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Ken Rex McElroy was an American criminal and convicted attempted murderer who resided in Skidmore, Missouri. He was born on June 1, 1981 and was known as “the town bully”. He was the fifteen of sixteen children born to a poor, farming couple named Tony and Mabel McElroy, who had moved to Kansas and Ozarks before settling outside of Skidmore.
He dropped out of school at the age of fifteen in the eight grade and turned into a cattle rustler, small-time thief, and womaniser. For more than twenty years, McElroy was suspected of being involved in theft of grain, gasoline, alcohol, antiques, and livestock but he avoided conviction when charges were brought against him twenty-one times.
This was because witnesses refused to testify because he allegedly intimidated them. He was always represented by defense attorney Richard Gene McFadin of Gallatin, Missouri.
His unsolved killing became the focus of international attention. While alive, McElroy was accused of many felonies, child molestation, assault, arson, cruelty, cattle rustling, and burglary.
He was indicated twenty-one times but escaped conviction each time, except for his last crime. In 1981, Ken Rec McElroy was convicted of attempted murder in the shooting of the town’s seventy year old grocer, Ernest Bowenkamp and successfully appealed the conviction and was released on bond,
after which he began a harassment campaign against Bowenkamp and those who were sympathetic to Bowenkamp, the minister of the town’s Church of Christ congregation.
He went to a local bar, the D&G Tavern, armed with an M1 Garand rifle and bayonet and threatened to kill Bowenkamp. The next day, he was shot dead in broad daylight as he sat with his wife Trena in his pickup truck on Skidmore’s main street.
He was shot by bullets from at least two different guns in front of a crowd of people estimated as numbering between thirty and forty-six. To date, no one has been charged in connection to his death.
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