Short Suck 59: The Alligator Man aka The Butcher of Elmendorf

Timesuck with Dan Cummins by Dan Cummins

Jun 12, 202600:49:59Comedy

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...

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