For years, the small town of Skidmore, Missouri lived under the shadow of one man. Accused of dozens of crimes and known for intimidation tactics that kept witnesses silent, he seemed untouchable. But in the summer of 1981, everything changed. What happened next would leave investigators stunned, a community silent, and a case that remains unsolved to this day.

This is the case of Ken McElroy

Sources 

• In Broad Daylight by Harry N. MacLean
• Wikipedia (Ken McElroy case, cross-referenced) 
• A&E — case feature 
• Fox2Now — reporting 
• Crime Library
• Mental Floss
• Morbidology
• Patch
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (grand jury documentation) 
• All That’s Interesting
• Northwest Missouri News
• Weird History (limited, corroborated details)