAKE EVERYTHG LOOK HORRIBLE.” IF HE THKS YOU’RE A POTENTIAL ENEMY, EVERYTHG CHANG. WHEN HE DISVERED I WAS REPORTG HIS TE STORY, JOE LLED ME A “BULLY” VIA HIS JAIL’S MISSARY (LLED TIGER). HE TOLD OTHERS I ULDN’T BE TSTED.JOE NEVER NFSED A PIYUNE OF REGRET TO ME. “AM I GOG TO TAKE THE FALL (FOR STUFF) THAT EVERYONE DID WRONG?” HE ASKED. AS OUR NVERSATNS NTUED, HE GREW MORE SKTISH AND HOSTILE. THEN, JT BEFORE THIS STORY WENT TO PRS, JOE BURST TO A TIRA AGAST EVERYBODY, CLUDG ME. “YOU BET I WAS CEL,” HE WROTE ME. “I AM AN ASSHOLE TO WORK FOR. PEOPL’ LIV PEND ON ME MAKG THEM FOLLOW L. THEY LET OUT THE CHIMPS, TIGERS, LEOPARDS, WOLV—YOU NAME —AND GUS WHO’S ASS WAS ALWAYS TROUBLE WHEN THEY DID… WHO THE HELL DO YOU THK IS PAID TO DO A JOB? THE STAFF. WHY WAS I WRTEN UP: BEE THE STAFF WON’T DO THEIR JOB. BUT I AM SUPPOSED TO BE NICE? “GO FUCK YOURSELF.” ADVERTISEMENT “KISS MY ASS RIGHT HERE OM JAIL,” HE POSTED TO FACEBOOK. “NONE OF YOU WILL EVER E CLOSE TO KNOWG THE STRS TOOK DAILY TO AL WH KEEPG HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ALIVE, JT SO A BUNCH OF PEOPLE, THAT THEIR OWN FAI THREW OUT, ULD NOT APPRECIATE A JOB AND A HOME.”“I AM PROUD OF WHAT I DID MY LIFE AND ANY LOSER THAT SAYS OTHERWISE HAD THE SAME CHANCE—THEY JT FUCKED UP. THAT ZOO IS CLOSG AND THE NEW ONE WILL NEVER OPEN. I PROMISE YOU THAT, ‘E A BUNCH OF PEOPLE ARE GOG TO JAIL. I AM MAKG SURE OF THAT.”THE TIGER KG WAS TRYG TO CLAW BACK POWER, BUT HE HAS NOTHG LEFT BUT HIS ROAR. HE RVED A KGDOM OM DT, CLEAVED OM THE WORLD BY A RIVER AND A EEWAY. WILD PEOPLE TAME WILD ANIMALS AND HE LED THEM ALL. THEN HE WATCHED CMBLE, AND ANOTHER MAN TOOK HIS THRONE. JOE LIVED BY THE LAWS OF THE JUNGLE. THE LAWS OF MAN WEREN’T NEARLY AS EASY TO MASTER. NOW HE’S THE ONE BEHD BARS.   SEAN WILLIAMS
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TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST

A "gay sex predator" sodomized two burglars after they broke to his home. In October 2016, viral entertament web s such as published articl posg that two burglars had been sodomized for five straight days after they broke to the hoe of a "notor gay sex predator" named Harry Harrgton:. He’s a notor gay s*x predator who has served time jail for numero sexual asslts.

SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO 2 NOTORIOUS BURGLARS WHEN THEY BROKE INTO AN EQUALLY NOTORIOUS GAY-RAPIST HOME AS HE RAPED THEM NON-STOP FOR 5 DAYS, SEE PICS

Multiple sourc have e to Church Milant wh si knowledge of clergy sex abe and rampant homosexualy among clerics Malta. 'Notor gay sex predator' has no old clippg eher?

2 BURGLARS EXPERIENCE 5 DAYS OF HELL AFTER BREAKG TO HOME OF NOTOR GAY PREDATOR

This time, karma me the form of a male gayrapist.

TWO BURGLARS BREAK TO HOME OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST

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INFAMO GAY-BASHER REVEREND JSE LEE PETERSON EXPOSED AS HOMOSEXUAL SUPER PREDATOR

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JOE EXOTIC BUILT A WILD ANIMAL KGDOM. HE WAS THE MOST DANGERO PREDATOR OF THEM ALL.WELCOME TO THE JUNGLEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST / PHOTOS FACEBOOK/GETTYA CUNNG AND CUDDLY PERSONA CREATED AN EMPIRE. A MURR PLOT BROUGHT CRASHG DOWN.SEAN WILLIAMSUPDATED JUN. 22, 2019 10:25AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 22, 2019 8:01AM EDT JOE EXOTIC SAID KILL HER AND DO SOON.THE “GAY, GUN-TOTG WBOY WH A MULLET,” AS HE LIKED TO LL HIMSELF, STOOD ON THE ONT PORCH OF HIS OKLAHOMA ZOO AROUND MIDNIGHT, SPEAKG TO THE MAN HE’D CID WOULD KILL HIS ARCH-RIVAL. HE PROPOSED $5,000 UPONT AND A FEW THOAND MORE AFTER THE ED, TO BE FANCED BY SELLG OFF A RARE LN-TIGER HYBRID—NOT A DIFFICULT TASK FOR NORTH AMERI’S MOST NOTOR BIG-T BREER.IT WAS OCTOBER 2017 AND JOE WAS SPERATE. THE ANIMAL KGDOM HE’D CREATED OVER TWO S, HOME TO ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGT LLECTNS OF BIG TS, NOW BELONGED TO A BELLIGERENT FORMER BS PARTNER. HIS WHE HOE N END IC FAILURE. CRICS AND ANIMAL WELFARE GROUPS CLAIMED JOE RAN A SHABBY “ROADSI ZOO” OF DAILY ABE, CELTY, AND ILLEGAL TRAFFICKG.CAROLE BASK, A BIG T SANCTUARY-OWNER OM TAMPA, FLORIDA, HAD WON A LN-DOLLAR LAWSU AGAST HIM. SHE HUNTED HIS WEALTH EVER SCE, AND HOUND HIM ONLE. WH HER AD, JOE MIGHT FOC ON REBUILDG THE ZOO, AND HIS LIFE. THE RIBALD MAN ON HIS PORCH SEEMED AS GOOD A BET AS ANY TO BURY HER.ALLEN GLOVER WORKED AT THE ZOO AFTER SPENDG YEARS BEHD BARS FOR A STRG OF ATTACKS BEGNG AT 17. HE REMBLED STEVE AT, THE PROFSNAL WRTLER, AND JOE ASSUMED THE TEARDROP TATTOO BENEATH GLOVER’S EYE MEANT HE’D KILLED BEFORE. JOE TOLD HIM THAT CAROLE LIKED TO WALK TO WORK ALONG A LEAFY PATH AND OFFERED GLOVER HUNTG MOUFLAGE. GLOVER SUGGTED CUTTG HER HEAD OFF WH A KNIFE. JOE LIKED THE IA.THE H WAS ON, BUT CAROLE IS STILL ALIVE.NOW JOE IS BEHD BARS, AWAG SENTENCG FOR A LANY OF CRIM THAT SHATTERED HIS CUDDLY PUBLIC IMAGE. COURTY FACEBOOK “A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THE TTH,” SAID JOHN FLAY, WHO HAD AN 11-YEAR RELATNSHIP WH JOE. “AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T RE TO KNOW THE TTH… THEY WANT THE NICE STORY ABOUT THE GUY WH THE TIGERS.”JOE NTROLLED AND ABED THE ZOO’S STAFF, ACCED THEM OF BEG TRAORS AND THREATENED TO THROW THEM BACK ON THE STREETS. HE HOOKED SOME ON DGS. ALL OF THEM WNSED ANIMAL ABE ON AN ASTONISHG SLE. MANY FELT THEY ULD NEVER LEAVE. SOME WHO DID SAID THEY’D PED A CULT. ADVERTISEMENT MEDIA LAPPED UP JOE’S LI—A DNK DRIVER KILLED HIS BROTHER, HE RCUED A METH ADDICT WHO BEME HIS HBAND—KEEN TO BUY TO HIS QUIRKY, ANIMAL-LOVG CHARACTER.THE TTH IS FAR, FAR DARKER. JOSEPH SCHREIBVOGEL WAS BORN GARN CY, KANSAS, 1963 TO FRANCIS AND SHIRLEY, VOUT GERMAN FARMERS WHO HLED THEIR KIDS TO CATHOLIC CHURCH EACH SUNDAY. FRANCIS WAS A SPDLY KOREAN WAR VET WHO SMOKED HEAVILY AND SPOKE LTLE OF WAR. SHIRLEY, SHORT AND ROUND-FACED, HAD A SOFTER SI. SHE DOTED ON HER YOUNGT SON. HE WON SCHOOL-FAIR AWARDS HORS, POULTRY, RABBS AND CROPS. BUT HE OFTEN SHIRKED THE FARM TASKS FOISTED ON HIS SIBLGS TAMARA, PAMELA, YARRI, AND GAROLD WAYNE, KNOWN BY MOST AS “G.W.”JOE PED TO FANTASY WORLDS. HE WANRED ABOUT SHOOTG ANIMALS WH BB GUNS, THEN HE JECTED THEM WH WATER-FILLED SYRG TO “HEAL” THEM. HE TURNED PAMELA’S PLAYHOE TO A “VET CENTER.” WHEN THE FAY MOVED TO TEXAS, HE WORKED AT A LOL NURSG HOME. HE WORE FULL SCBS, WH A FANNY PACK AND STETHOSPE. ON BREAKS HE TOLD NVENIENCE-STORE CLERKS HE’D EMERGED OM SUCCSFUL SURGERY. DURG A STT WYOMG, JOE HCHED A FLASHG LIGHT TO HIS OLD BUICK AND PRETEND TO BE A P. JOE SPENT THREE YEARS BEGNG 1983 AS A P FOR REAL, PATROLLG NEARBY EASTVALE, A LANGUID, QUARTER-E-LONG DALLAS SUBURB. THAT YEAR YARRI OUTED JOE AS GAY TO HIS FATHER, WHO MA JOE SHAKE HIS HAND, AND PROMISE NOT TO ATTEND HIS FUNERAL. SOON AFTER, A VASTATED JOE DROVE HIS SQUAD R OFF A BRIDGE AN APPARENT SUICI ATTEMPT. HE SPENT 56 DAYS TRACTN FLORIDA BEFORE WORKG AT A WT PALM BEACH STORE NAMED PET CIRC. ADVERTISEMENT BY JOE’S RETURN TO TEXAS, 1986, HE HAD ADOPTED HIS LATT PERSONA: A WBOY, PLETE WH TEN-GALLON HAT AND SISTRAPPED SIX-SHOOTER. HE GREW HIS HAIR TO A MULLET, DYED BLOND, AND BEGAN VERG HIS WIRY AME TATTOOS. HE WORKED SECURY AT THE ROUND-UP SALOON, A POPULAR GAY BAR DOWNTOWN DALLAS. SOMETIM HE PERFORMED DRAG AS DOLLY PARTON. HE WORE SPURS ON HIS BOOTS, EVEN WHEN SHOPPG FOR GROCERI. ONE DAY, WHEN VISG FAY, HE WORE THEM ON THE WRONG SHO.THAT YEAR JOE MET BRIAN RHYNE, A SMOLOGY STUNT AT UT DALLAS, AND FELL EPLY LOVE. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS S AWAY, BUT JOE AND BRIAN SOON WED ANYWAY, AN UNOFFICIAL CEREMONY. IN 1989 THEY BOUGHT A PET STORE LLED PET SAFARI, ARLGTON, WH G.W., WH WHOM JOE SHARED A LOVE OF ANIMALS. “HE’S A GODDAMN, WHAT DO YOU LL , A CHARL MANSON.”— YARRI, JOE EXOTIC’S BROTHER BRIAN WAS MORE RERVED THAN JOE, AND KEPT HIS HBAND’S HOT-HEADNS CHECK. GAROLD DUMPSTER-DOVE FOR PET SAFARI’S MATERIALS AND WELD G. BRIAN KEPT THE BOOKS, AND JOE WAS THE STORE’S ENIGMATIC, GUN-TOTG FACE. HE WAS A SMOOTH TALKER, AND A GREAT SALMAN. JOE TOOK A $50,000 LOAN OM GAROLD AND BOUGHT A NEW SE, LLED SUPER PET, AND ADD A LAWN, GARN CENTER, 30,000-SQUARE-FOOT DOG OBEDIENCE TRAG AREA, WILDLIFE RCUE CENTER, AND A PETTG ZOO. IT WAS THE LARGT SUCH VENUE THE STATE, JOE TOLD PEOPLE. SUPER PET THRIVED SPE PLATS ABOUT DIRTY G. IT WAS A SIGN OF THGS TO E. GAROLD MARRIED, HAD TWO KIDS, AND ACHED SOCCER NEARBY ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA. BRIAN AND JOE BUILT A HOME FORT WORTH AND TRAVELED. “WE WORKED TOGETHER, LIVED TOGETHER: THE WHOLE NE YARDS,” JOE TOLD ME. AROUND 1995 JOE AND BRIAN TRAVELED TO PALM SPRGS, CALIFORNIA. THE PAIR THUMPED ALONG THE COACHELLA VALLEY DUN A JEEP. SOON AFTER RETURNG, BRIAN GOT ILL. DOCTORS DIAGNOSED HIM WH A LIFE-THREATENG, HIV-ACCELERATED FUNGAL FECTN.THEN, ON OCT. 7 1997, GAROLD WAS DRIVG RA NEAR DALLAS WH TAMARA, WHEN A SEMI TCK HYDROPLANED AND CSHED HIM HIS CHASSIS. A WEEK AFTER HE WAS AIRLIFTED TO A HOSPAL, THE FAY TOOK GAROLD OFF LIFE SUPPORT (JOE CLAIMS HE PULLED THE SWCH; OTHERS NY ). ADVERTISEMENT THE FAY WON A $140,000 SETTLEMENT OM THE TCKG PANY WHOSE DRIVER ED THE WRECK—NOBODY WAS DNK BEHD THE WHEEL, AS JOE REPEATEDLY CLAIMS. THEY AGREED THAT SOME OF THE MONEY OM THE PAYOUT WOULD GO TOWARD A NEW SOCCER FIELD NEAR G.W.’S HOME. ACRDG TO THE FAY, JOE THEN MANIPULATED HIS PARENTS WH TAL OF GAROLD’S LOVE FOR ANIMALS. HE PERSUAD FRANCIS AND SHIRLEY TO DCH THEIR PLANS FOR THE SOCCER FIELD, AND SPEND THE SETTLEMENT STEAD ON LAND FOR AN ANIMAL PARK THEIR AD SON’S NAME. “HE’S A GODDAMN, WHAT DO YOU LL , A CHARL MANSON,” YARRI TOLD ME. “THEY WERE STILL GRIEVG, STILL GRABBG AT ANYTHG. HE’S JT GOT A WAY OF BRAWASHG THEM.”FRANCIS, SHIRLEY, AND JOE SETTLED ON AN 11-ACRE PLOT OUTSI WYNNEWOOD (PRONOUNCED “WNIE-WOOD”), A ONE-STOPLIGHT TOWN OF 2,000 PEOPLE OFF I-35, AROUND AN HOUR SOUTH OF OKLAHOMA CY. JOE OPENED THE G.W. EXOTIC ANIMAL MEMORIAL PARK, NAMED AFTER HIS LATE BROTHER, 1999. THE MEANRG WASHA RIVER SEPARATED OM THE TOWN. JOE TRIED MOVG GAROLD’S GRAVE THERE, BUT HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN REFED. THEY HAVE BARELY SPOKEN TO THE SCHREIBVOGELS SCE.JOE OPENED WH NE G, A ER, AND A MOUNTA LN. THE PARK BEGAN TO FILL ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. OWNERS DROPPED LNS, TIGERS, MONKEYS, BIRDS, AND OTHER RARE CREATUR AT S GAT. BRIAN LOOKED AFTER THE FANC, AS HE HAD DONE TEXAS. IT WAS THE ANIMAL KGDOM JOE HAD SOUGHT ARLGTON. HE TOLD VISORS GAROLD DREAMT OF SEEG EXOTIC ANIMALS AI–SOMETHG HIS SIBLGS NY.“JOE ED [GAROLD] AND HIS MEMORY TO JT GET WHAT HE WANTED,” PAMELA TOLD ME. ADVERTISEMENT THEN ME THE EM. KUO WEI LEE, A PLANO REAL-TATE VELOPER, BOUGHT DOZENS OF THE BIRDS 1995 WHEN MARKETERS PROMISED RICH OM THEIR LEAN MEAT AND OIL—A SORT OF RED-MEAT ALTERNATIVE à LA PORK. BY 1999 THE CRAZE WANED, AND LEE THNED HIS FLOCK’S FEED TO SAVE MONEY. THAT FEBARY, PS RAID HIS RANCH RED OAK, SOUTH OF DALLAS, AND DISVERED 69 AD EM. AN ADDNAL 100-200 BIRDS WERE FEEDG ON THE REMAS. OFFICERS LLED JOE AND AN ASSOCIATE TO WRANGLE THE SURVIVG EM. JOE PLANNED TO KEEP SOME AT WYNNEWOOD.THE TWO-DAY OPERATN WAS BEDLAM. BIRDS TRAMPLED OTHER BIRDS TO ATH. HAVG SAVED OVER A HUNDRED, JOE AND HIS ASSOCIATE, TIRED, APPROACHED SEVERAL MORE SLOWLY, THEN FIRED AT THEM WH SHOTGUNS. THEY KILLED SIX. SOME DROPPED STANTLY. OTHERS, ACRDG TO LOL REPORTS, “FLOPPED AND JUMPED, REQUIRG SEVERAL SHOTS.” JOE CLAIMED HE’D BEGUN KILLG TO PREVENT EM DYG OF STRS. “WE’RE HURT, AND WE’RE TIRED, AND NOW WE’RE RPONSIBLE,” HE SAID.“YOU N’T DO SOMETHG LIKE THAT AND EXPLA AWAY,” SAID RED OAK POLICE CHIEF DOUG MCHAM. “NOBODY IS THAT SILVER-TONGUED.”MCHAM WAS WRONG. A GRAND JURY NVENED BUT REFED TO DICT JOE AND HIS ASSOCIATE, AND THE MEN WALKED EE. JOE SUED THE SPCA OF TEXAS, AN ANIMAL WELFARE GROUP, FOR RELEASG A VIO OF THE CINT THAT HE CLAIMED HURT SAL AT SUPER PET. ADVERTISEMENT FRH OM JOE’S EMU-KILLG EXPLOS, THE G.W. PARK EXPAND RAPIDLY. JOE SOLD SUPER PET, AND PLOWED S PROCEEDS TO WYNNEWOOD. HE WAS AN EXPERT SPEAKER, AND THRILLED CROWDS DURG UN-PC, CURSE-LAN TOURS OF THE PARK. “THIS A’T SEAWORLD,” HE LIKED TO SAY, WH A CHEEKY GR. HIS FATHER FRANCIS HELPED DIG PONDS AND FENC, AND HIS MOTHER SHIRLEY DID THE SHOPPG. BRIAN BALANCED THE BOOKS. HE AND JOE DIDN’T KISS ONT OF FRANCIS AND SHIRLEY. INSTEAD THEY’D GENTLY BSH PAST EACH OTHER’S ARMS. JOE’S RELATNSHIP WH WYNNEWOOD BEGAN WELL, TOO. HE SAT ON THE LOL CHAMBER OF MERCE AND VOLUNTEERED AS AN EMT. SOMETIM HE SNUCK TIGER CUBS TO THE LOL HOSPAL TO ENTERTA PATIENTS. BY 2001, JOE HAD 89 BIG TS AND 1,100 OTHER EXOTICS, AND THE PARK DREW HEALTHY CROWDS. BUT BRIAN’S HEALTH WORSENED. HIS WEIGHT PLUMMETED. A HOSPICE NURSE ME BY EACH DAY, AND JOE BEME BRIAN’S PRIMARY RER. BY MID-DECEMBER, BRIAN WAS SKELETAL, AND ULDN’T SPEAK. HE DIED FOUR DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS.JOE HELD A FUNERAL AT THE ZOO AND NAMED S ALLIGATOR NURSERY AS BRIAN’S MEMORIAL. HE WAS RELIEVED THE PA WAS OVER. BUT HAVG LOST GAROLD FOUR YEARS EARLIER, HE TOLD ME, “YOU TEND TO WONR WHAT THE HELL YOU DID WRONG.” HE THOUGHT THE WORLD HAD TURNED AGAST HIM. “WHEN BRIAN DIED, THAT’S WHEN [JOE’S] WHOLE MEANOR OF EVERYTHG CHANGED,” CHEALSI PUTNAM, JOE’S NIECE, TOLD ME. “SOMETHG JT ME OVER HIM AND HE WAS NEVER THE SAME AGA… AS FAR AS THE WAY HE EVEN DID BS.”WH A YEAR, JOE HOOKED UP WH A HARD-DRKG, DG-G 24-YEAR-OLD EVENTS PRODUCER NAMED JEFEY CHARL “J.C.” HARTPENCE. JOE ED J.C.’S EQUIPMENT TO TAKE HIS ANIMAL SHOW ON THE ROAD. INSPIRED BY DAVID COPPERFIELD, HE DONNED SEQUED WBOY SHIRTS AND TOURED AS AN “ILLNIST” AT MALLS AND FAIRS ACROSS THE UNTRY. KIDS ULD PET TIGER CUBS FOR A FEE. THEY “MONKEY PROMISED”—ON AN ACTUAL MONKEY’S PKY FGER—THAT THEY’D STEER CLEAR OF ALHOL AND DGS, A LSON TO WHICH JOE FOLD HIS FAKE STORY ABOUT GAROLD’S DNK DRIVER. HE CLAIMED ABSTENCE HIMSELF, AND TOYED WH SEVERAL STAGE NAM BEFORE SETTLG ON “JOE EXOTIC,” TRAVELG THE MIDWT A TCK LOAD WH BABY ANIMALS. PUBLIC OFFICIALS ACCED HIM OF SAFETY VLATNS—JOE OFTEN LEFT KIDS G WH ANIMALS—BUT A BATN OF SHARP W AND LIGNS SHUT THEM UP. ADVERTISEMENT “HE WOULD BREED ANYTHG HE ULD GET HIS HANDS ON.”— JAM GARRETSON, EARLY IEND OF JOE EXOTIC JOE WAS ALSO GETTG RICH, AND BEG A LOL CELEBRY. IN AUGT 2001 HE RCUED THREE EMACIATED BEARS SEIZED OM A RSIAN CIRC TRAER. THE OKLAHOMAN PROMPTED REARS TO DONATE $17,400 TOWARD THE BEARS’ UPKEEP. IT ENURAGED JOE TO REACH OUT FOR MORE DONATNS, AND ASK VISORS TO SPONSOR ANIMALS. SOON THE PARK WAS FTOONED WH MEMORIAL PLAQU AND POSTERS BEGGG FOR SH. BEG A TIGER KG RAKED SER ROYALTI. SOME QUTNED WHERE THE MONEY WENT.“IT WAS LIKE A N AL OM THE START,” YARRI TOLD ME. “I THK HE STARTED RIGHT THEN, LIKE, ‘DU, THIS IS EASY. I N EAT RED LOBSTER EVERY DAMN DAY, TWICE A DAY, AND SOMEBODY ELSE IS GONNA PAY FOR .’”JOE BOOSTED PROFS BY BREEDG AND TRADG EXOTICS. HE ALLOWED CTOMERS TO PET BIG-T AND BEAR CUBS FOR A FEE. “EVERYONE KNEW HIM AS THE PERSON TO BUY AND SELL ANIMALS,” JAM GARRETSON, AN EARLY IEND OF JOE’S, TOLD ME. “HE WOULD BREED ANYTHG HE ULD GET HIS HANDS ON.”JOE BEME APT AT BREEDG HYBRID BIG TS AT WYNNEWOOD, SUCH AS LIGERS (THE OFFSPRG OF A MALE LN AND FEMALE TIGER), LILIGERS (SEND-GENERATN MALE LN AND LIGRS OFFSPRG) OR TILIGERS (SEND-GEN MALE TIGER, LIGRS FEMALE)–ANIMALS THAT DO NOT EXIST THE WILD. (THERE ARE MORE TIGERS AMERIN BACKYARDS THAN THE WILD ANYWHERE ON EARTH, AND WILDLIFE TRAFFICKG IS A $19 BILLN DTRY.) HYBRIDS ULD FETCH MANY TIM MORE AT SALE THAN A REGULAR T. ACRDG TO FORMER CREW MEMBERS, JOE MA BETWEEN $1,500 AND $10,000 FOR HYBRID CUBS, WHICH MANY EXPERTS SAY ARE ELS TO THE GEIC DIVERSY OF BIG TS WORLDWI (MANY HAVE BRED BIRTH FECTS). JOE VIEWED HIMSELF AS A CREATOR OF CREATUR; A MIGOD. HE EVEN TOLD IENDS HE WANTED TO RETRODUCE THE SABER-TOOTHED TIGER TO AMERI, AN ANIMAL UNRELATED TO MORN TS, WHICH DIED OUT AROUND 10,000 YEARS AGO.“HE’S THE SPOKE AT THE CENTER OF THE WHEEL,” BRTANY PEET, A UNSEL AT PETA, TOLD ME. “THERE ARE OTHERS WHO BREED, BUT HE’S THE PRIMARY ONE.” ADVERTISEMENT JOE RELIED ON A PORO REGULATORY SYSTEM THAT STILL DO LTLE TO PROTECT EXOTIC ANIMALS THE UNED STAT. LAWS ARE LAX AND THORI ARE STRETCHED GOSSAMER TH. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EMPLOYS AROUND 110 RELEVANT SPECTORS FOR 10,000 LOTNS UNTRYWI.THERE ARE AROUND 2,400 ZOOS THE U.S., THE VAST MAJORY OF WHICH ARE NSIRED “ROADSI ZOOS” LIKE JOE’S. THE TERM IS NTTED, BUT THEY’RE GENERALLY PRIVATE AND UNREGULATED, WH LTLE OR NO REARCH FUNCTN. THEIR NDNS ARE POOR EVEN TO UNTRAED EY.AMONG THE MANY ROADSI ZOOS I VISED REPORTG THIS STORY, JOE’S OLD PARK WAS THE WORST. WHEN I WENT, HAD RAED, AND TIGERS SLOSHED BACK AND FORTH ANKLE-EP SLURRY. A MAN-MA LAKE WAS NEON GREEN AND STAGNANT. A BROWN BEAR SAT S OWN FEC WHILE A MAN FED POTATO CHIPS. TENPS WERE STTERED ABOUT THE G AND ONE MONKEY ENCLOSURE FEATURED A CHILD’S KCHEN PLAY SET.THE G.W. PARK IS ONE OF AROUND 80 U.S. FACILI THAT ALLOW CUB-PETTG. ACRDG TO USDA REGULATNS, CUBS MAY ONLY BE HANDLED FOR A MONTH-LONG PERD BETWEEN EIGHT AND 12 WEEKS OLD. AT MANY PARKS, CUBS ARE GED, SOLD, OR SHOT WHEN THEY “TIME OUT.” JOE FOUND MOST OF HIS STAFF THROUGH CRAIGSLIST. IN 2003, A STOCKY 19-YEAR-OLD NAMED JOHN FLAY ANSWERED AN AD. HE’D GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL DAVIS, NEAR WYNNEWOOD, AND WANTED TO BE A RPENTER. BUT JOBS WERE SRCE, AND HE DIDN’T HATE WHEN, ONE DAY AFTER APPLYG, JOE HIRED HIM. AT FIRST JOHN MUCKED OUT G AND RRIED OUT OTHER MENIAL TASKS WH HIS MISF LLEAGU. BUT THE TIGERS ENCHANTED HIM. ADVERTISEMENT JOHN ALSO THOUGHT HIS NEW BOSS WAS OL. JOE LOOKED OFF-THE-WALL, LIKE A IC BOOK’S GUNSLGER AND UNLIKE ANYBODY JOHN HAD MET OKLAHOMA, OR TEXAS, WHERE HE WAS BORN. JOE’S TREATMENT OF STAFF ULD BE CEL BORRG ON VDICTIVE—BUT JOHN LOVED THE ANIMALS. JOE TOOK JOHN TO TRAVELG SHOWS KANSAS. THE LONG TRIPS GAVE THEM PLENTY OF TIME TO GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER.JOHN LIVED WH A GIRLIEND PLS VALLEY, NEAR THE PARK. ONE NIGHT, A MONTH AFTER JOHN BEGAN WORK AT WYNNEWOOD, HE SENT JOE A TEXT MSAGE: “COME SAVE ME.” WHEN JOE ARRIVED, JOHN’S GIRLIEND WAS THROWG HIS BELONGGS OUT ONTO THE STREET. JOE DROVE JOHN TO THE PARK. HE WOULDN’T LEAVE FOR YEARS. JOE’S RELATNSHIP WH J.C. HAD ALREADY CMBLED. THE FAL STRAW ARRIVED WHEN J.C., DNK, HELD A GUN TO JOE’S HEAD THEIR BEDROOM, JOE SAID. POLICE RTED J.C. AWAY, NEVER TO RETURN. (HE IS SERVG A PRISON TERM KANSAS FOR MURR AND CHILD MOLTATN.)JOHN CUT HIMSELF AND SUFFERED SLEEPLS NIGHTS, AND OFTEN LAY BED UNTIL MID-AFTERNOON. HE AND JOE BEGAN A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP. THEY DID ALMOST EVERYTHG TOGETHER, AS JOE HAD WH BRIAN, AND EXCHANGED LOVG MSAG BY PHONE. “I LOVE THAT KID SO MUCH,” JOE TOLD ME RECENTLY. JOHN FLAY AND JOE EXOTIC.COURTY JOE EXOTIC BY 2004 THE PARK WAS UNR THE SPOTLIGHT OF THORI, WHO ISSUED THOANDS OF DOLLARS’ WORTH OF F FOR ILLEGAL ANIMAL TRADG. JOE CLAIMED THE PARK SWALLOWED $36,000 A MONTH FOOD. DAVID STEELE, A BEMED LOL P, TOLD A REPORTER: “I DON’T KNOW WHAT HIS PROBLEM IS. WE DIDN’T FORCE HIM TO TAKE THE ANIMALS. HE WANTED THEM.” ADVERTISEMENT PETA AND THE HUMANE SOCIETY ALSO UGHT WD OF JOE’S EXPLOS. IN A JULY 2004 OKLAHOMAN ARTICLE, JOE SPOKE OUT ABOUT GIVG SANCTUARY TO A TWO-MONTH-OLD CRIPPLED LN CUB LLED ANGEL, AGAST THE ADVICE OF AN OKLAHOMA USDA EXPERT. IN TYPILLY NSPIRATORIAL STYLE, JOE WARNED THAT THE ERNMENT AGENCY WOULD “PULL SOME STRGS OUT OF THE AIR TO KILL” THE T AND AME HIM.“I BELIEVE HE’S BREEDG ANIMALS FOR FANCIAL GA,” ONE ACTIVIST, A TAMPA SANCTUARY OWNER THEN NAMED CAROLE LEWIS, WAS QUOTED AS SAYG OF JOE. “HE’S THE REASON THAT POOR CUB WAS BORN CRIPPLED… PEOPLE LIKE THAT KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOG.”“IF THEY HAVE A PROBLEM WH MY MORALS,” JOE UNTERED, “THEN THEY N WRE ME A CHECK SO I N BUILD SEPARATE G FOR MY MAL AND FEMAL.” IT WAS THE FIRST PUBLIC FIGHT BETWEEN JOE AND CAROLE. BIG CAT RCUE SS AT THE END OF A ROUGH, TREE-LED TRACK OFF A BY STREET SUBURBAN TAMPA. IT HO MORE THAN 80 TS WHOSE LARGE G NNECT ACROSS 67 ACR OF ROLLG PARKLAND. THE WALLS OF CAROLE’S OFFICE, LOTED FAR OM THE SANCTUARY’S WELE CENTER, ARE LED WH PICTUR OF BIG TS, AND HER 4X4’S LICENSE PLATE IS CAT RESQ. ADVERTISEMENT FROM THE AGE OF 9 OR 10, CAROLE WANTED TO SAVE TS, BUT REFED TO BE A VET WHEN SHE DISVERED THEY THANIZED ANIMALS. SHE LEFT HOME AT 15, NEVER FISHED HIGH SCHOOL, AND PAID FOR GAS WH PENNI, FOR A $100 IMPALA SHE DROVE BETWEEN THREE JOBS. EVENTUALLY CAROLE SETTLED ON REAL TATE, AND MA GOOD MONEY FLIPPG LQUENT FLORIDA PROPERTI WH A LOL MAGNATE NAMED DON LEWIS, WHOM SHE MARRIED 1991.CAROLE NEVER LEFT HER LOVE OF ANIMALS. SHE RCUED BOBTS OM THE AGE OF 17, AND ED LLAMAS TO TRIM THE LAWNS OF NEW-BUYS. A YEAR AFTER THEY WED, DON AND CAROLE VISED AN ANIMAL CTN OH TO BUY A PET BOBT. A BIDR BI CAROLE SAID HE PLANNED TO KILL ONE ON THE WAY OUT, AND STUFF . WHEN CAROLE CRIED, DON OUTBID THE MAN AND THEY TOOK THE T, WDSONG, HOME. SOON AFTERWARD THE UPLE RCUED 56 MORE, AND OPENED WILDLIFE ON EASY STREET, A BIG-T BED-AND-BREAKFAST, WHERE VISORS PAID $75 TO SPEND THE NIGHT WH A PREDATOR. WH A YEAR HELD 200 TS OM 17 DIFFERENT SPECI. CAROLE LOOKED THE PART OF BIG-T HOTELIER, DRSG OM HEAD TO TOE TIGER AND LEOPARD PRT, AND EXUDG A KD OF GREY GARNS MANIA MEDIA TERVIEWS. SHE CLAIMED THE TERACTNS AT EASY STREET WOULD MAKE VISORS THK TWICE ABOUT OWNG A BIG T. “I THOUGHT, IF PEOPLE ULD GO A GE WH ONE OF THOSE TS AND SEE THAT THEY’RE NOT AFFECTNATE—ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS PEE ON YOU—THAT THEY WON’T WANT THEM AS PETS,” SHE TOLD ME. RIGHTS GROUPS LLED THE HOTEL A ROADSI ZOO. IN 1997, LEWIS, THEN 60, DISAPPEARED WHOUT A TRACE. HIS CHILDREN SUGGTED CAROLE MAY EVEN HAVE FED HIM TO THE TIGERS. IN 2000 THE AMERIN ZOOLOGIL ASSOCIATN, AN DTRY BODY, REFED ACCREDATN FOR WILDLIFE ON EASY STREET. THE TER MEANT PEOPLE WERE POSTG PICTUR OF THEIR NIGHTS THERE. CAROLE GREW NCERNED SHE WAS ACTUALLY ENURAGG BIG T OWNERSHIP, AND EXECUTED A VOLTE FACE. SHE STOPPED VISORS OM TOUCHG THE ANIMALS, AND EXPAND TS’ G. BY 2003 CAROLE HAD BANNED ALL VISOR TERACTN WH THE ANIMALS. WILDLIFE ON EASY STREET BEME BIG CAT RCUE.AROUND THAT TIME, CAROLE MET HOWARD BASK, A RAWBONED NEW YORK BANKG SALARYMAN WH A JEFF GOLDBLUM-QUE VOICE, ON A BLD DATE. HE’D BEEN TO WILDLIFE ON EASY STREET THE ’90S, AND THE PAIR SOON MARRIED. THEY ADVOTED AGAST PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF BIG TS ALONGSI THE HUMANE SOCIETY, PETA, AND OTHERS. CAROLE ENURAGED HER FANS TO REPORT ANIMAL ABE. SHE LNCHED THE WEBSE AND BEME A PIED PIPER AGAST ROADSI ZOOS, DRAWG FANDOM THROUGH DAILY VIO LOGS WHICH SHE STILL SPORTED T-PRT CLOTHG. THAT EARNED HER PLENTY OF ENEMI. HOWARD, A LAW GRAD, HELPED AL WH THEM BEHD-THE-SCEN. ADVERTISEMENT “THERE IS THIS THG THAT IS BIGGER THAN ALL OF ,” CAROLE TOLD ME WHEN I VISED, CHANNELG HER FELE OBSSN, “AND ’S PERSONIFIED [ THE TS].” CAROLE AND HOWARD BASK AT BIG CAT RCUE TAMPA, FLORIDA.COURTY BIG CAT RCUE CAROLE’S CSA AGAST JOE AND HIS HORT CRCENDOED SLOWLY AFTER 2004. JOE HONED HIS ROADSHOW AND LLED THE “MYSTIL MAGIC OF THE ENDANGERED.” JOHN FOLLOWED HIM ALMOST EVERYWHERE. THEY ATTEND ANIMAL CTNS WH OTHER ROADSI ZOO OWNERS. THE MOST NOTOR WAS OH’S AMISH UNTRY, WHERE MEN BRIXTON HATS SOLD PARROTS, BOBTS, AND KANGAROOS AS IF THEY WERE OLD KEEPSAK. THE STATE HAD SOME OF THE UNTRY’S WEAKT ANIMAL-WELFARE LAWS AND A NTROVERSIAL ROADSI ZOO OF S OWN: MKGUM COUNTY ANIMAL FARM ZANVILLE, WHOSE OWNER TERRY THOMPSON ENJOYED RIDG HIS R WH BEARS. THOMPSON’S ZOO WAS A DISASTER WAG TO HAPPEN, RIGHTS GROUPS WARNED. HE AND JOE WERE IENDS.IN 2006 JOE PUBLISHED VIOS OF BONEDIGGER, A 320-POUND LN WH BRTLE BON WHO SHARED HIS GE WH A TY WIENER DOG. VIOS OF THE ODD UPLE WENT VIRAL. JOE ED THEIR FAME TO SUPERCHARGE DONATNS, WHICH FLOOD OM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HE NEED THEM: FOOD FOR THE PARK’S 200-OR-SO BIG TS ULD TALLY OVER HALF A LN DOLLARS YEARLY—NOT UNTG THE OTHER THOAND ANIMALS.JOE HAD A CREATIVE SOLUTN FOR THAT. AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK HE ORRED STAFF OUT A WHE LIVERY TCK, WH “NO PETA” WRTEN ON S SI, TO GATHER EXPIRED MEAT AND VEGETABL OM WAL-MARTS ACROSS OKLAHOMA. SOMETIM THE CREW WORKED UNTIL 2 A.M. CUTTG FOOD OUT OF S PACKAGG FOR E THE FOLLOWG DAY. OFTENTIM THEY ATE THE MEAT THEMSELV: JOE JOKED WAS A MIRACLE NOBODY GOT SICK. OTHER TIM CREW KILLED AND BUTCHERED THE ZOO’S “HOOF STOCK”—LOW-VALUE HORS, WS, AND GOATS—TO BE “FED OUT” TO THE EXOTICS, HIS BREADWNERS. SOME CREW BID FOR HORS AT CTN JT TO BRG THEM BACK, KILL THEM, AND FEED THEM OUT.AUTHORI NTUED TRYG TO CRACK DOWN ON THE ZOO. IN 2006 THE USDA SPEND JOE’S EXHIBOR’S LICENSE AND FED HIM $25,000 FOR FAILG TO KEEP HIS G CLEAN OR PROVIDG THE ANIMALS WH AQUATE MEDIL RE. PETA FILMED AN UNRVER VIO AT THE PARK THAT YEAR, CLAIMG STAFF KICKED AND H ANIMALS WH SHOVELS AND RIFLE BUTTS. ONE MANAGER WAS FILMED SAYG HE’D “BEAT THE FUCK” OUT OF A WHE TIGER, WHILE ANOTHER ADMTED HE DIDN’T LIKE JOE’S BREEDG PROCS. ADVERTISEMENT PETA LLED THE G.W. PARK A CUB L. JOE RPED ABOUT PETA “SPI” WHO FILTRATED THE PARK. HE THREATENED THOSE THKG OF HOPPG THE FENCE THAT HE’D PUT A “P THEIR ASS.” BUT THE CLAIMS JOE WAS CHURNG OUT CUB AFTER CUB WERE TE; BY 2006 THE PARK OFFICIALLY MA MORE THAN HALF A LN DOLLARS. JOE’S ENTREPRENRIAL STCTS SPAWNED BRAND T-SHIRTS, TTON NDY, BULLWHIPS, SKRE, UNRWEAR, WE, AND EVEN NDOMS. BY THIS TIME, HE REFERRED TO HIMSELF AS THE TIGER KG. LATER JOE ADD A WATERG HOLE LLED THE SAFARI BAR, JT OFF I-35, AND A RTRANT LLED ZOOTERS (HE HAD PREVLY DREAMT OF LLG TALLYWHACKERS—AN ALL-MALE-STAFFED VERSN OF HOOTERS).“IT WASN’T G.W. ZOO,” ONE FORMER EMPLOYEE TOLD ME. “IT WAS THE JOE SHOW.”AROUND THE SAME TIME, JOE DRIFTED AWAY OM WYNNEWOOD SELF. JOE AND HIS STAFF DROVE HIS LIMOE TO TOWN FOR THE ODD MEAL AT S LONE MEXIN RTRANT. BUT MOSTLY, THE PARK BEME S OWN, SULAR WORLD. SOME TOWNSPEOPLE WERE RELIEVED THEIR GAY, GUN-TOTG CELEBRY HAD RETREATED ACROSS THE WASHA. “THE WAY HE JT EXPRSED HIMSELF, YOU KNOW, OPENLY, LIKE HE WAS: I THK HE WENT AGAST THE GRA AROUND HERE,” MARK LEWIS, EDOR OF THE WYNNEWOOD GAZETTE, TOLD ME. “IF HE WAS LAS VEGAS OR SOMETHG, I THK HE WOULD’VE BEEN JT ANOTHER GUY ON THE STRIP.” COURTY FACEBOOK BUT THERE WAS MORE DARKNS TO JOE’S CHARACTER THAN ANYBODY TOWN IMAGED. THE G.W. PARK STAFF WAS A HODGEPODGE OF HOMELS PEOPLE, DG ADDICTS, AND OTHERS DOWN ON THEIR LUCK. SOME HAD ARRT WARRANTS OTHER STAT. ALMOST ALL WERE POWERLS, AND LIVED TRAILERS AT THE PARK, WORKG SIX DAYS A WEEK FOR AS LTLE AS $150, WH AN EXTRA $50-100 SH, WHICH JOE LLED “SUMMER PAY.” JOE TOLD ME HE WANTED TO GIVE PEOPLE A SEND CHANCE: “I SAW MY LIFE WHAT PHED A LOT OF PEOPLE TO DGS WAS BEG AN OUTST TO SOCIETY, SO BEG GAY I RELATED TO THAT.” ADVERTISEMENT THE TTH, ACRDG TO MANY STAFF WH WHOM I’VE SPOKEN, WAS THAT JOE WAS BENT ON NTROL, ABIVE—SOMETIM PHYSILLY—AND SEXUALLY AS PREDATORY AS THE ANIMALS HE LOVED TO BREED. FEW BELIEVED THEY ULD LEAVE. HE ULD BE KD ONE MOMENT, AND SPEFUL THE NEXT. SOME OF THE MORE ZOOPHILE CREW MEMBERS TOOK HIS ABE AS LLATERAL, KNOWG A REGULAR PARK WOULD NEVER ALLOW THEM SO CLOSE TO THE ANIMALS.JOE OFTEN POSTED ADS ON CRAIGSLIST FOR YOUNG MEN TO JO HIM AND JOHN FOR WEEKENRS PLS VALLEY OR OKLAHOMA CY MOTELS. THEY RETURNED OM THE TRIPS BLEARY-EYED AND BELLIGERENT. TIGER, LN, AND BEAR CUBS LIVED JOE AND JOHN’S TRAILER, AND FETED EVERYWHERE. THE SMELL WAS APPALLG. JOHN BLAM JOE FOR TRODUCG HIM TO METH, AND THE PAIR BEGAN LIFTG WEIGHTS. JOHN TOOK STEROIDS, WHICH SWUNG HIS MOOD. “AT THE DROP OF A DIME, I ULD GO OFF,” HE TOLD ME.JOE BOUGHT JOHN ALMOST ANYTHG HE WANTED, OM BELT BUCKL TO TCKS. BUT HE WAS POSSSIVE, AND KEPT HIS YOUNG BOYIEND HIGH ON DGS. “[JOE] HAD JOHN’S HEAD THAT IF HE LEFT, HE ULDN’T GO NOWHERE,” ONE OF JOHN’S FORMER GIRLIENDS TOLD ME. “HE ULDN’T DO NOTHG.” IN 2009 JOE RECEIVED ALLIGATORS OM MICHAEL JACKSON’S NEVERLAND RANCH, UPON THE POP STAR’S ATH, AND HOED THEM THE BUILDG BRIAN HAD LIVED AT THE PTH OF HIS ILLNS. SOMEHOW, THE PARK WAS STILL GROWG. BUT WAS THE SUBJECT OF EIGHT SEPARATE LEGAL S THAT YEAR. AND CAROLE WAS TURNG HER CROSSHAIRS DIRECTLY ON JOE. SHE NOTICED HE WOULD E UP TO 20 PANY NAM FOR HIS ROADSHOW TO, AS JOE PUT , “KEEP CAROLE BY,” AND SWCH IF SOMEBODY TECTED ANYTHG UNTOWARD. CAROLE REARCHED JOE’S TOUR SCHLE, AND MOBILIZED HER FOLLOWERS TO EMAIL PLATS TO VENU. SOMETIM CAROLE GENERATED A THOAND EMAILS—A LOT FOR A MIDWT MALL MANAGER’S BOX. MOST IGNORED THEM AND LET JOE NTUE. SOME, THOUGH, NCELED. OTHER TIM CAROLE WOULD LL UP REPORTERS WHERE JOE WAS, AND TE THEM ABOUT HIS ABE. ADVERTISEMENT “IT WAS HAVG SOME EFFECT AND G A PROBLEM FOR HIM,” HOWARD TOLD ME.HE WAS RIGHT. JOE ACCED CREW MEMBERS OF BEG PETA SPI, AND KEPT THEM ON THE PARK AFTER CLOSG FOR LONG, RAMBLG SCREEDS THAT MIGHT LAST THREE HOURS. AROUND 2010 HE SENT JOHN TO SPE OUT BIG CAT RCUE, AND SPRKLED CAROLE’S NAME TO DAILY NVERSATN. JOE ULD BARELY WA TO TALK ABOUT THE “BCH” WHO WAS AFTER HIS BS. ANIMAL ABE AT THE G.W. PARK GREW VVILLIAN. CREW WOULD STROLL ABOUT TOSSG LIVE CHICKENS, TS, AND OTHER ANIMALS TO BIG-T ENCLOSUR, OR SHOOTG THEM FOR FUN. CATS, GERBILS, AND RATS WERE FED TO SNAK AND BIG TS. MANY ANIMALS WENT HUNGRY FOR DAYS; SOME STARVED TO ATH. WHEN A BIG T GOT SICK, JOE TURNED TO A DONATN DRIVE, PLEADG ONLE FOR MONEY TO HEAL THEM. ONE EMPLOYEE SAID SHE SAW STAFF SHARE A JOT WH A MONKEY, AND THAT CUBS WERE “ROUTELY STCK WH FORCE ON THE NOSE, FACE, EY, AND NECK.” ONE CREW MEMBER WAS DARED TO BE THE HEAD OFF A LIVE SNAKE—HE DID. ANOTHER SAID HE WNSED JOE N OVER EM A FOUR-WHEELER SO HE ULD SELL THEIR BON TO THE MM OF OSTEOLOGY, OKLAHOMA CY. “IF SOMEBODY THKS THEY’RE GOG TO WALK HERE AND TAKE MY ANIMALS AWAY, ’S GOG TO BE A SMALL WA.”— JOE EXOTIC ANIMALS JOE AND THE CREW KILLED WERE DUMPED A SPOT TOWARD THE BACK OF THE PARK THEY LLED THE “TIGER P.” THE STENCH BEME SO BAD THAT FRANCIS SAID REMD HIM OF THE KOREAN WAR’S BATTLEFIELDS. HE AND SHIRLEY STILL VISED MOST DAYS, BUT THERE’S NOTHG TO SUGGT THEY NSPIRED THE ABE RRIED OUT BY THEIR SON, WHO WAS TURNG TO SOMETHG FAR MORE SISTER THAN THE FANTASIST HE HAD BEEN. MANY CREW MEMBERS RELLED JOE STNG OUT, OR ACTG LIKE HE WAS HIGH ON E. JOE ALLEGEDLY MOCKED DISABLED CHILDREN WHO VISED THE PARK, AND JOKED WH ONE EMPLOYEE THAT A POCKET KNIFE WAS HIS “N---ER STABBER.” “HE STARTED TO LOSE GRIP ON WHO HE ACTUALLY WAS,” JOHN TOLD ME. “HE’D JOKE ABOUT YOU TO YOUR FACE, OR CHAT SH ABOUT YOU BEHD YOUR BACK. HE JT WAS AN ALL-ROUND FUCKG ASSHOLE.” ADVERTISEMENT ON OCT. 18, 2011, TERRY THOMPSON SET 56 OF HIS ZANVILLE ANIMALS EE BEFORE SHOOTG HIMSELF THE HEAD. THE ENSUG ANIMAL MASSACRE MA HEADL WORLDWI, AS PS HUNTED THOMPSON’S ADLY MENAGERIE. JOE CLAIMED ACTIVISTS MURRED THOMPSON TO TIGHTEN OH’S ANIMAL LAWS. AT THE TIME, 13 STAT ALLOWED PRIVATE CIZENS TO OWN EXOTICS, CLUDG OKLAHOMA.IN 2012 THE HUMANE SOCIETY LLED THE G.W. PARK A “TICKG TIME BOMB, POTENTIALLY 10 TIM WORSE THAN ZANVILLE.” “IF SOMEBODY THKS THEY’RE GOG TO WALK HERE AND TAKE MY ANIMALS AWAY,” JOE TOLD A REPORTER, “’S GOG TO BE A SMALL WA.”JOE NTUED TOURG SPE CAROLE’S EFFORTS. HER EMAIL BOX FILLED WH ATH AND RAPE THREATS. ONE DAY SHE OPENED HER MAILBOX TO FD FULL OF SNAK. ON ANOTHER, SOMEBODY ATTACHED WIR TO MAKE SEEM LIKE THE MAILBOX WAS RIGGED WH A BOMB. A TRAPPER ATTACKED HER A PARKG LOT AFTER A URT HEARG. JOE NI HE WAS BEHD THE THREATS, THOUGH HE DID PROTT BIG CAT RCUE DRSED A RABB SU. “CAROLE IS A FUCKG U KE,” HE TOLD ME.IN 2011 CAROLE’S ASSOCIAT BEGAN EMAILG HER ABOUT A MALL PETTG ACT WHICH BIG CAT RCUE WAS ALLEGEDLY VOLVED. SHE REALIZED THAT JOE, A STUPID ACT OF RETALIATN, HAD ED HER PANY’S NAME TO PROMOTE HIS SHOW. IT WAS A LEGAL OPEN GOAL. CAROLE AND HOWARD FILED A PYRIGHT-GEMENT SU, BUT JOE DIDN’T BACK DOWN. HE UNTERSUED FOR LIBEL AND SLANR, MANDG $15 LN DAMAG. MEANWHILE, JOE HAD BEGUN FILMG AT THE PARK, HOPG FOOTAGE WOULD PROPEL HIM TO HOLLYWOOD. ONE NIGHT HE ADDRSED THE MERA, AND SAID: “FOR CAROLE AND ALL OF HER IENDS THAT ARE WATCHG OUT THERE, IF YOU THK FOR ONE MUTE I WAS NUTS BEFORE, I AM THE MOST DANGERO EXOTIC-ANIMAL OWNER ON THIS PLA RIGHT NOW. AND BEFORE YOU BRG ME DOWN, IS MY BELIEF THAT YOU WILL STOP BREATHG.” ADVERTISEMENT IN 2013 A JUDGE ORRED JOE TO PAY BIG CAT RCUE $1 LN DAMAG. HIS ATTORNEYS DROPPED THE $15 LN SU. HIS RELATNSHIP WH JOHN, WHO WAS HOOKED ON METH AND STEROIDS, SOURED. JOHN CHEATED ON JOE WH SEVERAL WOMEN AND TOLD ME JOE’S CULT-LIKE KGDOM WAS CMBLG, AND THAT HE ROLVED NEVER TO PAY CAROLE A CENT. HE SWCHED THE PARK’S OWNERSHIP, CHANGED S NAME, FILED FOR BANKPTCY AND HID ASSETS. CAROLE HIRED VTIGATORS TO FD THE SH. THEY PULLED JOE’S SIBLGS BACK TO HIS ORB, AND TARGETED A 235-ACRE PLOT OF FAY LAND KANSAS: THEIR HERANCE. JOE’S LEGAL SKULDUGGERY BEME KG LEAR WH WBOY HATS. AFTER ZANVILLE, OH PASSED SOME OF THE UNTRY’S TOUGHT EXOTIC-ANIMAL OWNERSHIP LAWS. TO PREVENT THAT OUTE OKLAHOMA, JOE NEED NATNAL FAME. HE POSTED CRAIGSLIST ADS FOR PRODUCTN STAFF TO FILM REALY SHOWS AT THE PARK, HOPG TO BEE THE NEXT STEVE IRW, AND HIRED MICIANS TO WRE UNTRY SONGS HE LIP-SYNCED VIOS. BUT HE ULDN’T SHAKE HIS HATRED OF CAROLE. ONE OF HIS SONGS, “HERE KTY KTY,” FEATURED A MOL FEEDG MEAT TO TIGERS OM A MANNEQU’S HEAD—SUPPOSEDLY REFERENCG CAROLE’S CEASED HBAND—WHILE JOE, DRSED SHAS, A PASTOR’S LLAR, AND BLACK HAT, MIMED L LIKE A SPAGHETTI WTERN PREACHER:SO IF YOU’RE EVER DOWN TAMPA ON A BIG-T REFUGE,DON’T PICK A FIGHT WH YOUR WIFE, ADVERTISEMENT ‘CSE ’S A BIG 40 ACR AND IF YOU’RE NOT REFUL,YOU’LL BE GONE THE BLK OF AN EYE ONE OF THOSE ASKED TO FILM JOE’S UPG WEB SHOW WAS TRAVIS MALDONADO, A HANDSOME, SIX-FOOT-FOUR-CH TALL 20-YEAR-OLD OM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. HE LOVED BIK, AND THOUGHT NOTHG OF CYCLG 300 ACROSS THE STATE ON A $4,000 MOL HIS FATHER DANNY, A 23-YEAR MARE VETERAN WH A SNOW-WHE HANDLEBAR MTACHE, BOUGHT HIM. TRAVIS HAD A ROLL-LL OF GIRLIENDS AND A JOB AT AMERIN TIRE THAT HE’D GOTTEN AFTER DCHG HIGH SCHOOL AT 18. BUT HE WAS BORED, AND EXPERIMENTED WH DGS. TRAVIS AND DANNY SAW OKLAHOMA AS A CHANCE TO CLEAN UP AND WORK ON SOMETHG FUN. TRAVIS WASN’T DOWN-AND-OUT, AS JOE WOULD LATER SIST. THE DAY HE LEFT, DANNY HAND HIM A THOAND DOLLARS TO GET TO WYNNEWOOD. “HE THOUGHT HE WAS HAVG THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME,” SHERRY PECK, DANNY’S GIRLIEND, TOLD ME. “HE DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS WALKG TO HELL.” ADVERTISEMENT AS WH JOHN, JOE TOOK AN STANT LIKG TO TRAVIS. HE, JOE, AND JOHN NTUED TO SPEND LONG WEEKENDS AT MOTELS, AND VE OTHER MEN TO THEIR RELATNSHIP. WH A MONTH OF TRAVIS’ ARRIVAL OCTOBER 2013, THE THREE MEN WED A CEREMONY AT A HALL ACROSS THE STREET OM THE G.W. PARK. DANNY BARELY KNEW ANYTHG ABOUT THE RELATNSHIP. HE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HIS SON WAS GAY—NOT THAT BOTHERED HIM.THE BIG DAY SELF, NE MONTHS BEFORE THE FIRST LEGAL GAY WEDDG WOULD BE HELD OKLAHOMA, WAS AN EXTRAVAGANZA JOE HOPED WOULD PROJECT HIM TO THE WORLD. IN A VIO POSTED TO THE JOEEXOTICTV YOUTUBE CHANNEL, JOE VED A CLOTHG STORE CLERK TO DROP BY. “IT’S FOR A TV SHOW,” HE TOLD HER WH A SHG. EVERYTHG WAS ZOO-THEMED. MONKEYS RRIED FLOWERS, THE KE WAS TIGER-STRIPED, AND A BLACK CELEB CRTED MAQUE BORE THE RGS. THE THREE MEN WORE BRIGHT PK WBOY SHIRTS, STANDG LE BI A NDLE JOE L FOR GAROLD. JOE STOOD THE MIDDLE, WEARG A BLACK, WI-BRIMMED HAT. JOE CHOREOGRAPHED THE DAY. DANNY WASN’T VED. JOE DIDN’T WANT CHERYL THERE EHER. ONLY TRAVIS’ OLR SISTERS, ASHLEY AND DANIELLE, WERE ASKED TO ATTEND. “JOE SAID NO AND WHAT JOE SAID, WENT,” DANNY TOLD ME. I ASKED HIM WHY JOE KEPT HIM AWAY. “CONTROL,” HE SAIDDPE HOW NTRIVED THE CEREMONY FELT, TRAVIS SEEMED HAPPY. JOE TREATED HIM LIKE A BIG KID. HE BOUGHT TRAVIS A FOUR-WHEELER, GAVE HIM SH, AND LET HIM ROAM THE PARK. TRAVIS LIKED TO SHOOT GUNS TO THE GROUND. HE SMOKED A LOT OF POT. HE ULD BE MEAN, THROWG LIVE CHICKENS TO THE T G. HE ALSO H CUBS. ONE STAFF MEMBER RELLED HIM AS “PARTICULARLY SADISTIC.” OTHERS LIKED HIM. “TRAVIS WAS A BLAST, MAN,” FORMER CREW MEMBER DIANNA MAZAK TOLD ME. “HE WAS LOUD AND CRAZY AND DIDN’T RE.” ADVERTISEMENT JOE NTUED TO SELL LIVE AND AD EXOTICS OFF THE BOOKS. HE WAS A LYNCHP NORTH AMERI’S ILLEGAL ANIMAL TRA. BUT AS MORE ANIMALS ARRIVED AT THE PARK, PROFS FELL. AT THE SAME TIME, JOE STEPPED UP HIS ONLE ATTACKS AGAST CAROLE. HE POSED WH A RIFLE ON FACEBOOK, WH THE PTN “BRG ON, BCH.” WHEN HOWARD MENTNED THE THREATS AT MEDIATN ONCE, JOE ADMTED HE’D DONE . THEN, ACRDG TO HOWARD, JOE WAED UNTIL THE TWO MEN WERE ALONE. “NOTHG PERSONAL,” HE SAID. “WHAT ULD BE MORE PERSONAL?” HOWARD TOLD ME. ON FEB. 17, 2014, JOE POSTED HIS MOST SURREAL AND THREATENG VIO. “YOU WANNA KNOW WHY CAROLE BASK BETTER NEVER EVER EVER SEE ME FACE-TO-FACE?” HE ASKED, BEFORE SHOOTG A BLOND-WIGGED DOLL LIVE ON MERA. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME CAROLE GENUELY BELIEVED “THAT HE WOULD PAY SOMEBODY. YOU ULD SEE HIM TRYG TO WHIP PEOPLE TO A ENZY TO KILL ME,” SHE TOLD ME. BETWEEN HIS WILD ACTNS AND THE PARK’S UNENDG ABE, MOST FILM STAFF LEFT SOON AFTER THEY ARRIVED, UNABLE TO PACKAGE THE HORROR THEY WNSED TO A FAY-IENDLY PRODUCT. RICK KIRKHAM, A FORMER INSI EDN JOURNALIST WHOSE CRACK-E ADDICTN WAS THE SUBJECT OF A 2006 DOCUMENTARY LLED TV JUNKIE, LASTED 11 MONTHS. HE WNSED THE WORST OF HIS EMPLOYER’S CULTISH BEHAVR. JOE SHOT TO WALLS, AND NEAR EMPLOYE, WHO ATE THE MEAT JOE POOLED OM OKLAHOMA WAL-MARTS. IF STAFF DID ANYTHG WRONG, JOE CUT OFF THEIR FOOD. JOE NTROLLED WHEN CREW MEMBERS SLEPT, WHEN THEY GOT UP, AND FORBA RELATNS BETWEEN THEM. ADVERTISEMENT “WE WORKED WH ANIMALS THAT KILL PEOPLE,” JOE TOLD ME. “THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR GRAB-ASS OR KISSG.”. “THEY ULD NOT LEAVE THE PARK,” RICK TOLD ME. “THEY WERE TOTALLY A TRANCE-LIKE STATE.”MANY PEOPLE WOULD ONLY SPEAK TO ME ANONYMOLY FOR THIS STORY. SOME FEAR JOE’S POWER TO HARM THEM.THE TRAILERS WERE DUMPS, AND SOME EMPLOYE SLEPT ON SECT-VERED FLOORS. ONE TIME, JOE UGHT TWO CREW MEMBERS VORTG A TRAILER. HE OGMARCHED THE YOUNG WOMAN TO THE PARK GATE AND SAID, “GOOD LUCK, BCH.” ANOTHER EMPLOYEE NAMED SAFF LOST HER ARM WHEN A TIGER MLED HER THROUGH A GE. “SHE ULDN’T FOLLOW L,” JOE TOLD ME.JOHN’S STEROID AND METH ADDICTN WORSENED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. HE OVERDOSED, AND ALMOST DIED. HE OFTEN WOKE UP THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT “READY FOR A FIGHT,” JOE TOLD ME. IN AUGT 2014, JOHN ATTACKED JOE. COPS CHARGED JOHN WH ASSLT AND BATTERY.RICK SAW JOE SHOOT ONE TIGER DURG HIS YEAR AT THE PARK. ANOTHER DAY, AN OLD LADY BROUGHT A HORSE TO THE PARK AND TOLD JOE SHE ULDN’T LOOK AFTER ANY MORE. JOE HUGGED HER AND SAID HE’D RE FOR THE CREATURE. WHEN SHE LEFT, JOE TOLD RICK TO TURN HIS MERA ON. THEN HE WHIPPED OUT HIS GUN, AND SHOT THE HORSE THE HEAD WHILE WAS STILL STANDG S TRAILER. “WHAT THE FUCK,” RICK CRIED. ADVERTISEMENT “I’M NOT A CHARY,” JOE REPLIED. THEN HE FED THE HORSE OUT TO THE LNS.JOE OFTEN GRIPED TO RICK ABOUT CAROLE: HOW SHE WAS MAD AND WOULD NEVER GET HIS MONEY. HE ETTED SHE’D GET THE PARK WHEN SHIRLEY DIED, AND TRIED PUTTG HIS SHARE OF S OWNERSHIP THE NAM OF OTHERS. IT SEEMED LIKE HE WAS STALLG FOR TIME.WHEN RICK TOLD JOE HE’D NEED TO LM DOWN FOR THE MERAS, JOE TOLD HIM TO FUCK OFF. ANOTHER TIME DECEMBER 2014, RICK THREATENED TO RELEASE FOOTAGE OF ANIMAL ABE. HE THREATENED JOE: “I’M THE GUY THAT HAS VIO THAT ULD PUT YOUR ASS JAIL AND YOU KNOW , SO DON’T FUCK WH ME.”THAT NIGHT, JOE CHANGED THE LOCKS ON THE STUD, AND ANNOUNCED HE’D LEAVE TOWN FOR THREE DAYS. RICK AND THE CREW THREW AN IMPROMPTU PARTY AT THE TRAILER. IT HAD BEEN A MISERABLE 11 MONTHS, BUT THEY’D MA . THE NEXT MORNG AROUND 7 A.M., RICK RELLS, ONE OF THE PARK MANAGERS KICKED THE DOOR OF HIS TRAILER. “GRAB YOUR MERA,” THE MANAGER YELLED.“CAMERA?” RICK REPLIED. “THE MERAS ARE ALL THE STUD.” ADVERTISEMENT “THERE IS NO STUD! THE STUD BURNED DOWN OVERNIGHT.”THE HUT THAT WAS ONCE BRIAN’S HOSPICE WAS ASH. MICHAEL JACKSON’S ALLIGATORS BOILED ALIVE THEIR TANKS. JOE BLAMED RICK AND CAROLE. RICK BLAMED JOE. WHATEVER THE TTH, RICK’S VIO WAS GONE. HE DROPPED TO HIS KNE, AND CRIED.WHETHER BY ACCINT OR SIGN, JOE’S HOP OF BEG A REALY-TV STAR WERE—TEMPORARILY, AT LEAST—OVER. AND WH HIS SH DWDLG, AND CAROLE CLOSG ON THE SETTLEMENT, HE WAS GETTG SPERATE FOR A BREAK. LUCKILY, ONE WAS ABOUT TO STROLL RIGHT ONTO HIS PROPERTY. LIKE JOE, JEFF LOWE WAS NO STRANGER TO SHOWBIZ—OR NTROVERSY. HIS GRANDFATHER FOUND A CIRC AND WORKED WH RGLG BROTHERS, AND ONE OF LOWE’S FIRST HIGH-PROFILE JOBS WAS MANAGG DAREVIL MOTORCYCLIST ROBBIE KNIEVEL, SON OF EVEL (WHO HAS SCE LLED LOWE A “D,” “FAKE,” AND A “LOSER”). IN THE EARLY 2000S LOWE RAN A LIQUIDATN STORE BEFORT, SOUTH CAROLA, AND SPENT NO SHORTAGE OF TIME URT. IN 2007 HE SETTLED A LAWSU WH PRCE THAT ACCED HIM OF SELLG CLOTH EMBLAZONED WH THE ARTIST’S TRAMARKED SYMBOL. A YEAR LATER LOWE PLEAD GUILTY TO MAIL D, HAVG POSED AS A DOMTIC-ABE CHARY TO GET MARKED-DOWN GOODS FOR HIS STORE. “HE’S KD OF TALKY, ARROGANT,” JOE BARTH, WHO RAN A DRIVE- THEATER OPPOSE LOWE’S VENUE, TOLD ME. “HE LIK TO BRAG.” ADVERTISEMENT LOWE TURNED HIS BEFORT STORE TO A ROADSI ZOO FILLED WH TIGERS. HE MET LREN DROPLA, A LOL MANY YEARS HIS JUNR, 2013. HOUND BY CY UNCILORS NCERNED ABOUT THE TIGERS, LOWE LEFT SOUTH CAROLA 2015, AND SPL OM HIS WIFE KATHY SOON AFTER. THAT YEAR LOWE AND LREN VISED THE G.W. PARK. THEY WANTED A HOME FOR 12 BIG TS AND SOUGHT A HYBRID. THEY ALSO WANTED A ZOO OF THEIR OWN, AND FLEW JOE AND TRAVIS TO THEIR 12,000-SQUARE-FOOT HOME COLORADO. LOWE WAS SHORT AND STOCKY, WH DOUGHY EY. HE ALWAYS WORE A BIKER JACKET AND DO-RAG, UNR WHICH LOCKS OF GRAY HAIR TUMBLED OUT LIKE STANT NOODL. HE ACCSORIZED HIS FERRARI SPORTS R WH A FERRARI-BRAND BASEBALL P. LREN WAS SLIM AND GLAMORO, WH SILKEN RED HAIR. JEFF AND LREN LOWE.COURTY OF JEFF LOWE SOME MIGHT HAVE SNIFFED OUT TROUBLE. JOE SMELLED SUCCS. HE NEED SH WH CAROLE OWED THE $1 LN OM HER LAWSU. “HE SAW THE FERRARIS AND THE PORSCH AND ALL THE EXOTIC VEHICL,” LOWE TOLD ME OF JOE. “AND I THK HE SAW ME AS HIS MEAL TICKET.”LOWE ALSO SAW HIS HOEGUT AS A CHANCE TO START ANEW. HE TOLD JOE TO DISSOLVE THE G.W. PARK’S LLC, OPEN ANOTHER LOWE’S NAME, AND NTUE NNG TOURS AND SHOWS AS S “ENTERTAMENT DIRECTOR.” JOE WAS OUT OF FOOD AND HADN’T PAID UTILI: LOWE WOULD KEEP THE PARK ALIVE. ACRDG TO LREN, HE SWEETENED THE AL WH AN ADDNAL $100,000. IT SEEMED FAIR. ADVERTISEMENT JOHN WAS EXPECTG HIS FIRST CHILD WH A WOMAN AT THE PARK WHEN HE AND JOE BROKE UP. JOE AND TRAVIS STUCK TOGETHER, HOWEVER, AND WED WHEN OKLAHOMA LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THE TRIP TO THE LOW’ HOME WOULD BE THEIR HONEYMOON.WH MONTHS, LOWE AND LREN WERE LIVG AT THE G.W. PARK. LOWE JOED LLS BETWEEN JOE AND HOWARD, AND NTUED TO BREED AND SELL BIG TS. IN JUNE 2017 HE OPENED NEON JUNGLE, A CUB-PETTG STOREONT A OKLAHOMA CY MALL, CHARGG CTOMERS $25 TO PET EACH ANIMAL. A MONTH LATER HE AND LREN WED AT THE MGM GRAND LAS VEGAS. JEFF WORE A BLACK DO-RAG.THE ABDINT TIGER KG, MEANWHILE, SOUGHT A NEW THRONE: THE WHE HOE. JOE LLED HIMSELF A LIBERTARIAN; HE WAS PRO-CHOICE, PRO-LGBTQ RIGHTS, PRO-GUN AND—NATURALLY—PRO-EXOTIC-ANIMAL OWNERSHIP. IN A MPAIGN VIO CIRCULATED WORLDWI, JOE, WEARG A TASSELED SUE JACKET, ANNOUNCED: “I’M NOT CUTTG MY HAIR. I’M NOT CHANGG THE WAY I DRS: I REFE TO WEAR A SU. I AM GAY. I’VE HAD TWO BOYIENDS MOST OF MY LIFE. I CURRENTLY GOT LEGALLY MARRIED. THANK GOD ’S FALLY LEGAL AMERI. I’VE HAD SOME KKY SEX. I’VE TRIED DGS THROUGH THE YOUNGER YEARS OF MY LIFE. I’M BROKE AS SH. I HAVE A JUDGMENT AGAST ME OM SOME BCH DOWN THERE FLORIDA.”JOE HIRED JOSH DIAL, A GUN-STORE CLERK PLS VALLEY, WHO ONCE ATTACKED A MAN WH A NJA SWORD, AS HIS MPAIGN MANAGER. JOE DIDN’T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REPUBLINS, DEMOCRATS, AND LIBERTARIANS. “MY JOB WAS TO MAKE HIM APPEALG TO THE LIBERTARIAN CROWD, EVEN THOUGH HE WASN’T A LIBERTARIAN,” JOSH TOLD ME. “I REALLY JT TRIED TO DRILL AS MUCH AS I ULD HIM.” ADVERTISEMENT JOE DIDN’T W THE 2016 RACE (HE BEME A DONALD TMP FAN). IN 2017 HE SET HIS SIGHTS ON THE UPG OKLAHOMA GUBERNATORIAL ELECTN. HE AGA HIRED JOSH, WHO MOVED TO ONE OF THE PARK’S TRAILERS. JOE ED THE HASHTAG #FIXTHISSH. HE SPENT PARK SH ON NDOMS RATED WH PHOTOS OF HIM A SUGGTIVE POSE. IN JUNE 2017 HE AND JOSH, WHO IS ALSO GAY, VISED THE OKC PRI PARA JOE’S LIMO. JOE JUMPED ON THE R’S ROOF AND WAVED TO THE CROWD. THEY EPTED. “THAT WAS PROBABLY THE ONLY TIME I THOUGHT, ‘WOW, THIS GUY ULD ACTUALLY DO SOMETHG,’” JOSH TOLD ME.JT WHEN THGS LOOKED UP, A TRAGEDY BROUGHT JOE’S LIFE CRASHG DOWN. AROUND LUNCHTIME ON OCT. 7, A CLEAR, SUNNY DAY, JOSH AND TRAVIS SAT THE PARK OFFICE. TRAVIS TOYED WH A .45 RUGER PISTOL THAT JOE HAD BOUGHT HIM. HE’D HEARD THE WEAPON WOULDN’T FIRE WHOUT S MAGAZE. HE RACKED S SLI, HELD THE BARREL TO HIS TEMPLE, AND FIRED. A BULLET WENT STRAIGHT THROUGH TRAVIS’ BRA, SLAPPG TO THE WALL BI HIM. FOR A FEW SENDS, JOSH THOUGHT WAS A PRANK. “IT LOOKED LIKE HOLLYWOOD SH, BLOOD SPURTG OUT OM EVERYWHERE,” HE TOLD ME.TRAVIS’ HEAD FELL BACK. HIS ADAM’S APPLE BOBBED UP AND DOWN FASTER THAN JOSH HAD EVER SEEN. ERIC COWIE, A ARY VETERAN CREW MEMBER, TOOK THE GUN OM HIS HAND AND WRAPPED TRAVIS’ HEAD A WHE SHIRT TO STEM THE BLEEDG. BUT TRAVIS, 23, DIED MUT LATER. JOSH WENT TO SHOCK. “I DON’T THK I’LL EVER BE THE SAME PERSON,” HE TOLD ME.JOE WAS PLS VALLEY. WHEN HE RETURNED, HE HOWLED. IT WAS 30 YEARS TO THE DAY SCE GAROLD’S ATH. ADVERTISEMENT THE NEXT MORNG, JOE STOOD BEFORE TV MERAS, WEEPG HIS PK WEDDG SHIRT. “ONE RELS MISTAKE SNUFFED HIM OUT,” HE SAID. DAYS LATER JOHN FOUND JOE HIS GARAGE, WH A CELLPHONE ONE HAND AND A GUN THE OTHER. HE’D BLASTED A HOLE THE TELEVISN BI HIM.DANNY ONLY DISVERED HIS SON’S ATH VIA FACEBOOK. JOE TOLD THE FAY TO STAY AWAY, AND CREMATED TRAVIS’ BODY FOUR DAYS LATER, BEFORE THEY ARRIVED OKLAHOMA FOR HIS FUNERAL. IT WAS A BIZARRE AFFAIR. JOE WORE THE FX PASTOR’S OUTF OM HIS “HERE KTY KTY” VIO, PLETE WH HAT AND WRAPAROUND SHAS. HARLEY-DAVIDSON BIKERS OM NEARBY MOORE ACPANIED THE RTEGE TO THE G.W. PARK. HUNDREDS ATTEND. JOE STOOD AT A LECTERN, FLANKED BY IENDS, FAY, AND FORMER LOVERS. THE SUN ST A HAZY PENUMBRA ACROSS HIS BLACK AME. “I MET TRAVIS WHEN HE WAS BASILLY HOMELS AND HAD A BACKPACK ON HIS BACK,” JOE LIED. HE WAXED ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIP, AND END: “IF WE N PULL ONE THG OFF WH THIS HORRIBLE TRAGEDY, IS TO NTUE TO BYPASS THE HATE AND THE JUDGMENT THAT WE ST UPON EACH OTHER NO MATTER WHAT WE DO.”DANNY WAS FUR. “HE’S NOT AN ORDAED PRIT,” HE TOLD ME. “HE’S SUCH A FAKE. IT’S ALL BS—EVERYTHG. IT’S ALL FOR PUBLICY… THE WHOLE THG’S A CIRC.” JOE GAVE TRAVIS’ FAY HIS ASH WAL-MART-BOUGHT NTAERS. DANNY HAD SEEN MANY ASH DURG HIS ARY SERVICE. THEY WERE GRAY. THE WERE WHE. “I DID NOT BELIEVE WHAT HE GAVE ME WAS MY SON’S REMAS,” DANNY TOLD ME. JOE NI THE CLAIM. “DANNY NEEDS TO LET HIS SON RT PEACE,” HE TOLD ME.SOON AFTER THE FUNERAL, JOE SET UP THE TRAVIS MALDONADO FOUNDATN, A GROUP WHOSE WEBSE CLAIMS PROVIS “NO-ST ROURC FOR THOSE STGGLG WH METH ADDICTN AND GUN-SAFETY TN.” DONATNS GO TO THE UNED STAT ZOOLOGIL ASSOCIATN, A GROUP JOE FOUND AND LED. ADVERTISEMENT JT DAYS LATER JOE WAS OUT ON THE PARK AGA. FIVE NEW TIGERS WERE ARRIVG. TO MAKE ROOM, JOE SHOT FIVE OLR TIGERS—CUDDL, DELILAH, LREN, SAMSON, AND TRY—THROUGH THE HEAD WH HIS SHOTGUN. “IF I KNEW WAS THIS EASY, I’D JT BLAST THEM ALL,” HE TOLD COWIE.LOWE FEARED THE PARK WOULD NEVER MAKE MONEY. WH JOE’S WAL-MART SCHEME OVER, FOOD ST A FORTUNE. “THERE REALLY ISN’T MUCH LEFT HERE BIS TS FOR PEOPLE TO LOOK AT,” HE TEXTED JOE. “THE PLACE JT EATS MONEY.” POLICE ARRTED SAFARI BAR STAFF FOR ALG METH. LOWE PLANNED A “JUNGLE B” MOBILE CUB-PETTG ZOO LAS VEGAS. THAT NOVEMBER, JOE APPEARED AT A LIBERTARIAN GUBERNATORIAL EVENT OKLAHOMA CY. HE CSED AND GUSED THE ETHNICY OF DIENCE MEMBERS. “IT WAS GOG OFF THE RAILS,” ONE POLIL ACTIVIST TOLD ME. JOE LOST HIS PRIMARY. “HIS EXISTENCE AS AN OKLAHOMAN IS MORE LIKE A ROADSI ATTRACTN,” THE ACTIVIST NTUED. “LIKE, HE’S THE WORLD'S LARGT PEANUT, OR WHATEVER. I THK PEOPLE KD OF VIEW HIM AS THAT. HE’S THE GOOFY PART OF OKLAHOMA. THAT’S WHAT HE REPRENTS: HOW SILLY WE N BE SOMETIM.” CAROLE DIDN’T THK JOE WAS SILLY. IN FEBARY 2017, A G.W. PARK EMPLOYEE NAMED ASHLEY WEBSTER LEFT HER A VOICEMAIL. JOE HAD ASKED ASHLEY TO KILL CAROLE, AND SHE BELIEVED HE WAS SER. “I FELT LIKE YOUR LIFE IS DANGER,” WEBSTER SAID. WEBSTER’S VOICEMAIL WAS FORWARD BY THE BASKS’ ATTORNEY TO THE FBI. THERE WAS ALREADY AN VTIGATN UNRWAY AT THE G.W. PARK. SPECIAL AGENT MATT BRYANT, WH U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, WAS EXAMG ACCATNS OF ANIMAL CELTY WHEN HE UGHT WD OF A POTENTIAL MURR PLOT. ADVERTISEMENT JAM GARRETSON HAD RECENTLY RETURNED TO JOE’S LIFE: HE WANTED TIPS ON OPENG A TIGER B&B MUCH LIKE WILDLIFE ON EAST STREET. BUT HE GREW TRATED AT THE ABE HE WNSED WYNNEWOOD. “HE WAS DOG SOME EVIL THGS DOWN THERE WH THE ANIMALS,” HE TOLD ME. JOE HAD ASKED HIM TO KILL CAROLE BASK, TOO— WAS BEG TOUGHER TO FD PEOPLE JOE HADN’T ASKED TO MURR HIS ARCH-RIVAL. “WHEN IS SHE EVER GONNA FUCKG STOP,” HE ASKED JOE SEPTEMBER. “SHE WON’T UNTIL SOMEBODY SHOOTS HER,” JOE REPLIED.LOWE SAID JOE ASKED HIM TO BRG UP GOOGLE EARTH ON HIS PUTER (“MY MONOR IS HUGE”) JOE AND TRAVIS MAPPED OUT PLAC TO KILL CAROLE. JEFF TOLD ME HE SUGGTED NOT TO KILL HER BUT TO “BURN HER SH TO THE GROUND.” “YOU M MORE CRIM THAN ANY OF BED.”— JEFF LOWE BY THE TIME ALLEN GLOVER, A RECENT STAFF ADDN, ENTERED THE AY TO KILL CAROLE, JOE WAS ALREADY UNR SURVEILLANCE. GLOVER HATED JOE, TOO. HE WAS “AN ASSHOLE,” GLOVER LATER TTIFIED. “TREAT HIS EMPLOYE LIKE DIRT… HE WOULD DOWNGRA ME TO THE POT WHERE WAS G CLOSE TO BLOWS, THAT’S HOW BAD GOT… HE’S JT—HE’S REALLY A CEL, CEL PERSON.” JOE THOUGHT GLOVER SHOULD TRAVEL TO BIG CAT RCUE WH A FAKE ID. HE ORRED JOHN TO DRIVE GLOVER TO A DALLAS LIGHTG STORE TO GET ONE, AND MAILED HIS CELLPHONE TO A LAS VEGAS ADDRS REGISTERED TO LOWE, TO VER HIS TRACKS. BUT GLOVER CID TO SPL WH JOE’S MONEY, AND FLEW TO SAVANNAH. HIS TEARDROP TATTOO WAS FACT A TRIBUTE TO HIS LATE GRANDMOTHER. GLOVER PLANNED TO WARN CAROLE PERSON, BUT DIDN’T MAKE TO TAMPA BEFORE STOPPG AT A BEACH AND BLOWG ALL THE MONEY ON PARTYG. ADVERTISEMENT BRYANT, UNAWARE OF GLOVER’S WHEREABOUTS, WARNED HOWARD AND CAROLE ABOUT AN “IMMENT THREAT.” THEY BOUGHT WDOW BLDS, BEGAN RRYG PISTOLS, AND AVOID RIDG BICYCL TO WORK. PEOPLE KNEW CAROLE TAMPA, AND OFTEN STOPPED HER THE STREET OR SUPERMARKET. ONE TIME CAROLE WAS FILLG UP AT A GAS STATN WHEN A MAN APPROACHED HER. SHE SHUDRED: DO I NEED TO GRAB THE GAS AND SPRAY THIS GUY? JOE WAS OUT THOANDS OF DOLLARS, ALLEN GLOVER WAS GONE, AND CAROLE BASK WAS STILL ALIVE. JOE GAVE UP ON HIS ADLY PLOT FOR A WHILE. BUT ON DEC. 8, GARRETSON BROUGHT A MAN NAMED MARK TO THE PARK, AND TOLD JOE HE ULD BE TSTED TO KILL CAROLE. THIS TIME JOE WAS NO MOOD FOR WORKAROUNDS. “JT FOLLOW HER TO A MALL PARKG LOT, P HER, AND DRIVE OFF,” HE SAID. BY THAT TIME, JOE HAD FOUND HIS LATT BE, A YOUNG AT MAN NAMED DILLON PASSAGE. JOE BELIEVED TRAVIS HAD SENT DILLON TO THE PARK KEEP HIM OM MTG SUICI. THE TWO APPLIED FOR A MARRIAGE LICENSE PLS VALLEY 59 DAYS AFTER TRAVIS’ ATH. LOWE AND JOE’S RELATNSHIP, MEANWHILE, WAS TATTERS. THE PARK’S FANC ALREADY HUNG BY A THREAD, BUT JOE HAD SIPHONED PARK FUNDS FOR HIS GUBERNATORIAL RACE, FG CHECKS AND SPENDG SH ON GIFTS FOR DILLON, SUCH AS A FORD MTANG. TEXT MSAG BETWEEN THE TWO MEN 2018 VOLVED OM BRO-EY IENDSHIP TO VENOMO HATRED. ADVERTISEMENT IT BOILED OVER THE PARK’S OFFICE. “YOU M MORE CRIM THAN ANY OF BED, BUT YOU NEVER GET TROUBLE BEE YOU PASS THE BUCK ON TO SOMEONE ELSE,” LOWE SHOUTED AT JOE, ACRDG TO VIO TAKEN BY LREN. DILLON WAS A “CHEERLEADG FAGGOT,” LOWE ADD. “HE’S NOT EVEN A MAN LIKE YOU. HE’S A SISSY BOY.” JOE ARGUED BACK FEEBLY, BUT HE WAS CRTFALLEN, AND PHYSILLY BROKEN. HE’D N A STOP SIGN DRIVG TO FRANCIS, BY THEN HEAVILY ILL WH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, AND WAS H BY A TCK. HE BROKE BON HIS BACK, NECK, AND RIGHT LEG. HE OPENED A DIALOGUE WH BRANNY PEET OM PETA, HOPG TO BRG DOWN LOWE AND OTHERS. JOE TOLD HER TRAVIS’ ATH HAD CHANGED HIS PERSPECTIVE. “HE FELT HE WAS WASTG HIS LIFE,” PEET SAID. “HE ALSO FELT THAT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THE EXOTIC-ANIMAL BS THAT HE HAD FEND OVER THE YEARS HAD THROWN HIM UNR THE B.”LOWE WROTE JOE OUT OF THE PARK’S OWNERSHIP. HE RENAMED THE “GREATER WYNNEWOOD EXOTIC ANIMAL PARK”, TO KEEP THE “G.W. EXOTIC PARK” SIGNS ALONG I-35. JOE WANTED OUT. HE HAD SPOKEN ABOUT FLEEG TO BELIZE WH SEVERAL PEOPLE AT THE ZOO. HE SOLD SOME TIGER CUBS, PACKED A MEL, AND SOME DOGS A TRAILER, AND DROVE TO YON, JT WT OF OKC, WH DILLON. THERE HE PAID $2,000 RENT TO LIVE ON A 6-ACRE PROPERTY. ADVERTISEMENT IT WAS REAL OKLAHOMA. FRACKG TOWERS AND GRA SILOS PEPPERED THE FLAT, BLANCHED HORIZON. JOE HAD SPENT S CREATG WORLDS TO SU HIM. NOW HE WAS A BLOND-MULLETED WBOY THE BUCKLE OF THE BIBLE BELT. HE AND DILLON RARELY LEFT. LOLS DIDN’T CHAT ACROSS THE FENCE. “THE OTHER NEIGHBORS WERE UPSET THERE WAS A MEL,” ONE TOLD ME. THE UPLE TEXTED LOVE NOT OM DIFFERENT ROOMS SO THEY WOULD NEVER BE APART. MEANWHILE, THREATS ARRIVED OM LOWE. “FUCK WH ME AND I WILL BULLDOZE YOUR HOE OFF THE PROPERTY,” HE TEXTED DILLON.ONE NIGHT AUGT, JOE AND DILLON LEFT SUDNLY. JOE POSTED A PHOTO TO INSTAGRAM WH THE HASHTAG #BELIZE. THEY WERE ACTUALLY GULF BREEZE, FLORIDA. JOE WASHED DISH AT A PIRATE-THEMED RTRANT. ON SEPT. 7, HE LEFT THEIR RENTED HOME, HOPG TO GET A JOB AT A NEARBY HOSPAL. AS JOE STEPPED OUT OF HIS FORD F-150 ON S LOT, FOUR PS SURROUND HIM. “GET ON THE GROUND!” THEY SCREAMED. JOE’S NEW LIFE HAD LASTED JT 81 DAYS. MARK WASN’T A HMAN, AS JAM GARRETSON HAD TOLD JOE; HE WAS AN FBI AGENT. GARRETSON HAD AGREED TO WEAR A WIRE AND RERD THE ENTIRE PLAN TO KILL CAROLE. JOE NEVER STUMPED UP THE SH FOR HIS SEND HMAN—BUT DIDN’T MATTER. HOURS OF DAMNG FOOTAGE WAS PLAYED TO JURORS AT A WEEKLONG TRIAL OKLAHOMA CY THIS MARCH. ADVERTISEMENT CAROLE TTIFIED FOR ONE DAY, RTED TO URT BY ARMED GUARD. SHE DIDN’T STICK AROUND FOR THE VERDICT, FEARG ONE OF JOE’S FOLLOWERS WOULD EXECUTE HER, JACK RUBY-STYLE.THE JURY TOOK JT HOURS TO NVICT JOE ON 21 UNTS, CLUDG TWO OF MURR-FOR-HIRE, FIVE FOR THE TIGERS’ ATHS, AND MORE THAN A DOZEN UNTS OF ILLEGAL ANIMAL TRAFFICKG AND SELLG. JOE’S FENSE HE WAS PLAYG ALONG TO CRIMATE LOWE AND THE OTHERS FELL FLAT, AS WAS HIS SISTENCE HE WAS ENTRAPPED. THE JUDGE BARRED JOE OM MENTNG DON LEWIS’ ATH DURG THE TRIAL.“HERE’S THE THG WH KGS,” SAID ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY AMANDA GREEN. “THEY START TO BELIEVE THEY’RE ABOVE THE LAW.”SENTENCG IS EXPECTED NEXT MONTH. JOE FAC 20-PL YEARS PRISON.WHEN CAROLE RETURNED TO FLORIDA, SHE POSTED A VIO SAYG THAT JOE WAS NOT SIMPLY “ONE CRAZY BAD APPLE,” AND LLED OUT SEVERAL OTHER ROADSI ZOO OWNERS. SHE STILL UPDAT WHEN I VISED BIG CAT RCUE JT AFTER THE VERDICT, CAROLE AND HOWARD’S BLDS WERE OPEN, AND SUN POURED THROUGH THEIR OFFICE WDOW. “FOR JOE, WAS VERY PERSONAL,” CAROLE TOLD ME. “WHEREAS FOR , WAS JT ANOTHER ONE OF THE BAD GUYS THAT WE ARE TRYG TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF.” ADVERTISEMENT CAROLE BASK AT BIG CAT RCUE TAMPA, FLORIDA. COURTY BIG CAT RCUE CAROLE SAID ONE OF THEM IS LOWE. WHEN I VISED THE G.W. PARK MAY, S SQUALID NDNS WERE UNR HIS AND LREN’S STEWARDSHIP. LOWE TOLD ME HE’S HAD “FIVE NSECUTIVE PERFECT UNANNOUNCED USDA SPECTNS”, SPENDS $4,000 WEEKLY ON FOOD, AND THAT THE BIG TS ARE “HAPPY.”ONE EMPLOYEE, TARYN WALKER, SAID THE NEW OWNERS ARE PETENT, AND FEED THE TS CHICKEN RATHER THAN MORE EXPENSIVE AND NUTR RED MEAT. WHEN TARYN REPORTED THE PARK FOR MISTREATG S HORS, LOWE LLED HER A “C-NT” ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE, AND REERATED TO ME, CLAIMG SHE TASERED TIGERS: “SHOW YOUR FACE HERE AGA YOU BCH, I HAVE A RAKE AND SHOTGUN WH YOUR NAME ON THEM.”LOWE TOLD MARK LEWIS HE WAS STALLG A DRIVE- THEATER AT THE PARK. HE’D NVCED JOE BARTH, HIS BEFORT NEIGHBOR, TO MOVE HIS THEATER. THEN HE RENEGED ON THE AL AND, BARTH CLAIMS, STOLE THE MOVIE EQUIPMENT. HE STILL FEARS FOR HIS SAFETY.IN NOVEMBER 2017, PS RAID THE LOW’ LAS VEGAS PROPERTY AND IMPOUND A TIGER, A LILIGER, AND A LEMUR, WHICH VETS ANNOUNCED WERE SICK. THEY CED LOWE FOR DOG BS AND HANDLG ANIMALS WHOUT A LICENSE. “WHO R?” JEFF TOLD ME. “I GOT UGHT WH EXOTIC ANIMALS A CY THAT BANS EXOTICS. IT’S A MUNICIPAL URT TICKET JT LIKE JAYWALKG.” LOWE PLANNED TO CLOSE WYNNEWOOD AND REOPEN A FAR BIGGER PARK, LLED RED RIVER SAFARI, THACKERVILLE, NEAR THE GIANT WSTAR WORLD CASO ON THE OKLAHOMA-TEXAS BORR. HE ADVERTISED LABOR TO BUILD THE SE ON CRAIGSLIST, BUT AS YET THE SCHEME HASN’T PROGRSED. ADVERTISEMENT JOE HASN’T EXPRSED ANY REMORSE FOR HIS ACTNS. THE FIRST TIME WE SPOKE VIA PHONE, JOE ASKED IF I ULD PASS A MSAGE TO DONALD TMP JR. HE BELIEV HE’S BEEN SET UP LIKE TERRY THOMPSON OM ZANVILLE—A “POLIL PRISONER,” HE TOLD ME. AFTER THE NVICTN, JOE WROTE TO PRINT TMP, BEGGG FOR A PARDON. HE PLAED TO ME ABOUT NDNS JAIL, SAYG HUMANS ARE TREATED WORSE AMERIN JAILS THAN ANIMALS UNR USDA REGULATNS.JOE AND DILLON PASSAGE ARE STILL MARRIED. DILLON WOULDN’T SPEAK TO ME AND JOE WOULDN’T REVEAL HIS LOTN. DANNY MALDONADO QUTNS WHETHER TRAVIS’ ATH WAS ACCINTAL. HE WANTS THE ASH JOE GAVE HIM TTED.JOHN FLAY LIV DAVIS AND HOLDS A STEADY WELDG JOB. HAVG A DGHTER HELPED HIM FOC AFTER HIS YEARS AT THE PARK, HE TOLD ME, WHEN WE MET AT A FE NORMAN, NEAR OKLAHOMA CY. HE’S HAPPY, AND HAS A GIRLIEND. “WHETHER HE KNOWS OR NOT, HE DID MENTALLY ABE ME AND NTROLLED ME,” HE TOLD ME. “BUT I’VE ACTUALLY GOT FIGURED OUT NOW.” JOHN WILL NEVER STEP FOOT ON THE PARK AGA: LOWE THREATENED TO SHOOT HIM IF HE DO. “TRPASSG ANIMAL ABERS WILL BE SHOT AND KILLED,” LOWE TOLD ME. “HE’S AS BAD AS JOE, IF NOT WORSE,” JOHN SPAT. JEFF LOWE AND BIG TS.COURTY OF JEFF LOWE ADVERTISEMENT FRANCIS AND SHIRLEY ARE AIL AND MAY NEVER SEE THEIR YOUNGT SON EE AGA. YARRI, PAMELA, AND TAMARA AREN’T CLOSE. THEY ALL SQUABBLE OVER THE LAND KANSAS, WHOSE RIGHTS THEY NOW SHARE WH THE BASKS.DPE HIS LI AND MANIPULATN, I ENJOYED SPEAKG TO JOE. HE’S CHARMG AND AN ENGAGG SPEAKER. HE MA ME FEEL I WAS HIS BT IEND, TELLG ME THAT, AS A BRISH WRER, I ULD STICK TO THE AMERIN PRS WHO “MAKE EVERYTHG LOOK HORRIBLE.” IF HE THKS YOU’RE A POTENTIAL ENEMY, EVERYTHG CHANG. WHEN HE DISVERED I WAS REPORTG HIS TE STORY, JOE LLED ME A “BULLY” VIA HIS JAIL’S MISSARY (LLED TIGER). HE TOLD OTHERS I ULDN’T BE TSTED.JOE NEVER NFSED A PIYUNE OF REGRET TO ME. “AM I GOG TO TAKE THE FALL (FOR STUFF) THAT EVERYONE DID WRONG?” HE ASKED. AS OUR NVERSATNS NTUED, HE GREW MORE SKTISH AND HOSTILE. THEN, JT BEFORE THIS STORY WENT TO PRS, JOE BURST TO A TIRA AGAST EVERYBODY, CLUDG ME. “YOU BET I WAS CEL,” HE WROTE ME. “I AM AN ASSHOLE TO WORK FOR. PEOPL’ LIV PEND ON ME MAKG THEM FOLLOW L. THEY LET OUT THE CHIMPS, TIGERS, LEOPARDS, WOLV—YOU NAME —AND GUS WHO’S ASS WAS ALWAYS TROUBLE WHEN THEY DID… WHO THE HELL DO YOU THK IS PAID TO DO A JOB? THE STAFF. WHY WAS I WRTEN UP: BEE THE STAFF WON’T DO THEIR JOB. BUT I AM SUPPOSED TO BE NICE? “GO FUCK YOURSELF.” ADVERTISEMENT “KISS MY ASS RIGHT HERE OM JAIL,” HE POSTED TO FACEBOOK. “NONE OF YOU WILL EVER E CLOSE TO KNOWG THE STRS TOOK DAILY TO AL WH KEEPG HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ALIVE, JT SO A BUNCH OF PEOPLE, THAT THEIR OWN FAI THREW OUT, ULD NOT APPRECIATE A JOB AND A HOME.”“I AM PROUD OF WHAT I DID MY LIFE AND ANY LOSER THAT SAYS OTHERWISE HAD THE SAME CHANCE—THEY JT FUCKED UP. THAT ZOO IS CLOSG AND THE NEW ONE WILL NEVER OPEN. I PROMISE YOU THAT, ‘E A BUNCH OF PEOPLE ARE GOG TO JAIL. I AM MAKG SURE OF THAT.”THE TIGER KG WAS TRYG TO CLAW BACK POWER, BUT HE HAS NOTHG LEFT BUT HIS ROAR. HE RVED A KGDOM OM DT, CLEAVED OM THE WORLD BY A RIVER AND A EEWAY. WILD PEOPLE TAME WILD ANIMALS AND HE LED THEM ALL. THEN HE WATCHED CMBLE, AND ANOTHER MAN TOOK HIS THRONE. JOE LIVED BY THE LAWS OF THE JUNGLE. THE LAWS OF MAN WEREN’T NEARLY AS EASY TO MASTER. NOW HE’S THE ONE BEHD BARS.   SEAN WILLIAMS

160Commanx LSU FanZacharyMember sce Jul 20096919 postsre: two burglars break to home of notor gay rapistPosted by Commanx on 10/7/16 at 9:06 am to TeTigerquote:dp seems appropriate for this thread30Bmath LSU FanLAMember sce Aug 201018584 postsre: two burglars break to home of notor gay rapistPosted by Bmath on 10/7/16 at 9:09 am to Brosef Stalquote:two burlars break to home of notor gay rapist I don't mean to be anal but you misspelled "burglars. 20LSU1NSEC LSU FanMember sce Sep 200717243 postsre: two burglars break to home of notor gay rapistPosted by LSU1NSEC on 10/7/16 at 9:09 am to Brosef StalHome Abone12000Brosef Stal LSU FanMember sce Dec 201137558 postsre: two burglars break to home of notor gay rapistPosted by Brosef Stal on 10/7/16 at 9:11 am to Bmathquote:“They broke my ont door, so I broke their back doors! 230jchaMember sce Nov 200915500 postsre: two burglars break to home of notor gay rapistPosted by jcha on 10/7/16 at 9:12 am to Sobaquote:Feared for his life.

Is that the legal standard for self-fense gay rape? I live Memphis, so I need to know how far I n go the next time I'm held up at a red light30ThuperThumpMember sce Dec 20136295 postsZed, Spir ught a uple fli60slackster Stanford FanHotonMember sce Mar 200981269 posts Onle re: two burglars break to home of notor gay rapistPosted by slackster on 10/7/16 at 9:13 am to Brosef Stalquote:Harry Harrgton is 6’7? 00Peazey New Orleans Sats FanMetryMember sce Apr 201225416 postsre: two burglars break to home of notor gay rapistPosted by Peazey on 10/7/16 at 9:19 am to Brosef StalIs this real life?

00mtntiger LSU FanAsheville, NCMember sce Oct 200325261 postsre: two burglars break to home of notor gay rapistPosted by mtntiger on 10/7/16 at 9:58 am to Brosef StalTe or not, that's funny.

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00gplayerjr LSU FanLafayette, LaMember sce Sep 20081090 postsre: two burglars break to home of notor gay rapistPosted by gplayerjr on 10/7/16 at 10:07 am to Brosef StalBreak out the gimp! An -pth Church Milant vtigatn has turned up a reer-long track rerd of accatns agast former Chigo Cardal Joseph Bernard that not only was he a homopredator his entire reer but that at var stops his reer, many of those sexual asslts were tied to satanic ruals.

Bernard's entire public reer was one of warm relatnships wh promoters of homosexualy — fact, beyond his reer and even his life; he explicly requted the Chigo Gay Men's Chos to sg at his wake. Bernard's entire public reer was one of warm relatnships wh promoters of homosexualy — fact, beyond his reer and even his life.

Around the exact same timeame, when nonted wh direct evince of homosexual rapist Bishop Daniel Ryan of Sprgfield, Illois, Cacciavillan, Cardal Francis Gee, Bishop Joseph Imch and Bishop Gee Lus refed to nduct any vtigatn to their notor brother bishop. Cacciavillan was one of the Vatin's men who fend Boston Cardal Bernard Law as the homopredator sex abe clergy story was breakg on the ont pag of The Boston Globe a few years later.