Yeah , I think this guy killed that bully in Missouri. He used to work the Double Duece.Lynching was once a common practice in this country, and not just in the South or the frontier West. In many instances, it was racially motivated, as any white woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted by a black man was automatically believed. In other instances, it was not racial, but it was commonly accepted that someone “needed killing”. About 30 years ago, there was an instance in northern Missouri of a town bully whom local law enforcement could not restrain being killed, and the locals becoming silent.
Needs killing is still around in some parts of the US. Generally the law agrees. If people do get arrested the jury usually sets them free.
That happened in Liberty, mo. In the 80s IIRC. There was a book written about which is a fascinating read.
Nobody in that town has ever said who did it but apparently everyone knows who the two men were who poured rifle fire into the guys truck.
The guy killed was a real bad man with a great lawyer.
That happened in Liberty, mo. In the 80s IIRC. There was a book written about which is a fascinating read.
Nobody in that town has ever said who did it but apparently everyone knows who the two men were who poured rifle fire into the guys truck.
The guy killed was a real bad man with a great lawyer.
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.
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.