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The murder of Ken McElroy is an example of the kind of small town justice so well served

that it seems like it's got to be a movie.

And it was a movie.

Not a very good one, starring Brian Denahey.

But the actual crime came first, and it was true. Hence, it's an inclusion on this

playlist. At any rate, the town of Skidmore, Missouri doesn't play around if they're pushed too far. You can bet on that.

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

Music Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here, too, pushing us around as usual for this episode of Stuff You Should Know.

Our second episode for us of the new year, and why didn't we save like a pretty happy one to get going with?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Probably because we knew we were going to be so bummed out after Jones Town, we needed something that was a pick-me-up.

And what's crazy is this story actually is a pick-me-up compared to Jonestown?

Oh, boy.

That's tough to parse out.

So thank you to Livia for diving into this tough story.

And also, this episode, we want to issue a very big trigger warning because in it we are going to talk about a very bad man and some of the bad things he did, which included sexual assault, and some of which were with minors.

So trigger warning, know that going in. There's no way around it.

There's very few stories that have like a clear-cut villain, but this is one of them.

And the villain who's also the center of our story, the person at the center of our story,

is a man named Ken Rex McElroy.

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