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Has anyone been watching the series on the Sundance channel about the killing of Ken Rex McElroy back in 1981? Rather interesting, although they're dragging it as is usually the case about TV documentaries.
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Haven't seen the series but read the book a very long time ago. Sometimes people just need killing.
The book was In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore, Missouri
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I have read up on this case quite a bit. He was a bad guy. He deserved to die.
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even the cops were scared of that dude
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Brian Dennehy played the role in the movie; In Broad Daylight, 1991.
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I didn't see that. Dennehy would have been perfect for that role. That guy was a bad, badass bully.
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Dennehy did play in the first movie about it...
It's all happened not far from here...if you want to really know what happened read the book in broad daylight...it tells just how bad that guy was...and the terror ...
Shortly after the killing there were a bunch of local guys went to prison...one was a resident of my home town...he ran a small grain elevator...others grand theft and such....we all think it was part of a huge ring ...
My fatherinlaws 2nd wife was in skidmore that day...hiding under the pool table...
I watched a few min of it and seen where it was going....the guy got just exactly what he had coming...
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At one time I had dogs with a pro trainer that lived in Maitland, MO. He knew all about the killing and who did it. He
would never tell.
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I don't know the Skidmore people directly-but have a couple of friends that do.
I had heard about McElroy before they killed him. He was a menace to that community, hard to believe things he did.
Lots of locals know more than they will admit. Don't matter. Justice was served. Good for them.
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If you set out to write a novel with this story line, you could not dream up a better name for the town than Skidmore.
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I can't attest to the accuracy of it, but the book In Broad Daylight, won an Edgar Award for True Crime, IIRC and is very entertaining. I've never seen a copy of the movie that wasn't effed up. A friend of mine taped it off the TV years ago and I've got a VHS copy that's not very good. Seemed like Dennehy and his co-stars did about as good of a job as they could have in a TV movie. It really needed more time to adequately tell the story. IIRC, the movie In Broad Daylight, was the second movie about it and was much more accurate and less preachy about the "vigilante" angle than the first one, which starred David Graf (Tackleberry from Police Academy), was out three years prior.
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I didn't watch but a few min of it ...but did they tell how he would pull into a farmers homestead and load up his hogs or cattle and jus drive off...or how he would just stop on the road and take pot shots at farmers with a deer rifle on there tractors...the shooting of the store keeper was just the straw that broke the camels back....up till then he had never harmed anyone other than fear...no one could ever remember him in even a fist fight...probably because he was a big dood and everyone had a sence of what he was capable of...
Somthing to think about is we are a society of laws and government buy the people...when said law failed the people of skidmore they took it in there own hands...wouldn't it have been nice if they could have just arrested him themselves...oh wait he was out on bail with money stolen from the community...the system just failed in this case. Not the residents of skidmore ....
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We in MO have ways most dont understand
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We in MO have ways most dont understand Very . very true . I'm from an extremely old family right here where I still live and if I was up to no good , welp --- I wouldn't want to piss-off a native Missourian . They are treacherous . I am Mr. Missouri , don't jack with my state .
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Been here all my life, it ain’t just Skidmore that handles business when need be. Bullies get theirs, sometimes even one with a badge. The most shocking part of the story to me was this guy living as long as he did. Been lots of folks lost in the woods or drowned in a lake for less. Sometimes a lot less. Them folks in Skidmore are a patient bunch.
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We in MO have ways most dont understand You folks got more patience than I will ever understand.
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Been here all my life, it ain’t just Skidmore that handles business when need be. Bullies get theirs, sometimes even one with a badge. The most shocking part of the story to me was this guy living as long as he did. Been lots of folks lost in the woods or drowned in a lake for less. Sometimes a lot less. Them folks in Skidmore are a patient bunch. Too patient. First time some son of a b**** shot at me for no damn reason he ain't going to do it again. I'll take my chances with the law
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I been thru Skidmore a few times.. Creepy feeling still there.
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How bout Clair McCasKill?
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