Ken McElroy and the town of Skidmore Missouri
I cannot tell you the first true crime story I remember hearing about or what was the first movie or book I read related to true crime. What I can tell you is that I have known about this story for many, many years and it is one I have always found fascinating. That should not be surprising since this case has had a following for more than forty years and is something Skidmore wish would go away. Some say the events of July 10, 1981 put a curse on the town of Skidmore. It is a small farming community that technically is less than one square mile. Unless you have lived in or near farming towns I am unsure I can even describe it to you. To the average person it does not even seem like a town, but officially it is. According to Wikipedia Skidmore covers about 270 acres. Now, that being said there are farms scattered throughout the area that officially probably have a Skidmore address but are not within the “town limits” per se. It was said that the peak of their population wa...