Real Monsters: A History of Violence, Skidmore, MO

Real Monsters

The sky rained lead for Ken Rex McElroy that morning of July 10 in front of the D & G Tavern in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri.

Three different calibers were present at the scene. One round went through the rear window of the chevy, striking Ken Rex in the head; another round penetrated his neck; two more found their mark in his back. At least 30 people saw the shooting.

Not a single witness has said a word about the shooting since. Neither state nor federal law enforcement, subpoenas, or empaneled grand juries could turn a single Skidmorite into state’s witness.

Not even FBI agents — swarming like the plague of locusts the preachers give wrath-of-God sermons about at the two churches in this “buckle of the Bible Belt” town — could get a word out of them.

But these stories aren’t about Ken Rex. Or the witnesses. Or the shooters.

These stories are the tip of the iceberg of something stranger, more nihilistic, and deeply existential — something echoing through the generations into something primordial, something karmic — something just as visceral as the rifle round penetrating Ken Rex’s brain that July day in 1981...

https://medium.com/chameleon/a-history-of-violence-the-little-covered-around-skidmore-2c8b12589c63

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