Joe Ball
- Age: 40
- Mad or Bad?: Bad
- Organized or Disorganized?: Organized
- Dates of Killings : late 1930's
- Location: Elmendorf, Texas: The Sociable Inn - Ball's Roadhouse
- He picked his victims from the waitress staff at his restaurant.
- He, or his alleged accomplice, Clifford Wheeler, would dismember the bodies and
Ball would bury them or feed them to his pet alligators that he kept in the back of his
restaurant.
- Ball killed himself when he was questioned about the murders by the police.