Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant
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Yeah.
And so Bo and Lois Boenkamp were, like, beloved in the town.
Oh, yeah.
This is a big deal.
He had assaulted a beloved elderly shopkeeper, grocer,
who fed the town.
And even McElroy knew it was a big deal.
He fled.
He tried to get out of the state.
And you mentioned Richard Stratton, the Missouri Highway Patrolman, who had run-ins over and over and over again with Ken McElroy.
Well, he was out on patrol that night when that happened or that day, I guess.
And he got the all points bulletin or the beyond the lookout for Ken McElroy.
And at the time, the sheriff's office, the rest of the highway patrol, they were setting up roadblocks, looking on every highway that they could for Ken McElroy.
But Richard Stratton said, no, I know this guy.
He's got a police scanner.
He knows exactly where they are.
He's going to take every back road he can find to get to Kansas and get out of the state and lay low for a while.
And Richard Stratton said, I know he's going to have to go through Fillmore, Missouri, to get to Kansas, and I'm going to stake that place out.
And in short order, Ken McElroy came driving through in his Silverado with Trina in the seat, and he ended up getting busted by Richard Stratton.
He was caught.