Josh Dial Confession of Wrongdoing

RE: Josh Dial of Tiger King Confession of Wrongdoing

This is how they ask for forgiveness for using me for money and fame when they knew it was all bullshit lies.

June 18, 2025

Joe,
I want to let you know that I am proud of the level of perseverance and strength you have shown through this terrible ordeal. It seems like eons ago, the two of us discussing geopolitics and passing out bumper stickers when I was still just an employee at Walmart in Pauls Valley. This state would certainly be different if we would have been successful in our run for the governors office here in Oklahoma.

I have a couple things (likely more than a couple) to apologize for, and to make amends for.

1. I should never have used Travis’ death for personal gain. While it is true that I sustained significant mental trauma and PTSD as a result of that dark days, I never had the right to throw that around as casually as I have these past 7 years. I think about Travis almost every day, and he is often in my dreams. May his memory be a light that shines in your heart and all of those who loved him.

2. I should have been honest about the extent of my drug addiction before coming to your zoo. Apart from the fact that the drugs made my campaign management position less effective, I also ran a great risk of losing my life at your zoo, while being intoxicated around dangerous animals. I did you a disservice by promising you to 100%, but only giving you 10%.

3. I had no right to go on camera like I did and discuss the things that I did. We were all fooled by the makers of the infamous show that bears your name. The things I said, whether I was on drugs (and I was) or not, are inexcusable. How can I preach tolerance and mercy when I speak of those who loved me the way I did.

4. I should have testified at your trial, as it has been clear to me from the start that you are the victim of an elaborate conspiracy designed to frame you and silence you. This conspiracy was orchestrated by a handful of idiotic rednecks, along with the FBI, to take everything you love.

5. I should have believed in you. I should have listened to your advice and learned from you, rather than laugh at you behind your back, or while your were in prison.

I want to catch you up a bit on where I am at right now. 9 months ago, I checked myself into rehab, I was ready to make a change and tired of losing. When I graduated rehab I came to a Christian sober living program called Hope is Alive in Oklahoma City. I have been completely sober since September 28, 2024 and am eternally grateful for the second chance I have been given. I am in AA and working the steps, part of those steps teaches us to make amends to people we have harmed, and you were certainly on that list.

I want you to know that you are loved, that you are not forgotten, and that your courage is an inspiration to many. Along with my sincere apology, I offer you my services should you need anything that I may be able to help with. I have a lot to make up for and I intend to. I do think that a pardon is still possible, if your team plays the game the right way.

Please feel free to reach out to me either via email or phone at _______

Do not abandon hope, hope is always alive.

With love,

Joshua Dial

June 19, 2025

Josh,
It's nice to hear you are finally doing well and off of drugs and finally getting your life put together. The sad part is you and many others took part in destroying my life and putting me in prison for a smear campaign for nothing more than a little bit of fame and a pocket of money.

Thanks to you and your lies, Travis will never be able to rest in peace due to the fact that you along with the others couldn't help yourselves by putting out lies that he wasn't gay, that he hated his life at the zoo and he was sleeping around is why he took his own life. So now everyone that has seen the show along with the interviews you did that is online thinks that I drove him to kill himself which you and I know that is the farthest thing from the truth. Travis would have done anything to protect me our relationship was that solid.

If you want to find God and forgiveness you should tell the world the real story of just how I ran that zoo to try and keep all of you alive because drugs and partying meant more to you at the time then representing the memorials that zoo was meant for along with the proper care of those animals. Most of that staff hated me why? because I made them feed and clean those animals properly and it wasn't about the party like Jeff allowed them to have.

You need to tell the world just how hard I worked and what I gave up to give you people a home, a job that had no home because your own families abandon you due to your drug abuse and personal problems.

You know Josh I can forgive all of you for what you did to me because I will come out of this on the other side being a stronger person and with the love I have beside me with Jorge. However, until all of you come clean for what took place with Jeff Lowe at the end to pull all of this off and how you were paid to exaggerate your stories for Eric Goode to make Tiger King, I will never forgive you all for what you did to my parents. With all of you guys help they split my parents that were married for over 69 years, put them in separate nursing homes to die alone just so they could take all of their property, but had to have me in prison first in order to get their power of attorney away from me to pull it all off.

My parents provided you with a home, a place to call home with a ton of animals to work with and be proud of that  no one else in the world got a chance to work with, having no bills to pay plus a decent salary every week and when it came time to stick up for them and their son, you threw us all under the buss to become famous and gain attention.

I sit in prison everyday wondering when someone like you will start a campaign in Oklahoma to Governor Stitt to make that call to President Trump and explain the truth behind all of this and allow me to go home. That zoo brought millions of dollars to Oklahoma from visitors from all around the world and it was taken away from the people and myself over greed and lies and it's time someone like you leads the charge to rattle some doors in Oklahoma to get me released by telling the truth.

The corruption with the Garvin County Sheriffs office, Jeff Lowe and James Garrettson, you know about the rape they were doing at that zoo, the sex trafficking in las Vegas, the bank fraud, and the rest.

But the worst part about all of this? That zoo had 151 Memorials, 3 peoples ashes were buried at that zoo and they are all still there, What was done to them for greed and hate was no different than going to a cemetery and kicking overhead stones for fun. 21 year old Jarred a native from Oklahoma was buried under the large memorial by Tiger Island. A women from Lawton Oklahoma was buried under her memorial called the front (L). Another women was burred at Tiger Island. and Jeff tearing down Travis's memorial and selling it off for drugs to party on and rape young girls. They are all the people you need to be asking for forgiveness because thanks to you, Jeff, James, Lauren, Allen, Carole, Howard, Yarri, Chelsea they all walk that zoo as disrespected ghost wondering why they are to be left or dug up by bulldozers like they meant nothing to anyone when they level that zoo at some point.

You want to offer me your services. Call the Governor, TMZ, all the local news in OKC and come clean with what you really know about what happened during all of this and get an army behind you to spread the truth, because all I did was give up my life for you, the staff, those animals to give everyone the best home I could possibly offer when no one else would.

Erik Cowie, Brenda and many others that knew the truth but either lied for the same reasons or was not allowed to testify are all now dead so you as part of the living must come forward before it's too late for all of us.

Sincerely
Joe Exotic

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