Encore - Ken McElroy: Who Murdered the Town Bully?

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong examines the peculiar case of Ken McElroy, a serial assaulter who evaded the law for years...until he was gunned down by the townspeople who took matters into their own hands. This was a murder that thirty people witnessed, but to this day, remains unsolved.

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0:09.0	A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone. Please be advised.
0:18.0	A Christmas Story is one of my favorite holiday movies. My son and I have seen it so many times that we can quote the lines before they are said.
0:38.0	Set in 1940, the movie follows 9-year-old Ralphie, a boy with the simple or not so simple wish for a red rider car buying action 200-shot range model air rifle.
0:53.0	No matter who he asks or how he asks it, guess request for the gun is denied. Often with the phrase, you'll shoot your eye out.
1:04.0	Adults are not the only ones getting in Ralphie's way. The town bully Scott Farkis terrorizes Ralphie and all the children in the neighborhood.
1:16.0	Scott chases them, beats them and torments anybody who crosses his path.
1:25.0	But after an already horrible day, Ralphie is confronted by Scott on his way home.
1:31.0	As Scott taunts him, we watch as Ralphie goes from being petrified to furious.
1:41.0	As tears pour down his face, we see the rage build until he explodes, tackling the bully and hitting him repeatedly with all his might.
1:55.0	The narrator and adult Ralphie says,
2:00.0	Something had happened, a few as blue, and I had gone out of my skull. Told you that I knew the lines.
2:08.0	This was the bully terrorizing the bullier, a popular fantasy for those of us who have suffered this treatment in the past.
2:19.0	Ralphie finally had enough. He was done taking the abuse.
2:28.0	I bring this up because we are talking about another bully.
2:33.0	Except this story is not a lighthearted Christmas tale.
2:38.0	It is a dark story about an even darker man that persecuted an entire town.
2:47.0	And that town finally had enough.
2:58.0	Well done. You have sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape and found me Rob Briden on my podcast.
3:10.0	In this series of Briden and I talk to among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.
3:21.0	And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.
3:26.0	It's terrific conversation, reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.
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