ND A DOUBLE PLOT TO MURDER HIS RIVAL, IT’S...
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Cat Rescue, which based in Florida. Though on the face of it their businesses seemed similar, Carole was focused on the conservation of tigers and lions and she was determined to bring Joe down.
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In 2011, she took him to court, winning an £850,000 lawsuit after accusing him of using similar trademarks to her own company. Financial difficulties meant Joe had to eventually give up the zoo in June 2018. Thinking
Carole was the cause of all of his problems, he had long been trying to follow through on a threat he’d made in a video. In July 2016, he put out a hit on her, but it didn’t happen.
Then he paid another contract killer £2,500 to go from Oklahoma to Florida to kill her at her sanctuary, promising the hitman “thousands more” once the deed was done.
Unfortunately for Joe, the original hitman’s middle man had put him in touch with an FBI agent, and he was arrested in 2018.
In January this year, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison for murder-for-hire charges, as well as 17 charges for abusing animals, including killing the five tigers, and animal trafficking.
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