Yeah , I think this guy killed that bully in Missouri. He used to work the Double Duece.
Posted on 09/22/2015 2:26:15 AM PDT by Libloather
Strapped to wooden chairs and burnt alive: Two men are fatally punished by furious Mexican villagers after alleged car theft
Angry villagers beat and then burnt two men to death on the streets of Mexico after accusing them of trying to steal a car.
The men were grabbed by the 200-strong mob in the town of San Juan Chamula on Monday, according to a civil defense official, and strapped to wooden chairs before they were lynched.
The official, who was not authorized to be quoted by name, said the men had been turned over to police in the southern state of Chiapas after an alleged car theft.
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Yup. Skidmore is the town.
The guys wife was pulled out of the truck by one of the shooter as the other shooter was firing through the front window. A terrific story if it is still in print.
The woman is living in Southern Mo and is doing fine.
Yeah , I think this guy killed that bully in Missouri. He used to work the Double Duece.
It’s been a while, but there was a TV movie about that guy or one like him, ended up shot full of holes in his pickup truck.
The book describing the killing is “In Broad Daylight” by Harry MacLean. I plan to buy it. This is an inspiring story if you ask me.
Incidentally, Skidmore is also the town where a young pregnant woman was murdered and her unborn child cut from her womb. The baby was later recovered — alive — and the murderer sentenced to death.
If you have to visit Skidmore, don’t drink the water. And get out of town before the sun goes down.
My dad told of when he was a young boy a old settler from pre-homestead days simply said horse thieves were automatically hung as stealing a horse was a death sentence for the person left stranded out in the middle of nowhere.
Law and order simply did not exist, they had to create their own.
Double killing.
The good (?) people of Mexico are taking the law into their own hands. The police are just as corrupt as the cartels & gangs.
How do good people survive such a situation? Can good people even be identified as such in a situation of total civil chaos?
Mexico is in an undeclared civil war pitting 3 main groups fighting each other: the corrupt government & its military & police, the cartels, & would be law abiding citizens being severely abused by the other 2.
As this war intensifies, whatever else happens, we can expect the flood of (now) refugees from Mexico to grow.
Mexico is a corrupt disaster and it has been for a long long time.
Everybody has their hand out, from lowest person all the way to the top.
lynched does not mean hanged or strung up.Lynched is the act of punishing someone without the benefit of a trial.Mob justice is a style of lynching.
San Juan Chamula is known for its rigid system of local Indian governance
Tribal
Once nearly everyone is corrupt then there is no corruption, just anarchy. In anarchy, those strong enough simply take from others those things they want. The physically strong (in numbers/weapons) dominate weaker people. There is no right or wrong. You are only allowed to possess those thing you are able to defend.
Everyone is concerned by events in the Middle East. What about the bloody chaos on our southern border? Isn’t it about time we did some air strikes on the Mexican cartels, who are a far greater, more immediate threat to national security than anything that happens in Syria?
if you win five games in a row you get one car :)
they give twenty thousand now for winning game
but still only five bucks a point if you get under 200.
cheapskates
Were they playing “Stuck In the Middle With You” in the background.
Ahh beat me to the Reservoir Dogs reference.
His lawyer, McFadden was a legendary defense attorney. I talked to a guy from that county about this just a few weeks ago. His thievery was just s small part of his violent criminal behavior.
I also met the Trooper that figured centrally in this story at the time.
Trena, MCElroy’s child bride tried to suit for money three years bfter the killings. Settled out of court and moved to Lebonon in southern Missouri about five hours away where she died three years ago.
You still don’t bring up that subject tin the town bar.
Woof!
At least they didn’t send the garbage north of the border where our politicians would happily greet them.
see my #56.
I was just visiting with a Nodaway county bunch of friends about three weeks ago about the history of this.
I spelled his attorney’s name wrong, it was McFadin and I had a truck driver buddy in the 70s that used him and told me he was a mob connected guy who could get anything he wanted in Clay County and points north.
Trena McElroy was 12 years old when old Ken started “courtin’” her. He divorced his existing wife to marry Trena as a way of avoiding stattory rape charges.
This guy made John Wesley Hardin look like a Rogerian therapist.
I think it’s beautiful that he got the justice he deserved.
Lot of wasted ammo though. One shot to the head would have done it.
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