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

So this is going on.

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

He's terrorizing this town.

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

Everyone knows he's an awful guy.

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

He's just – it can't be overstated what an awful –

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

creep that he is, and I mean, creep isn't even, that's way too soft to describe a guy like this.

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

Finally, in 1980,

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

He sort of pushes his luck, as Livy would call this section.

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

Things kind of come a little bit to a head.

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

There are these local shopkeepers.

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

They ran the B&B grocery there in town, Lois and Ernest Bowen Camp.

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

And apparently his kids would go in there and shoplift all the time, his very young kids.

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

And one of his young daughters, her name was Tonya or Tonya.

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

I'm not sure how that's pronounced.

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

I'm guessing Tonya.

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

Tanya, was like four years old and was stealing candy from the store.

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

They confronted this young girl.

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

And of course, McElroy wouldn't stand for that.

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

So he starts up with his usual routine, parking outside their store, staring them down, brandishing a shotgun and carrying it around with him.

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

And in July of that year, McElroy approached Bo Boenkamp, the grocery store owner.

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

They had a brief conversation, and he shot this 70-year-old man through the neck, again, not killing him, but wounding him.