Yeah, you read that right. Joe Exotic is in federal prison because he paid a guy $3,000 to kill Carole Baskin, the big cat activist who was his arch-nemesis. It sounds like something you’d cook up in a fever dream after binge-watching True Crime, but it’s real. He thought a fake hitman was going to whack her, but the FBI was taking notes the whole time.
Imagine ordering a pizza, but instead of pepperoni, you get a wiretap. That’s Joe’s life. He wasn’t just ranting on YouTube; he actually acted on the fantasy. The jury didn’t care about his tigers or his mullet—they cared about the recorded phone calls where he said, “Just do it.”
