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Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant

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

Ken McElroy apparently had the car turned on, still had it in park.

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

He pulled out a cigarette, and I saw that he either had just lit it or was about to light it when somebody shot him in the head with a high-powered hunting rifle and then followed that up with a shot to the neck with Trina right next to him, who was suddenly covered in his blood.

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

Yeah, through the back windshield of the pickup truck.

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

I imagine, instantly killed him with that first shot.

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

His foot slams on the gas and this thing is revving at like full bore, this old truck, starts smoking and eventually blows the engine and it just goes silent.

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

Trina apparently urinated herself, was initially told to stay in the car, or she would be killed too, and then gets hustled out of this truck into a nearby bank, and a bunch of more shooting happens until the shooting stops.

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

It's about 20 seconds worth of shooting.

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

People go up, peek in this truck.

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

McElroy is hunched over.

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

No one helps the guy at all.

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

And in the end, they figure out he was hit by two different bullet types.

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

So two different guns had actually made contact with his body, two different bullets.

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

So, you know, in the documentary, again, there were people that were like, you know, five or six people shot him, three or four people shot him.

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

Like everyone sort of got their own story.

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

But as far as the, you know, autopsy goes, there were two different calibers of bullet.

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

Yeah, because here's the twist to this whole story.

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

We don't know, at the very least, the law can't say who killed Kim McElroy.

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

There were between 30 to 60 people who were standing right there when he was killed from several feet away, and no one saw a thing.

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

The town circled the wagons and clammed up to this day.

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

Yeah, the town fully cleared out right after that.