Ken Rex McElroy

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

"When a person is set loose by the courts to go back to the community they have been preying on, what recourse do the citizens of that community have then?"

On the morning of 10 July 1981, 47-year-old Ken Rex McElroy went to a tavern in Skidmore, Missouri. The pub quickly filled up with other local townspeople, many of whom had lived in fear of the other man for years. After finishing a drink, Ken began walking out to his pickup truck and was shot twice. He died at the scene.

As the shooting took place right outside of the crowded tavern, there were later determined to be 46 potential witnesses to the murder, including Trena McElroy, Ken's young wife. Only one, Trena herself, would ever attempt to identify a culprit...

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0:31.0	The terror most of us know is anonymous, a backstreet mugger, an urban gorilla,
0:36.0	or even more anonymous, the threat of nuclear war.
0:39.0	But what happens when the terror has a face on it? When it's one of our neighbors, a bully.
0:44.0	The man who terrorized Skidmore, Missouri, was just that, a bully who struck fear into the heart of a town.
0:50.0	Even the town Marshall was scared to take him on.
0:53.0	A one man, rain of terror in a town that just didn't know how to handle it.
1:00.0	The terror most of us know is anonymous, a bully who struck fear into the heart of a town that just didn't know how to handle it.
1:05.0	The terror most of us know is anonymous, a backstreet mugger, an urban gorilla,
1:09.0	a bully who struck fear into the heart of a town.
1:12.0	On the morning of July 10, 1981, Ken Rex McElroy went to a local tavern with his wife, Trina.
1:19.0	Over the course of the morning, the pub filled with other local townspeople.
1:24.0	After finishing his drink, Ken McElroy bought a small cup of coffee,
1:29.0	McElroy bought a six pack of beer and he and Trina went out to his pickup truck.
1:34.0	While sitting there in his truck, Ken was shot at and hit twice.
1:39.0	Once by a center fire rifle and once by a 22 caliber rim fire rifle.
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