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

Yeah.

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

And so Bo and Lois Boenkamp were, like, beloved in the town.

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

Oh, yeah.

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

This is a big deal.

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

He had assaulted a beloved elderly shopkeeper, grocer,

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

who fed the town.

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

And even McElroy knew it was a big deal.

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

He fled.

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

He tried to get out of the state.

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

And you mentioned Richard Stratton, the Missouri Highway Patrolman, who had run-ins over and over and over again with Ken McElroy.

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

Well, he was out on patrol that night when that happened or that day, I guess.

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

And he got the all points bulletin or the beyond the lookout for Ken McElroy.

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

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

But Richard Stratton said, no, I know this guy.

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

He's got a police scanner.

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

He knows exactly where they are.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

He was caught.