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

was so fearful that he wouldn't take these cases.

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

He would have them moved to other nearby counties.

Stuff You Should Know
SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Strange Unsolved Murder of Ken McElroy

People called him the town bully, but that is the kindest way to describe him because he was also a child molester and rapist.

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

Yeah, I say we take a break and then come back and talk about this.

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

All right.

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

We'll be right back.

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

Gentleman's Cut Bourbon, Boone County, Kentucky.

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

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

Please enjoy responsibly.

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

All right, so when we left off, I leveled a pretty serious allegation, which is absolutely true, that Ken McElroy was a child molester and rapist, and this is 100% true.

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

The story gets very twisted and convoluted here, but...

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

It's kind of hard to follow along because he was married and then had a girlfriend and a wife at the same time.

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

But then another one and then another one would come in and they're overlapping and he's having kids with most of them.

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

And it gets very confusing.

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

But like you said, he fathered.

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

Ten kids, a lot of them were with underage girls.

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

He got married for the first time in 1952 when he was 18 and his wife, Alita, was 16.

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

And it's not like he calmed down or anything.

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

He would pray and stalk and groom girls as young as 12 and 13 years old.

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

one of which was a 15-year-old named Sharon.