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Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

So he had this stable of dudes that would go to court and testify on his behalf and provide him with alibis and say, like, he didn't shoot him in the stomach.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

He was with us.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

at the time of the shooting.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

So he got away with shooting Romaine Henry in the stomach with a shotgun even.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

Yeah, and just to make sure that you understand what kind of person Ken McElroy was, the reason that he shot Romaine Henry in the stomach was because Romaine Henry approached him and said, hey, will you please not shoot pheasants out of season on my land anymore?

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

And Ken McElroy responded by shooting him in the stomach because he told him basically to stop shooting birds illegally on that man's land.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

Yeah, didn't matter who you were.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

There was a cop even, a highway patrolman named Richard Stratton.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

Hashtag hero.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

Yeah, who had plenty of run-ins, obviously, with McElroy, because like you said, this is a town of a few hundred people at the time, I think.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

Yep.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

Maybe like 400 or 500 even.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

So everyone knew this guy, including, obviously, Richard Stratton.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

And he had a bunch of run-ins, and so McElroy started threatening—

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

His home and his family.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

One day, his wife, Margaret, was on her way to church.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

She got in the car to go to church.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

And McElroy walks up to the car, puts a shotgun in her face.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

And he did that to cops' wives.

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SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

He did it to judges, the county magistrate Montgomery Wilson.