For over forty years the small town of Skidmore, Missouri was terrorized by one man. Everyone knew to stay away from him, for if he ever thought you did him wrong he would harass your whole family. This one man was Ken McElroy. Over  the course of 40 years, he would rape young girls, steal from farmers and just plain bully the towns people. On July 10, 1981, the town’s people had had enough and decided to do something about it.

January 1991, Trudy Darby was closing the convenience store where she worked when 3 suspicious looking men caught her eye. After a phone call to her son asking him to come stay with her, the men would kidnap her at gun point and brutally attack her. After her body was found 2 days later police quickly ran out of leads. In 1993, a lead finally surfaced putting them right on the doorstep of Jessie Rush. The 17-year-old would confess but in letters uncovered by the police he may have confessed to so much more. 

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