Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant
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Yeah.
Safe to say?
Yeah, I would say I would definitely agree with that.
But he did do stuff.
He wasn't just like a layabout.
Like he was a kind of an industrious criminal.
He also trained hunting dogs.
He was a dealer of antiques, a buyer and seller.
But more than anything, he was a cattle rustler.
Apparently, the year before his death, the county that Skidmore's in, Nottoway County... Mm-hmm.
The cattle thefts were six times that of any other place in the state.
It led the state in cattle thefts.
And apparently a lot of that was Ken McElroy.
He was flush with cash.
He he would buy new cars.
He could support.
He ended up having at least 10 kids, could support them all.
Um, he, he had a lot of money and all of it essentially was from crime because he had a tiny little farm and he wasn't making much, if any money off of that, he was making it from, from stealing.
Yeah.
And when we say he had a lot of money, it's not the kind of it's not wealth.