The Killing of Ken McElroy: The Town That Kept a Secret

The killing of Ken McElroy remains one of the most extraordinary unsolved cases in American history, and an entire town knows the answer. For more than twenty years, McElroy terrorised the small farming community of Skidmore, Missouri, a thief, an arsonist, and a child abuser who intimidated every witness into silence and walked free from charge after charge. Then, on a July morning in 1981, he was shot dead in his truck on the main street, in broad daylight, in front of dozens of people. Not one of them would say who pulled the trigger. More than forty years later, no one has ever been charged, and the town's silence has never broken. In this episode of Crime at Bedtime, we tell the full story: the two decades of terror, the law that failed again and again, the day the town finally had enough, and the question with no comfortable answer, when justice completely fails, what are people entitled to do? Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the town that kept a secret.

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