OK, so I’ve already said this a few times – there’s gonna be a load more crazy information coming out about the characters involved in Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ – but this thread is absolutely crazy with some of the revelations about people in the show that it drags up. Turns out they left a whole load of shit out there.
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The thread comes courtesy of a guy named Robert Moor, who investigated Joe Exotic for his own podcast and long form magazine article a couple of years ago. And yeah, you might as well just read it yourself because there is a whole load of absolutely mad stuff that the documentary decided to leave out for some reason.
Take a look here (the guy deleted a tweet or something so the unroll didn’t do all of them, which is why there are some extra below that):
Hi!, please find the unroll here: Thread by @robertmoor_: To anyone currently bingeing #tigerking on Netflix: I spent four years working on a podcast and… https://t.co/PcN9HFR3hG. Share this if you think it’s interesting.
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) March 26, 2020
15. He was a former hitman (or “bone collector”) for a Mexican gang in Dallas. He’d since given that life up. Recently he’d been helping Joe try to get a zoo opened in Dallas.
I asked whether Joe ever approached him about killing Carole. He said no.
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— (@robertmoor_) March 26, 2020
16. Here’s a detail I’ve never understood. In the doc, you hear Alan Glover say he never went to Florida. But in the trial, he testified on the stand that one night he got drunk, drove to Florida (supposedly to warn Carole in person?), passed out on a beach, then drove home. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/ewHov9szjy
— (@robertmoor_) March 26, 2020
17. To anyone who came away from #TigerKingNetflix thinking Joe was framed, please take a look at this secretly taped conversation between Joe and James, which was played at the trial. These are not the words of an innocent man! pic.twitter.com/78LpflJRIE
— (@robertmoor_) March 26, 2020
18. Later, that plan changed into opening a drive-in movie theater. Jeff convinced a guy named Joe Barth to lend him some equipment to start construction, then Jeff went and sold the equipment.
Barth filed a lawsuit. The next day Barth’s house mysteriously burned down.
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— (@robertmoor_) March 28, 2020
20. People often ask why no one at Joe’s zoo ever “spoke out.” Part of the reason was because he made his employees sign a one million dollar non-disclosure agreement. (Which, it turns out, wasn’t legally valid.) Here’s a text he sent me at one point. pic.twitter.com/6LEtIjqbQj
— (@robertmoor_) March 31, 2020
22. I first discovered this story through a story in the LA Times that said “Michael Jackson’s Alligators Burned Alive in Animal Park Fire.” That was almost true. Turns out Joe did have an alligator from Neverland Ranch, but it survived the fire; its babies were burned alive. pic.twitter.com/k4lYp1eFV9
— (@robertmoor_) March 31, 2020
Wow. Can’t believe that they left so many integral parts out of the documentary, like Rick Kirkman being a crack addict, Carole’s other husband filing a restraining order against her and the taped conversation between James and Joe? And on a lesser not but more ethically important, why did they misgender Saff the whole documentary? And what the hell is it with all of their houses burning down all the time and nobody being able to prove it was arson or who did it?
I mean I’ve said this before and it’s not going to be the last time I say it either, but it’s going to be a hell of a long time before we learn everything about this messed up story, if we ever do at all. Updates like this for the next month or so at least.
For more of the same, check out this girl who used to work in the zoo’s story. So creepy.
