[PGR88]

Vigilante justice is much better than no justice at all

[decal]

Happens every weekend night in Chicago - maybe the thugs got the idea from this case.

[larrytown]

I’m sure that this same sort of thing has happened so many times it shouldn’t be that surprising. It’s not just ‘western justice’ - been done everywhere.

[Flick Lives]

McElroy raped a 12-year-old girl and, to avoid statutory rape charges, he divorced his wife at the time and married the child when she was 14 – and pregnant with their baby. McElroy burned down the girl’s home and shot her family’s dog to force her parents to agree to the marriage.

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Some people really do deserve killing.

[Prov1322]

Ken McElroy died in a hail of gunfire

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So, the cause of death was Acute Lead Poisoning...?!

[Nathan _in_Arkansas]

When the legal system fails, the community must do what is best for the safety and well-being of the community.

My only question is why it took so long.

[higgmeister]

I believe you have been around long enough to know that you should edit trash out of your posts.

Missouri killer: DNA evidence helps solve 1956 cold-case

That cut-n-paste link from the source had nothing to do with the story.

[snuffy smiff]

Some folks just need killin’ and this scumbag deserved it!

[crz]

The neighbor down the road from me knew him. He was no good. The neighbor also knows who most likely done the killing.

One of them is dead.

The other incident in that town was when a woman killed a pregnant mother and cut out the baby from her. The baby survived.

[logi_cal869]

There ought to be a category for ‘feel good news’

[MileHi]

and a 1991 TV movie of the same name starring Brian Dennehy

I saw that. Guess the town had enough.

[dforest]

This was a really good movie. I was riveted to it. Dennehy did a great job at this part.

[FR_addict]

I remember reading about this case way back. Not an easy one to forget.

[Do_Tar]

> Local authorities, including a coroner’s jury and a local grand jury, and even the FBI, investigated the killing...

Maybe if they’d put that effort in when the guy was committing rape, arson, assault, etc. people wouldn’t have been driven to do the laws job.

[Organic Panic]

It takes a village...

[Paleo Pete]

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.

[Deaf Smith]

Back in the 60's, whispers by the adults during holiday meals were about a town bully in W Texas that just disappeared.

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.

[Bonemaker]

"Ken McElroy died in a hail of gunfire on the morning of July 10, 1981, while sitting in his truck outside a local tavern.

[Albion Wilde]

[OrangeHoof]

“He needed killin’”.