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In Broad Daylight is a 1991 American made-for-television thriller drama film about the life of Ken McElroy, the town bully of Skidmore, Missouri who became known for his unsolved murder. [1] McElroy was fictionalized as the character Len Rowan, portrayed by Brian Dennehy. [2] The film is based on Harry N. MacLean's nonfiction book of the same ...
On February 23, 2018, the webseries BuzzFeed Unsolved covered McElroy's murder. The event was the subject of No One Saw a Thing, a 2019 television documentary mini-series on Sundance TV. [16] Brad Wesley, the villain played by Ben Gazzara in the 1989 action movie Road House, is based loosely on Ken McElroy.
No One Saw a Thing examines "an unsolved and mysterious death in the American Heartland and the effects of vigilantism in small town America. The case garnered international attention in the early 1980s after a resident, Ken Rex McElroy, was shot dead in front of almost 60 townspeople.
A judge has sided with Netflix in a legal conflict launched by a famous diver, who claimed that a movie inspired by his life falsely accused him of murder. Judge Bruce G. Iwasaki granted Netflix ...
In a Lifetime movie featuring Emily Osment and Anna Hopkins, "Stolen Baby" recounts the murder of Austin mother Heidi Broussard. Here's the true story.
The man condemned to death was convicted in a 9-year-old girl's 2007 murder. Missouri carried out its fourth execution this year on Tuesday night. The man condemned to death was convicted in a 9 ...
Bobbie Jo Stinnett (December 4, 1981 – December 16, 2004) was a 23-year-old pregnant American woman who was murdered in Skidmore, Missouri, in December 2004.The perpetrator, Lisa Marie Montgomery, [3] then aged 36 years old, strangled Stinnett to death and cut her unborn child (eight months into gestation) from her womb.
In Broad Daylight is a 1988 true crime book by award-winning writer Harry N. MacLean, [1] detailing the killing of town bully Ken Rex McElroy in 1981 in Skidmore, Missouri.The book won an Edgar Award for best true crime writing in 1989, was a New York Times bestseller for 12 weeks (charting at number 2) and was adapted into a television movie of the same name.