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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 2 00:00:12,190 --> 00:00:15,610 was more like the Old West. 3 00:00:15,650 --> 00:00:18,910 There was a culture of violence in the area. 4 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:22,370 (Kirby Goslee) That's the history of our country. 5 00:00:22,410 --> 00:00:24,290 You get enough people riled up 6 00:00:24,330 --> 00:00:25,700 and they're gonna go do vigilante stuff. 7 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:29,880 People were afraid 8 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:31,920 of Ken Rex. 9 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:32,960 (Steve Booher) There's an old saying: 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,550 "He needed killin'." 11 00:00:37,050 --> 00:00:38,260 When he got killed, 12 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:40,680 and they got away with it, at that point, 13 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:42,390 they felt protected. 14 00:00:42,430 --> 00:00:44,100 (man) The people who were involved in this, 15 00:00:44,140 --> 00:00:45,350 and the people who covered it up, 16 00:00:45,390 --> 00:00:47,060 they didn't realize that their children 17 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:49,730 are gonna be negatively effected by this. 18 00:00:49,770 --> 00:00:51,900 It perpetuates itself. 19 00:00:51,940 --> 00:00:54,400 (Toni Goben) They still think that it's okay what took place. 20 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:56,070 The mentality is still there. 21 00:00:56,110 --> 00:00:57,700 It's exactly the same. 22 00:00:59,610 --> 00:01:01,240 (Mark Reinig) Since Ken's death, 23 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,780 we've had a lot of tragedies in the town 24 00:01:03,830 --> 00:01:07,250 that is unusual for a rural American town. 25 00:01:07,290 --> 00:01:09,330 (Diane Fanning) Wendy Gillenwater, 26 00:01:09,370 --> 00:01:11,290 who was brutally murdered, 27 00:01:11,330 --> 00:01:14,920 Branson Perry disappeared and is presumed dead? 28 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:18,220 (Booher) And then you have the most horrific case-- 29 00:01:18,260 --> 00:01:20,380 Bobbie Jo Stinnett. 30 00:01:20,430 --> 00:01:21,090 (female reporter 1) A bizarre case of murder 31 00:01:21,140 --> 00:01:23,220 and fetal abduction. 32 00:01:23,260 --> 00:01:25,260 (Ben Espey) Nobody here could ever perceive 33 00:01:25,310 --> 00:01:26,640 this ever taking place. 34 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:27,890 (female reporter 2) Multiple tips led investigators 35 00:01:27,930 --> 00:01:31,150 to suspected murderer Lisa Montgomery. 36 00:01:31,190 --> 00:01:31,940 (Fanning) Everything was closing in. 37 00:01:31,980 --> 00:01:34,980 This child is in danger. 38 00:01:37,070 --> 00:01:39,610 (♪) 39 00:02:38,250 --> 00:02:40,050 (Booher) If you believe in karma, 40 00:02:40,090 --> 00:02:40,960 you believe that 41 00:02:41,010 --> 00:02:43,880 some of Skidmore's struggles 42 00:02:43,930 --> 00:02:47,680 are a legacy from the murder of Ken Rex McElroy. 43 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,350 What's done can't be undone, 44 00:02:52,390 --> 00:02:54,480 and there is a price to pay for it. 45 00:02:57,310 --> 00:02:59,360 Is Skidmore guilty 46 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,190 of murdering Ken Rex McElroy? 47 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,240 Absolutely, they are. 48 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,570 They've stayed silent now for decades. 49 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,160 But silence has a cost. 50 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,580 Sometimes, that cost is 51 00:03:14,620 --> 00:03:17,040 that other horrific things happen in your town. 52 00:03:26,340 --> 00:03:29,560 (Fanning) Lisa Montgomery desperately 53 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,220 wanted another child. 54 00:03:37,270 --> 00:03:40,110 Well, she pretended to be pregnant. 55 00:03:43,110 --> 00:03:45,450 And she found Bobbie Jo, 56 00:03:45,490 --> 00:03:48,410 another breeder of rat terriers. 57 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,620 She drove from her home in Melvern, Kansas... 58 00:03:56,250 --> 00:03:57,920 out to Skidmore, Missouri... 59 00:04:00,090 --> 00:04:01,590 not a short drive... 60 00:04:06,630 --> 00:04:08,430 pulled up in front of the little bungalow 61 00:04:08,470 --> 00:04:10,390 where Bobbie Jo Stinnett lived, 62 00:04:10,430 --> 00:04:12,560 and knocked on the front door. 63 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,440 Bobbie Jo let her in, 64 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,060 brought her into the room where she kept 65 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:20,770 all her puppies and dogs... 66 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,150 and Lisa throttled that poor woman 67 00:04:25,190 --> 00:04:27,570 to unconsciousness... 68 00:04:30,780 --> 00:04:31,620 knelt beside her 69 00:04:31,660 --> 00:04:34,120 and cut her stomach open... 70 00:04:35,330 --> 00:04:37,500 pulled out that little child, 71 00:04:37,540 --> 00:04:40,420 who was eight months in the womb, 72 00:04:40,460 --> 00:04:43,050 wrapped that baby up, 73 00:04:43,090 --> 00:04:46,090 took it out and got into her little red car 74 00:04:46,130 --> 00:04:48,300 and sped off down the road. 75 00:05:03,980 --> 00:05:06,110 (female reporter) Less than a day after Bobbie Jo Stinnett 76 00:05:06,150 --> 00:05:09,950 was found strangled, her unborn baby kidnapped, 77 00:05:09,990 --> 00:05:11,910 law enforcement had a suspect-- 78 00:05:11,950 --> 00:05:14,580 Lisa Montgomery of Melvern, Kansas. 79 00:05:14,620 --> 00:05:16,540 (male reporter) Here's what we have learned. Lots of little bits 80 00:05:16,580 --> 00:05:18,000 of information from this latest press conference. 81 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,750 We're told it will be the last press conference 82 00:05:19,790 --> 00:05:21,500 from the sheriff department-- they're turning things over 83 00:05:21,540 --> 00:05:24,130 -to the feds right now. -We anticipate, in a short time, 84 00:05:24,170 --> 00:05:26,090 that we'll have some information that may be related to charges 85 00:05:26,130 --> 00:05:28,840 being filed in the case. If we can have your indulgence 86 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:30,510 until those charges are filed, then you might have 87 00:05:30,550 --> 00:05:31,220 a lot more information at that point in time. 88 00:05:31,260 --> 00:05:33,550 (reporters clamoring) 89 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,350 (Booher) They had Lisa Montgomery 90 00:05:35,390 --> 00:05:37,680 identified within a day. 91 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,310 There was an urgency to this. 92 00:05:39,350 --> 00:05:42,350 (Espey) That's when I sent Randy Strong and Don Fritz-- 93 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,900 two of my people, investigators-- 94 00:05:44,940 --> 00:05:46,440 to Melvern, Kansas 95 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,940 to try to find Lisa Montgomery, 96 00:05:48,990 --> 00:05:50,700 in hope that the baby would survive. 97 00:05:53,410 --> 00:05:56,290 It's the first time I had ever heard of 98 00:05:56,330 --> 00:05:58,120 a baby being cut out of her mother 99 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,250 for someone to steal a baby. 100 00:06:00,290 --> 00:06:02,460 I mean, wouldn't it have been a lot easier 101 00:06:02,500 --> 00:06:03,710 to go to a hospital or to go to someone's house 102 00:06:03,750 --> 00:06:06,880 and steal a baby that was two or three days old. 103 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:09,210 (Fanning) Lisa Montgomery, 104 00:06:09,260 --> 00:06:12,130 she had this obsession. 105 00:06:12,180 --> 00:06:15,850 She wanted that baby 106 00:06:15,890 --> 00:06:17,930 to look at her 107 00:06:17,970 --> 00:06:21,350 and for her face to be the first one 108 00:06:21,390 --> 00:06:23,190 that baby ever saw. 109 00:06:23,230 --> 00:06:26,110 The fact that the mother would probably die 110 00:06:26,150 --> 00:06:29,400 in the process did not trouble Lisa at all. 111 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:40,450 (Randy Strong) It's usually women that murder 112 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:42,160 a pregnant woman and steal the child. 113 00:06:42,210 --> 00:06:45,250 Sometimes the child lives, 114 00:06:45,290 --> 00:06:46,630 but sometimes the child does not live. 115 00:06:49,670 --> 00:06:52,720 (Fanning) Detective Strong turned down 116 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,720 that highway in Kansas. 117 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,720 The road started out paved 118 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,100 and then it turned to dirt. 119 00:06:59,140 --> 00:07:01,220 And they're going down there, raising a cloud of dust... 120 00:07:04,060 --> 00:07:06,730 ...as they turn into this farmhouse. 121 00:07:15,570 --> 00:07:16,870 (Espey) Don and I are walking up 122 00:07:16,910 --> 00:07:19,740 to the driveway of Lisa Montgomery's house. 123 00:07:19,790 --> 00:07:21,750 I look down and I had rat terrier dogs 124 00:07:21,790 --> 00:07:23,500 running around my feet. 125 00:07:23,540 --> 00:07:25,120 Yeah, I knew that was the place. 126 00:07:28,670 --> 00:07:30,130 We were at the monster's house, 127 00:07:30,170 --> 00:07:31,130 and it just sent chills down my spine. 128 00:07:32,380 --> 00:07:35,380 (knocking on door) 129 00:07:35,430 --> 00:07:37,800 (Fanning) They knock on the door, 130 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:39,220 and when the door opens, they see 131 00:07:39,260 --> 00:07:43,270 the TV is tuned to a story 132 00:07:43,310 --> 00:07:45,980 about this abducted baby. 133 00:07:46,020 --> 00:07:48,860 (clock ticking) 134 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:51,320 (Espey) I quickly did a scan around the room. 135 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,570 To my right, sat a sofa, 136 00:07:53,610 --> 00:07:57,280 and Lisa Montgomery is sitting there holding a newborn baby. 137 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:58,160 It didn't look right. 138 00:08:00,660 --> 00:08:01,830 Does she possess a firearm? 139 00:08:01,870 --> 00:08:04,120 Am I gonna have to take a shot at her? 140 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,870 (police siren blaring in distance) 141 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,500 (Fanning) Detective Strong lifts that baby 142 00:08:10,540 --> 00:08:12,590 from Lisa's arms 143 00:08:12,630 --> 00:08:14,800 and he walks outside 144 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:15,340 of the Montgomery home. 145 00:08:15,380 --> 00:08:20,350 (♪) 146 00:08:20,390 --> 00:08:22,720 (Espey) I get a phone call and says, 147 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,390 "We have a little female baby in our hands." 148 00:08:25,430 --> 00:08:26,850 There was probably 17 investigators 149 00:08:26,890 --> 00:08:29,480 that had been working through the night on this case. 150 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,360 There wasn't a dry eye in there 151 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,150 and it was dead silence. 152 00:08:37,070 --> 00:08:39,070 I want to thank the people that helped me on this. 153 00:08:39,110 --> 00:08:41,120 I mean, this department couldn't have done it alone. 154 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:42,950 The major case squad, 155 00:08:42,990 --> 00:08:45,410 these people are very well trained and they were very good. 156 00:08:45,450 --> 00:08:46,580 They helped us out at the crime scene 157 00:08:46,620 --> 00:08:47,370 over in Skidmore. 158 00:08:47,410 --> 00:08:49,830 And so with that, 159 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,340 we're very happy the fact that 160 00:08:53,380 --> 00:08:55,380 we're gonna be able to get this baby back 161 00:08:55,420 --> 00:08:56,380 to the family. 162 00:08:56,420 --> 00:08:58,010 (male reporter) 163 00:08:59,590 --> 00:09:01,890 Her mother had her name before she was born. 164 00:09:04,180 --> 00:09:04,350 Victoria. 165 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:08,440 Little Victoria Jo. 166 00:09:09,690 --> 00:09:12,110 And it was victory from God 167 00:09:12,150 --> 00:09:14,070 that helped us find that little baby. 168 00:09:14,110 --> 00:09:15,980 (female reporter) Lisa Montgomery faces 169 00:09:16,030 --> 00:09:18,200 federal charges of kidnapping 170 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,450 resulting in death. 171 00:09:20,490 --> 00:09:23,330 (Rick Stanton) And that gal was just plum deranged. 172 00:09:23,370 --> 00:09:25,330 I don't know that she acted like she was pregnant, 173 00:09:25,370 --> 00:09:28,000 and told everybody she was, and then come up here. 174 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:29,500 I don't know that she had any help 175 00:09:29,540 --> 00:09:32,460 or whether she acted alone, but... 176 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:34,250 (male reporter) They had met before, they had even gone 177 00:09:34,290 --> 00:09:35,630 to the same dog shows, 178 00:09:35,670 --> 00:09:37,260 according to some new witnesses. 179 00:09:39,380 --> 00:09:41,640 Handcuffed and dressed in a prison jumpsuit, 180 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:44,010 Lisa Montgomery testified in federal court 181 00:09:44,050 --> 00:09:45,850 in connection with the brutal murder 182 00:09:45,890 --> 00:09:48,480 of mother-to-be Bobbie Jo Stinnett. 183 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,690 (man) This is a case where its going to be almost impossible 184 00:09:50,730 --> 00:09:51,940 to try to come up with any defense, 185 00:09:51,980 --> 00:09:53,520 other than some form of mental disease... 186 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:55,570 -(female host) Right. -...some species of insanity. 187 00:09:55,610 --> 00:09:58,240 People do not want to believe 188 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:00,200 that another human being 189 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,740 is capable of this kind of violence. 190 00:10:02,780 --> 00:10:04,660 (male reporter) There are questions about why Montgomery's husband 191 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:07,740 accepted her story, that she had suddenly 192 00:10:07,790 --> 00:10:09,700 given birth last Thursday 193 00:10:09,750 --> 00:10:11,960 and was ready to be picked up with the baby 194 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,460 not at a hospital, but outside a restaurant. 195 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:17,670 (Fanning) How did Kevin Montgomery 196 00:10:17,710 --> 00:10:19,460 believe that his wife was pregnant 197 00:10:19,510 --> 00:10:22,880 and that that possibly could be his child? 198 00:10:23,470 --> 00:10:26,430 She took that baby 199 00:10:26,470 --> 00:10:29,470 and showed him off at the local diner, 200 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,180 the preacher's house. 201 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:34,730 Everybody believed it. 202 00:10:34,770 --> 00:10:36,730 (female reporter) Pastor Wheatley says for months 203 00:10:36,770 --> 00:10:38,610 Lisa had everyone, including her own husband, 204 00:10:38,650 --> 00:10:40,780 convinced she was pregnant. 205 00:10:40,820 --> 00:10:42,400 She was pretty small, and I commented to her about it. 206 00:10:42,450 --> 00:10:45,740 I asked her if... 207 00:10:45,780 --> 00:10:48,540 if she was due, when she was due, 208 00:10:48,580 --> 00:10:50,040 and she said she was due in December. 209 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,290 And I said, "Well, you're kind of small to be having 210 00:10:52,330 --> 00:10:54,210 a baby that soon," 211 00:10:54,250 --> 00:10:55,880 and she said, "I always had small babies." 212 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:56,710 And so I just let it go at that. 213 00:10:56,750 --> 00:10:59,050 But the fact of the matter is, 214 00:10:59,090 --> 00:11:01,340 it was all a scam for her 215 00:11:01,380 --> 00:11:02,590 to get what she wanted. 216 00:11:02,630 --> 00:11:05,680 She is a sociopath, 217 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,180 not an insane person. 218 00:11:09,890 --> 00:11:12,430 (female news anchor) Good evening, everyone. Montgomery will die 219 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:15,150 for killing a pregnant woman and kidnapping her baby. 220 00:11:15,190 --> 00:11:17,940 (female reporter) Lisa Montgomery becomes just the third woman 221 00:11:17,980 --> 00:11:20,530 scheduled for execution in the federal system. 222 00:11:23,780 --> 00:11:26,240 (Booher) This case is closed. 223 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,990 The case was solved by a couple of things, 224 00:11:29,030 --> 00:11:30,910 which didn't happen 225 00:11:30,950 --> 00:11:34,830 in Ken Rex and Branson Perry's case: 226 00:11:34,870 --> 00:11:37,500 Quick, decisive action 227 00:11:37,540 --> 00:11:40,250 by law enforcement, 228 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:44,380 information from townspeople, 229 00:11:44,420 --> 00:11:47,090 and in this case, 230 00:11:47,140 --> 00:11:50,930 there wasn't a conspiracy of silence in the town. 231 00:11:50,970 --> 00:11:55,190 This was different in its nature. 232 00:11:55,230 --> 00:11:59,310 Unfortunately, 233 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:01,900 it's not different in its effects, 234 00:12:01,940 --> 00:12:04,570 because it was still Skidmore, 235 00:12:04,610 --> 00:12:05,700 it was still horrific, 236 00:12:05,740 --> 00:12:08,570 and it added another chapter 237 00:12:08,620 --> 00:12:11,580 to that town's legacy. 238 00:12:35,730 --> 00:12:36,980 for Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 239 00:12:37,020 --> 00:12:38,850 the pregnant woman who was strangled 240 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:40,270 in her Skidmore home before her unborn infant 241 00:12:40,310 --> 00:12:43,020 was kidnapped. 242 00:12:43,070 --> 00:12:43,900 (female reporter) The people of Skidmore poured 243 00:12:43,940 --> 00:12:46,070 into this tiny funeral home, 244 00:12:46,110 --> 00:12:48,610 many still struggling to come to terms 245 00:12:48,660 --> 00:12:50,280 with their friend's sudden and brutal death. 246 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,450 (man) I've known her since she was a little baby. 247 00:12:53,490 --> 00:12:56,160 She grew into a beautiful swan and... 248 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,370 She didn't deserve this. Yeah, it's just unbelievable. 249 00:12:58,420 --> 00:13:01,460 (Becky Harper) This case has finally come to a close, 250 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:03,290 but we will never stop missing Bobbie Jo. 251 00:13:03,340 --> 00:13:06,170 She was a sweet... 252 00:13:06,210 --> 00:13:07,470 (camera shutters clicking) 253 00:13:10,180 --> 00:13:11,970 ...and loving wife, daughter and sister 254 00:13:12,010 --> 00:13:13,760 and would have been a wonderful mother. 255 00:13:16,770 --> 00:13:18,390 (female reporter) Bobbie Jo Stinnett was buried 256 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,980 in the same town she grew up in, 257 00:13:21,020 --> 00:13:22,900 the same town 258 00:13:22,940 --> 00:13:25,650 where she will always be remembered. 259 00:13:30,910 --> 00:13:32,320 (Espey) When you have one bad thing happen, 260 00:13:32,370 --> 00:13:34,830 and another year or two, 261 00:13:34,870 --> 00:13:36,790 something else really bad happens, 262 00:13:36,830 --> 00:13:38,960 that town develops a reputation. 263 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,250 (Fanning) It is very, very bizarre 264 00:13:44,290 --> 00:13:47,170 that in a town of three hundred and some people, 265 00:13:47,210 --> 00:13:48,800 within five years, 266 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,010 there's three brutal murders. 267 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,680 It just can't be coincidence. 268 00:13:56,350 --> 00:13:59,140 To me, 269 00:13:59,180 --> 00:14:01,520 there's a higher power 270 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:03,350 than any of us, 271 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,020 and I wouldn't be sittin' here tellin' you, 272 00:14:06,070 --> 00:14:07,650 if I didn't know it was the truth. 273 00:14:09,110 --> 00:14:11,070 Did it all connect or something? 274 00:14:11,110 --> 00:14:13,910 I don't know, but I've thought about that. 275 00:14:13,950 --> 00:14:15,530 I have thought about that. 276 00:14:19,620 --> 00:14:22,000 'Cause this town was so full of sin. 277 00:14:26,170 --> 00:14:28,920 (Booher) At some point in time, 278 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,380 they were a thriving little community, full of pride. 279 00:14:33,970 --> 00:14:36,390 And then Ken Rex McElroy was shot. 280 00:14:38,180 --> 00:14:39,310 (Espey) The last murder there 281 00:14:39,350 --> 00:14:41,640 was a freak deal. 282 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,230 That had nothing to do with Ken Rex McElroy. 283 00:14:44,270 --> 00:14:47,400 That had nothing to do with any of the Skidmore people. 284 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:48,610 That was just-- Bobbie Jo Stinnett was 285 00:14:48,650 --> 00:14:51,440 on a website that somebody in Kansas saw. 286 00:14:51,490 --> 00:14:53,400 (thunder rumbling) 287 00:14:53,450 --> 00:14:55,910 I know a lot of people in Skidmore, 288 00:14:55,950 --> 00:14:58,330 and they're not at all proud of the fact 289 00:14:58,370 --> 00:15:02,710 that this got blown up so big. 290 00:15:02,750 --> 00:15:04,250 And it keeps makin' stories. 291 00:15:12,010 --> 00:15:13,510 (Goslee) All these things are 292 00:15:13,550 --> 00:15:14,720 little black marks 293 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,430 because it happened in our community. 294 00:15:17,470 --> 00:15:19,220 Our community didn't cause it. 295 00:15:20,430 --> 00:15:23,230 I don't believe all that (bleep). 296 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:25,730 The things that happen 297 00:15:25,770 --> 00:15:26,310 to the people in Skidmore... 298 00:15:28,770 --> 00:15:30,440 I won't use the word coincidence. 299 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:34,240 I'm just gonna say they happened because they happened. 300 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,280 (♪) 301 00:15:39,830 --> 00:15:43,620 Since we've had these violent 302 00:15:43,660 --> 00:15:45,460 situations in Skidmore, 303 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:50,170 you don't see many people on the street. 304 00:15:50,210 --> 00:15:52,510 You don't see a lot of cars on the street. 305 00:15:54,010 --> 00:15:56,590 There's very little activity. 306 00:16:02,970 --> 00:16:05,270 The older people started dyin' off, 307 00:16:05,310 --> 00:16:08,860 and the younger people started moving away. 308 00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:11,860 There's nothing to keep people in Skidmore, 309 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:14,030 unless you just love it here like I do. 310 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,700 (Fanning) Skidmore is slowly but surely dying. 311 00:16:19,740 --> 00:16:22,740 When that happens, all the resources in a town 312 00:16:22,790 --> 00:16:23,330 start disappearing. 313 00:16:26,250 --> 00:16:29,170 And that's when the town collapses on itself. 314 00:16:31,790 --> 00:16:35,050 Someday, we'll just be a spot on the map. 315 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,380 (Booher) It's already tough enough 316 00:16:38,430 --> 00:16:42,060 to be a small town in the middle of the country 317 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:44,720 where there's nothing noteworthy in-- 318 00:16:44,770 --> 00:16:46,520 your town doesn't have a lot going for it. 319 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,440 That's tough 320 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,230 to have these things happen, 321 00:16:52,270 --> 00:16:54,900 and to be tagged with that legacy, 322 00:16:54,940 --> 00:16:56,530 that makes it even tougher. 323 00:16:57,570 --> 00:16:59,530 Some might say, impossible. 324 00:17:01,660 --> 00:17:06,450 (Cathy Palmer) Life hasn't been fair to the town of Skidmore. 325 00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:09,540 I mean, there's just been so many negative things happen 326 00:17:09,580 --> 00:17:12,590 in that area. 327 00:17:12,630 --> 00:17:15,550 How much can a town take, heh, you know? 328 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,340 Can they ever get past their history? 329 00:17:45,660 --> 00:17:48,000 There used to be an X chiseled in this sidewalk 330 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,370 right here where McElroy's pick-up was sittin'. 331 00:17:50,420 --> 00:17:54,170 I don't know why people latch onto something. 332 00:17:54,210 --> 00:17:57,090 I don't know why they keep onto it. 333 00:17:57,130 --> 00:17:57,260 Right through here. 334 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:01,760 There used to be an X carved in there, 335 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:03,430 I guess that's 40 years ago. 336 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,060 I don't do much on websites, 337 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:09,980 'cause I'm-- well, I just don't know how to run a computer, 338 00:18:10,020 --> 00:18:12,900 for the most part. 339 00:18:12,940 --> 00:18:17,480 But I do know when something, and you punch up "Skidmore," 340 00:18:17,530 --> 00:18:19,740 the first thing that comes up about Skidmore 341 00:18:19,780 --> 00:18:21,450 is the McElroy thing, Bobby Jo Stinnett, 342 00:18:21,490 --> 00:18:23,450 and then the Brandon Perry. 343 00:18:23,490 --> 00:18:25,160 People are still comin'. 344 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,790 People are still askin' questions. 345 00:18:27,830 --> 00:18:29,200 Everybody wants to know 346 00:18:29,250 --> 00:18:31,870 why it happened? 347 00:18:31,910 --> 00:18:33,580 But in another 10 years, you know, the McElroy thing 348 00:18:33,620 --> 00:18:36,500 will be 50 years old, there will be nobody living 349 00:18:36,540 --> 00:18:40,510 that can actually say, "I was there." 350 00:18:40,550 --> 00:18:42,720 We'll be hearing people say, "Well, you know, 351 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,090 my grandpa talked about that, or maybe my dad." 352 00:18:45,140 --> 00:18:46,430 But there will be nobody left alive 353 00:18:46,470 --> 00:18:49,430 that can say, "I was there." 354 00:18:49,470 --> 00:18:51,560 (♪) 355 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,560 (Goslee) There's one truth in what happened, 356 00:18:55,610 --> 00:19:00,320 and only the people that were there know what it was. 357 00:19:01,940 --> 00:19:03,360 Some of the people were really glad 358 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,950 he got shot. 359 00:19:05,990 --> 00:19:07,910 Some of the people didn't process it 360 00:19:07,950 --> 00:19:09,240 for weeks or months or years later. 361 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,540 But all of 'em kept quiet. 362 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,210 I think a lot of the people in town 363 00:19:18,250 --> 00:19:21,420 want to come clean on who did it, who done it. 364 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:26,720 To come clean, 365 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:29,600 clean the town, clean the memory, 366 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,350 clean your hearts, 367 00:19:31,390 --> 00:19:34,940 make peace with the Lord... 368 00:19:34,980 --> 00:19:37,610 That would be a wonderful thing for this community, 369 00:19:37,650 --> 00:19:40,530 that we knew the actual truth. 370 00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:45,450 But it's not gonna happen. 371 00:19:47,450 --> 00:19:49,330 And people that are still living today 372 00:19:49,370 --> 00:19:51,540 that know what happened, 373 00:19:51,580 --> 00:19:54,870 they probably made peace with their god, 374 00:19:54,910 --> 00:19:57,540 and that's all they need. 375 00:19:59,710 --> 00:20:01,920 And every day, every week, every month, 376 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,130 we lose more of those people. 377 00:20:05,170 --> 00:20:07,550 If you want to see the history of Skidmore, 378 00:20:07,590 --> 00:20:09,140 all you go to do is go though the cemetery, 379 00:20:09,180 --> 00:20:10,680 south of town, 'cause that's pretty much 380 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:12,390 where everybody is. 381 00:20:13,390 --> 00:20:16,770 The Bowenkamps, he died. 382 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,980 Roman Henry, he died. 383 00:20:21,020 --> 00:20:25,400 Benny Estes, he's dead too, you know. 384 00:20:25,450 --> 00:20:27,570 Trina moved somewhere down south 385 00:20:27,610 --> 00:20:30,910 and she passed away... 386 00:20:30,950 --> 00:20:33,120 four of five years ago. 387 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,410 I guarantee you, the men who did the shooting-- 388 00:20:36,460 --> 00:20:39,250 there's more than one-- 389 00:20:39,290 --> 00:20:40,840 they're all dead. 390 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,210 (Marty Small) It is a great testament 391 00:20:43,250 --> 00:20:45,510 to the strength of the community 392 00:20:45,550 --> 00:20:49,340 to protect the identity of those men 393 00:20:49,390 --> 00:20:50,930 until their death. 394 00:20:51,930 --> 00:20:53,810 And they're all dead. 395 00:20:53,850 --> 00:20:56,270 I've been tellin' ya-- dead, dead, dead, dead. 396 00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:59,850 They've got their revenge. 397 00:21:03,110 --> 00:21:05,150 Del Clement... 398 00:21:05,190 --> 00:21:07,530 after the shooting, he drank himself to death. 399 00:21:09,860 --> 00:21:12,450 He was a mess after that. 400 00:21:13,700 --> 00:21:16,370 I never talked to him about it. 401 00:21:16,410 --> 00:21:18,960 I talked to him-- I never talked to him about it. 402 00:21:20,670 --> 00:21:22,170 I didn't care to know. 403 00:21:25,210 --> 00:21:27,800 (Charlie Young) Maybe that's God's way of... 404 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:29,800 allowing things to happen 405 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,140 because of what they did, I don't know. 406 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:39,100 I know it is a spiritual battle. 407 00:21:39,140 --> 00:21:40,520 I know that. 408 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,610 I don't know how Ken's murder 409 00:21:43,650 --> 00:21:44,440 affected everything. 410 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,320 I can't see into that realm. 411 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:50,610 (Stanton) Bobbie Jo's husband, they moved 412 00:21:50,660 --> 00:21:52,240 up to a small town here south of town. 413 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,080 Him and the little girls, probably, 414 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:57,370 10, 12 years old, out doin' good. 415 00:21:57,410 --> 00:22:01,330 And to this day, Lisa Montgomery is not dead. 416 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,630 She's still in prison. 417 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,670 (James Klino) We hope that answers will come up 418 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,090 with Branson Perry's case. 419 00:22:13,140 --> 00:22:16,810 I hope and pray to God that they come up soon, 420 00:22:16,850 --> 00:22:20,560 so we can see justice for Branson and the family, 421 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,310 so we can put 'em to rest the right way, 422 00:22:23,350 --> 00:22:24,110 next to his mother. 423 00:22:24,150 --> 00:22:25,650 This has gone on too long. 424 00:22:25,690 --> 00:22:26,900 It's been 18 years. 425 00:22:33,660 --> 00:22:34,950 (Goben) That town will never grow 426 00:22:34,990 --> 00:22:37,370 into absolutely anything, 427 00:22:37,410 --> 00:22:39,000 till someday... 428 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:40,290 There's nothing there but empty buildings, 429 00:22:40,330 --> 00:22:42,250 if they haven't all been burnt down. 430 00:22:44,170 --> 00:22:46,130 I think the town is kind of cursed, 431 00:22:46,170 --> 00:22:48,710 so in its own way, they're punishing themselves. 432 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,090 The ones who pulled the triggers, killed my dad. 433 00:22:53,130 --> 00:22:54,930 Whether they go to prison or not, 434 00:22:54,970 --> 00:22:57,100 at this point in time, it really doesn't matter. 435 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,890 It's just closure to the case. 436 00:23:01,810 --> 00:23:02,730 And in a way, maybe free that town 437 00:23:02,770 --> 00:23:05,230 from the curse that its under. 438 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:12,450 (Goslee) Murder's wrong, vigilantism is... 439 00:23:12,610 --> 00:23:14,570 most cases, wrong. 440 00:23:14,610 --> 00:23:16,950 Not always, but most cases. 441 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,120 Hopefully, we won't be put 442 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,870 in any of those situations again. 443 00:23:23,910 --> 00:23:27,130 But should it happen, 444 00:23:27,170 --> 00:23:28,790 people are gonna make a decision, 445 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,460 it's gonna be a split decision, 446 00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:34,090 and it's gonna be an instant decision: 447 00:23:34,130 --> 00:23:35,590 I'm gonna grab a gun and shoot 448 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,720 or I'm gonna run. 449 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,310 (♪) 450 00:23:40,350 --> 00:23:41,930 (Small) As a society, we've gotten soft. 451 00:23:41,970 --> 00:23:45,810 There's several countries where, you know, everybody is trained, 452 00:23:45,850 --> 00:23:47,020 everybody spends their time in the military, 453 00:23:47,060 --> 00:23:50,650 and everybody is expected to defend their home 454 00:23:50,690 --> 00:23:52,690 and their country. 455 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,780 And ending McElroy's life was one of those things. 456 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,910 The men that took it upon themselves 457 00:24:01,950 --> 00:24:04,250 to protect their town 458 00:24:04,290 --> 00:24:04,500 did their job. 459 00:24:07,170 --> 00:24:08,960 And in turn, the town did its job 460 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,380 by protecting those men. 461 00:24:10,590 --> 00:24:13,840 Nobody saw a thing. 462 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,680 In the old days, that's just how it was. 463 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,140 And as Americans, if we don't have people that are willing to do that, 464 00:24:21,180 --> 00:24:23,140 well, who's gonna defend their community? 465 00:24:23,180 --> 00:24:24,640 You have to have those people. 466 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,310 It took courage to shoot at all. 467 00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:36,240 I'd have done it. 468 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,660 You can call it violence if you want to. 469 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:40,780 What are you gonna do? 470 00:24:40,830 --> 00:24:42,330 You gonna walk away? 471 00:24:43,790 --> 00:24:46,330 Give me a break. 472 00:24:46,370 --> 00:24:47,870 Do we need violence? 473 00:24:49,210 --> 00:24:51,170 You bet your sweet ass we do. 474 00:25:03,890 --> 00:25:06,560 that wasn't the first incident of violence 475 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,020 in this community. 476 00:25:08,060 --> 00:25:10,860 All these little communities, all these little towns, 477 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:12,820 have had killings and shootings 478 00:25:12,860 --> 00:25:14,820 from when they were first founded. 479 00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:18,900 There was no law 480 00:25:18,950 --> 00:25:20,610 out past a certain point in this country, 481 00:25:20,660 --> 00:25:23,080 at one time in our history. 482 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:24,490 Everybody had to be vigilantes 483 00:25:24,540 --> 00:25:27,460 to make society function 484 00:25:27,500 --> 00:25:29,670 without being destroyed. 485 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,710 (Reinig) We live on the edge of the prairie... 486 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,470 which has so much romanticism 487 00:25:38,510 --> 00:25:41,340 of the wagon trains and cowboys and Indians, 488 00:25:41,390 --> 00:25:42,850 and train robberies. 489 00:25:42,890 --> 00:25:45,560 And we're in the heart of Jesse James area. 490 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,640 (Gary Chilcote) This is the house where Jesse James 491 00:25:49,690 --> 00:25:53,230 was killed on April 3rd, 1882, 492 00:25:53,270 --> 00:25:56,070 by Bob Ford and Charlie Ford. 493 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,700 Since 1882, the house has been on display, 494 00:26:02,740 --> 00:26:06,200 and I don't understand why people, 495 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,250 quite frankly, want to pay $4 to come and see Jesse James, 496 00:26:10,290 --> 00:26:11,710 where he died. 497 00:26:13,790 --> 00:26:16,050 We have the jail exhibit 498 00:26:16,090 --> 00:26:18,630 with a lot of different murder weapons 499 00:26:18,670 --> 00:26:20,420 that were used over the last century 500 00:26:20,470 --> 00:26:23,140 to kill people. 501 00:26:23,180 --> 00:26:25,930 I don't know why people like those kinds of things. 502 00:26:28,350 --> 00:26:31,350 (Booher) Keep in mind that in northwest Missouri, 503 00:26:31,390 --> 00:26:35,020 outlaws are... they're kind of admired. 504 00:26:35,060 --> 00:26:38,570 Jesse James was an outlaw, but he was kind of a hero. 505 00:26:38,610 --> 00:26:40,900 Every farmer, every rancher 506 00:26:40,950 --> 00:26:42,530 in about four states 507 00:26:42,570 --> 00:26:45,910 let Jesse James and his gang 508 00:26:45,950 --> 00:26:47,830 sleep in their barns. 509 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,330 He was a regular cowboy killer. 510 00:26:51,830 --> 00:26:54,460 He was good to my grandparents-- 511 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:56,420 great-great-great, I think it would be. 512 00:26:56,460 --> 00:26:58,210 It's down the line. 513 00:26:58,250 --> 00:27:00,130 That's how they got the first money 514 00:27:00,170 --> 00:27:01,920 to buy a little farm. 515 00:27:01,970 --> 00:27:04,800 They handed 'em out and he left money in there 516 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,300 underneath the mattress for 'em. 517 00:27:07,350 --> 00:27:10,980 Jesse James gave money to poor farmers 518 00:27:11,020 --> 00:27:15,440 in northern Missouri, central Missouri. 519 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:16,980 But on the other hand, 520 00:27:17,020 --> 00:27:20,320 Jesse James also rode around terrorizing people. 521 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:21,900 (man over speaker) In the next room, you'll learn about 522 00:27:21,940 --> 00:27:25,200 the 1995 exhumation of Jesse James. 523 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:26,950 (Booher) So we in this area, 524 00:27:26,990 --> 00:27:29,490 we kind of have a legacy 525 00:27:29,540 --> 00:27:32,000 of admiring outlaws and outlaw actions. 526 00:27:34,370 --> 00:27:35,670 (Small) What is one of our biggest superheroes in this country? 527 00:27:35,710 --> 00:27:38,500 Batman, right? 528 00:27:38,540 --> 00:27:39,630 Batman. What's he do? What's his superpower? 529 00:27:39,670 --> 00:27:42,300 He's rich, right? 530 00:27:42,340 --> 00:27:44,760 But what does he do? 531 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,720 He goes out and crushes criminals 532 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,220 and does what law enforcement can't do. 533 00:27:51,270 --> 00:27:52,980 Well, that's what vigilantism is. 534 00:27:53,020 --> 00:27:55,480 Well, look at all of our movies. 535 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,560 Ah, the bad guy gets it in the end 536 00:27:58,610 --> 00:28:00,900 from the good guy. 537 00:28:00,940 --> 00:28:03,820 But it's not through the legal system. 538 00:28:03,860 --> 00:28:05,530 It's through a street brawl. 539 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:09,240 But that's the history of our country. 540 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,000 (Devon Linder) I was in school. It was eighth grade history class. 541 00:28:15,710 --> 00:28:18,880 We were having a discussion 542 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,000 over Jesse James and the vigilantes, 543 00:28:21,050 --> 00:28:22,800 and things like that, 544 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:29,090 and my teacher, he had brought up Skidmore, Missouri, 545 00:28:29,140 --> 00:28:30,850 and then he said Ken Rex McElroy, 546 00:28:30,890 --> 00:28:32,810 and wait a minute, I was like, 547 00:28:32,850 --> 00:28:34,020 "You're talking about my grandpa." 548 00:28:37,060 --> 00:28:40,560 You know, that's my family. 549 00:28:40,610 --> 00:28:42,610 They didn't know that that was one of his grandkids 550 00:28:42,650 --> 00:28:43,690 that was sitting in there. 551 00:28:45,740 --> 00:28:48,200 As part of their curriculum, 552 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,280 they was gonna use the movie 553 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,030 that was made about my dad gettin' killed. 554 00:28:54,870 --> 00:28:56,460 He had to sit there and watch it. 555 00:28:58,870 --> 00:29:00,380 (screaming) 556 00:29:04,460 --> 00:29:06,260 He didn't know if he should say something, or... 557 00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:09,090 You know, it kind of put him in a bad spot. 558 00:29:10,010 --> 00:29:11,850 (Linder) It was-- It hurts, 559 00:29:11,890 --> 00:29:15,930 'cause, I mean, I don't look at my grandpa like that. 560 00:29:15,980 --> 00:29:19,850 It's something that bothers me 561 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:23,320 that people say that had to be done, 562 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,740 and not have anything said or done about it afterwards. 563 00:29:27,780 --> 00:29:30,530 (man) Burn in hell! 564 00:29:30,570 --> 00:29:32,740 (Fanning) Vigilantism has been idealized 565 00:29:32,780 --> 00:29:35,240 in this country, 566 00:29:35,290 --> 00:29:38,250 and people make heroes 567 00:29:38,290 --> 00:29:41,000 out of those who do that, 568 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:46,090 and that really perpetuates the vicious cycle of violence. 569 00:29:54,430 --> 00:29:56,060 that's been out there, and one day, I looked 570 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:57,470 at myself in the mirror and I was thinkin', 571 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,230 "Wow, I look just like him." 572 00:30:01,230 --> 00:30:03,480 My name's Tony Surritte. 573 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,610 My father was Ken McElroy. 574 00:30:05,650 --> 00:30:08,400 I didn't get harassed 575 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,660 as maybe my, my siblings, you know, did. 576 00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:13,200 Because they carried the McElroy name, 577 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,910 and I didn't-- my mother hid me from that. 578 00:30:16,950 --> 00:30:19,000 And I think that was due to the fact she didn't want me 579 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,710 to have to have that stigma of a McElroy. 580 00:30:22,750 --> 00:30:25,040 (McElroy Jr.) Carrying the McElroy name, 581 00:30:25,090 --> 00:30:28,260 whether it be, you know, your teachers, 582 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:30,550 or law enforcement, whatever it was, 583 00:30:30,590 --> 00:30:33,140 anything you got into, or we got into as kids, 584 00:30:33,180 --> 00:30:35,220 that's the first thing that they brought up, was our name. 585 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,980 (Goben) My brothers got it worse than me. 586 00:30:41,020 --> 00:30:43,810 you know, they got told, "You're no different than him," 587 00:30:43,850 --> 00:30:46,820 they started fighting, and someone saying something 588 00:30:46,860 --> 00:30:48,900 to get them riled up, and then fighting. 589 00:30:49,190 --> 00:30:50,360 So there was quite a few 590 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,150 different violent altercations 591 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,320 that caused a lot of problems 592 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:55,780 in their life later. 593 00:30:55,820 --> 00:30:57,330 Do you ever think about revenging 594 00:30:57,370 --> 00:30:59,620 your father's death? 595 00:30:59,660 --> 00:31:01,410 -Yes. -I've thought about it a lot of times. 596 00:31:01,460 --> 00:31:02,660 (Oprah) Mm-hmm. 597 00:31:02,710 --> 00:31:04,630 (Juarez McElroy) You feel that hurt and pain 598 00:31:04,670 --> 00:31:07,290 and understand, at that point, that 599 00:31:07,340 --> 00:31:10,630 that it's over, it's-- it's-- he's dead. 600 00:31:10,670 --> 00:31:12,380 There's nothing you're ever gonna do 601 00:31:12,420 --> 00:31:14,300 that's gonna bring him back. 602 00:31:14,340 --> 00:31:16,600 And at that point, there's that sense 603 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,810 of just overwhelming loss. 604 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,310 You're just, you're lost. 605 00:31:24,350 --> 00:31:26,940 That was my introduction to violence. 606 00:31:26,980 --> 00:31:28,190 If I'd have never, ever experienced it, 607 00:31:28,230 --> 00:31:30,320 I would've never, ever known 608 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:31,940 what that type of violence was like. 609 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,450 So I got caught up in it. 610 00:31:35,490 --> 00:31:38,780 And the next thing you know, you fall on that roll again. 611 00:31:38,830 --> 00:31:41,500 And I went from using to selling, 612 00:31:41,540 --> 00:31:44,160 to you name it, I was doing it. 613 00:31:44,250 --> 00:31:46,290 Eventually, something gives. 614 00:31:49,670 --> 00:31:51,840 Back in '89, a friend of mine 615 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,630 was in the Hickory Tavern, 616 00:31:53,670 --> 00:31:55,630 and he got in a fight in there with somebody 617 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,640 and I went to get the guy off of him... 618 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,770 It was a pretty brutal fight. 619 00:32:02,810 --> 00:32:04,690 The guy ended up gettin' stabbed in there. 620 00:32:04,730 --> 00:32:08,060 They arrested me, took me to jail. 621 00:32:08,110 --> 00:32:10,570 (Goben) The boys didn't have their dad anymore, 622 00:32:10,610 --> 00:32:14,070 and the family kind of got ripped apart. 623 00:32:14,110 --> 00:32:16,160 I mean, I've been in my share of violence-- 624 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,700 you know, violent stuff, you know, getting caught 625 00:32:17,740 --> 00:32:20,660 in different situations, and then life just, 626 00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:22,700 you know, got out of control. 627 00:32:23,540 --> 00:32:28,670 The boys, a good chunk of their life was struggle. 628 00:32:28,710 --> 00:32:29,290 And a lot of that had to do with the stigma 629 00:32:29,330 --> 00:32:31,460 from Dad's death. 630 00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:35,970 (Juarez McElroy) My philosophy to how I coped with it was, 631 00:32:36,010 --> 00:32:37,800 you know, I kinda viewed going to prison 632 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,470 as goin' in the military, 633 00:32:40,510 --> 00:32:42,220 and I'm gonna have to experience things 634 00:32:42,260 --> 00:32:43,810 that I probably never wanted to experience, 635 00:32:43,850 --> 00:32:46,810 but I got to learn how to deal with those. 636 00:32:46,850 --> 00:32:48,850 And during that process, 637 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:51,360 I chose, at that time, for me to... 638 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,480 refocus what is it I'm doing with my life. 639 00:32:54,530 --> 00:32:57,650 -Good morning. -Morning. How you doing? 640 00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:00,030 -All right. Yourself? -Ah, not bad. 641 00:33:00,070 --> 00:33:01,660 -Morning, Pastor John. -(John) Hey, how's it going? 642 00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:03,540 (Juarez chuckles) 643 00:33:03,580 --> 00:33:04,330 (Pastor John) Over half of our congregation 644 00:33:04,370 --> 00:33:07,120 are ex-convicts-- 645 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,790 from our ministry, to the prisons. 646 00:33:08,830 --> 00:33:10,710 That's how Juarez came in. 647 00:33:10,750 --> 00:33:12,460 I said, "I've got 13 years in the penitentiary, 648 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:13,670 I've got tattoos all over me," and I said, "I probably won't be 649 00:33:13,710 --> 00:33:15,880 the most likely guy to be in your church," 650 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,220 and you just looked at me and laughed, you said, 651 00:33:17,260 --> 00:33:18,840 "You might be surprised." 652 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,760 I was like, "All right then!" 653 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,680 I said, "Don't be surprised if I don't show up." 654 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:23,890 Two weeks later, I show up, 655 00:33:23,930 --> 00:33:26,180 now three years later, I'm still here. 656 00:33:28,770 --> 00:33:31,770 Early on, I carried so much anger and so much hate. 657 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,400 I wanted my father's death to be vindicated. 658 00:33:39,610 --> 00:33:42,530 Today, I put that past behind me. 659 00:33:44,950 --> 00:33:46,750 I don't carry that burden no more. 660 00:33:47,870 --> 00:33:49,750 (children laughing) 661 00:33:49,790 --> 00:33:51,460 -All right, little ones... -(woman) That's good. 662 00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:53,460 -Grandpa's leavin'. -(girl giggles) 663 00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:55,420 When I was younger, I used to think about revenge. 664 00:33:55,460 --> 00:33:58,260 Yes. Yeah, I did. 665 00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:01,050 Now I don't, I don't think about it so much no more. 666 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,300 When I look at my own kids now, 667 00:34:03,350 --> 00:34:06,850 that's my life now. 668 00:34:06,890 --> 00:34:08,810 I try to be forgiving. 669 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,900 As far as us, I mean, 670 00:34:12,940 --> 00:34:15,980 are our lives perfect? 671 00:34:16,020 --> 00:34:20,240 No. I mean, we're not rich or anything like that, 672 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,200 but we're okay. 673 00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:23,410 It didn't break us, 674 00:34:23,450 --> 00:34:24,780 you know, which is exactly 675 00:34:24,830 --> 00:34:25,410 what the town wanted it to do. 676 00:34:27,490 --> 00:34:29,410 But that didn't happen. We're still here. 677 00:34:29,450 --> 00:34:32,250 And we're okay. 678 00:34:32,290 --> 00:34:33,960 Struggle, yes. 679 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,170 The town, I don't think it'll ever be okay, 680 00:34:36,210 --> 00:34:38,420 because of the secrets that they keep keeping. 681 00:34:38,460 --> 00:34:40,470 I just don't see how 682 00:34:40,510 --> 00:34:43,890 60, 70 people can sit around and watch a person 683 00:34:43,930 --> 00:34:46,140 get shot and killed and nobody says nothing? 684 00:34:46,180 --> 00:34:49,270 Everybody kept that a secret. 685 00:34:49,310 --> 00:34:51,520 And there's a lot of things my dad probably got accused of 686 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,600 he didn't even do, I'm imagining. 687 00:34:54,650 --> 00:34:56,440 And there's stories of things that he did 688 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,940 that, you know, he did. 689 00:35:00,650 --> 00:35:02,360 But you know, you're... 690 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,530 People are not gonna want to talk about 691 00:35:04,570 --> 00:35:07,280 the good things when you're talking about 692 00:35:07,330 --> 00:35:08,580 somebody being shot and killed in the middle of town 693 00:35:08,620 --> 00:35:12,040 of a hundred people, watching. 694 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,920 They just swept it under the rug 695 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,380 because they didn't want to face it no more. 696 00:35:15,420 --> 00:35:17,340 It's over now. 697 00:35:17,380 --> 00:35:18,750 The town ain't got to deal with him no more, 698 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,300 the courts ain't got to deal with him no more, 699 00:35:20,340 --> 00:35:22,170 the law's not got to deal with him no more. 700 00:35:22,220 --> 00:35:25,090 He's gone, so now let's just forget about it. 701 00:35:25,140 --> 00:35:27,050 (♪) 702 00:35:45,110 --> 00:35:46,160 (Reinig) When I think about Skidmore, 703 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:47,740 I think of home. 704 00:35:49,410 --> 00:35:51,410 That's where I learned how to record. 705 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,580 We had a barn. 706 00:35:56,630 --> 00:35:59,540 I would put microphones up, 707 00:35:59,590 --> 00:36:02,340 we would hear the sound of the wind, 708 00:36:02,380 --> 00:36:03,380 and it would get this sound of a... 709 00:36:03,420 --> 00:36:06,130 (making wind howling sound) 710 00:36:06,180 --> 00:36:07,930 (wind howling) 711 00:36:09,430 --> 00:36:11,640 The panes of tin 712 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,390 that would just start to rattle a little bit, 713 00:36:14,430 --> 00:36:15,230 give this little shaking sound. 714 00:36:19,860 --> 00:36:22,400 I probably recorded four hours. 715 00:36:29,370 --> 00:36:31,240 Whenever Festival would play, 716 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,040 we'd take a long trip, 717 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:34,160 we would stay in one big room... 718 00:36:37,750 --> 00:36:40,380 and at night, we would turn that tape on... 719 00:36:44,420 --> 00:36:46,630 It would take us back to Skidmore. 720 00:36:47,550 --> 00:36:51,470 It didn't matter where we were, 721 00:36:51,510 --> 00:36:52,560 it would take us back 722 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,640 to the times before Ken's murder 723 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,440 affected everything, 724 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,860 being in a small town where you don't have to worry 725 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:02,440 about your door being locked, 726 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,320 you didn't have to worry about someone stealing you car, 727 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:07,610 you didn't have to worry about any of that. 728 00:37:09,950 --> 00:37:11,450 We've gone through a lot of things. 729 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,370 People still work hard, 730 00:37:14,410 --> 00:37:16,460 people still struggle, 731 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:20,210 people are still people, 732 00:37:20,250 --> 00:37:21,540 just like any other town. 733 00:37:21,590 --> 00:37:23,460 There's just 280 of us, 734 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:25,380 instead of 280,000, 735 00:37:25,420 --> 00:37:26,920 or 2.8 million. 736 00:37:30,890 --> 00:37:32,680 (Hayes) I hope and pray that 737 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:34,560 they can work things out here in town, 738 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:39,520 because I'd hate to see something like that again. 739 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,650 It's the curse of our town. 740 00:37:43,690 --> 00:37:46,740 And I have told you folks 741 00:37:46,780 --> 00:37:49,110 that gospel truth of everything that I know. 742 00:37:53,330 --> 00:37:57,250 (Fanning) Small towns embody the American dream. 743 00:37:57,290 --> 00:38:01,250 Nice little clabbered houses and picket fences, 744 00:38:01,290 --> 00:38:04,670 where nothing horrible would ever, ever happen. 745 00:38:04,710 --> 00:38:09,670 Skidmore started out as a kind of typical small town, 746 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:13,090 but when the McElroy thing came down, 747 00:38:13,140 --> 00:38:15,510 that is when they got infected. 748 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:19,730 They had cut themselves off from the rest of the world. 749 00:38:21,190 --> 00:38:23,480 -(crew chattering) -(sensor beeps) 750 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:26,270 Aren't you afraid of vigilante law? 751 00:38:30,030 --> 00:38:32,700 One person decided to take the law into his own hands once, 752 00:38:32,740 --> 00:38:35,660 someone else could again. 753 00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:37,580 Aren't you concerned that someone, 754 00:38:37,620 --> 00:38:40,000 perhaps one of your friends, 755 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,370 has taken the law into his own hands 756 00:38:42,420 --> 00:38:43,500 and killed a man? 757 00:38:43,540 --> 00:38:45,750 -No. -No. 758 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,130 No. 759 00:38:49,170 --> 00:38:51,510 (Safer) Reverend, you got a very bitter 760 00:38:51,550 --> 00:38:53,840 and almost angry look on your face 761 00:38:53,890 --> 00:38:56,430 when I mentioned the word vigilante. 762 00:38:56,470 --> 00:38:59,720 Yes. Um, in the past, 763 00:38:59,770 --> 00:39:00,520 the people had to protect people, and now 764 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,690 we're at that point again. 765 00:39:03,730 --> 00:39:06,480 As a Christian, and as an American, 766 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,940 I say, "Who so ever sheddeth man's blood by man, 767 00:39:09,990 --> 00:39:11,570 so shall his blood be shed." 768 00:39:13,780 --> 00:39:15,870 Look, McElroy cast a cloud 769 00:39:15,910 --> 00:39:18,410 over this town, there's no question. 770 00:39:18,450 --> 00:39:20,120 There was fear here. 771 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,710 (gun cocks; gunfire) 772 00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:27,960 But aren't you now concerned 773 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,010 that you've taken the law into your own hands here? 774 00:39:32,050 --> 00:39:35,010 Aren't you afraid of a kind of vigilante law? 775 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,600 If it happens once, it can happen again. 776 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:45,520 (Marty Small) As a town, as a community, 777 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,360 they've paid every day since. 778 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:49,610 They paid. 779 00:39:49,650 --> 00:39:53,190 They're still payin', okay, 780 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,700 and depending on your religious background, 781 00:39:56,740 --> 00:39:58,780 they might pay later too. 782 00:40:01,830 --> 00:40:03,870 (Juarez McElroy) Sorry to hear that it destroyed their town, 783 00:40:03,910 --> 00:40:04,660 or this and that and the other, 784 00:40:04,710 --> 00:40:07,250 but you know what, I mean, 785 00:40:07,290 --> 00:40:09,670 you made a choice. 786 00:40:09,710 --> 00:40:10,880 You know, you're supposedly supposed to be 787 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:15,630 these self-righteous goody-two-shoe people, 788 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:17,720 now you've got to go all throughout your life 789 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,930 knowing that you 790 00:40:19,970 --> 00:40:22,720 took the father away from, you know, 791 00:40:22,770 --> 00:40:24,680 13 children. 792 00:40:27,350 --> 00:40:31,070 But I don't believe that you got off on it Scot free. 793 00:40:31,110 --> 00:40:32,400 You carry that with you all of your life. 794 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,410 (Goslee) This incident has cast a dark shadow 795 00:40:42,450 --> 00:40:46,290 for many, many years over the community. 796 00:40:49,670 --> 00:40:54,130 You murder a guy in broad daylight, 797 00:40:54,170 --> 00:40:56,880 gotta weigh heavy on your heart and your soul 798 00:40:56,930 --> 00:41:00,600 to keep that information in, 799 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,680 and not tell somebody about it. 800 00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:07,230 That's the one big story 801 00:41:07,270 --> 00:41:08,900 within this story. 802 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,940 Now, it's a sad deal. 803 00:41:13,980 --> 00:41:17,950 I know people who are still bothered by it, 804 00:41:17,990 --> 00:41:20,030 they think about it every day. 805 00:41:21,830 --> 00:41:26,120 A man was murdered in Skidmore, 806 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:27,540 and there were young people and children 807 00:41:27,580 --> 00:41:31,580 and relatives and loved ones 808 00:41:31,630 --> 00:41:33,800 on both sides of the murder. 809 00:41:36,170 --> 00:41:37,550 There were long term effects. 810 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,680 A lot of innocent people were hurt. 811 00:41:44,100 --> 00:41:44,930 We've had our share, 812 00:41:44,970 --> 00:41:47,430 over our share of tragedies. 813 00:41:48,850 --> 00:41:50,770 It could've went another way. 814 00:41:51,690 --> 00:41:54,770 But it didn't happen that way. 815 00:41:56,990 --> 00:42:00,860 Murder was a horrible thing, 816 00:42:00,910 --> 00:42:03,870 but it was necessary at the time. 817 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,750 But knowing what we know now, 818 00:42:09,790 --> 00:42:11,250 I just don't know. 819 00:42:13,170 --> 00:42:15,210 In a situation like that... 820 00:42:17,630 --> 00:42:18,880 what would you do? 821 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:20,550 (wind howling) 822 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,430 (thunder crashes) 822 00:42:29,305 --> 00:43:29,464 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 60975

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