Here are more lies Netflix told on Tiger King!
The Mystery of Bob Martin We’re going to get right into Don Lewis.
When Carole first met Don, she had had a fight with her first husband.
She met him when he was her boss at one of her first jobs.
Apparently, throwing a potato during a fight with him wasn’t the right move at all.
So Carole just took off barefoot out of the house!
Carole was walking around and guys in cars started to follow her around.
She was attracting the wrong type of attention.
And one guy stopped his car.
He was middle aged, and wasn’t well dressed at all.
But he had on a big smile according to Carole.
And he stopped and told Carol to get in his car!
She said no.
How weird were dudes back then, seriously?
But hey, at least he drove off right?
But wait, he actually drove BACK around!
This time with a revolver!
Just WHY?!
Well, his reasoning was this.
He propositioned Carole to get in the car again.
And he told her that she could hold the revolver on him just so she knew she would be safe
in the car!
If that’s not a reason to NOT get in a car with a stranger, we don’t know what is.
But Carole, fed up with her husband and wanting an adventure, got in.
The man told her that his name was Bob Martin.
He too had been fighting with his significant other and she had thrown him out of the house.
And that’s why he wanted to talk!
Incredibly, at one point in the conversation, he actually did something even MORE weird.
We can have THAT discussion in the chat!
And after that initial encounter, Carole somehow became completely enamored with this guy.
You may be wondering, what does this have to do with Don Lewis?
Well, one day Carole called Bob at work looking for him as usual.
And that’s how she found out who Bob Martin really was!
Don had just switched his secretary and forgotten to tell her to lie to Carole if she called
and asked for Bob Martin.
The old secretary would just hand the phone over to Don.
The new secretary this time told Carole the person she was describing was actually named
Don Lewis!
Tall Tales Don Don met Carole and lied to her about his real
name because he claimed that he didn’t want her to know how much money he had.
He wanted her to like him for him.
And Carole even in her diary had written at that time, she didn’t know how rich and
powerful he actually was.
But, remember, in part 1 of our video on Tiger King, Carole had claimed that Don was only
worth roughly in the six figures.
So why would she write that in her diary?
Well, think about it this way.
When you were 19, $100 thousand dollars probably felt like a ton of money.
That’s definitely how WE felt.
And especially if you grew up in the way Carole did.
Obviously, the older we get, the more we realize that 100 thousand dollars really isn’t that
much money.
And that’s what happened with Carole.
What she had written in her diary was as a 19 year old.
When she got older and started making a lot of money with Don, that’s when she realized
that he basically just “wasn’t broke” back when she first met him.
The fact that Don made up a complete lie with his name and the antics he had in picking
her up reveals more of the type of character he was!
However, again, we have to remember this is still a he said she said situation, but so
far, logic and facts point to Carole’s version.
And this isn’t the only lie that supposedly Don told.
Don’s ex-wife and his daughters knew about his notorious womanizing ways.
And remember, Carole was with Don while he was still married.
And obviously he wouldn’t tell his wife about Carole, because he wouldn’t even tell
his daughters about her.
Don’s daughter Linda had been introduced to Carole when she bumped into her dad randomly
in town.
Except Carole was introduced as Martha.
It wasn’t until Linda ran into Carole randomly again at her dad’s house when she discovered
that the Martha character she had met earlier was actually Carole!
Scammin’ Joe However, Don wasn’t the only person who
stretched the truth on the show.
Joe Exotic is essentially a pathological liar!
His ex-husband John Finlay says as much about him in his interview with investigative journalist
and author Robert Moor.
Joe’s ex internet show producer Rick Kirkham said that he had to put aside a lot of his
journalistic integrity to overlook the lies and overall terrible behavior of Joe to his
staff and animals.
The reason why he did that was because he wanted to cash in on his reality filming of
Joe Exotic.
Of course, all that footage was burned up.
However a couple things that Netflix didn’t mention was the fact that Joe was a known
scammer.
Robert Moor told his twitter followers that Joe used to tell people he was sick from prostate
& bone marrow cancer.
And he used that fact to raise money from his fans!
As you can tell from Moor’s tweet, Joe lied about his actual condition.
Joe had much less serious complications that didn’t require as much medical treatment.
And that wasn’t the only scam Joe ran!
David Lee Stanton was Joe’s first producer for his internet show, Exotic Animal TV.
And he had watched Joe run another scam, this time involving animals he would take in.
Joe used to take in injured and unwanted animals from time to time.
One time, Joe took in a horse with a wounded leg.
He asked his internet audience for donations, which poured in, in order to save the horse.
But two days later, according to David, Joe Exotic let’s just say, put one right between
the horse’s eyes!
And no, the donations weren’t returned.
Why didn’t Netflix want to put in these allegations?
And no, Joe didn’t have any sort of dealings with Shaq!
Shaq refuted being associated with Joe in any way on his own podcast.
Carole’s Realization But let’s get back to Carole and Don.
Essentially, Carole and Don got married.
To make a really long story short, they started buying up distressed real estate together
and built up a sizable real estate portfolio together.
They were both animal lovers and started buying big cats.
This is the extremely short version and that’s what was told on Netflix.
However, what Netflix decided to leave out was the WHY she did a complete 180 on breeding.
It’s true that Carole did breed tiger cubs at the beginning.
Her and Don made a business out of showing their big cats.
However, Don and Carole began clashing over their big cat collection, which was over 100
cats by the mid 90s.
Don wanted to run a business out of it, but Carole didn’t because she started to realize
the vicious cycle of breeding big cats.
She was an animal lover first through and through.
Carole came to the realization that she was just contributing to the problem.
Breeding more big cats simply meant more cats that would spend their entire lives in cages.
Joe Exotic’s Realization Even Joe Exotic himself came to the realization
that breeding tiger cubs for money was a losing proposition!
Except his problem was a different problem.
He had told Robert Moor how he had made a lot of money with tiger cub petting.
The tiger cubs would make the majority of his money.
But the problem was that they grew up too fast.
And the bigger the tiger cub gets, the more food it has to eat.
So the bigger and older the tigers got, the more expensive they became, and the less profitable
they were.
In order to keep up his cash flow, he had to breed more tiger cubs.
So it was a vicious cycle that Joe was caught in.
That’s when it became more about the money for him, and less about the love for the animals.
The Rift Netflix illustrated expertly the growing rift
between Carole and Don.
They had painted Don pretty much like a Don Juan when they interviewed his family and
friends.
They all knew and spoke about Don’s womanizing ways.
And Carole wasn’t any different.
Carole knew what she was getting herself into.
Remember Don’s daughter Linda whom Don had lied to about Carole’s name being Martha?
Carole actually had told Robert Moor that she doesn’t remember that story at all.
She suspected that it was ANOTHER one of his girlfriends at the time!
Netflix had wanted to portray Carole as a woman who was mad at Don for his womanizing.
And they also played up their arguments with their differing vision on handling their cats.
Then there was the angle of Carole wanting to get rid of Don for the money.
Netflix had an incentive to play up the motive for Carole to get rid of Don.
Because c’mon, a story about a lady who possibly could have fed her husband to a tiger
definitely pays the bills!
However, as we had mentioned in the first video, the money issue with whose property
was whose can be easily proven with property records.
As far as Don’s womanizing goes, it’s true that Carole could have been fed up with
it.
But the flip side could have also been that that’s something that Carole just knew she
had to deal with.
Either view can be easily argued for.
There’s still more to Don that Carole wanted people to know about that didn’t show up
on Netflix.
Case Reopened Let’s first establish the fact that police
NEVER named Carole as a suspect.
That should give us a good clue right there.
The Hillsborough County Police have actually reopened the case since Tiger King came out.
Even today, Sheriff Chad Chronister admits that quote, “there has never been sufficient
evidence to conclude that any crime was committed.”
Apparently, people have been calling in with their own theories on what’s happened to
Don!
But Sheriff Chronister also drops more bombshells.
Remember this scene?
Well that septic tank wasn’t even installed until several years later!
As well as the meat grinder?
Yep, they actually let Carole address that on the show.
But for one reason or another, it wasn’t clarified on Netflix that the meat grinder
was removed from Big Cat Rescue several weeks before Don’s disappearance according to
the police!
The Restraining Order Another interesting explanation that was left
out was for the restraining order Don had filed against Carole.
Now why would the judge deny Don’s restraining order?
The fact is that most likely he had no proof that Carole was doing anything he accused
her of.
Her explanation was that Don was looking for a way to stop her from selling his stuff when
he was away in Costa Rica.
Don apparently would buy cars and trucks or other equipment at auctions.
He had wanted to resell them, except he would rarely sell anything.
Essentially he became a hoarder and he would dump a lot of junk onto where Big Cat Rescue
sits now.
So what would Carole do?
Well, apparently she would haul off the property as much of the junk as she could and Don found
out she was doing this.
He tried calling the police to get them to stop her, but they told him he needed a restraining
order.
According to Carole, she doesn’t know why Don made up the story that she was threatening
him.
That’s a good point.
Why couldn’t he just tell the police that she was hauling off his property, even if
it WAS junk?
The Disappearance Clause Now it’s true, the whole disappearance clause
IS suspicious.
But Carole has another explanation for this as well that the Netflix producers decided
to leave out.
Apparently people going to Costa Rica and disappearing was a thing her and Don had worried
about.
Their Costa Rican attorney, Roger Petersen, had told them that the people Don was loaning
money to down in Costa Rica were basically like the mob.
So that’s why they had the word “disappearance” included as something that would give Carole
the Power of Attorney.
But to make things a bit more mysterious, they left it out when it could have been easily
explained!
It probably actually would have worked AGAINST Carole if they had included this in the story,
but that’s just our opinion.
Because the whole Costa Rican Mob angle sounds a little bit far fetched and it just makes
her sound a bit crazy.
What most likely happened?
What actually happened?
To be honest…..we have no clue.
Maybe Don really did have alzheimer's and he just went off the deep end one day.
Maybe he really did have bad relations with someone down in Costa Rica.
Any crazy theory has the same amount of weight here.
We DON’T think he actually disappeared on his own willingly somewhere.
Unless he had buried a TON of money and dug it up and left, it just doesn’t make sense.
Carole never said a bunch of money went missing.
We also don’t think Carole did it.
The motive for Carole to get rid of her husband in a sinister way just isn’t there.
IF what she says is actually true for the property.
She could just easily get a divorce from Don and get half of her share.
One thing to think about is that her first husband treated her much worse.
And he’s still alive!
And then here’s the last fact.
Police have absolutely NOTHING on Carole Baskin.
Watch this next video to find out about the truth about the escape from Alcatraz!