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