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10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Ken McElroy: The Bully Who Met His Match

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

Entertainment News, True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Today, we're diving into one of the most infamous tales of small-town justice in American history. It's 1981, and the rural town of Skidmore, Missouri, is about to take a stand against the local menace, Ken McElroy. Known for his reign of terror and criminal exploits, McElroy was a larger-than-life figure who seemed untouchable by the law. From petty theft to attempted murder, his crimes went unpunished for decades, thanks to a clever lawyer and a hefty dose of intimidation.

But the townsfolk of Skidmore had had enough. On a fateful day, they gathered together, guns loaded and tempers flaring, to end McElroy's tyranny once and for all. In a story that seems ripped from the pages of a vigilante thriller, discover how an entire community came together to confront the man who had terrorized them for so long. With a gripping narrative that includes murder, intimidation, and a controversial act of justice, this episode is sure to make you question your beliefs.


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0:00.0

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0:23.0

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0:25.8

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0:28.6

Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.

0:33.2

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front.

0:34.5

Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off.

0:39.0

The night will be wild and untamed.

0:41.1

Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin.

0:44.9

By Monday, temperatures will rise,

0:47.1

slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:51.1

Not in the mood for miserable weather?

0:53.3

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:56.2

Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. The In 1981, a rural and sleepy American town gathered together, a community united under one banner.

1:47.9

The car park rings with the unmistakably deep clink of a shotgun shell loading before all hell breaks

1:55.1

loose. This was the town of Skidmore, a town dead set on ridding themselves of a pestilence that had brought

2:02.2

them to their knees.

2:04.1

On the other side of the coin was Ken McElroy, a man who'd been born into abject poverty.

2:10.4

He was 15th in line of 16 children born to Tony and Maybell McElroy, but by the end of things,

2:17.1

he would become the most infamous McElroy

2:19.1

to walk the streets of America. He dropped out of school when he was only 15 years old, not to work

2:25.4

or help support his family, but to learn a trade, a very specific trade. Ken was a burgeoning criminal,

2:33.3

testing the waters and dipping his toes into the world of

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