Carole’s Rebuttal To “The Supposed ‘Circumstantial’ Evidence”

I don’t know why she spoke to every claim in the documentary, but she did. Buckle up. Let’s go…

Don’s Application for a Restraining Order

The Application for a Restraining Order. Don spent one week per month in Costa Rica. Don was a man who wanted to have sex daily. He would go to Costa Rica during the week I was having my menstrual cycle.

Ok, stop it right there. Gross.

When I woke up this morning, I made it a goal to go the entire day without thinking about Carole Baskin’s menstrual cycle. And now here we are and that goal is ruined. Thanks for nothing, Baskin.

I accepted this as something I had to live with. During the week he was away, I would haul off the property as much of the junk as I could. Wendell told Don I was doing this. Don tried calling the police to get them to stop me. They told him he would need a restraining order. It is unclear if it was Don’s idea that to get a restraining order he should say I threatened him or if someone like Wendell suggested that. Don filed for the order on June 20, 1997, and it was denied.

I’m sorry, I’m still hung up on Carole talking about her menstrual cycle.

Don disappeared two months later on August 18, 1997. Anne claims Don told her to give the document to the police if anything happened to him. If someone tells you that, and the person disappears two months later, do you “forget” that, as Anne claims? No, you remember and give it to the police immediately. But Anne did not tell the police or me about it until September 9, 1997, when she claims to have suddenly remembered just in time to spring it on me in a court hearing with Judge Sexton as a way to try and have herself appointed as Conservator of our estate. Anne is an embezzler and a liar and her claim that Don told her “if anything happens to me give it to the police” and she simply forgot that until the hearing three weeks later is simply not credible. Later, when Anne was forced to return the embezzled properties, at the end of the negotiations, with the matter now closed, she opened up and told me that she knew all along that the only reason Don applied for the restraining order was to stop me from removing the junk.

Yes, a menstrual cycle is a part of life and shouldn’t be gross, but that still doesn’t mean I want to read about it from cat ladies like Carole.

“Disappearance” in the Power of Attorney

“Disappearance” in the Power of Attorney. Don had told me about people going to Costa Rica and disappearing. Our Costa Rican attorney, Roger Petersen, said the Helicopter Brothers were the local version of the mafia and Don was loaning them money. That is why I included “disappearance” as an event that would activate the Power of Attorney. I am sure attorney Joe Fritz is correct that this is unusual. It made perfect sense in this situation given what I was told by Don and by Peterson about Costa Rica and Don’s dealings there at the time.

Lol. She added “disappearance” to a damn power of attorney because Don once told her about people going to Costa Rica and disappearing. Ok. Suuuure.

The Van Found At The Airport

The Van and Airport. The claim was made by Kenny Farr that the police did not examine the van. It was the police who found the van at the airport, not me. And the mechanic Dale Lively said they came to him because they found his fingerprints in the van. So I have no idea where Kenny got that idea.

This is one of the smallest rebuttals in her defense essay, and yet it’s one of the most head-scratching details of the entire case. I’ve listened to enough Serial to know that this should’ve been investigated further and immediately. But it was not. And the only thing Carole has to say about her husband’s van being planted at a damn airfield is, “I have no idea where Kenny got that idea.”

You ready for this next one??

The Meat Grinder

The Meat Grinder. This is the most ludicrous of all the lies. As Gladys and the daughters did everything they could to make life difficult for me after Don disappeared, they spread this rumor that they thought I had ground Don up and fed him to the cats. And the media loved it. The meat grinder shown in the video was enormous. Our meat grinder was one of those little tabletop, hand crank things, like you’d have in your kitchen at home, like the one pictured here.

She actually embedded a picture of a meat grinder IN HER DEFENSE!

This lady is Grade-A, USDA Choice crazy.

Meat had to first be cut into one-inch cubes like you see here to go through it. The idea that a human body and skeleton could be put through it is idiotic. But the Netflix directors did not care. They just showed a bigger grinder.

If you own a massive tiger sanctuary, why in the hell is the biggest meat grinder you own one that you can carry from room to room? Why would you not own a larger meat grinder?

The Office Trailer. The series makes it sound like there was something nefarious about my moving the office trailer to the sanctuary property to secure it. They implied this was wrong because it was “Anne’s office.” The trailer was moved because Anne was spotted taking boxes of records out of the trailer, which she was not entitled to do. Anne was an employee, it was not her trailer. It belonged to our business.

If it belonged to “our business” then why did you not even have keys to get into it?

I removed it to where I could keep it secure so she could not keep stealing documents. The implication that this was done to keep the trailer from the police is nonsense. I showed the police the Power of Attorney entitling me to move it and invited them to look through it as much and whenever they wanted.

The Power of Attorney that you had changed into your name after Don went missing. Got it.

Carole’s “Bottom Line”

Don was not easy to live with and like most couples, we had our moments. But I never threatened him and I certainly had nothing to do with his disappearance. When he disappeared, I did everything I could to assist the police. I encouraged them to check out the rumors from Costa Rica, and separately I hired a private investigator. Robert Moor’s Wondery Podcast “Joe Exotic” included discussion of Don’s disappearance but was much more honest and fair in their treatment of it. They ended the discussion by pointing out that the investigator told them that, in their dealings with me, “she was courteous and there was nothing that jumped out at me in terms of her demeanor that to make me think that she was not giving us accurate information or hiding anything.”

Why would Eric Goode villainize Carole Baskin?  Could it have been her role in outlawing pythons in Florida?  The reptile people hated the passage of the bill that greatly restricted their ability to trade in constrictor snakes.  Carole was only involved in the bill because it imposed a $10,000 bond on people who kept lions, tigers and other dangerous big cats in backyards across Florida.  Prior to passage of the 2006 bill, there was no requirement that these backyard breeders, dealers and exploiters carry any sort of insurance to protect the public in case of attacks or escapes.

Notice how she didn’t address the sardine oil?

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