Short Suck 59: The Alligator Man aka The Butcher of Elmendorf
2026-06-12 · 50 min · 9 entities
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Short Suck 59: The Alligator Man aka The Butcher of Elmendorf
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Long before serial killers became podcast and true crime doc celebrities in the US, there was Joe Ball: a bootlegger, bar owner, womanizer, and suspected murderer who kept a pit full of hungry alligators behind his Texas tavern. In the late 1930s, as women connected to Ball began disappearing one after another, rumors spread that "The Alligator Man" wasn't just feeding stray animals to his reptiles—he might have been feeding them people...
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