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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

Because, I mean, there's a certain amount of, like, grudging admiration you have for her.

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

At the very least, it's like, man, this girl is so twisted.

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

She was, like, a really ardent defendant of her husband's reputation and honor and memory.

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

And, like, really went—she was really, like, mad that they had killed him.

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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

One other detail I saw was that she offered a $5,000 reward for information about who killed them, somebody to come forward.

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

But she didn't have $5,000.

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

She was putting it up against the movie rights she presumed she would eventually be paid for.

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

Oh, interesting.

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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

So I'm not sure.

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

I don't think anybody would take the five grand anyway, but certainly not a phantom five grand that didn't actually exist yet.

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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

As for the attorney, he was always like he was never like, oh, you know, I really regret representing that dirtbag.

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

He was pretty proud of his work.

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

He had a long career as a lobbyist working in the legislature there in Missouri and apparently would like buy copies of McLean's book and have McLean sign them and hand them out to all the delegates in the state Senate.

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

He died in 2012.

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

Like I said, very proud of his work.

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

And Stratton, the highway patrolman that we mentioned, was the guy who in an interview said, you know, they did what they did because we didn't do our job.

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

And I think he felt forever bad that the law enforcement had failed that town.