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

That's what I would have done.

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

Well, she if you read newspaper accounts like immediately after the Kansas City Star had a couple of articles like the week after, like she's scared to death or she sounded scared to death that she was going to be next or that her kids were going to be murdered.

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

And then, of course, the townspeople that they interviewed for the same article are like, no one wishes her any ill will.

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

Right.

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

You know, she's not in any danger.

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

But she swore that she was told to stay out of Skidmore, don't ever come back or else she was going to get it and her kids would be after that.

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

It's I don't know.

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

It probably just depends on which town person you talk to.

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

I mean, both things can be true.

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

They could have felt like she was a victim, but also please leave.

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

Yeah, exactly.

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

And apparently when she was hustled off to the bank, whoever did that saved her life because even if they hadn't have been aiming for her, she probably would have gotten hit by a stray bullet after that second round.

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

But when she was hustled to the bank, there was like a crowd, like you said, of people there that seemed to be just sitting there watching.

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

Like people knew what was about to happen or what was going down.

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

And she said they didn't need to do them like that.

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

And someone said they had no choice.

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

So even if you didn't agree with that mob justice.

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

that had taken place and you were a Skidmore resident, at the very least, you weren't about to turn on your fellow townspeople, certainly not for the likes of somebody like Ken McElroy or Trina.

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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 in the end, you know, they couldn't with only Trina's word, there was nothing they could do.