Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So this is going on.
He's terrorizing this town.
Everyone knows he's an awful guy.
He's just – it can't be overstated what an awful –
creep that he is, and I mean, creep isn't even, that's way too soft to describe a guy like this.
Finally, in 1980,
He sort of pushes his luck, as Livy would call this section.
Things kind of come a little bit to a head.
There are these local shopkeepers.
They ran the B&B grocery there in town, Lois and Ernest Bowen Camp.
And apparently his kids would go in there and shoplift all the time, his very young kids.
And one of his young daughters, her name was Tonya or Tonya.
I'm not sure how that's pronounced.
I'm guessing Tonya.
Tanya, was like four years old and was stealing candy from the store.
They confronted this young girl.
And of course, McElroy wouldn't stand for that.
So he starts up with his usual routine, parking outside their store, staring them down, brandishing a shotgun and carrying it around with him.
And in July of that year, McElroy approached Bo Boenkamp, the grocery store owner.
They had a brief conversation, and he shot this 70-year-old man through the neck, again, not killing him, but wounding him.