Episode 60 - Ken McElroy: The Town That Got Away With Murder
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🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In 1981 Ken McElroy was shot dead in front of at least 30 people in his hometown. Not one person called for help, not one person came forward to give evidence and to this day his murder remains unsolved. But people weren't afraid of Ken's killers, this was vigilante street justice exacted against a violent bully and pedophile, who had raped, abused, assaulted - and generally terrorised the people of Skidmore, Missouri. Finally the terrified residents had taken matters into their own hands.
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| 0:14.6 | I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti and welcome to Redhanded. |
| 0:18.1 | Firstly before we start, apologies. I'm very very very hungry, I'm tired. |
| 0:23.1 | It's been a full week of holiday in Krimi and I was lucky enough to go to Montenegro for five days |
| 0:28.3 | and then come back and go to a fantastic hen party. Actually, I had a fucking great time. |
| 0:33.8 | We went glamping in Kent. You're like the anti-glamp though. I know, I love a real camp, |
| 0:39.6 | but they had a fire pit and I was fire queen, named by them fire queen. I sat at a great time. |
| 0:46.0 | It hit two 12 hours ago, I was sat in a hot tub, necking Prosecco straight out of the bottle. |
| 0:50.4 | You're everyone's hero. Everyone is neat, so gentle. You're life-rener. I'm jealous of your life. |
| 0:55.2 | I mean, that was intense. But when I was in Montenegro though, at the start of the week, |
| 1:00.1 | last week we were talking about open caskets. Well, Montenegro is fantastic. Highly recommend if anyone |
| 1:05.7 | can go. Go. It's so beautiful and underrated. Went to this monastery there. And you know how in |
| 1:10.7 | Catholic churches and stuff, they have like relics, so like a bone or just a nail or a bit of cloth. |
| 1:17.3 | In the monastery I went to, they had the entire body. The saint, it was sent basil. And I didn't |
| 1:24.5 | know this. They don't advertise that for like not to the point that I knew it went there. And they |
| 1:29.0 | were just like, here are all these caves that the monks used to go and pray in and be close to God. |
| 1:35.0 | And one of them they were like, oh, and if you go into this one, you will see the body of Saint |
| 1:40.0 | Basil. I think I've heard about this, you know? Yeah. Apparently they were telling us like if |
| 1:44.6 | anybody is like serious Christian, like orthodox proper Christian, they will have heard of this place. |
| 1:49.1 | It's called like the monastery of Osterberg monastery, something like that. It's like in the |
| 1:54.3 | cliffs. It's something I know. It's like in the cliffs. And like loads of people go there to |
| 1:58.3 | like heal themselves, but no fucking wonder. They haven't just got like a little bone of it. It's |
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