Posted on 07/18/2021 3:08:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I remember reading about this one, may have seen a documentary too. Nobody did anything long before because the whole town was afraid of the guy, he was really a mean bastard.
Anyone who tried to stand up to him got the crap beat out of himself, he would repeatedly cruise by their house slow in his truck or just sit there, staring, attacked people for little provocation, and often with whatever he could grab for a weapon...baseball bat, pool cue, broom...
Just a really mean, selfish, dishonest person, and revenge was always on his mind if you ever crossed him. Just say the wrong thing, you were the enemy and he *would* retaliate. Stole pigs from another county and resold them, just grab a pig and throw it into his truck and drive off. May have used a van for that.
Forget the apple, this guy was the worm that made it fall.
Actually the shadow only has to extend less than a mile as the crow flies.
That was the nickname my closest friends had for that album.
Interestingly, you stumbled across a statement that might have enabled me to know who you were. Coincidences...
Convenient at the time, a major lake was being impounded. Add to the many cisterns at old ranch houses that were no longer there.
Many places for one to disappear.
“He needed killin’”.
shoot, shovel, shuddup
In the mid-80s I went on a tour of the South with a lit professor, who was born in Smith County Missippi and did his course-work at Ol' Miss.
His beat-old Caddy broke down on us in Russellville, Arkansas, and there we sat at a stale motel, a couple ruffed-up near-alkies with a half-bottle of Tanqueray and about $100 between us.
My friend, always resourceful, made a couple calls and reached the gentleman who had recently published ONE of the books about this bully-boy, apparently one of the best, and the gent picked us up and took us to a roadhouse just over the county line.
He didn't break a lot of fresh news, but he knew the material and it made for a damned interesting evening.
As far as I can recall--for some reason it isn't very clear, lol, he was pretty certain the kill shot came the church bell tower. But it was a long time ago, as I say...
They needed a guy with an eagle-eye like you in that little hole-in-the-wall town.
Sometimes things do go right eventually.
Needs to happen much more often and sooner than later.
McElroy’s wife—whom he victimized as a child—remarried and moved to Lebanon, Missouri. She died of cancer on Jan. 24, 2012; it was her 55th birthday.
I have to wonder if she suffered from Stockholm Syndrome after living with the man for many years.
But I think that she probably just wanted enough money to get out of the town that had so many horrible memories for her and to start a new life.
The town fathers may have even struck a deal with her to buy her silence. The lawsuit may have been a way to make cover the payoff.
because they have to rely on acting chops not good looks and charisma.
“Cause of death was COVID.”
You beat me to it.
“In Broad Daylight by Harry McLean, and a 1991 TV movie of the same name starring Brian Dennehy.”
That was a great movie! Maybe all conservatives need to adopt the same mindset as those townspeople.
I’m a huge Brian Dennehy fan, but he was so eee-vil in that movie! Shudder.
IIRC, he also was raping his own daughter, and maybe had a child with her. It’s been a long time since I read the book. The guy was evil personified.
Skidmore has had a couple of brutal murders over the last 40 years. Something about that town.
“Dennehy was a character actor, not a leading man type.”
He’s my third favorite actor (hunk), after Selleck and Gerald McRaney. Not super handsome, but he has a presence. DH was on a Southwest flight with him once and told him how much I liked him.
I really liked him the Jack Reed made-for-TV movie series, especially “Deadly Matrimony”.
I watched all of his movies. Just a wonderful actor and such a presence.
I just checked Amazon, and some of his Jack Reed movies are free on Prime. Not my favorite, though.
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