I’d be willing to believe Carol is innocent IF she hadn’t broken in to STEAL the will and edit it to include disappearance. It’s that moment that made me think she’s guilty.
It doesn't even have to mean that she killed him - maybe he actually absconded and she was like: Whelp! He's not coming back, better change the will or I'm fucked
That's not how will's work. There must be a wittness on the will sometimes two plus its put in the care of an attorney. So no, that's not possible. He really did make a dumb sounding will to witch he was present and signed.
Don’t feel bad you found that moment funny. It was unexpected and he didn’t seem too upset in his tone. He was being light hearted about it and that moment made me choke too
MatPat’s search history: How to murder a human and get away with it His FBI agent: Haha must be a theory about murder [3 years later] His FBI agent: I wonder where that murder video is?
It honestly took me SEVERAL minutes to realize that these people weren't actors. These are REAL people and these are REAL events. I know MatPat said so, but I honestly couldn't (and honestly still can't) believe it.
There is also proof that she did have a commercial meat grinder. Don's former assistant provided a copy of the reciept to the youtube channel that's been doing a lot of investigation into this. It's ripper something. RipperJackMedia. MatPat needs to update this since there are now 2 glaring problems with this vid. I posted the info about the meat grinder right after this video came out.
@@RedEyesTops They're just the graves of the animals...and a killer would have to be extremely stupid to bury the body in an actual grave, unless there's some psychology at play.
Just a heads up, it came out that the Will has confirmed been forged, but criminal charges were not filed due to the statute of limitations being expired. Pretty incredibly sus. And quite frankly the statute of limitations is the most BS thing ever.
@@strangeavocado9279 well they might not be able to file criminal charges but the government should be able to at least claim all assets for a period of time until they find the actual will but since it was probably destroyed they might only hold them for a short time and then sell everything at auction or just sell it all at auction immediately but I mean you would think they wouldn't just let her get away with that I mean seriously they should cease all of her assets
I don't think there is enough time tho. 24hrs. She couldn't have done it herself, as se looks very weak. And if she had help, well...police didn't find him or didn't do their jobs.
Agent #1: hey this guy makes some pretty creepy and random searches Agent #2: Name? Agent#1: Matpat Agent#2: Fifty bucks on a video about tiger caging cold cases with bad music
What about, given her location, the possibility that she fed part of him to the cats and dumped the rest in the Everglades or other gator-infested waters?
I know the theory is focused on how the body could be eaten, but did no one else get concerned when the will went missing and it showed up at Carol’s with it being favorable to her?
I feel so sorry for Don's first wife and daughters. Think about it? You're father leaves you and your mother for a younger woman he met *once* then when he dies, this stranger gets all of your father's property, basically all of his business and most of his money. While you are left alone with barely any memory of your father and you are left with the fact he cared for his mistress more than the mother of his daughters. It's just so sad to me ;c
Did I misunderstand the entire story? I thought Carol was his first wife and he was going to stay in Costa Rica with another girl but was killed by his first wife before he could
Would be hard to do though, besides the strain it would take to cut up a human, to remove flesh from bones as well? It feels like a lot of effort, too much effort quite frankly. But you are right
Okay coming back to this, they do say that the bobcats and other cats they had at the time could have eaten the meat and still left bones, so you are right in that she could have just waiting till the cats finished with the meat and left just bones. The question is how to get rid of said bones. Could be buried, could be ground up, could maybe even somehow been cremated (although at that point just cremate the whole body). My personal bet would be on buried as it is not an easy feat to grind up bones.
I feel like the last channel for the theorists should be like a murder mystery or like an unsolved crime thing. I could listen to matpat tell the stories of true crime all day
Oh yeah! I've been trying to think of ideas for that too. But a lot of matpat's strength revolves around science, published studies and/or data, and critical thinking. Some other ones I was thinking about were ancient cultures or history in general, like Atlantis, or how there was an actual great flood at the end of the last ice age. I'm still stumped on other ideas, unless there's like a treasure trove of data on some obscure topic no one covers on youtube...
@@firemyst9064 it is probably a conspiracy theory. i saw a vid where he was joking about another channel and he put it in the 4th category but the theory was a conspiracy ish theory.
Nobody touches on the fact that Carol's brother was a local cop, and they said they have met on the night of the disappearance. That brother also hated Don. And also, you know boatloads of alligators around there. The tigers and bobcats and even that jaguar might have gone without dinner that day.
To add on, jaguars have the strongest bite. Instead of strangling prey they aim for the head and crack the skull. No matter how she disposed the body its agreed that more investigation should be done.
[MultiTopics]Naphtali Luther Flores Where did you last see him I last saw him when he commented on a video called most annoying things probability comparison
Ok so fun fact, Jaguars don't just have a bite force that can break a house man femer, their main method of attack is to BITE THROUGH THEIR PRAYS SKULL!! So if any big cat can dispose of a human body it would be this one.
Given his fanbase's love for a good cryptic puzzle, it would be a terrible idea to murder MatPat. A few million Velma's could probably solve the case within 24 hours, with time to spare. (I get that you were joking, I just suddenly realized and wanted to point out that MatPat is probably one of the worst people to target for anything like that. And to say that I'm rather impressed by this community's ability to band together while solving puzzles.)
@@shaunjimbangan1166 Like Helaman said, a Velma is just my way of saying someone who actually contributes to solving the mystery. Someone good at piecing the clues together. Someone who enjoys going out to find the next puzzle to solve. I'd give credit to the whole Scooby Squad, but let's be real, if you took Velma out of the equation the rest would be left high and dry. So the Game Theory and Film Theory fans that actually like a good mystery and contribute to solving puzzles are, in my mind, the Velmas.
Alright heres my theory: Joe Exotic had a couple of crocodiles in captivity right? Well the average bite force of the American Alligator is around 2125 psi and typically crocodiles have a bit of a stronger bite than the alligators. They typically eat once a week and have insanely acidic stomachs. And its not like a crocodile has never killed and eaten a human before. Carol may not have had any crocodiles in or around Big Cat Rescue at 1997 however, the everglades are only a 4 hour drive away from tampa. She very easily could have cut the body into pieces at Big Cat Rescue, packaged them in a way to not leave behind a trace in Don's Van, Drove to the everglades, disposed of the body and dump the van at the airport within a single 24 hour period. thank you for coming to my ted talk
She didn’t necessarily need to feed all of him in one day, she could keep his meat in the fridge an pretend it was pork, as for the bones she could just break them with a hammer an burry them
There are two types of people. Society has been a benifit for a lot of people that would have been rooted out if survival of the fittest were a factor anymore.
I noticed Carole never shows *any* emotion when talking about her husbands death, she just calmly discusses it and laughs way too often. Psychotic behaviour.
AJSSPACEPLACE Even if that were true, if you rewatch Tiger King you’ll see that she laughs constantly when asked about her husband, way too frequently to be normal. It‘s one thing to have recovered, it’s another thing to be jubilant.
AJSSPACEPLACE - I watch a lot of true crime, and time doesn’t matter much. A lot of the families who don’t get closure to unsolved mysteries are still broken up about it or looking for answers. Carole is guilty...
I feel like matpat just made a case for mistrail all defense would need is one person from the jury to have some sort of y.t connection as a viewer of in a house hold of a y.t watcher...
According to the sources the lion's bite strength is around the same as a tiger's. And out of curiosity I looked up a Liger's bite strength which should come out just a bit short to break a human femur. Just look up how massive a liger is and you'll know why I'm amazed.
*calls up Disney* matpat: you got hamilton coming up next year, right? Disney: yes? matpat: ADD IT TO DISNEY PLUS Disney: ok... but why? matpat: we need people to stay home Disney: ok
This is probably too late to get seen by anyone, but I began watching the show a while ago, and after watching this theory, I did some research. I noticed that in Episode one, during the 'Graveyard' Scene where Carol is showing the Cameramen the Large cat's Graves, I looked closely, and saw something. I saw the Gravestone of a Jaguar, which was born and bought by Carol and Don in 1994. Don went missing in 1997, which mean said Jaguar would have been 3 years old at that time. I have no idea if this changes anything, but it is true Carol has 40 Acres of land, so they could have had many Jaguars during that time.
But still strange she reported him missing after 1 day, when he was expected to be in Costa Rica? And his van is obviously planted at the airport to back up that theory. So if he goes to Costa Rica to hook up with his "side girls", something tells me she usually doesn't hear from him until he gets home, maybe 3 days or a week at least? Unless he usually calls his wife from the airport as soon as he lands before his girlfriends pick him up, but something tells me he's not the type of guy to do that.
Here is what I believe happened: Carol’s husband wanted to divorce her but carol ended up killing him. She planted his van at the airport to stage an escape. Then she reported him missing. When she broke into the assistant’s home, she was trying to find the evidence that the assistant might’ve had (or his will). She then rewrote his will and forged the signature so she would get all the money.
@@r.j.penfold Yeah, he's already got good analytical skills and critical thinking (which is evident even in all the scripts and videos where he was the only person writing and editing.), with proper formal training he'd be a good investigator.. Just a flamboyant and loud one due to his Theatre experience.
apparently all big cat people are somewhat crazy. She is probably the saneist out of everyone on the doc, baring Jeff Lowe who was a straight up scum bag.
The issue isn't whether they'd be driven to eat humans, the issue is that they can't chew through our bones because their jaws just aren't strong enough.
The cats didn't HAVE to bite through the femur. What if Carol just smashed the bones with a sledgehammer and then fed them to the tigers... There's thousands of possibilities of how she could have done it.
I just found out that one of my coworkers actually worked at Joe Exotic's Zoo! He's actually a pretty nice guy and has some adorable pictures of him with some of the baby tigers and one massive baby liger!
Meh it’s crazy but I had a dream where I rode luckless sharks like a helicopter with bunny iron man and the villain killed people with his rainbow vomiting mustache
If she lived in FL she could have used bull sharks as well (that is, of course, only if she lived close by a large body of saltwater that could connect to freshwater.) Pretty sure bull sharks have a strong enough bite force. And they've been know to attack humans at a surprising frequency. Or, y'know, she got rid of him in some other way. She did have 40 acres of land.
@@FilmTheory Oh my, what a needless Theory. Ever heard of Stargate or Star Trek? You made so many Theorys about the Star Wars Franchise, the third-best Franchise with 'Star' in the Name. If not about the Minecraft Story, then at least try something New, something Good.
Plausible. Now, we need to look up research papers about the decay rate of certain parts of the human skeleton due to aging (and etc.) because I doubt that the femur of a 70 year old man is nearly as weak as his pelvis. The design of the pelvis is more to blame for it breaking because having a baby can bust a middle aged woman's pelvis as well. It's also likely that the femur could be harder to break than expected due to scar tissue buildup from random things like hitting a truck or cage, but that's just a theory.
@@MagnakayViolet Well lets just see what's the hardest bone he has based on age, previous incidents and other factors. If a jaguar or tiger can bite through that then we know it's sound.
See I dont think they fed the body to the tigers, i think when her brother the Deputy sheriff, found her late that night and had his partner drive her back home, he took the van and drumped the body in one of the swamps and let the gators take care of the body.
Yeah that's totally possible gators have enormise biting force and they don't even need the meat to be sliced into peaces they eat meat whole and when the prey is to big they do death rolls to tear of limbs and big parts of the meet.
But what if... that's just a misdirection she made, like matpat said, 40 acres is a huge place. She's smart enough to park his van in the airport, why can't she just hide the body in the lake? Just tie it to the bottom of the lake for a few days until the police stop searching, and disposing of the body will be easy
@@rookymusic6310 do you not notice how obviously biased, dramatized and exaggerated it is? i'm baffled reading these. you can FIND how much information was spread in there-
The flaw in this theory is assuming takes 1 strong bite to break a bone when a tiger, lion or jaguar could have easily gnawed on the bone until it broke
@@marquis911 police was not looking for him, they figured he ran off with another lady and once she inherited his wealth then they kinda saw her as a suspect. She hired for him to vanish most likely. She also seems very odd and delusional.
So i did the math, as u said don was 77kg at the time of his death, “the daily food requirement of a captive jaguar weighing 34 kg was estimated at 1.4 kg of meat” according to the internet, 77 divided by 1.4 is 55, meaning there needed to be 55 34kg jaguars on the property if jaguar’s were the only cats dealing with the disposal of dons body, of course other cats could’ve helped dispose of dons body and a jaguar would only be needed for the strong bones like the femur. I couldn’t find any numbers on how much heavier jaguars eat so if any of u can find any leave me a link in the replies
@@RyderTheGayRaptorUwU dont free joe. He still tried to buy a hitman. Like as much circumstantial evidence as there is in the case, youbstiol cant take the law into ur hands like that when u dont have solid proof
His advanced age also means there's a good chance he could have had a condition that made his bones weaker, like osteoporosis. That might make things easier for a big cat to break them.
Nobody touched on the fact that Don Lewis never really told us his job. Other then selling cars illegally to Costa Rica. That man was worth anywhere between 5 and 20 million and he couldn’t even spell ‘enough’ correctly on the restraining order. Also Don was known for not wanting to get the law involved, this was even said by Dons daughter to his Ex wife. My theory is that he was selling drugs in Costa Rica. I also believe Carol knew what he was doing, she knew that whatever line of work he was in, was a dangerous one and honestly probably wasn’t even attached to Don that much. So when he went missing it wasn’t a surprise to Carol and she worked fast on the legal papers to get the money from the daughters and ex wife.
Very possible he went missing smuggling coke. But where’s the missing plane? Why leave the van at the wrong airport? (he told Carole he was flying out of Miami “early early early”. Why no luggage? Why leave his fortune. Why haven’t we heard from the Costa Rican girlfriend? Carole murdered him.
When he was mentioning all the other big cats that could possibly eat the bones I just kept on thinking "It's not any of them!! It's a Jaguar! They have strong enough bite force!!" (Yes I know a lot about jaguars, did you know that they'll occasionally hunt underwater? It's terrifying!) Something else Carol could've done is give the body to hyenas, they're really good at eating everything from their meal, even bones. I know it was a big cat sanctuary, but it looked like the type of environment hyenas live in too. And they almost always eat all the bones too, unless they're forced to flea.
I have a friend whos mom died a couple months ago and shes always cracking jokes about it, its honestly normal, coping mechanisms or just people already moved on from the past.
"You would never assume 1 person in the world exists like this." Mat... I grew up in Kentucky, dude. Just... It blows my mind how people are shocked people like this exist. There's one on every street corner back in Kentucky.
@@mrinaljoshi294 Florida isn't any weirder than any other place. I've lived in 4 states, and all of them had their legends. What makes Florida so infamous is all of their police reports are public record. So it's easy to find the weird stories.
THEORY IDEA: being stuck in quarantine I need MattPatt to tell me exactly how many helium balloons Carl would need based off of the house dimensions, materials, and items within the home to get it to fly for the period of time it did in the Disney movie UP. PLEASE!!!
I remember reading somewhere that someone did it and proved that a house could indeed fly off the ground using balloons but I agree that MatPat NEEDS to do that theory.
Then there's acid, a good fire, powerful blender/drills and the wild cats, big dogs... This rich lady had plenty options to discard the body including just burying off her land miles away.
She had henchmen available due to the fact that her late husband was filthy rich. separate the flesh from the bones then dispose in around random spots inside 40acres of area.
She was totally able to get rid of the body. My mom was making for my cat's barf. It's a diet made from supplements and meat, she would take the meat (with the bones) grind it and ad supplements. It took approximately 2 hours, but it also needs to wait 15 min's and mixing it and blablabla... So the grinding alone took only 15 min's. GRINDING 30kg (66lb) OF MEAT TAKES 15 MIN'S!!! A normal house cat eats about 300g-600g (0,66lb-1,32lb) whit the grinded bones, a bob cat eats 0,45kg-1,3kg (2lb-3lb) a day! So yes, i tink she would be able to get rid of the body.
@@galfinsp7216 If you use some tools and chop the bones up into smaller pieces then scatter them around the farm, just small enough to the point no one could tell, the whole skeleton would be munched up until it was nothing but small scraps and teeth powder laying on the ground.
Should've just fed him to the pigs, starve time for a couple days, remove the corpses teeth and hair and chop it up, the pigs will chew through the corpse in minutes bones and all (source: snatch)
I broke my leg in January 12, 2 days after my birthday, and when I say broke I literally broke my femur in half, it was a complete clean cut through my left femur. So what happened was that my dad were sleighing and our sleigh had turned sideways and we hit a tree. I was taken to the ER and got emergency surgery, I now have a metal rod in my leg. When I saw this video and saw not even a tiger OR A FRICKIN LION can’t break a human femur I’m just questioning how HARD did my dad and I had to hit that tree to break my femur in HALF! The things I do are just baffling, even the doctors had questioned us how fast we were going to have broke my femur in half. Love the vids 🥰🥰🥰keep up the great work ❤️❤️❤️❤️
