Conspiracy of Silence: The Town That Killed Ken Rex McElroy
The episode explores the 1981 vigilante killing of Ken McElroy, a feared and violent man in Skidmore, Missouri, who terrorized the town for decades with crimes ranging from assault to child molestation, only to be gunned down in broad daylight by an unknown number of townspeople — a crime
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