In 1930s Texas, Joe Ball was just another bootlegger-turned-barkeep—until the women around him started disappearing. With a backyard alligator pit, a string of missing waitresses, and a pistol always close at hand, Joe’s story blurs the line between fact and folklore. Step into the shadowy legend of the Alligator Man.
Source Materials
Joe Ball: The Butcher of Elmendorf — Introduction — Crime Library
Chilling story about the man known as “The Butcher of Elmendorf”
Two Barmaids, Five Alligators, and the Butcher of Elmendorf – Texas Monthly
Suspected local serial killer who may have fed his victims to alligators killed himself 83 years ago
CRIME HUNTER: Bootlegger Joe Ball fed women to gators | Toronto Sun
