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

Some people lasted longer than others, but most of the time, almost in every single time, eventually he would intimidate enough of the witnesses that the cases would fall apart.

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

And that is how he became what Crime Library referred to as this Teflon coated hick.

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

Yeah, absolutely.

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

Like he shot a guy in the stomach in July of 1976, a guy named Romaine Henry.

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

And yes, you heard me right.

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

He's a farmer.

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

Spelled exactly like the lettuce.

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

Was he named after the lettuce?

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

Because was he a lettuce farmer?

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

I don't know.

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

Did they farm lettuce in Missouri?

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

They did in Yuma, Arizona.

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

I think just for the sake of this story, yes, he absolutely was a Romaine lettuce farmer.

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

His parents raised him to be one.

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

And named him after that lettuce.

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

So he was shot in the stomach with a shotgun, was not killed and got away with it.

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

He, you know, in the documentary, like Romaine Henry pulls up his shirt and he's like, here's where he shot me.

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

And.

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

Court witnesses, he, you know, like you said earlier, he was one of his side hustles was raising and training and selling hunting dogs.

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

And he was well liked by some people, like the people that he dealt with, with these hunting dogs, other crimey type people liked him.