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Damn, at the time of this comment he's got 16 likes on this comment, where as his video has near 900,000 views and an impeccable like to dislike ratio. That's how little people respect Raid at this point. I respect the fact that he needs to make that youtube money, and I don't knock him for it. But it must be tough having a main sponsor for so long that people's respect for has completely dried up. I don't know his situation, but if possible I would abandon the sponsor for another one. But I don't know his situation, or the finer points of youtube sponsorships in general. Still enjoy the content Dankula. :)
Hey Dank. Fuck these guys giving you shit. I know youtube can be hard for channels that dont turn out child friendly content. I dont like raid but if they're helping you out by putting some money into your pocket that's obviously being put into the channel to produce more videos than I think that's awesome. You're an amazing youtuber and your videos are always top notch.
@@CharizardMaster69 Or the shooter(s) feel like shit for killing someone, and at the same time feel in the right because it had to be done. I think he/they wants to be left alone mostly, and just forget about that night.
You know the most fucked thing is that he was not brought to justice and allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants including rape children. Media not interested. That man gets killed TO STOP HIM. "oh let's say how horrible it was and give it coverage. "
I like how the police spent more time energy and money to figure out who killed this guy then they did to investigate all of his hundreds of crimes combined lol
@@frankharzer6224 I personally know some cops... I'm friends with one, but even when he knows a cop has done something wrong, he won't admit it. So, despite the fact that I'm friends with him, I still know he and his friends, are DIRTY.
“You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you’re capable of great violence, if you’re not capable of violence you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless”
Newsflash: Local Bully commits suicide with a revolver, a Gewehr 98 rifle and three other guns, then falls backwards on six knives before kicking himself to death with five different pairs of boots and high heels.
True justice. As a Missourian, myself, I can't even begin to tell you how proud most of us are of this story. When the law fails you, turn to your neighbors.
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle It wouldnt even have to be public. Im surprised for example one of the girls fathers he molested didnt just ambush him somewhere. I dont have kids, but i imagine if i would no man would get away for this even if it means jail time for me, and rural regions theres plenty of places to make remains dissappear.
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle Then again he seemed to have sort of gang. His raccoon hunting buddies seemed to be well aware, but didnt care most likely cos they had some "business" ties to him or something
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle yeah. I just think that as outsider its hard to imagine how much in terror people in that town were. Its not easy to get accomplishes to something like this, and possible retaliations to the families, and such obviously scares people. It seems it was just pure luck someone in moment took action, and people who wete there just stayed silent. It seems it happened naturally, and the shooter/shooters didnt plan everyone were on board
Sheep need to stop being lazy wake up and take a stand remove these tyrants and rebuild our systems from the ground up. These ppl cannot be reasoned or bargained with you will either live on your knees or take a stand before it’s too far gone.
Imagine the stress and anger the entire community must have felt for them to unanimously turn a blind eye to a murder. We don’t need people like Ken in our society. Not every life is valuable.
What Meechan said, was "Nobody tries to hang a scientist for finding a way to kill a germ". [38:42] That was the claim of Meechan and the quote was attributed to nobody in particular, just "one of the townsfolk". Although, I loved the apparent quote, please do not use quotes unless they're the ACTUAL words used. That's the entire meaning and purpose of a quote. Take care and enjoy a great life, Silver The Kitsune!
Y’know, I thought the bully would be some guy who was just a huge jerk and a minor felon. I think bully was underselling how actually evil and unhinged this guy was.
npc: sees friend get a arrow to the face and die looks for the killer for a few minutes then gives up also npc: must have been hearing things me: yeah you must have been hearing your buddies brains being splattered all over your face
My aunt’s husband was an abusive (very rural) town drunk of a similar sort as this story. One day he threatened his wife at work (who was an armed guard) and she got him. When emergency services eventually arrived they realized who it was. There was no rush. Everyone knew who he was. He died that night. No one cried.
Underrated comment also completely accurate, that means he shot him six times. Stopped to reload, which takes me about a minute maybe two, then (most probably) resumed shooting. Which is honestly just hilarious lol. That guy deserves a drink!
@@sharonrigs7999 Wow you have nimble fingers, I always have a hard time lining up the bullets to each cylinder, but I have big mit like hands. Neat 20 seconds is pretty fast in my opinion!
@@shaggyspade2468 Ah, you are using a gateloader? Definitely longer reload time that a swing out. Webleys are my favorite six guns. The original .455 ones are almost as fast as a modern swing out cylinder. The mutilated .45ACP ones that use moonclips are even faster.
@@googleisabunchofcriminalsr5875 This was the 70s; alot of those farmers were probably WW2 vets. Not sure how a guy could face the Germans/Japanese and be cowed by a local piece of shit with a shotgun.
I grew up in Missouri a little over a hundred miles from Skidmore and I remember when this happened. This man was truly terrifying. It is my opinion that this is one of America's final displays of what's known as "Frontier Justice". The term sounds redneck to those outside of the midwest I'm sure. Keep in mind though, it isn't as if the townspeople didn't give the system more than enough chances to do it's job. It was just a matter of time before he really killed someone.
The fact that he didnt kill the guy with a shotgun was a miracle in and of itself. My guess is that he used a birdshot instead of something with more penetrating power in his shotgun. If it had been anything else that poor guy wouldve died in his car then and there.
Would you such a piece of shit when someone's finally blows you away and the entire town Witnesses it and not a single soul speaks up speaks up about because everyone not so secretly is happy you're gone
@@Woahahaha3 Not every killing is "murder", explicitly judicial or not. This removal of one rotten egg would be nothing during the life of ONE clan or gens in say, ancient Greece, Scandinavia, or early Rome, where one bad apple ABSOLUTELY could not be allowed to pollute the whole lest his guilt stain the honor of his kin, his community, his ancestors, his posterity... I call it "belated eugenickes" at worst. I mean really, how does one 'rationally persuade' some hardass profligate like that out of what other folks' misplaced and naively childish FAITH in "the natural goodness of Man" and the "unique precious value and EQUALITY of the immortal invisible souls of ALL SINNERS before their gawd", and other such sugar-high hogslop... has unknowingly REWARDED through its timidity in confronting such an utterly callous sumbitch. "Murder"? More like an entire towns self defense.
I also think this might be the root of people claiming you can't be forced to testify against your spouse. But I also don't think that's a real thing. So who knows.
You left out the part where after his wife filed the lawsuit, the towns people got together again and burned her house down. Her lawyer told her to get out of town.
A guy I worked with from Skidmore told me there was some dispute between fire departments over which district she lived in, so no one responded to the fire.
It had to happen since he was clearly not just mean but outright deranged, dangerous, attacking people for no reason trying to kill them, and thought (correctly) that he was above the law
@@0001captainawesome the problem ken was using his lawyer and wife to scare any witness against him the town used ken own tactics against him because law enforcement agency would not investage him
@@brucenadeau2172 No. The main problem beside Ken was the townspeople themselves. Besides Ken the first problem was the lack of local police force, 2nd the townsfolk, 3rd the lawyer. That town was behind the times and was operating off of frontier rules. An older set of rules for a town that was behind the times. Police and law enforcement officers aren't a different breed of people, they are just normal people made up of me and you. As a result every able townsperson had a responsibility to either do something about it or be crushed beneath his boot. May sound harsh to less experienced people, god bless such people's luck, but you can't always rely on other people to do the work for you, especially when there were no local police. The victims were mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, neighbors, and friends. What kind of good person would you be to let your mother suffer so? Your daughter? Your brother? And your neighbor? That guy would not have lasted a year in any town or city I've been in that had decent folks.
@@herrfriedrich6563 Hey, just FYI only Sunni Muslims believe that. Shia hate aisha and everything she represents. Fun fact, Iran is shia and Saudi Arabia is sunni. Your society loves the wrong cou try.
Seeing the interview with Trena is tragic, that kind of abuse can really change you and it's heartbreaking. Ken was more than a bully, he was pure evil and deserved everything that came to him in the end.
She definitely seems deeply damages. I feel bad for her. At the end of the day, she's probably his biggest victim. And I only use the qualifier "probably" because who knows how many victims we just don't know about. As far as the people he terrorized _that we know about,_ she easily takes the #1 spot, but the thing that's really worrying about this guy's _brazen_ psychopathic behavior and his mob connections is that he may well have done some work for them but kept his mouth shut. Because, you know, the mob doesn't fuck around when it comes to people bragging openly about crimes relating to them, not like those wishy-washy _law enforcement agencies._
If it won't be done by the books... let a pissed off dude do it, and keep your mouth shut. I've been to some towns where you don't dare wrong anybody, lest you go "missing."
Honestly, I heard about this story before Dank ever talked about it, and always found it kind of weirdly inspiring. It's proof that when the law fails a community badly enough, the community still has options.... so long as they remain loyal to each other and united in purpose.
Agree. It's kind of bittersweet - the situation happening in the first place, the failure and corruption of the law, that's very saddening. The full group of 60 all 'diving for cover' and not seeing the shooter is one of the most satisfying things though. Something about the humanity of people helping someone commit a crime when it's blatantly earned is uplifting to me. I know there's a few other stories Dankula has told with similar outcomes. One that comes to mind was a guy who abused kids, father hadn't known. The guy was being tried and the father shot him in an airport or something, and pretty much got away with it even though it clearly happened.
Everyone knows that most lawyers are amoral scum, but McFadin takes it to a new record low by plotting to have a rapist marry his underage victim, and then calling the prosecutor to gloat about how smart he is and how he won.
It is, and it's really sad, Ken absolutely destroyed her psyche. Some bullets were really too kind for him, he didn't get to suffer or ponder his fate for long enough.
He literally RAISED her to be someone who would love him and cover for him no matter what. She defends him after his death because it was built into her from a young age. It doesn't get much more evil than that.
Newscaster: "A local man by the Name of Ken McElroy was killed in Skidmore this afternoon. Although there were 60 witnesses to the murder, no-one saw the actual murderer. In other unrelated news, a local unnamed man in Skidmore was sent to the hospital after receiving 59 High-Fives in a row."
This story sounds "EXACTLY" like a lot Steven King tropes: - Backwater-town with dark history - Incompetent/desinterested Law-Enforcements and officials - "Monster in human-skin" aka. the over-the-top-villant - Lawful-evil lawyer - Outrageous crimes get ignored/unsolved - Helpless/scared townfolks - Good people get together at the end and defeat evil All that´s missing is a supernatural element.
Maybe Ken was just another form of Pennywise, he had the taste for the young too, jokes aside goes to show there is no need of the supernatural for a scary story, this whole thing was a real life horror show with 100% human content in it.
@@dionysius4353 Nah nah; Biden rules through being backed by the swamp. We all know that without their help the only thing he'd be president of is the shuttleboard club in his retirement home.
The Midwest especially back then was not equipped to deal with someone like Ken. Especially for that reaction. The Midwest is filled with people from German and Scandinavian background. The wide open lands and the local culture didn’t jell with a maniac in the neighborhood. Those sorts of people are extremely even tempered and patient that it’s not until tempers flare and boil over that drastic actions get taken.
@@Broomer52As a native Nebraskan I kind of hate how true this really is. Most folks out here are very passive unless pushed to extremes. Heck most people in my home town never felt the need to carry a gun despite the sheriffs being a minimum of 10-15 minutes away the majority of the time.
"Nah, don't know anything about a shooting, I was just checking out this neat pebble on the sidewalk that Del Clement was showing me and definitely didn't see a gun on him, no sir-ee".
The word “murder” is defined as: “the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another”. To say that Ken was murdered would insinuate that his death was not only unlawful, but that he was a human. The town didn’t murder their bully, they simply exterminated their pest
@@themug406 Technically unlawful, but the law had exhibited that it was absolutely toothless in the face of a serious danger towards the community. They did what they had to and I'm glad they resolved to plain do it.
I like how the law tried to do more in finding who killed ken than helping the numerous people that ken tried to kill or stalked or raped or beat or stole from etc etc. Truly amazing.
Well a an attempted crime and an actual crime are not the result even when it mainly fails because the people carrying them out are dumber than lemmings
@@jonathangitter1311 ehhh, careful with that. It is an *extremely* difficult thing to get someone to realize they're a victim of abuse even today, now imagine what it was like back then, in an extremely rural area. They aren't stupid, they're conditioned, and worse than that, the vast majority believe that they deserve whatever has been done to them, that it's somehow their fault. "I made him hit me" sounds like some super cliche dialogue from a shitty Lifetime movie, but the reality is *a lot* of victims genuinely believe that. It's extremely depressing, honestly. It's why it's so important to take these claims seriously, and equally important to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law those who use it as a weapon against a partner they just don't like.
@@jonathangitter1311 seriously? She was being groomed from the time she was a child and went back after dealing with the immense stress of having her family constantly threatened if she stayed with them. Do you really mean to suggest that the VICTIM is in the wrong here? How much emotional manipulation and stress do you need to put on a person before they break, or do you just think that they should 'resist' the mental stress of repeated rapes and beatings beginning in childhood?
@@jonathangitter1311 to you it seems like either they are wrong and deserve mockery or right and deserve praise. Ever heard of empathy? People can make bad choices because of harrowing circumstances. Learn some nuance.
@@AdaptiveApeHybrid Definitely. Even in the old days it was crazy. Nothing against the elderly, but some of them don't want to admit that it was crazy in their younger days.
Skidmore Mo is a weird town. For a town that has always been small it has a huge history of horrific things happening in it. People just disappearing, a lady had her baby cut out of her belly. For a town of 400 or less people it has as much crazy history of a town with thousands. I live near it and was in grade school when the man was shot in the street. Before and after that town has always had a " I dont go there" vibe to it.
Hey when someone pours an entire bottle of rust remover and metal polishing agents onto that penny, you sure can't help but take a conveniently long look at that absolutely Positively Graciously Stunningly beautiful penny I found on the ground, next to Ken's life support being disconnected.
As a Missourian myself, I can say that some REALLY shady stuff happened up until the 90’s with rural law enforcement. The sheriff in my county never got paid very much…officially. He would go around to drug dealers and collect his side money in exchange for looking the other way. His daughter would later be murdered and many people around here believe the murder had something to do with the sheriff’s dealings with drug dealers. I worked as a bank teller in town for a few years and the retired sheriff would always come in and deposit cash. Always cash. Obviously there are always going to be crooked cops, but it seems to have drastically improved since the late 90’s. Interesting place to live!
Same!! But I think it's with rural law enforcement in general. I've heard stories from across the river (I'm outside St. Louis) and they can be pretty similar. One my mom told me happened back in the day when kids kept coming down to the town to vandalize and steal. It wasn't nearly as built up around here as it is now (it was thirty years ago, and the house we live in is as old as I am at 20, so everything is still new), but apparently one got caught by the sheriff and he fucking dangled him off the bridge over a river. The kids never came back after that but that shit is horrible. My grandfather was also a cop back in the day, but since he was In more populated areas it was never like that shit. I'm glad
It's interesting how many of us Missourians got recommended this video, I live about 50 miles from Skidmore, so I grew up hearing these stories from my grandpa, since he lived in the area at the time
I like to imagine that the guy who killed him has a hidden letter or diary saying it was him, sealed away in a random corner of his house, for his family to release publically a decade after he passes away.
@@NoProtect conclusion? Tbh its unlikely but hey you never know, people leave notes for less important stuff all the time that are disovered years or decades later
There was more than one shooter, and everyone knows who they were....they just aren't talking. McElroy was a nightmare for that town, and he needed to be stopped. The courts and justice system failed, and the people of the town knew what needed to be done, and they did it. No one is going to speak and give up any names. Not to mention there is a high probability that the shooters arent even alive anymore.
@@TheB00tyWarrior The story is one of a town having faith in government institutions and those institutions failing one too many times. The guy was friends or had something on the DA or Judge. How else would he POST BOND after shooting someone in the neck? Delays to the trial giving him months to create an alibi and intimidate witnesses? Delays for what? This is a town of barely 300 people in a county of barely 20k today? WTF were they "busy with" for MONTHS in the 1980s?
@@icenine135 Depends on if you define "town". If it is meant to refer to the government then yes it has a stain, if it is meant to refer to the people, then no they are clean.
@@TheB00tyWarrior The townsfolks likely can afford to ignore him because they were at first thought he was just a typical delinquent then as Ken Rex grew older and more violent, they became too scared to do anything about it until they reached their breaking point.
The reason the police heavily investigated this man's murder instead of his extreme number of crimes he committed on those who potentially murdered him was because the murder was a complete embarrassment to their police force, because not a single person cooperated with the police on his murder in direct defiance and out of spite of the police's incompetency and the murder was in broad daylight with 60 witnesses. It is an extreme blow to the police's image for this to happen. Especially because the police could not do this job themselves and constantly let this guy slip. They should have straight up destroyed him themselves, killed him even, because of his unreasonable demeanor and psychotic history. But they didn't. So the people had to do it themselves.
The fact that it took that long for them to do it makes it even more depressing. They tried so hard to believe in the "justice" system they had, only to be let down every time. Even worse, the police tried harder to find Ken's killer than actually helping those people.
anytime a group loses faith in the justice system you will find vigilante justice creeping up. if the justice system worked you would never see this but, good people can only take so much and no hell like the fury of the unlistened to.
Reminds me of the quote from Joshua Graham (Fallout New Vegas) about having a disdain for killing, but when done righteously it is a chore like any other.
The cold unemotional way Trina talks about him is the detached stare of someone who has had their sense of reality shattered. Abuse is a terrible and powerful thing, and I have nothing but sympathy for her. That poor girl.
I've been to Skidmore. I asked a lady at a gas station "What happened to Ken Rex Mackalroy?" She responded with "I don't know anything about that." I said "Good." We nodded and I've never seen her after that. At least they're consistent
@Every Single Average Day I'd argue that Purple Aki is the only one from that list that might need to make the jump. Shitlords doesn't just mean "Criminal or psychopath", it would be more so a description of those who don't fit the algorithm for "Mad Lad" for some reason, yet still need a video.
It's kind of insane that they did more with that bastards death than any of his victims. Like they truly did everything for this man even after his death somehow wow
It seems to be a common byproduct of $17,600 being express mailed to the future by 60 people working *extremely* hard in a nearby bar to pay off a legal case that doesn't exist yet. You have any idea how much attention it takes to do that? Apparently it looks just like bullet wounds too if you're the person in the way, but it is at least totally silent, so you don't have to report any nuisances or noise complaints, or anything at all.
I mean, it happens all the time. There you are, minding your own business, walking down the street then all of a sudden you have entire pounds worth of lead in your belly launched at you a hundred feet per second. Seems to be a side effect of being a POS but who knows...
Honestly not, they tried, the laws are the shit part, id say many of the police officers tried, why would he try to intimidate the police if they were on his side?
@@eeeguba432 Better question: Why was Ken able to successfully intimidate the fucking police in the first place? Like seriously, how? They had guns too and Ken doesn't have dead eye from Red Dead Redemption, or the ability to slow down time, in order to shoot and kill all of them one after the other. Ken may have been a big guy, and an even bigger bastard, but he wasn't physically bullet-proof or invincible; his death afterwards proving that notwithstanding.
@@dantethewanderer4989 still that police officer could have been undertrained or just not cut out for the job, not malicious. If he helped him in any way, sure, fuck him, but he just bailed
@@dantethewanderer4989 thats where i really wonder about what connections he had or if he had dirt on some of the police because even in 1970 that shit would not fly. The 1st hand accounts of a deputy would absolutely be enough to arrest him and thats not even mentioning the fact that everyone in the town would say "yeah he did the same shit to me". Never heard of any cases in which sherriffs will allow the people under them to be threatend. would the sherriff have just let ken pull a gun on him? fuck no. They let that shit fly when they knew it was going on but do a multi team year long investigation when that guy, who had already tried to kill two people, gets shot? makes 0 sense
Chances these are people I call “High Horse Conservatives”. People that are so obsessed with taking the high road by being “moral and just” that don’t want to take action because it makes them “just as bad as our enemies”. What these dunderheads don’t seem to get is doing nothing is just as evil as the actual murder.
I'll bet I know what the case is. Ken was the kind of guy who was so stupid and full of himself that he thought that he wouldn't kill someone so long as he didn't intend to, even when pointing a shotgun at someone's face.
I swear to god I just saw I comment by you on the previous video I watched. Do you like, have good taste or something? Actually that's kind of a funny thing for me to say in the comments of a Count Dankula video since he's not really someone I watch regularly or care very much about, but I'll be damned if this isn't a good video. It was Kyle Hills Vampire Mom video BTW.
If I recall correctly from having read the book years ago , twenty something people stated that when they heard the first gunshot , they all dove under the pool table in the bar for cover .
@@filianablanxart8305 In an interview, that was brought up, followed by "how did you all fit under the table?" The man laughed and said, "it's one big table!!"
"Waging war against good people is bad for the soul." Well, as Ken found it, seems it's bad for the body too, resulting in a few deserved bullet holes.
Here's something interesting you chaps might like to know. Del Clement, the man whom Trina named as Ken's killer, is actually the owner of the D&G Tavern that Ken haunted, in fact he's the D in the name of the pub. It stands for "Del & Greg Tavern". Sadly he passed on in 2009 from liver disease, someone wrote on his memorial page "He was a good, brave man". I got this from Bustle on their artical "Why the 'no one saw a thing' mystery will never be solved", if anyone's interested on reading about it.
@@redqwertyu How many of us have been in this kind of situation? If you have been, did you take violent action or do as the people of the town did for so/too long? What horrible things are done around each of us every day that we do nothing about? What horrible things are done around the globe in the name of each persons country and what are we doing about it?
I know a similar story from my childhood, a town bully died in a diving accident after he was hit in the head with a sledgehammer. Only his mother went to his funeral.
Friend, same for the government. Either the civil war's going to break out and there's finally going to be black & white, or you'll see me on madlads in a few years when the count gets to it
Aye Aye, Captain!! If you let an asshole do whatever they want they will and if they are taking advantage of a lack of law enforcement presence so can everyone else.
If only someone would have taken the initiative and acted sooner. If only someone would have camped out near Ken's property over night and put a .30-06 through his head when he stepped out of his house in the morning.
The Midwest in that era, just wasn't prepared for someone to act that way. The people are mostly Scandinavian and German descent. And the way they interact is very civil. They don't have huge emotional outbursts. They hold everything in, and it builds up. Until critical mass is attained, and they lose it. The town collectively lost it and took rash action.
@The Mug Most of Asia, especially Japan, is that way to. A strong sense of boundaries, be civil, and no public displays. Especially of affection. Like Germanic populations, when Asians lose it, they REALLY lose it. They hold so much in and so many social taboos and pressures. Especially with the added concerns about losing face.
While it is true that mostly that Scandinavians and Germans settled the Midwest… there’s a lot of “Mics” in there I noticed …McElroy..McCloud…McFadden ect. Skidmore seems to have had a lot of Irish and Scottish descendants.
Scandinavian huh? Maybe we'll finally get pushed into that corner here at home some day, the criminal justice system here in Sweden functions just about as well as it did in Skidmore back then, police and courts are ridiculously unhelpful and even harmful around these parts.
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Disgusting look. Rethink your decisions.
Damn, at the time of this comment he's got 16 likes on this comment, where as his video has near 900,000 views and an impeccable like to dislike ratio. That's how little people respect Raid at this point. I respect the fact that he needs to make that youtube money, and I don't knock him for it. But it must be tough having a main sponsor for so long that people's respect for has completely dried up. I don't know his situation, but if possible I would abandon the sponsor for another one. But I don't know his situation, or the finer points of youtube sponsorships in general. Still enjoy the content Dankula. :)
No, fuck Raid.
Hey Dank. Fuck these guys giving you shit.
I know youtube can be hard for channels that dont turn out child friendly content.
I dont like raid but if they're helping you out by putting some money into your pocket that's obviously being put into the channel to produce more videos than I think that's awesome.
You're an amazing youtuber and your videos are always top notch.
Fucking take that sponsorship ALL NIGHT LONG.
Raid that money-Dank' 😔.
God bless those people that all simultaneously found a penny on the ground and picked it up when Ken was getting shot.
“That loud noise sounded like it came froooooo... ooh, look! A butterfly!”
"Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck." Everyone got their money's worth that day.
They claimed to be hiding under a pool table when the shooting started. They have one hell of a pool table.
Too bad thats all that happened to him
The music was too boppin, the shooting only got muffled from the beat
The real reason the killer is still a secret is to stop him drowning in all the pints people would buy for him.
well the town knows and they probably bought him pints whenever he was in
@@CharizardMaster69 Or the shooter(s) feel like shit for killing someone, and at the same time feel in the right because it had to be done. I think he/they wants to be left alone mostly, and just forget about that night.
Coincidentally, the alleged shooter Del Clement died from liver disease in 2009. Not even joking.
You know the most fucked thing is that he was not brought to justice and allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants including rape children. Media not interested. That man gets killed TO STOP HIM. "oh let's say how horrible it was and give it coverage. "
@@anevilrotisserie9136 The msm has always been the enemy of the common people and the "stalwart" defenders of criminals.
I don't see a dark blot on Skidmore's reputation. I see a town taking care of it's own problems.
The dark blot is how long it took for anyone to do anything about this psycho.
Vermin removal.
That dark blot was Kent, they just scrubbed it out.
how things used to get solved before government overstepped its role and authority without doing its attached responsibilities
We should take inspiration from them. If the law refuses to dish out proper justice, the responsibility lies with the people. It is excessive though.
Insanely ironic, Ken got exactly what he wanted, for none of the witnesses to talk
I hope there's a hell where the devil tells him that every day.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I second the motion
HOLY SCHITZ YOU RIGHT DAWG
Karmatic irony
😂😂😂😂😂. Now that's poetic justice 😂😂😂
I like how the police spent more time energy and money to figure out who killed this guy then they did to investigate all of his hundreds of crimes combined lol
When the social contract is broken in some way, we must always find a way to rectify it
I’m amazed a sniper didn’t take him out years before.
Most cops are dirty. They probably didn't see much of anything wrong with the thug's behavior.
@@numinous123 I think it is more likely that they where simply scared of him.
@@frankharzer6224 I personally know some cops... I'm friends with one, but even when he knows a cop has done something wrong, he won't admit it. So, despite the fact that I'm friends with him, I still know he and his friends, are DIRTY.
“You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you’re capable of great violence, if you’re not capable of violence you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless”
Speak softly but carry a big boomstick
@@oz_jones yee, live like teddy
Like a “little bunny rabbit”
@Whu Dhat actually Teddy ripped that off from the motto that is often displayed below the O'Sullivan family crest.
Watch yourself, all that edge is dangerous
“Casings from a German WW1 rifle and a revolver were found at the scene.”
Remember, switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading.
Yep
lol why was there revolver casings? did the fucker reload after?
That is hysterical :D
that made me chuckle
Haha comedy gold, dude
I love that old lady's smirk during the interview when she was asked "How come no witnesses?" and she replied with "Must've ducked for cover."
Instead of doing an investigation, the cops just had to go to the bar and find the one guy who wasn’t paying for his drinks.
Lol !
2 guys.
Was thinking the exact same thing
"Nah, that's just for services to the community, officer."
That should’ve been pretty easy that same guy probably had alcohol poisoning the next day from the amount of drinks that he had to drink
Newsflash: Local Bully commits suicide with a revolver, a Gewehr 98 rifle and three other guns, then falls backwards on six knives before kicking himself to death with five different pairs of boots and high heels.
And all the people there didn't see it happen because they were too busy looking at some farmer who definitely didn't kill him.
Lmao very clever, cheers.
God, imagine being the guy who took Bill Clinton's lunch money? He must be sitting petrified.
Now THAT is repentance!
XD
I'm thinking a smith and wesson k frame
“I don’t enjoy killing but when done righteously it is a chore like any other” -whole town probably
Joshua Graham, Nice bro my all time favourite mormon
I survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around me. I fell into that dark chasm, but the flame burned on and on.
God's will.
"We can't expect god to do all the work."
Amen
True justice. As a Missourian, myself, I can't even begin to tell you how proud most of us are of this story. When the law fails you, turn to your neighbors.
Kind of shocking that it went on as long as it did to be honest.
What city
Cop: “At least five shots heard.”
“Witness”: “Depends on who you talk to *chuckles*.”
What a cheeky fucker. Respect for that man.
Im only surprised that it took so long for someone to end this.
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle It wouldnt even have to be public. Im surprised for example one of the girls fathers he molested didnt just ambush him somewhere. I dont have kids, but i imagine if i would no man would get away for this even if it means jail time for me, and rural regions theres plenty of places to make remains dissappear.
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle Then again he seemed to have sort of gang. His raccoon hunting buddies seemed to be well aware, but didnt care most likely cos they had some "business" ties to him or something
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle yeah. I just think that as outsider its hard to imagine how much in terror people in that town were. Its not easy to get accomplishes to something like this, and possible retaliations to the families, and such obviously scares people. It seems it was just pure luck someone in moment took action, and people who wete there just stayed silent. It seems it happened naturally, and the shooter/shooters didnt plan everyone were on board
Murder can absolutely be justified
When the government fails to provide protection to the people, the people will provide protection themselves.
that lawyer is lucky too i bet he moved and is far away from them
Mmmm soon very soon
Don't let them take your guns.
Seems like it'll happen a lot more lately with rising tensions
Sheep need to stop being lazy wake up and take a stand remove these tyrants and rebuild our systems from the ground up. These ppl cannot be reasoned or bargained with you will either live on your knees or take a stand before it’s too far gone.
Ken:Almost blows off a man’s head with a shotgun
The cops: Aight that’s assault
*Walks into the town square, shoots and kills seven people*
The Cops: Alright twelve years in prison for tax evasion.
hhhaaahahha so funny you used the reddit formula of a joke please pollute more comment sections
@@mistermeatcake1785
Hhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaahhhhhhaaaa obvious sarcasm hhhhhhhhaaaaaaahhhhhhhhaaaaaa!
Some assault to go with his constant peppering.
"This guy keeps threatening us"
Cops: "Sorry can't help lol"
*guy gets shot*
Cops: "wow so cool I know exactly who to look for!"
Imagine the stress and anger the entire community must have felt for them to unanimously turn a blind eye to a murder. We don’t need people like Ken in our society. Not every life is valuable.
Yup
All life is valuable, but people like Ken waste it and show a lack of respect for it as such him loosing it is his fault alone.
@@Guciom Ken clearly devalued his life.
@@Guciomnot all life is valuable
@@Guciom all life, but not all lives.
"you don't reprimand a scientist for killing a germ" -a real chad
I mean, unless you're an antivaxxer...
Or a Twitter main.
What Meechan said, was "Nobody tries to hang a scientist for finding a way to kill a germ". [38:42] That was the claim of Meechan and the quote was attributed to nobody in particular, just "one of the townsfolk".
Although, I loved the apparent quote, please do not use quotes unless they're the ACTUAL words used. That's the entire meaning and purpose of a quote. Take care and enjoy a great life, Silver The Kitsune!
@@kaiserepsilon4011 don't be pathothobic sickness is good lol
@jbiehlable That's pretty telling of our society. ;)
But you do kill a scientist for murdering another scientist while others just watch
a absolute waste of human being terrorizes a town for years : Police sleep
The waste gets capped: Police awaken
Sometimes all you need is a guy in a bush with a rifle.
Some others here have suggested it and I gotta say I agree.
This guy was probably bribing or at the least in bed with the local cops.
@@samuelbell2390 It absolutely sounded like a case of some good ol boy cops from the south
Just like with Covid: Old grandma visits on christmas : 5000€ fine.
Guy breaks several kneecaps and molests kids: Fine of 300€
@@Willy_Tepes the naked man in a bush with an SKS is my spiritual animal
“No one kills a scientist for finding ways to kill a germ.” Brilliant.
Except Big Pharma....(Dun-dun-DUUUUUUUUUN!!!!)
Poor Ken deserved better, RIP.
Ye
@@zdsrtgnzetmyet More gunshot wounds*
If you use quotations, how about actually quoting what he said correctly?
Y’know, I thought the bully would be some guy who was just a huge jerk and a minor felon.
I think bully was underselling how actually evil and unhinged this guy was.
Yeah very misleading title if you ask me...
Tormenter would be more fitting.
@@martianmilfhunter6229 I'll do you one better: "domestic terrorist".
They should have done a lot worse to him. He got off way too easy
@@joshinthesauce4636 Nah, they just wanted to get rid of him as quickly as possible.
Ken: is shot right in front of everyone
Everyone present: must've been the wind
😂
Ah yes, the moment in history where an entire town's AI was programmed by Bethesda.
Must have just been rats. ''Walks right over corpse''
Justice 100
Benny, drunk as always: "muust ha' been nothin'"
I love how the whole town acts like Skyrim npcs when asked about the murder. Bloody gorgeous if you ask me.
Must have been the wind.
How bad was that shotgun?
Henry survived two point blank shotgun blasts and drove away?
What level are the NPCs in this town?
"Oh. What happened here?" *Looks at body for five seconds, then walks back to food stall.*
I'll find whoever did this!😂
npc: sees friend get a arrow to the face and die
looks for the killer for a few minutes then gives up
also npc: must have been hearing things
me: yeah you must have been hearing your buddies brains being splattered all over your face
"Is everyone starting to understand why this isn't a madlad video?"
Turns out the whole town except for ken was the real madlad all along.
Maybe the real mad lads were the friends we made along the way.
YES
*Uday Hussein entered the chat*
A Mad Land episode, then!
Truth.
My aunt’s husband was an abusive (very rural) town drunk of a similar sort as this story. One day he threatened his wife at work (who was an armed guard) and she got him. When emergency services eventually arrived they realized who it was. There was no rush. Everyone knew who he was. He died that night. No one cried.
A casing from a revolver means the person who fired that shot felt _comfortable enough to reload it then and there._
Underrated comment also completely accurate, that means he shot him six times. Stopped to reload, which takes me about a minute maybe two, then (most probably) resumed shooting. Which is honestly just hilarious lol. That guy deserves a drink!
@@shaggyspade2468 A minute or two? I can reload a cap n ball faster!
A normal swing-out cylinder can be reloaded in under 20sec comfortably.
@@sharonrigs7999 Wow you have nimble fingers, I always have a hard time lining up the bullets to each cylinder, but I have big mit like hands. Neat 20 seconds is pretty fast in my opinion!
@@shaggyspade2468 Ah, you are using a gateloader? Definitely longer reload time that a swing out. Webleys are my favorite six guns. The original .455 ones are almost as fast as a modern swing out cylinder. The mutilated .45ACP ones that use moonclips are even faster.
I'd say it was probably from a lever action gun.
I have alot of respect to those 60 people for not snitching.
Unlike some people in portland
I dont, shouldnt have gotten to this point. Maybe ots a new orleans thing but buddy woulda been naked dead in a trash can wayyy earlier in this story
@@googleisabunchofcriminalsr5875 Sheesh, and also, I doubt that's a good way to dispose a body.
@@Therworldtube what people in portland
@@googleisabunchofcriminalsr5875 This was the 70s; alot of those farmers were probably WW2 vets. Not sure how a guy could face the Germans/Japanese and be cowed by a local piece of shit with a shotgun.
He wasn't shot, he just spent years taking a slow stroll into the bullets. He walked into that one.
Yep, this was suicide by mob.
Yeah, he was working on his own death for awhile...
Yep stramg that ken ended it like that but nobody knew how he thought
I'm amazed those fathers allowed their daughters to marry this scumbag, I'm guessing they weren't father of the year material.
I grew up in Missouri a little over a hundred miles from Skidmore and I remember when this happened. This man was truly terrifying. It is my opinion that this is one of America's final displays of what's known as "Frontier Justice". The term sounds redneck to those outside of the midwest I'm sure. Keep in mind though, it isn't as if the townspeople didn't give the system more than enough chances to do it's job. It was just a matter of time before he really killed someone.
We need more frontier justice.
George Floyd. A nice police man dealt some frontier justice.
Oh shit! 😉
If that's what people describe as "redneck" than in a few years time, public decency will be considered redneck
Oh wait
The fact that he didnt kill the guy with a shotgun was a miracle in and of itself.
My guess is that he used a birdshot instead of something with more penetrating power in his shotgun.
If it had been anything else that poor guy wouldve died in his car then and there.
@@nicolaimyshkin4116he's talking about the farmer ken shot, not the storekeep
The mad lad was the man that 60 people saw doing nothing.
59 people all around him/her doing nothing and seeing nothing lmao
@@grenaders3895 it's pretty clear Dale did it just no one wants to say it.
The true madlad's was the violent mobs that formed along the way
Would you such a piece of shit when someone's finally blows you away and the entire town Witnesses it and not a single soul speaks up speaks up about because everyone not so secretly is happy you're gone
1) It was about 45 people, not 60.
2) He was shot by at least two different calibres of bullet.
"Literally murdering someone" I don't think what happened to Ken qualifies as murder. I think it qualifies as community self defense.
"There was also that guy in the Blumpf Hat, and his ugly family, LOL"
That is NOT what I meant, liberals.
Community service
Removal of waste material
Nah it’s murder, but good murder.
@@Woahahaha3 Not every killing is "murder", explicitly judicial or not. This removal of one rotten egg would be nothing during the life of ONE clan or gens in say, ancient Greece, Scandinavia, or early Rome, where one bad apple ABSOLUTELY could not be allowed to pollute the whole lest his guilt stain the honor of his kin, his community, his ancestors, his posterity... I call it "belated eugenickes" at worst. I mean really, how does one 'rationally persuade' some hardass profligate like that out of what other folks' misplaced and naively childish FAITH in "the natural goodness of Man" and the "unique precious value and EQUALITY of the immortal invisible souls of ALL SINNERS before their gawd", and other such sugar-high hogslop... has unknowingly REWARDED through its timidity in confronting such an utterly callous sumbitch.
"Murder"? More like an entire towns self defense.
"He didn't do nothing, he was a good man!"
A great example of why you can never trust close relations as character witnesses.
Stockholm syndrome.
or, anyone who uses a double negative.
he was on his way to church. we need more money fo dem programs
He was jus a god boy he loved football
I also think this might be the root of people claiming you can't be forced to testify against your spouse. But I also don't think that's a real thing. So who knows.
You left out the part where after his wife filed the lawsuit, the towns people got together again and burned her house down. Her lawyer told her to get out of town.
at first i was sorry for her, but yea thats deserved, just because she grew to be used to the abuse does not mean the town should take it from her too
so she had her house burned down twice in her lifetime lmao
Kinda sucks that it happen but I don't blame the towns people for doing that.
A guy I worked with from Skidmore told me there was some dispute between fire departments over which district she lived in, so no one responded to the fire.
Good.
"I can't believe they shot him in broad daylight!"
I can't believe it took that long.
Dude, right???
It had to happen since he was clearly not just mean but outright deranged, dangerous, attacking people for no reason trying to kill them, and thought (correctly) that he was above the law
Town of absolute cowards
@@0001captainawesome the problem ken was using his lawyer and wife to scare any witness against him the town used ken own tactics against him because law enforcement agency would not investage him
@@brucenadeau2172 No. The main problem beside Ken was the townspeople themselves. Besides Ken the first problem was the lack of local police force, 2nd the townsfolk, 3rd the lawyer. That town was behind the times and was operating off of frontier rules. An older set of rules for a town that was behind the times. Police and law enforcement officers aren't a different breed of people, they are just normal people made up of me and you. As a result every able townsperson had a responsibility to either do something about it or be crushed beneath his boot. May sound harsh to less experienced people, god bless such people's luck, but you can't always rely on other people to do the work for you, especially when there were no local police. The victims were mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, neighbors, and friends. What kind of good person would you be to let your mother suffer so? Your daughter? Your brother? And your neighbor? That guy would not have lasted a year in any town or city I've been in that had decent folks.
Ken: "I'm a decent man, just ask my 14 year old wife."
*wifes, you know his harem and all. now that I think about it, I really hope he didn't diddle his kids...
Now that's proper dark humour.
Say have you ever heared of the holy prophet Mohamed
@@herrfriedrich6563
Hey, just FYI only Sunni Muslims believe that. Shia hate aisha and everything she represents.
Fun fact, Iran is shia and Saudi Arabia is sunni. Your society loves the wrong cou try.
@@method2madness1 who's society? That generalization is a bit presumptuous
Ken gets shot
Townsmen:"He just fell over and died"
From lead poisoning.......
@@eurocrusader1724 a Case of sudden onset Lead in the brain Syndrome
it was nerve gas
*smacks lips* What a shame.
Fuckin drunk. He must have passed out with the engine running...
Seeing the interview with Trena is tragic, that kind of abuse can really change you and it's heartbreaking. Ken was more than a bully, he was pure evil and deserved everything that came to him in the end.
Yea nah, his murder was too humane, he deserved a worse fate
Nah she as bad as him.
She definitely seems deeply damages. I feel bad for her. At the end of the day, she's probably his biggest victim. And I only use the qualifier "probably" because who knows how many victims we just don't know about. As far as the people he terrorized _that we know about,_ she easily takes the #1 spot, but the thing that's really worrying about this guy's _brazen_ psychopathic behavior and his mob connections is that he may well have done some work for them but kept his mouth shut. Because, you know, the mob doesn't fuck around when it comes to people bragging openly about crimes relating to them, not like those wishy-washy _law enforcement agencies._
Trena is honestly lucky the town just stopped at killing Ken. They could have gone after the whole family(and they would deserve it).
@@AbuHajarAlBugattisaid nobody with functioning brain cells
This is literally the textbook definition of "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
The problem is everyone thinks they're right
@Johnnesbit Minxcat1234 tbf the man is a psycho and have a shot gun, the police is the true coward
@Johnnesbit Minxcat1234 people reporting him to the police is the right thing to do, and thats what they did.
@Johnnesbit Minxcat1234 oh shut up
It's also that "The only thing necessary for the triumph of good is for good men to do nothing"
Police: "...why is everyone high-fiving Dale today?"
raise hell, praise dale
@@BudMasta Little known fact, Dale was Stone colds father, oh hell yea. *Cue the music* with gunshot memories
Haha, true! Also, this 'Hezakya Newz' fellow takes on many forms😁
This is why the people as a whole are to be responsible for keeping law.
@@vafixer8885is this a joke?
The Police: There’s nothing we can do.
The Town: Fine we’ll do it ourselves.
The "He needed killing" defense has a long and storied history out here in the boonies.
If it won't be done by the books... let a pissed off dude do it, and keep your mouth shut.
I've been to some towns where you don't dare wrong anybody, lest you go "missing."
Ach Aye the noo, a ril mulder 🥃
My OCD and weed addiction wont let me like this comment. Pls tag me when its not 420🙏
@@someofdenmark9120 you're welcome :)
Honestly, I heard about this story before Dank ever talked about it, and always found it kind of weirdly inspiring. It's proof that when the law fails a community badly enough, the community still has options.... so long as they remain loyal to each other and united in purpose.
Agree. It's kind of bittersweet - the situation happening in the first place, the failure and corruption of the law, that's very saddening. The full group of 60 all 'diving for cover' and not seeing the shooter is one of the most satisfying things though. Something about the humanity of people helping someone commit a crime when it's blatantly earned is uplifting to me.
I know there's a few other stories Dankula has told with similar outcomes. One that comes to mind was a guy who abused kids, father hadn't known. The guy was being tried and the father shot him in an airport or something, and pretty much got away with it even though it clearly happened.
The final result is ideal in my opinion. Rather than invoke the state, the town took responsibility.
"Nobody tries to hang a scientist for finding a way to kill a germ."
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“If there’s no witnesses, there’s no crime”
“But there’s 60 of us”
“IF THERE’S NO WITNESSES, THERES NO CRIME!”
“Aahh”
Everyone knows that most lawyers are amoral scum, but McFadin takes it to a new record low by plotting to have a rapist marry his underage victim, and then calling the prosecutor to gloat about how smart he is and how he won.
There must have been that one guy who was just a bit slower than the rest of the town and had to have this talk.
*Dude gets shot in front of 60 people*
60 people: “y’all hear something?”
must be the wind
@@toastytoast9800 Nahh Coyotes.
Hear what?
I would have said NO too, stuff that POS!
What? Sorry, couldn't hear you. Had my Dee Gee A.F pods in.
Trina vehemently defending her man is a fantastic look into the psyche of abuse victims.
Stockholm syndrome
100%
It is, and it's really sad, Ken absolutely destroyed her psyche. Some bullets were really too kind for him, he didn't get to suffer or ponder his fate for long enough.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I feel the same.
He literally RAISED her to be someone who would love him and cover for him no matter what. She defends him after his death because it was built into her from a young age. It doesn't get much more evil than that.
Newscaster: "A local man by the Name of Ken McElroy was killed in Skidmore this afternoon. Although there were 60 witnesses to the murder, no-one saw the actual murderer.
In other unrelated news, a local unnamed man in Skidmore was sent to the hospital after receiving 59 High-Fives in a row."
Comment of the day, you legend you.
Pedophile was taken care of and no one was charged huh 🤔 I guess their is justice in the world after all .
LOVED THIS
XD
Absolutely amazing
This is hilarious 😂
This story sounds "EXACTLY" like a lot Steven King tropes:
- Backwater-town with dark history
- Incompetent/desinterested Law-Enforcements and officials
- "Monster in human-skin" aka. the over-the-top-villant
- Lawful-evil lawyer
- Outrageous crimes get ignored/unsolved
- Helpless/scared townfolks
- Good people get together at the end and defeat evil
All that´s missing is a supernatural element.
Sometimes people can be just as Disgusting and Shitty as demons themselves
-Some say Ken was possessed by several demons.
Maybe Ken was just another form of Pennywise, he had the taste for the young too, jokes aside goes to show there is no need of the supernatural for a scary story, this whole thing was a real life horror show with 100% human content in it.
Remind me of Harlan Ellison's 'Spiders Kiss' on how Ken acts, real life is more stranger than fiction.
Looks like paranormal elements are only for the show, as we manage to create more and more brutality without any reason
Crazy how just one man of no importance can rule through fear.
Kinda like Joe Biden
@@dionysius4353 Nah nah; Biden rules through being backed by the swamp. We all know that without their help the only thing he'd be president of is the shuttleboard club in his retirement home.
Stalin, Mao. Pol Pot, etc.
How the fuck does joe rule through fear? Fucking crazy people
but the old saying "live by the sword, die by the sword" also applies here.
Pretty amusing that the only criticism some people had over the killing was:
'Wish we could've been more subtle about it...'
The Midwest especially back then was not equipped to deal with someone like Ken. Especially for that reaction. The Midwest is filled with people from German and Scandinavian background. The wide open lands and the local culture didn’t jell with a maniac in the neighborhood. Those sorts of people are extremely even tempered and patient that it’s not until tempers flare and boil over that drastic actions get taken.
@@Broomer52As a native Nebraskan I kind of hate how true this really is. Most folks out here are very passive unless pushed to extremes. Heck most people in my home town never felt the need to carry a gun despite the sheriffs being a minimum of 10-15 minutes away the majority of the time.
This is hands down the best accent for saying the word "murder".
"Murderd"
There's bin a maerder
Mrrrded
muld'r'd
Muurrdahh
Policeman: " Do you know who shot this man?"
Town people: " What man? What shooting?"
They knew who shot him just as well as why the police didn't shoot him before.
"Nah, don't know anything about a shooting, I was just checking out this neat pebble on the sidewalk that Del Clement was showing me and definitely didn't see a gun on him, no sir-ee".
"Must' been the wind sir."
"Never seen someone shoot no man, officer. We did have to put down a dog recently, though."
Lol.
Ken: gets splattered in front of 60+ witnesses
Townsfolk: Ah, interesting. Beautiful red mist today.
Oh, he's dead? How unfortunate. So anyway...
"i didnt know Ken was a narcoleptic, he seems to have fallen asleep and spilled some red wine all over the place"
They emulated skyrim. "Musta been the wind"
Oh no!
Anyway.
Oh what a beautiful day!
The word “murder” is defined as: “the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another”.
To say that Ken was murdered would insinuate that his death was not only unlawful, but that he was a human.
The town didn’t murder their bully, they simply exterminated their pest
Technically unlawful, but not wrong
@@themug406 Technically unlawful, but the law had exhibited that it was absolutely toothless in the face of a serious danger towards the community. They did what they had to and I'm glad they resolved to plain do it.
@@themug406 At this point, you can say the entire town was engaging in self defense against a monstrous felon.
Well murder is done by one human being to another innocent human being.
They voted him off the island.
What happened to Ken was true DEMOCRACY at work. It was unlawful because the USA is not a democracy, it’s a republic.
I like how the law tried to do more in finding who killed ken than helping the numerous people that ken tried to kill or stalked or raped or beat or stole from etc etc. Truly amazing.
Yeah, a full year of investigation wtf
he was probably trafficking children for.. people.
Well, which ones easier to catch? I mean, we cant expect the police to do, like, their job.
@@thesmallestminorityisthein4045 yeah that's way to much to ask
Well a an attempted crime and an actual crime are not the result even when it mainly fails because the people carrying them out are dumber than lemmings
Let's take a moment to appreciate Trina's doctor, the first person to *fucking do anything* for any of Ken's victims.
And she immediately turned around and made that useless. How are people that stupid
@@jonathangitter1311 ehhh, careful with that. It is an *extremely* difficult thing to get someone to realize they're a victim of abuse even today, now imagine what it was like back then, in an extremely rural area. They aren't stupid, they're conditioned, and worse than that, the vast majority believe that they deserve whatever has been done to them, that it's somehow their fault. "I made him hit me" sounds like some super cliche dialogue from a shitty Lifetime movie, but the reality is *a lot* of victims genuinely believe that.
It's extremely depressing, honestly. It's why it's so important to take these claims seriously, and equally important to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law those who use it as a weapon against a partner they just don't like.
@@jonathangitter1311 seriously? She was being groomed from the time she was a child and went back after dealing with the immense stress of having her family constantly threatened if she stayed with them. Do you really mean to suggest that the VICTIM is in the wrong here? How much emotional manipulation and stress do you need to put on a person before they break, or do you just think that they should 'resist' the mental stress of repeated rapes and beatings beginning in childhood?
@@khunt5336 are you suggesting the victim was in the right? Do you think going back was the right thing to do?
@@jonathangitter1311 to you it seems like either they are wrong and deserve mockery or right and deserve praise. Ever heard of empathy? People can make bad choices because of harrowing circumstances. Learn some nuance.
Seeing what this dude got away with and knowing you were arrested for a joke just shows how crazy the world has got.
Lol
Funny my boy but the world has always been crazy. We all know that deep down inside I think.
My guy
This stuff happend like 40 years ago too
@@maveric619 mi amigo
Worlds messed up. Get strapped, we at war cuz.
@@AdaptiveApeHybrid Definitely. Even in the old days it was crazy. Nothing against the elderly, but some of them don't want to admit that it was crazy in their younger days.
Ah, that 21k people seems to support the fact that a bad guy gets murdered in cold blood by a whole mob, is more scary even
Skidmore Mo is a weird town. For a town that has always been small it has a huge history of horrific things happening in it. People just disappearing, a lady had her baby cut out of her belly. For a town of 400 or less people it has as much crazy history of a town with thousands. I live near it and was in grade school when the man was shot in the street. Before and after that town has always had a " I dont go there" vibe to it.
What kind of Wrong Turn shit is this place
Its name always reminded me of Skid Marks,may be the reason people are not inclined to live there.
The lawyer was using the guy as a living advertisement. "If i can keep this guy out of jail, just think what i can do for you!"
Hes like saul goodman
Lawyer should've gotten taken out too.
@@GeraltofRivia22 Definitely. That man is a sign, that morale is completely useless in this system.
@@GeraltofRivia22 they could make it a “suicide” like Epstein.
Imagine being so good at your job that a whole town has to fire at your client just to get some justice.
Ken Mackalroy: *gets shot*
Every single witness: "Did I leave the water running?"
No, they obviously all got started by the gunfire and blinked
“Must’ve been the wind”
@@lambed1 I heard that everybody had hayfever and as such there was a massive simultaneous sneeze
It is a mystery no one saw anything
What are you talking about? Nobody got shot...
Nobody at all...
Nope...
Ken: **is shot dead**
60+ people: oh look a penny!
A lucky penny, even! ;)
To be fair it was a very shiny penny!
See a penny pick it up and all the days you got good luck. And their defense, it was a really shiny penny!
Hey when someone pours an entire bottle of rust remover and metal polishing agents onto that penny, you sure can't help but take a conveniently long look at that absolutely
Positively
Graciously
Stunningly beautiful penny I found on the ground, next to Ken's life support being disconnected.
Must've been the wind.
As a Missourian myself, I can say that some REALLY shady stuff happened up until the 90’s with rural law enforcement. The sheriff in my county never got paid very much…officially. He would go around to drug dealers and collect his side money in exchange for looking the other way. His daughter would later be murdered and many people around here believe the murder had something to do with the sheriff’s dealings with drug dealers. I worked as a bank teller in town for a few years and the retired sheriff would always come in and deposit cash. Always cash. Obviously there are always going to be crooked cops, but it seems to have drastically improved since the late 90’s. Interesting place to live!
Same!! But I think it's with rural law enforcement in general. I've heard stories from across the river (I'm outside St. Louis) and they can be pretty similar.
One my mom told me happened back in the day when kids kept coming down to the town to vandalize and steal. It wasn't nearly as built up around here as it is now (it was thirty years ago, and the house we live in is as old as I am at 20, so everything is still new), but apparently one got caught by the sheriff and he fucking dangled him off the bridge over a river. The kids never came back after that but that shit is horrible.
My grandfather was also a cop back in the day, but since he was In more populated areas it was never like that shit. I'm glad
That's a story of something we call 'fuck around and find out'
Was the case ever solved? I wonder if I know who you're talking about.
It's interesting how many of us Missourians got recommended this video, I live about 50 miles from Skidmore, so I grew up hearing these stories from my grandpa, since he lived in the area at the time
@@quiknthicc5471 and I bet your grandpa didn’t see a thing either. 😂
I like to imagine that the guy who killed him has a hidden letter or diary saying it was him, sealed away in a random corner of his house, for his family to release publically a decade after he passes away.
For what reason
@@NoProtect conclusion?
Tbh its unlikely but hey you never know, people leave notes for less important stuff all the time that are disovered years or decades later
Lol he won't need to - everyone saw him do it and everyone knows who did it: the only people who don't know who did it was the cops.
@@jackspring7709 I mean the guy was identified right? They just cant put a witness to it for a trial.
There was more than one shooter, and everyone knows who they were....they just aren't talking. McElroy was a nightmare for that town, and he needed to be stopped. The courts and justice system failed, and the people of the town knew what needed to be done, and they did it. No one is going to speak and give up any names. Not to mention there is a high probability that the shooters arent even alive anymore.
How is this a stain on their reputation? Its a damn badge of honor.
Because they spent years ignoring Ken's character.
Seems like a pretty nasty stain to me
@@TheB00tyWarrior The story is one of a town having faith in government institutions and those institutions failing one too many times. The guy was friends or had something on the DA or Judge. How else would he POST BOND after shooting someone in the neck? Delays to the trial giving him months to create an alibi and intimidate witnesses? Delays for what? This is a town of barely 300 people in a county of barely 20k today? WTF were they "busy with" for MONTHS in the 1980s?
@@andrewdriver3318 Technically you're both right.
@@icenine135 Depends on if you define "town". If it is meant to refer to the government then yes it has a stain, if it is meant to refer to the people, then no they are clean.
@@TheB00tyWarrior The townsfolks likely can afford to ignore him because they were at first thought he was just a typical delinquent then as Ken Rex grew older and more violent, they became too scared to do anything about it until they reached their breaking point.
The town doesn't have bad reputation for killing a madman. If there is bad reputation, it's from tolerating the madman.
That was fortunately fixed
It's more the police and the courts tolerating.
They didnt tolerate. They had hope in the law
Yo I'm in missouri. What town was this
Every town has vile people/families like this. Much respect to the town for winning against evil.
No, thats Bullshit. Thankt he Gods not every Town has people like this. Well, maybe ina 3th World Country like the U.S maybe.
In one town in England, 6 out of 7 P.stani men had enough dirt to get arrested.
They make this joker look amateurish, but share tactics.
@@Threemore650religion of peace lol
@@Threemore650perhaps those towns should introduce them to the dirt
Shout out to those foster parents. Those are the real G's not allowing themselves to be scared by some punk with a gun.
Still let their daughter get away :(
That whole town was this man's bitch.
@@macaronimafia9699 they had no support from the police and no legal basis to stop her as she wasn't their daughter.
@@alansimmons9621 well they had a gun
@@alansimmons9621 They could've just killed him earlier and hid his corpse. No one in town would've snitched.
The reason the police heavily investigated this man's murder instead of his extreme number of crimes he committed on those who potentially murdered him was because the murder was a complete embarrassment to their police force, because not a single person cooperated with the police on his murder in direct defiance and out of spite of the police's incompetency and the murder was in broad daylight with 60 witnesses.
It is an extreme blow to the police's image for this to happen. Especially because the police could not do this job themselves and constantly let this guy slip. They should have straight up destroyed him themselves, killed him even, because of his unreasonable demeanor and psychotic history. But they didn't. So the people had to do it themselves.
I mean, they arrested him multiple times but the courts let him walk.
@@sweetreamer5101 they had guns, cops are good at covering "accidents" up. if they wanted justice they could have given it
@@thehabit635 Sadly, the Justice system is a complete and utter joke that it's no longer funny.
Or if it was even funny to begin with.
The cops can get away with killing a dude for eating his breakfast im pretty sure they would let killing this scumbag slide
The whole of the West is about to do the same do to government corruption amd incompetence.
The fact that it took that long for them to do it makes it even more depressing. They tried so hard to believe in the "justice" system they had, only to be let down every time. Even worse, the police tried harder to find Ken's killer than actually helping those people.
Well the fbi got involved but I say we celebrate the bastard being dead
anytime a group loses faith in the justice system you will find vigilante justice creeping up. if the justice system worked you would never see this but, good people can only take so much and no hell like the fury of the unlistened to.
Exactly... the authorities did more to try and catch the hero of this story than the monster. Think about that...
This is why we need the second amendment. This wouldn't happen in my town he would have been buried after the first cow he stole
@@buckbreaker5185 doesn't the second amendment apply to crazy people too? like Ken?
I think this quote fits this situation perfectly: "Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things."
Reminds me of the quote from Joshua Graham (Fallout New Vegas) about having a disdain for killing, but when done righteously it is a chore like any other.
RIP marv
This seemed pretty reasonable to me.
The cold unemotional way Trina talks about him is the detached stare of someone who has had their sense of reality shattered. Abuse is a terrible and powerful thing, and I have nothing but sympathy for her. That poor girl.
Indeed. She had to justify, especially to herself, why she was with him.
Where did my comment go? Is it because I said
P -e -d -o?
What the hell TH-cam?
@zerozell dude what are you on about?
1000 yard stare of PTSD.
**Awolnation plays**
"How do i deal with a bully?"
Google: talk with your parents, a teacher, or a police officer
Bing:
You win this time Bing.
I am scared of what Duckduckgo will suggest...
*Racks Gewehr 98 with malicious intent*
@@gamaactive8278 no. Not malicious intent. Purging intent
@@Imthepinesinthetrees *Purge the monster that wears man's skin*
This real police force was literally about as good as the police in a horror movie
Yes,about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
This is why these horror movie monsters go to small town's
@@busking6292 I love this. I'm using "chocolate teapot" in my vocabulary from now on!
you'd be surprised.
It's were the inspiration came from.
The "grooming" gangs need this sort of thing.
start with Drake.
Or Matt Walsh
I assume you mean a bullet in the head
@@antifurryfoundation55 Oh please. The government murders people all the time.
@@ChadOfAllChads Cringe
Ken gets shot
Townsfolk: "Must've been the wind."
Today’s weather report:
Low chance of rain
Moderate chance of MAGNUM winds
"Huh? What was that noise?!"
@@Ramsey276one 😂😂😂😂
He slipped and fell on some bullets.
I've been to Skidmore. I asked a lady at a gas station "What happened to Ken Rex Mackalroy?" She responded with "I don't know anything about that." I said "Good." We nodded and I've never seen her after that. At least they're consistent
She sounds wonderful.
No sarcasm there. Literally, wonderful.
Fuckin love Missouri. Tight mouth bunch of folks, love from Kansas.
He said in the video that there are no gas stations in the area. Is he wrong or are you lying?
@@martyms11 there is one fairly near to it iirc. From someone who lived a couple hours away in KC
@@martyms11 one just south in Maitland, and there used to be a couple up further north before the town shrunk by like 50% after the last 2 murders
Damn this should be the first video of a new series: Shitlords
Nailed it.
Brilliant! I agree, this would be another great series for Dankula to make.
agreed
@Every Single Average Day ehhhh...only a couple...and to be fair....it can be an almost invisible line between Mad Lad and Shitlord....
@Every Single Average Day I'd argue that Purple Aki is the only one from that list that might need to make the jump.
Shitlords doesn't just mean "Criminal or psychopath", it would be more so a description of those who don't fit the algorithm for "Mad Lad" for some reason, yet still need a video.
It's kind of insane that they did more with that bastards death than any of his victims. Like they truly did everything for this man even after his death somehow wow
like others have mentioned, it's because the common folk embarrassed the police by doing their job for 'em
"It's so sad Ken just up and died of a bad case of bullet wounds. Real sad."
It seems to be a common byproduct of $17,600 being express mailed to the future by 60 people working *extremely* hard in a nearby bar to pay off a legal case that doesn't exist yet.
You have any idea how much attention it takes to do that? Apparently it looks just like bullet wounds too if you're the person in the way, but it is at least totally silent, so you don't have to report any nuisances or noise complaints, or anything at all.
I mean, it happens all the time. There you are, minding your own business, walking down the street then all of a sudden you have entire pounds worth of lead in your belly launched at you a hundred feet per second. Seems to be a side effect of being a POS but who knows...
I can't get over how the "justice" system did far more for Ken than any of his victims. Honestly it's a shame they didn't get the lawyer, too.
And the sheriff, and their mayor.
Honestly not, they tried, the laws are the shit part, id say many of the police officers tried, why would he try to intimidate the police if they were on his side?
@@eeeguba432 Better question: Why was Ken able to successfully intimidate the fucking police in the first place?
Like seriously, how? They had guns too and Ken doesn't have dead eye from Red Dead Redemption, or the ability to slow down time, in order to shoot and kill all of them one after the other. Ken may have been a big guy, and an even bigger bastard, but he wasn't physically bullet-proof or invincible; his death afterwards proving that notwithstanding.
@@dantethewanderer4989 still that police officer could have been undertrained or just not cut out for the job, not malicious. If he helped him in any way, sure, fuck him, but he just bailed
@@dantethewanderer4989 thats where i really wonder about what connections he had or if he had dirt on some of the police because even in 1970 that shit would not fly. The 1st hand accounts of a deputy would absolutely be enough to arrest him and thats not even mentioning the fact that everyone in the town would say "yeah he did the same shit to me". Never heard of any cases in which sherriffs will allow the people under them to be threatend. would the sherriff have just let ken pull a gun on him? fuck no. They let that shit fly when they knew it was going on but do a multi team year long investigation when that guy, who had already tried to kill two people, gets shot? makes 0 sense
No idea why people from the town would think that this would tarnish their reputation, it just makes me respect them more.
Same here. If anything, that it took so long would bring down their reputation.
You never know until all is said and done. Newspapers and other new outlets could have spun it if they wanted to. Better safe than sorry.
Chances these are people I call “High Horse Conservatives”.
People that are so obsessed with taking the high road by being “moral and just” that don’t want to take action because it makes them “just as bad as our enemies”.
What these dunderheads don’t seem to get is doing nothing is just as evil as the actual murder.
Sure as hell tarnishes that police force for not stopping this asshole earlier
“He sure did need a lawyer an awful lot” pretty much sums it up. A prime example of what happens when the system fails… catastrophically…
you know you're a failure when you can't finish someone off point blank with a shotgun on two separate occasions
I have a feeling there's many times we just don't know about
I'll bet I know what the case is. Ken was the kind of guy who was so stupid and full of himself that he thought that he wouldn't kill someone so long as he didn't intend to, even when pointing a shotgun at someone's face.
_Laughs in XCOM_
@@ea5yliver how did you miss a 100%????
“Blew muh flaysh open and blew muh flaysh into this door”
The whole town be like: "I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing."
That's one gangsta town. You gotta respect that no one snitched.
I understand that reference lol even without the accent
@@Libikuroi Well, by today's standards nobody would think that because criminals are a protected class and vigilantes are called hateful
I swear to god I just saw I comment by you on the previous video I watched. Do you like, have good taste or something?
Actually that's kind of a funny thing for me to say in the comments of a Count Dankula video since he's not really someone I watch regularly or care very much about, but I'll be damned if this isn't a good video.
It was Kyle Hills Vampire Mom video BTW.
Dismissed!
"It wasn't really women he was going after"
Me: Oh, he was gay.
"Young meat"
Me: Oh. Oh no.
Richard Hammond: THAT'S WORSE!!!!!
Got me too.
for half a second I thought he was raping raccoons to death.
bruh same
Trussssst 🤣😳😅
I love this story. I remember a quote from someone who was looking the other way, "I didn't see nothing, but that man sure needed a killin"
"No, officer, I didn't see anything. I was just sitting nearby imagining what the town would be like if the police did their job around here."
If I recall correctly from having read the book years ago , twenty something people stated that when they heard the first gunshot , they all dove under the pool table in the bar for cover .
@@filianablanxart8305 That pool table deserves a medal for successfully sheltering so many people.
@@filianablanxart8305 In an interview, that was brought up, followed by "how did you all fit under the table?" The man laughed and said, "it's one big table!!"
To quote John mulaney “I was just over on the bench”
The police’s only job is to enforce the states power. They don’t care about anyone
Ken: *Shot to hell in his truck*
Townsfolk: Winds howling
lol
Your profile pic tho... A man of culture
Must have been the wind
Shootin'? What shootin'?
I was thinking....crickets, lot of them.
That guy wasn't just a bully he was a legitimately dangerous predator.
I’m shocked it took that long for someone to take him out.
@@VTCharley13 Right? After messin with that many young girls you'd think he'd of been found dead in a ditch one morning.
back t hen, people were not very conscious about those issues and things that are unthinkable today were considered acceptable.
A full on psychopath
Yams can comment better than most people these days.
Never has "You get what you fucking deserve!" been so fitting for such a situation.
Me at 0:00
"Mob justice is wrong."
Me at 10:00
"Somebody just throw him off a cliff."
Too quick too painless
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 Having my aunt Annie sit on him. She uses a mobility scooter.
@@i-craftsdesign3175 Great!
Me at 21:00
"Too bad they didn't take out that dirty lawyer too."
I can't disagree.
In the immortal words of Joshua Graham: “We can’t expect God to do all the work.”
Finally a New Vegas reference
"Waging war against good people is bad for the soul." Well, as Ken found it, seems it's bad for the body too, resulting in a few deserved bullet holes.
@@charlesdemers1197 virgin
"I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously it becomes a chore, like any other."
@@lafox2833 I bet you smell
Ken:
Resident: “I’m gonna defeat you with the power of friendship and this gun I found."
Is that from something?
Underated comment
@@JohnDoe-rx3vn yes
@@JohnDoe-rx3vn TheRussianBadger
And this mauser my pa brought back from Flanders.
Here's something interesting you chaps might like to know. Del Clement, the man whom Trina named as Ken's killer, is actually the owner of the D&G Tavern that Ken haunted, in fact he's the D in the name of the pub. It stands for "Del & Greg Tavern". Sadly he passed on in 2009 from liver disease, someone wrote on his memorial page "He was a good, brave man". I got this from Bustle on their artical "Why the 'no one saw a thing' mystery will never be solved", if anyone's interested on reading about it.
He did his community an enormous favor, bless that man.
With all the guns in Missouri, I'm surprised it took them so long to realize the cops weren't going to help.
Most people are good and hope that justice will prevail.
People need to realize that the police are not there to protect you but to enforce the laws of bureaucrats
@@corporealexistence9467 no its because people are fucking cowards and were afraid of doing anything
There's a reason why corey spazkid called missouri "misery". Also the water people are pretty stupid.
@@redqwertyu How many of us have been in this kind of situation? If you have been, did you take violent action or do as the people of the town did for so/too long? What horrible things are done around each of us every day that we do nothing about? What horrible things are done around the globe in the name of each persons country and what are we doing about it?
I know a similar story from my childhood, a town bully died in a diving accident after he was hit in the head with a sledgehammer. Only his mother went to his funeral.
Must've really been something when even your own family won't attend.
A "diving accident"
Dove head first into a tool-shed
@@williamkoehler4235 "No officer, I didn't hit him in the head, he just jumped right into my sledgehammer mid swing."
What did he do
When the government fails a community so consistently and for so long, it is the right of that community to deal with the matter themselves.
Either one of 2 things happened
1. The town know exactly what happened but they ain't snitching
2. The murderer put all his skill points into Sneak
Or both
Murderer? What murderer? No one was murdered. I was right there and no one was murdered. He committed suicide via three shots to the back of the head.
@@richardmillhousenixon that would be kind of impressive ngl
Must have been the wind.
He crouched right after he shot and the stealth eye went to a line.
disgraceful that both state and federal authorities came to investigate Ken's death, but never put that much effort into investigating Ken himself.
Well our masters dont like punishing their own :). Fiddlers reward Fiddlers.
Complacency is what allows evil to exists.
This story is a prime example
Love this
Friend, same for the government. Either the civil war's going to break out and there's finally going to be black & white, or you'll see me on madlads in a few years when the count gets to it
Aye Aye, Captain!!
If you let an asshole do whatever they want they will and if they are taking advantage of a lack of law enforcement presence so can everyone else.
If only someone would have taken the initiative and acted sooner. If only someone would have camped out near Ken's property over night and put a .30-06 through his head when he stepped out of his house in the morning.
The Midwest in that era, just wasn't prepared for someone to act that way. The people are mostly Scandinavian and German descent. And the way they interact is very civil. They don't have huge emotional outbursts. They hold everything in, and it builds up. Until critical mass is attained, and they lose it. The town collectively lost it and took rash action.
Youre not wrong but thats a hilarious way to describe nords and germans
@The Mug Most of Asia, especially Japan, is that way to. A strong sense of boundaries, be civil, and no public displays. Especially of affection. Like Germanic populations, when Asians lose it, they REALLY lose it. They hold so much in and so many social taboos and pressures. Especially with the added concerns about losing face.
@@fiddleback1568 It’s called the Odin switch
While it is true that mostly that Scandinavians and Germans settled the Midwest… there’s a lot of “Mics” in there I noticed …McElroy..McCloud…McFadden ect.
Skidmore seems to have had a lot of Irish and Scottish descendants.
Scandinavian huh? Maybe we'll finally get pushed into that corner here at home some day, the criminal justice system here in Sweden functions just about as well as it did in Skidmore back then, police and courts are ridiculously unhelpful and even harmful around these parts.