Joe denies he was behind the threats, though he did protest Big Cat Rescue dressed in a rabbit suit. Joe was in Pauls Valley. One manager was filmed saying hed beat the fuck out of a white tiger, while another admitted he didnt like Joes breeding process. Almost all were powerless, and lived in trailers at the park, working six days a week for as little as $150, with an extra $50-100 in cash, which Joe called summer pay., Joe told me he wanted to give people a second chance: I saw in my life what pushed a lot of people to drugs was being an outcast to society, so being gay I related to that.. He also claimed he was targeted because [he] is an openly gay male with the largest collection of generic tigers and crossbreeds.. 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He sold some tiger cubs, packed a camel, and some dogs in a trailer, and drove to Yukon, just west of OKC, with Dillon. Danny was furious. . Wild people tame wild animals and he ruled them all. They all squabble over the land in Kansas, whose rights they now share with the Baskins. Ive had some kinky sex. A trapper attacked her in a parking lot after a court hearing. Maldonado, however, met a much more tragic end. Park is one of around 80 U.S. facilities that allow cub-petting. The term is contested, but theyre generally private and unregulated, with little or no research function. Brian kept the books, and Joe was the stores enigmatic, gun-toting face. Few believed they could leave. He and Dillon rarely left. And with his cash dwindling, and Carole closing in on the settlement, he was getting desperate for a break. In 2007 he settled a lawsuit with Prince that accused him of selling clothes emblazoned with the artists trademarked symbol. Then he fed the horse out to the lions. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Joe Exotic is currently serving 22 years in jail after being found guilty of paying a hitman to kill animal activist Carole Baskin, Exotic fell for Jeffrey Charles 'JC' Hartpence while grieving the death of his first husband Bryan Rhyne in 1991, Exotic on the Netflix show with his husbands Travis Maldonado and John Finlay, Exotic filed a $94 million federal lawsuit against the government for alleged civil rights violations, According to his lawsuit, obtained by PEOPLE, Joe is seeking $73,840,000 for loss of personal property, The Tiger King follows an eccentric animal collector and his bitter rivalry with animal activist Carole Baskin (pictured), Netflix Tiger King trailer tells shocking true story of zookeeper Joe Exotic. A month later he and Lauren wed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. "Joe was loading him into a pickup to take him home to die peacefully, when he breathed his last breath. Within a year it held 200 cats from 17 different species. Park in May, its squalid conditions were under his and Laurens stewardship. Joe hugged her and said hed care for the creature. Jeff told me he suggested not to kill her but to burn her shit to the ground., By the time Allen Glover, a recent staff addition, entered the fray to kill Carole, Joe was already under surveillance. Joe opened with nine cages, a deer, and a mountain lion. By that time, Joe had found his latest beau, a young Austin man named Dillon Passage. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Its for a TV show, he told her with a shrug. Carole encouraged her fans to report animal abuse. The pair thumped along the Coachella Valley dunes in a Jeep. He is now serving a life sentence. A brown bear sat in its own feces while a man fed it potato chips. Rick saw Joe shoot one tiger during his year at the park. Park. You could see him trying to whip people into a frenzy to kill me, she told me. I think people kind of view him as that. It was the animal kingdom Joe had sought in Arlington. Jeffry Hartpence in Oklahoma. But Ive actually got it figured out now.. A Harper County man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to killing a Nashville, Kan., man last February. Lowe said Joe asked him to bring up Google Earth on his computer (my monitor is huge) Joe and Travis mapped out places to kill Carole. Michael Jacksons alligators boiled alive in their tanks. Joe Exotic, the star of Netflix's Tiger King series, was once married to a convicted paedophile who is now in prison for murder. Do you have a story for The US Sun team? The sun cast a hazy penumbra across his black frame. Harley-Davidson bikers from nearby Moore accompanied the cortege into the G.W. Lowe planned to close Wynnewood and reopen a far bigger park, called Red River Safari, in Thackerville, near the giant WinStar World Casino on the Oklahoma-Texas border. Joe and Travis stuck together, however, and wed when Oklahoma legalized same-sex marriage. When he returned, he howled. In 2006 Joe published videos of Bonedigger, a 320-pound lion with brittle bones who shared his cage with a tiny wiener dog. He, Joe, and John continued to spend long weekends at motels, and invite other men into their relationship. In addition to the life sentence, Hartpence was sentenced to lifetime parole with electronic monitoring. By 2003 Carole had banned all visitor interaction with the animals. As it turns out, Exotic actually had five husbands, although only three of them are featured in the Tiger King docuseries. Most ignored them and let Joe continue. I have a judgment against me from some bitch down there in Florida., Joe hired Josh Dial, a gun-store clerk in Pauls Valley, who once attacked a man with a ninja sword, as his campaign manager. John will never step foot on the park again: Lowe threatened to shoot him if he does. Years after their split Hartpence was convicted for "aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14" and was put on the sex offenders register. At the drop of a dime, I could go off, he told me. Hartpence is scheduled for sentencing at 1:30 p.m. June 5 in Kingman County court; the expected sentence is life imprisonment without parole eligibility for 20 years. View Public Record Results ✓ Addresses. Thank God its finally legal in America. Joe took John to traveling shows in Kansas. Dillon was a cheerleading faggot, Lowe added. He originally was charged with. Meanwhile, Joe had begun filming at the park, hoping footage would propel him to Hollywood. He spent park cash on condoms decorated with photos of him in a suggestive pose. In a July 2004 Oklahoman article, Joe spoke out about giving sanctuary to a two-month-old crippled lion cub called Angel, against the advice of an Oklahoma USDA expert. Hartpence pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in March in the death of Curtis Shelton. He was a lynchpin in North Americas illegal animal trade. Joseph Schreibvogel was born in Garden City, Kansas, in 1963 to Francis and Shirley, devout German farmers who hauled their kids to Catholic church each Sunday. Joe wore the faux pastors outfit from his Here Kitty Kitty video, complete with hat and wraparound shades. In 2009 Joe received alligators from Michael Jacksons Neverland Ranch, upon the pop stars death, and housed them in the building Brian had lived in at the depth of his illness. Who cares? Jeff told me. There are others who breed, but hes the primary one.. Angela G Wickham, Age 50 - Lives in Altoona, KS, (620) 568 . Camera? Rick replied. Joe often griped to Rick about Carole: how she was mad and would never get his money. Hes the goofy part of Oklahoma. Kansas Attorney General's Website. 3650 Darlings Rd, Guthrie, OK 73044; County: Logan County; FIPS: 400836005005032; Possible connections via main address - Bobbie J Hartpence; Latitude, Longitude: 35. . Other names that Jeffrey uses includes Jeffery Hartpence, Jeffrey L Hartpence, Jeffrey Charles Hartpence, Jeffery C Hartpence and Jc Hartpence. He fell for Jeffrey Charles 'JC' Hartpence in 1991, years before he was convicted of his crimes. Joe sold Super Pet, and plowed its proceeds into Wynnewood. Fish and Wildlife Service and government agents. Many people would only speak to me anonymously for this story. Whereas for us, it was just another one of these bad guys that we are trying to make people aware of.. The walls of Caroles office, located far from the sanctuarys welcome center, are lined with pictures of big cats, and her 4x4s license plate is CAT RESQ. He smoked a lot of pot. He was right. They were still grieving, still grabbing at anything. They all wore hot pink shirts, had a tiger-striped cake, and had animals perform during the ceremony. The studio burned down overnight.. He was found guilty of the charge in May. It looked like Hollywood shit, blood spurting out from everywhere, he told me. He claimed abstinence himself, and toyed with several stage names before settling on Joe Exotic, traveling the Midwest in a truck loaded with baby animals. Super Pet thrived despite complaints about dirty cages. I thought, if people could go in a cage with one of those cats and see that theyre not affectionateall they want to do is pee on youthat they wont want them as pets, she told me. At the time, 13 states allowed private citizens to own exotics, including Oklahoma. Some crew bid for horses at auction just to bring them back, kill them, and feed them out. To make room, Joe shot five older tigersCuddles, Delilah, Lauren, Samson, and Trinitythrough the head with his shotgun. Travis liked to shoot guns into the ground. His Adams apple bobbed up and down faster than Josh had ever seen. Then, on Oct. 7 1997, Garold was driving in rain near Dallas with Tamara, when a semi truck hydroplaned and crushed him in his chassis. (He is serving a prison term in Kansas for murder and child molestation.). The smell was appalling. Joe often posted ads on Craigslist for young men to join him and John for weekenders in Pauls Valley or Oklahoma City motels. He fell for Jeffrey Charles 'JC' Hartpence while grieving the death of his first husband Bryan Rhyne in 1991, before Hartpence's convictions. The 43-year-old was given a life sentence for Shelton's murder and will be eligible for parole in 2034. Joe used J.C.'s equipment to take his animal show on the. Then he whipped out his gun, and shot the horse in the head while it was still standing in its trailer. Joe had asked Ashley to kill Carole, and she believed he was serious. That zoo is closing and the new one will never open. According to his lawsuit, obtained by PEOPLE, Exotic is seeking $73,840,000 for loss of personal property. A bidder beside Carole said he planned to kill one on the way out, and stuff it. Danny only discovered his sons death via Facebook. I met Travis when he was basically homeless and had a backpack on his back, Joe lied. She shuddered: Do I need to grab the gas and spray this guy? Some of them have met tragic ends. The hut that was once Brians hospice was ashes. He wore spurs on his boots, even when shopping for groceries. In 2003, a stocky 19-year-old named John Finlay answered an ad. They were totally in a trance-like state.. Based in London, the brand stands out for its radical sensibility that informs all of LOVERBOY's output, which is proudly committed to making clothes that can be worn by anyone, in any conceivable way. He spent 56 days in traction in Florida before working at a West Palm Beach store named Pet Circus. Exotic, born Joe Schreibvogel, is currently serving 22 years in jail after being found guilty of paying a hitman to kill animal activist Carole Baskin, and of killing tigers to make room for more cats in his animal park. By 2004 the park was under the spotlight of authorities, who issued thousands of dollars worth of fines for illegal animal trading. Hes kind of talky, arrogant, Joe Barth, who ran a drive-in theater opposite Lowes venue, told me. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Eight alternative names are known: Jeffrey Charles Hartpence, Jeffrey C Hartpence, Jeffery C Hartpence, Jeffreyl Hartpence, Jc Hartpence, Jeffrey L Hartpence, Jeffrey Hadpence, Jeffrey Hartpence. His grandfather founded a circus and worked with Ringling Brothers, and one of Lowes first high-profile jobs was managing daredevil motorcyclist Robbie Knievel, son of Evel (who has since called Lowe a fraud, fake, and a loser). Joe blamed Rick and Carole. What Happened To Paulo, Amanda, & Bruna After 'Love Is Blind: Brazil'? Brian was more reserved than Joe, and kept his husbands hot-headedness in check. Joe believed Travis had sent Dillon to the park keep him from committing suicide. The ribald man on his porch seemed as good a bet as any to bury her. On Sept. 7, he left their rented home, hoping to get a job at a nearby hospital. Why was I written up: because the staff wont do their job. Lowe told me hes had five consecutive perfect unannounced USDA inspections, spends $4,000 weekly on food, and that the big cats are happy., One employee, Taryn Walker, said the new owners are incompetent, and feed the cats chicken rather than more expensive and nutritious red meat. But in a recent New York Magazine article, it has been revealed that Joe was in a violent marriage to a man now in prison for murder. Carole researched Joes tour schedule, and mobilized her followers to email complaints to venues. Some townspeople were relieved their gay, gun-toting celebrity had retreated across the Washita. Fuck with me and I will bulldoze your house off the property, he texted Dillon. You commit more crimes than any of us combined, but you never get in trouble because you pass the buck on to someone else, Lowe shouted at Joe, according to video taken by Lauren. When Taryn reported the park for mistreating its horses, Lowe called her a c-nt on his Facebook page, and reiterated it to me, claiming she tasered tigers: Show your face here again you bitch, I have a rake and shotgun with your name on them.. That year Lowe and Lauren visited the G.W. Soon after, a devastated Joe drove his squad car off a bridge in an apparent suicide attempt. Danny barely knew anything about the relationship. There really isnt much left here besides cats for people to look at, he texted Joe. 9008 Stacy Lynn Ln, Yukon, OK 73099, lived here in 2017 $1,060: C. 634 Sisken Ct, Edmond, OK 73003, lived here in 2016 $1,160: D. Now Joe is behind bars, awaiting sentencing for a litany of crimes that shattered his cuddly public image. TIGER King star Joe Exotic's ex-husband is convicted pedophile Jeffrey Charles 'JC' Hartpence, who is in prison for gun murder. Birds trampled other birds to death. After the conviction, Joe wrote to President Trump, begging for a pardon. Meanwhile, threats arrived from Lowe. Within a month of Travis arrival in October 2013, the three men wed in a ceremony at a hall across the street from the G.W. Joe smelled success. Joe denies the claim. He ordered John to drive Glover to a Dallas lighting store to get one, and mailed his cellphone to a Las Vegas address registered to Lowe, to cover his tracks. Nevertheless, Exotic and Rhyne were married at the same bar where they met. Joe had asked him to kill Carole Baskin, tooit was becoming tougher to find people Joe hadnt asked to murder his arch-rival. He thought he was having the chance of a lifetime, Sherry Peck, Dannys girlfriend, told me. She left home at 15, never finished high school, and paid for gas with pennies, for a $100 Impala she drove between three jobs. Joe and his staff drove his limousine into town for the odd meal at its lone Mexican restaurant. Something went wrong, please try again later. What could be more personal? Howard told me. Hes not an ordained priest, he told me. It was the Joe show., Around the same time, Joe drifted away from Wynnewood itself. Joe told the family to stay away, and cremated Travis body four days later, before they arrived in Oklahoma for his funeral. Cowles, 47, has pleaded not guilty, court records show. "Finlay felt that Joe had become manipulative and controlling. John cheated on Joe with several women and told me Joes cult-like kingdom was crumbling, and that he resolved never to pay Carole a cent. Something just came over him and he was never the same again as far as the way he even did business.. I am making sure of that.. The parks finances already hung by a thread, but Joe had siphoned park funds for his gubernatorial race, forging checks and spending cash on gifts for Dillon, such as a Ford Mustang. Joes relationship with J.C. had already crumbled. Big Cat Rescue sits at the end of a rough, tree-lined track off a busy street in suburban Tampa. They advocated against private ownership of big cats alongside the Humane Society, PETA, and others. Finlay left the park to marry her and raise their child together. Netflix's 'Gunthers Millions' Trailer Has 3 Twists About The Worlds Richest Dog, This New Dating Show Is Netflix's Answer To 'Bachelor In Paradise'. It was a messy breakup. Joe drove John to the park. He believes hes been set up like Terry Thompson from Zanesvillea political prisoner, he told me. Travis head fell back. The ensuing animal massacre made headlines worldwide, as cops hunted Thompsons deadly menagerie. They monkey promisedon an actual monkeys pinky fingerthat theyd steer clear of alcohol and drugs, a lesson into which Joe folded his fake story about Garolds drunk driver. Joe tried moving Garolds gravesite there, but his wife and children refused. Luckily, one was about to stroll right onto his property. He posed with a rifle on Facebook, with the caption Bring it on, bitch. When Howard mentioned the threats at mediation once, Joe admitted hed done it. He and Joe began a romantic relationship. Then he reneged on the deal and, Barth claims, stole the movie equipment. 6 It seemed fair. The country music singer has also claimed that those government offices made the tiger an endangered species in the US solely to file charges against him - and promote their alleged animal rights agenda. We didnt force him to take the animals. Jeffrey Charles Hartpence, 36, was sentenced in Kingman County District Court by Judge Larry T. Solomon. The other neighbors were upset there was a camel, one told me. Carole Baskin at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida. LOVERBOY is a creative force springing forth from the mind of Scottish Creative Director and Designer Charles Jeffrey. Authorities jailed him the day after Sheltons body was found, according to a news release from the Kingman County Sheriffs Office from the day of his arrest. Hartpence is now serving life in prison in Kansas for first degree felony murder of Curtis Shelton who was found dead in his home with multiple gunshot wounds in 2014. The final straw arrived when J.C., drunk, held a gun to Joes head in their bedroom, Joe said. Joe controlled when crew members slept, when they got up, and forbade relations between them. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. Critics and animal welfare groups claimed Joe ran a shabby roadside zoo of daily abuse, cruelty, and illegal trafficking. Park expanded rapidly. When I went, it had rained, and tigers sloshed back and forth in ankle-deep slurry. On breaks he told convenience-store clerks hed emerged from successful surgery. He won school-fair awards in horses, poultry, rabbits and crops. He could be kind one moment, and spiteful the next. Her email inbox filled with death and rape threats. One employee said she saw staff share a joint with a monkey, and that cubs were routinely struck with force on the nose, face, eyes, and neck. One crew member was dared to bite the head off a live snakehe did. A cunning and cuddly persona created an empire. I can eat Red Lobster every damn day, twice a day, and somebody else is gonna pay for it., Joe boosted profits by breeding and trading exotics. There he paid $2,000 rent to live on a 6-acre property. He still fears for his safety. According to his lawsuit, obtained by PEOPLE, Exotic is seeking $73,840,000 for loss of personal property. Carole hired investigators to find the cash. Joe shot into walls, and near employees, who ate the meat Joe pooled from Oklahoma Wal-Marts. She claimed the interactions at Easy Street would make visitors think twice about owning a big cat. David Steele, a bemused local cop, told a reporter: I dont know what his problem is. Tenpins were scattered about the cages and one monkey enclosure featured a childs kitchen play set. Francis, Shirley, and Joe settled on an 11-acre plot outside Wynnewood (pronounced Winnie-wood), a one-stoplight town of 2,000 people off I-35, around an hour south of Oklahoma City. In February 2017, a G.W. He says this includes "18 years of research and care of 200 generic tigers and cross-breeds for 365 days a year, at a boarding rate of $60/day per animal". Joe has now filed a $94million (76million) lawsuit as he claims he was "wrongfully" arrested and imprisoned. He fretted shed get the park when Shirley died, and tried putting his share of its ownership in the names of others. He will reportedly be eligible for parole in 2034. An autopsy showed Shelton died from multiple gunshot wounds, the sheriffs office said last February. In March, a second defendant, Jeffrey Hartpence, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in connection with this crime. Police carted J.C. away, never to return. He proposed $5,000 upfront and a few thousand more after the deed, to be financed by selling off a rare lion-tiger hybridnot a difficult task for North Americas most notorious big-cat breeder. When is she ever gonna fucking stop, he asked Joe in September. He often woke up in the middle of the night ready for a fight, Joe told me. Park a ticking time bomb, potentially 10 times worse than Zanesville., If somebody thinks theyre going to walk in here and take my animals away, Joe told a reporter, its going to be a small Waco.. Trespassing animal abusers will be shot and killed, Lowe told me. There are around 2,400 zoos in the U.S., the vast majority of which are considered roadside zoos like Joes. Mark wasnt a hitman, as James Garretson had told Joe; he was an FBI agent. I got caught with exotic animals in a city that bans exotics. . He cussed and guessed the ethnicity of audience members. Joes legal skulduggery became King Lear with cowboy hats. Laws are lax and authorities are stretched gossamer thin. The bombshell revelation comes as Exotic filed a $94 million federal lawsuit against the government for alleged civil rights violations. Jeffrey Hartpence lives in Anthony, KS; previous cities include Wichita KS and Freeport KS. He alleged: He was the main person in this entrapment scheme to take my zoo for free. Exotic fell for Jeffrey Charles 'JC' Hartpence while grieving the death of his first husband Bryan Rhyne in 1991, before Hartpence's convictions. He persuaded Francis and Shirley to ditch their plans for the soccer field, and spend the settlement instead on land for an animal park in their dead sons name. On Saturdays, they would snort pink-tinged meth and go out to the bars. Lowe joined calls between Joe and Howard, and continued to breed and sell big cats. Joe accused crew members of being PETA spies, and kept them on the park after closing for long, rambling screeds that might last three hours. A further $15 million is for "false arrest, false imprisonment, selective enforcement and the death of his mother, Shirley". She realized that Joe, in a stupid act of retaliation, had used her companys name to promote his show. We worked together, lived together: the whole nine yards, Joe told me. FY 2022 Annual Reports; FY 2021 Annual Reports; FY 2020 Annual Reports; FY 2019 Annual Reports Travis and Danny saw Oklahoma as a chance to clean up and work on something fun. Joe posted a photo to Instagram with the hashtag #Belize. Brian and Joe built a home in Fort Worth and traveled. With her dead, Joe might focus on rebuilding the zoo, and his life. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Danny Maldonado questions whether Travis death was accidental. It was a legal open goal. But the tigers enchanted him. 38-1636(a)(2) is rebuttable. The animal kingdom hed created over two decades, home to one of the worlds largest collections of big cats, now belonged to a belligerent former business partner. He even told friends he wanted to reintroduce the saber-toothed tiger to America, an animal unrelated to modern cats, which died out around 10,000 years ago. He told visitors Garold dreamt of seeing exotic animals in Africasomething his siblings deny. PETA and the Humane Society also caught wind of Joes exploits. Exotic and Maldonado eventually re-married as a couple and got an official marriage license in 2015, Oxygen reports. The trailers were dumps, and some employees slept on insect-covered floors. John took steroids, which swung his mood. Exotic Park signs along I-35. Joes entrepreneurial instincts spawned branded T-shirts, cotton candy, bullwhips, skincare, underwear, wine, and even condoms. It was the 1980s, and gay marriage wasn't even close to being legal. View Jeffrey Hadpence's record in Anthony, KS including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Hed heard the weapon wouldnt fire without its magazine. Zoo featured in Tiger King, and when Joe started collecting his big cats. Hes charming and an engaging speaker. Park staff was a hodgepodge of homeless people, drug addicts, and others down on their luck. Rick blamed Joe. He sat on the local chamber of commerce and volunteered as an EMT. Francis was a spindly Korean War vet who smoked heavily and spoke little of war. Joe spent three years beginning in 1983 as a cop for real, patrolling in nearby Eastvale, a languid, quarter-mile-long Dallas suburb. The lawsuit was filed against the U.S. Department of Interior, the U.S. I currently got legally married. As our conversations continued, he grew more skittish and hostile. Judge Larry T. Solomon accepted the plea in Kingman County District Court. Now its closing. Changed my medicine with illegal drugs, stole my animals under fraudulent reasons.. One night, a month after John began work at Wynnewood, he sent Joe a text message: Come save me. When Joe arrived, Johns girlfriend was throwing his belongings out onto the street. They also wanted a zoo of their own, and flew Joe and Travis to their 12,000-square-foot home in Colorado. I asked him why Joe kept him away. That February, cops raided his ranch in Red Oak, south of Dallas, and discovered 69 dead emus. For a few seconds, Josh thought it was a prank. Not knowing that there was a bullet in the chamber, he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. He and Shirley still visited most days, but theres nothing to suggest they conspired in the abuse carried out by their son, who was turning into something far more sinister than the fantasist he had been. Joe found most of his staff through Craigslist. Rick Kirkham, a former Inside Edition journalist whose crack-cocaine addiction was the subject of a 2006 documentary called TV Junkie, lasted 11 months. Fish and Wildlife Service, was examining accusations of animal cruelty when he caught wind of a potential murder plot. Joe didnt win the 2016 race (he became a Donald Trump fan). The U.S. Department of Agriculture employs around 110 relevant inspectors for 10,000 locations countrywide. Special Agent Matt Bryant, with U.S. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. It seemed like he was stalling for time. He wouldnt leave for years. The presumption does not improperly shift . Joe treated him like a big kid. The Coleman court stated: "The presumption in K.S.A. Joe Exotic Your hard work is deeply appreciated. Im not a charity, Joe replied. Travis had a roll-call of girlfriends and a job at American Tire that hed gotten after ditching high school at 18. Browse our public records directory to see Jeffrey's age, current and past home addresses, mobile phone numbers, email addresses, and known relatives. The gay, gun-toting cowboy with a mullet, as he liked to call himself, stood on the front porch of his Oklahoma zoo around midnight, speaking to the man hed decided would kill his arch-rival. Hes as bad as Joe, if not worse, John spat. A year later Lowe pleaded guilty to mail fraud, having posed as a domestic-abuse charity to get marked-down goods for his store. 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Just days later Joe was out on the park again. He was doing some evil things down there with the animals, he told me. He again hired Josh, who moved into one of the parks trailers. The relationship came to an end when Hartpence held a gun to Joe's head in a drunken rage, New York Magazine reported. And before you bring me down, it is my belief that you will stop breathing.. According to former crew members, Joe made between $1,500 and $10,000 for hybrid cubs, which many experts say are useless to the genetic diversity of big cats worldwide (many have inbred birth defects). Having a daughter helped him focus after his years at the park, he told me, when we met at a cafe in Norman, near Oklahoma City. His children suggested Carole may even have fed him to the tigers. PETA filmed an undercover video at the park that year, claiming staff kicked and hit animals with shovels and rifle butts. Shirley, short and round-faced, had a softer side. These were white. It was like a con deal from the start, Yarri told me. Now hes the one behind bars. Joes relationship with Wynnewood began well, too. John was expecting his first child with a woman at the park when he and Joe broke up. Hes just got a way of brainwashing them.. He didnt even know his son was gaynot that it bothered him. View phone numbers, addresses, public records, background check reports and possible arrest records for Jeffrey Hadpence. 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You wanna know why Carole Baskin better never ever ever see me face-to-face? he asked, before shooting a blond-wigged doll live on camera. He wanted them.. That year Joe met Brian Rhyne, a cosmology student at UT Dallas, and fell deeply in love. In a campaign video circulated worldwide, Joe, wearing a tasseled suede jacket, announced: Im not cutting my hair. In June 2017 he opened Neon Jungle, a cub-petting storefront in a Oklahoma City mall, charging customers $25 to pet each animal. The place just eats money. Police arrested Safari Bar staff for dealing meth. Jeffrey Charles goal is to guide the association board of directors in maintaining the image and value of the association, and protect every homeowner's investment. A murder plot brought it crashing down. 10 East Quail Creek Trl, Anthony, KS 67003-3008 is the residential address for J. When Brian died, thats when [Joes] whole demeanor of everything changed, Chealsi Putnam, Joes niece, told me. We worked with animals that kill people, Joe told me. View Jeffrey Hartpence results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. What is a restaurant adversity surcharge, and should you have to pay it in Wichita? According to Lauren, he sweetened the deal with an additional $100,000. He was arrested and charged with assault and battery.". The series documenting the events that lead to Joe's imprisonment has become a huge hit for Netflix. Many animals went hungry for days; some starved to death. Animal abuse at the G.W. They cited Lowe for doing business and handling animals without a license. Johns steroid and meth addiction worsened throughout the year. The hit was on, but Carole is still alive. Sadly, Rhyne passed away in 2001 from complications relating to HIV. The big day itself, nine months before the first legal gay wedding would be held in Oklahoma, was an extravaganza Joe hoped would project him to the world. Joe and Dillon Passage are still married. Eventually Carole settled on real estate, and made good money flipping delinquent Florida properties with a local magnate named Don Lewis, whom she married in 1991. Episode 5 of the series features the shocking security camera footage of the moment of his death, though thankfully not in gruesome detail. His attorneys dropped the $15 million suit. Jeffrey Hartpence, 36, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Curtis Shelton. The jury took just hours to convict Joe on 21 counts, including two of murder-for-hire, five for the tigers deaths, and more than a dozen counts of illegal animal trafficking and selling. Many crew members recalled Joe strung out, or acting like he was high on cocaine. Wildlife on Easy Street became Big Cat Rescue. Five new tigers were arriving. Other times Carole would call up reporters where Joe was, and educate them about his abuse. Having saved over a hundred, Joe and his associate, tired, approached several more slowly, then fired at them with shotguns. He hooked some on drugs. They wanted a home for 12 big cats and sought a hybrid. They did almost everything together, as Joe had with Brian, and exchanged loving messages by phone. The meandering Washita River separated it from the town. Joe sued the SPCA of Texas, an animal welfare group, for releasing a video of the incident that he claimed hurt sales at Super Pet. It seems that everyone is addicted to the wild Netflix docuseries Tiger King, which tells the unbelievable story of Joe Exotic, an eccentric, gay, gun-toting polygamist who runs a park that's home to more than 200 tigers, big cats, and other exotic animals. Park a cub mill. Monkeys carried flowers, the cake was tiger-striped, and a black Celebes crested macaque bore the rings. She still updates 911AnimalAbuse.com. He worked security at the Round-Up Saloon, a popular gay bar in downtown Dallas. They attended animal auctions with other roadside zoo owners. The next morning around 7 a.m., Rick recalls, one of the park managers kicked in the door of his trailer. She couldnt follow rules, Joe told me. He told others I couldnt be trusted. By this time, he referred to himself as the Tiger King. Kiss my ass right here from jail, he posted to Facebook. Hes a goddamn, what do you call it, a Charles Manson, Yarri told me. He threatened Joe: Im the guy that has video that could put your ass in jail and you know it, so dont fuck with me.. Also not discussed in the documentary, according to Texas Monthly, Hartpence had a background as an event producer and had helped. It was going off the rails, one political activist told me. A bullet went straight through Travis brain, slapping into the wall beside him. She launched the website 911AnimalAbuse.com and became a pied piper against roadside zoos, drawing fandom through daily video logs in which she still sported cat-print clothing. Find Jeffrey Hartpence's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading people search directory for contact information and public records. If he was in Las Vegas or something, I think he wouldve been just another guy on the Strip., But there was more darkness to Joes character than anybody in town imagined. The day he left, Danny handed him a thousand dollars to get to Wynnewood. In the smash hit docuseries, Exotic's complicated love life is explored, including his polyamorous marriage to John Finlay and Travis Maldonado. They pulled Joes siblings back into his orbit, and targeted a 235-acre plot of family land in Kansas: their inheritance. But he was bored, and experimented with drugs. Being a tiger king raked in serious royalties. If staff did anything wrong, Joe cut off their food. Joe controlled and abused the zoos staff, accused them of being traitors and threatened to throw them back on the streets. The cameras are all in the studio., There is no studio! In August 2014, John attacked Joe. On another, somebody attached wires to make it seem like the mailbox was rigged with a bomb. Everyone knew him as the person to buy and sell animals, James Garretson, an early friend of Joes, told me. He grew his hair into a mullet, dyed it blond, and began covering his wiry frame in tattoos. Joe told him that Carole liked to walk to work along a leafy path and offered Glover hunting camouflage. Current address 3000 Delp Dr N, Yukon, OK 73099 $1,060: B. Soon the park was festooned with memorial plaques and posters begging for cash. Hed run a stop sign driving to Francis, by then heavily ill with Alzheimers disease, and was hit by a truck. Hes happy, and has a girlfriend. I am an asshole to work for. Like Joe, Jeff Lowe was no stranger to showbizor controversy. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. Hes such a fake. Some dropped instantly. But having lost Garold four years earlier, he told me, you tend to wonder what the hell you did wrong. He thought the world had turned against him. Soon afterward the couple rescued 56 more, and opened Wildlife on Easy Street, a big-cat bed-and-breakfast, where visitors paid $75 to spend the night with a predator. That year Yarri outed Joe as gay to his father, who made Joe shake his hand, and promise not to attend his funeral. Changed my medicine with illegal drugs, stole my animals under fraudulent reasons.. Carole never left her love of animals. Jeffery Hartpence, 36, admitted to first-degree felony murder in the shooting death of Curtis Shelton, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a news release. And Carole was turning her crosshairs directly on Joe. Park. In the early 2000s Lowe ran a liquidation store in Beaufort, South Carolina, and spent no shortage of time in court. Joe carped about PETA spies who infiltrated the park. But jobs were scarce, and he didnt hesitate when, one day after applying, Joe hired him. One of those asked to film Joes upcoming web show was Travis Maldonado, a handsome, six-foot-four-inch tall 20-year-old from Southern California. He needed cash with Carole owed the $1 million from her lawsuit. Garold dumpster-dove for Pet Safaris materials and welded cages. Fresh from Joes emu-killing exploits, the G.W. Joe washed dishes at a pirate-themed restaurant. Days later John found Joe in his garage, with a cellphone in one hand and a gun in the other. The staff. In June 2017 he and Josh, who is also gay, visited the OKC Pride parade in Joes limo. According to USDA regulations, cubs may only be handled for a month-long period between eight and 12 weeks old. Born Joe Schreibvogel, Exotic is currently serving 22 years in jail for paying a hitman to kill Carole Baskin, and of killing tigers to make room for more cats in his zoo. Joe called himself a libertarian; he was pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ rights, pro-gun andnaturallypro-exotic-animal ownership. He frogmarched the young woman to the park gate and said, Good luck, bitch. Another employee named Saff lost her arm when a tiger mauled her through a cage. Allen Glover worked at the zoo after spending years behind bars for a string of attacks beginning at 17. Lowe also saw his houseguest as a chance to start anew. Travis wasnt down-and-out, as Joe would later insist. They killed six. Do you have a story for The US Sun team? The most notorious was in Ohios Amish country, where men in Brixton hats sold parrots, bobcats, and kangaroos as if they were old keepsakes. Nobody is that silver-tongued.. In 1989 they bought a pet store called Pet Safari, in Arlington, with G.W., with whom Joe shared a love of animals. Am I going to take the fall (for stuff) that everyone did wrong? He asked. 11 records for Jeffry Hartpence. Another said he witnessed Joe run over emus in a four-wheeler so he could sell their bones to the Museum of Osteology, in Oklahoma City. Shelton, 57, was found dead in his home Feb. 21, 2014 by a Kingman County sheriffs deputy sent to check his welfare. As Cosmopolitan reports, Hartpence once held a gun against Joe's head during a drunken argument, after which the relationship started to break down. Judge Larry T. Solomon accepted his plea. PETA called the G.W. Rick and the crew threw an impromptu party at the trailer. Oftentimes they ate the meat themselves: Joe joked it was a miracle nobody got sick. The Oklahoman prompted readers to donate $17,400 toward the bears upkeep. Joe jumped on the cars roof and waved to the crowd. Carole Baskin, a big cat sanctuary-owner from Tampa, Florida, had won a million-dollar lawsuit against him. The internet meant people were posting pictures of their nights there. One day, when visiting family, he wore them on the wrong shoes. Zoo, one former employee told me. Animals Joe and the crew killed were dumped in a spot toward the back of the park they called the tiger pit. The stench became so bad that Francis said it reminded him of the Korean Wars battlefields. They let out the chimps, tigers, leopards, wolvesyou name itand guess whos ass was always in trouble when they did Who the hell do you think is paid to do a job? He removed the magazine from the gun to show that it wouldn't fire without the magazine. To prevent that outcome in Oklahoma, Joe needed national fame. Treat his employees like dirt he would downgrade me to the point where it was coming close to blows, thats how bad it got hes justhes really a cruel, cruel person.. Hundreds attended. He also claimed he was targeted because [he] is an openly gay male with the largest collection of generic tigers and crossbreeds.. Then, just before this story went to press, Joe burst into a tirade against everybody, including me. Crew would stroll about tossing live chickens, cats, and other animals into big-cat enclosures, or shooting them for fun. However, he states he is preserving the issue for any subsequent federal appeal. He turned Pamelas playhouse into a vet center. When the family moved to Texas, he worked at a local nursing home. According to TMZ, Joe alleged he was "discriminated against because he is the only person charged with this statute because [he] is an openly gay male with the largest collection of generic tigers and crossbreeds.". I did not believe what he gave me was my sons remains, Danny told me. Find Geoffrey Hartpence's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. 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