In broad daylight - Who Killed Ken McElroy?

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The killing of Ken Rex McElroy could be the hottest in the history of Cold Case. On the morning of July 10, 1981, was shot while sitting in his truck on the main street of Skidmore, Missouri. Forty-five people witnessed the killing. All denied seeing the shooter. After three judges, eight-month FBI investigation, no one has been charged. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with the murder.

In December 2006, San Martín-published on BroadDaylight, the story of the reign of terror of incredible McElroy in northwest Missouri, his assassination and its aftermath. The epilogue contains startling new information on the identity of the murderer and death McElroy

In the spring of 2006, has received unprecedented access to the State Police and FBI files on the assassination. The files contain a hand-written statement by a witness who confirmed the identification McElroy, wife of Del Clement as the first shot.The declaration also identified for the first time, Gary Dowling, a local farmer, as the second gunman. The instruction is detailed and convincing. Interestingly, the witness went to the sheriff's office the next day in the company of Del Clement lawyer and recanted the statement. However, as education and Trena identification as proof of identity of the shooter.

The files also dispel a great myth of the crime. Mediaattacked the idea that the city had killed Ken McElroy, who was killed as a militia, or an example of mob justice. My interviews, and many statements in the documents indicate that more than two shooters, the men in the street that day is not part of a plan to kill Ken McElroy. Participated in an involuntary manslaughter.

I think it's the murder of Ken Rex McElroy by far the hottest unsolved cases remain in the registry. No one - neither the lawThe implementation of the family, or friends McElroy, and certainly not the residents of Skidmore - It seems that his killers are free. The men in the street that day, in a silence that is immune to the passage of time or the glare of the headlights are required. In his view, while murder can be angry against sin, what Ken McElroy was old, the city and its people, girls and men, was indescribable. It would be a much greater sin, the men to stop the nightmare againjustice, such as the Community for many years.

I lived in town for three years in search of the book. When I arrived, there were the doors of his face, pulled a gun on me, and I was bitten by a dog. When I left, I thought the dance competition at the fair's annual Punkin and sell tickets for Mother's Day bazaar at the Methodist Church. I was very connected to the city and the people, and I have been in contact withYears.

Personally, my sympathy has always been ordinary people, but it bothers me as a member of a civilized society, that the two murderers go unpunished for their crimes. However, I doubt that anything good would come from the pursuit of men. A prosecutor would be difficult for a jury of twelve Nodaway County citizens to find someone who condemns the killing of McElroy. Memories are still strong and forgiving heart, and the youth in the region to know the history ofKen McElroy. When I was at Skidmore for the first anniversary of the 'assassination of Bobby Joe Stinnett - the young pregnant housewife who was strangled and her baby ripped from his body - I asked two girls what they knew Ken McElroy.

"It 's a villain that many people were intimidated," the greatest of them.

"It 'was murdered here in the city," the younger one was "right there." He pointed to the tavern.

"He deserved it," said the old man.

Ken Rex was verymore than a town bully. He had terrorized all of northwest Missouri. Even police and judges were scared. Perhaps, as they say, you must kill, regrets the most important are the species seems, as was to be ready.

"The guys have to win a medal," a local said. "But we must find the way it should be aligned." Meaning, I suppose, in broad daylight.