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Raymond Gunn (January 11, 1904 – January 12, 1931) was a black man killed by a mob in Maryville, Missouri, United States, after being accused of killing a white woman. The case received massive national publicity because it occurred outside the Southern "lynch belt," because of its brazen and planned nature, and because the county sheriff did ...
Ken McElroy. Ken Rex McElroy (June 1, 1934 – July 10, 1981) was an American criminal and convicted attempted murderer who resided in Skidmore, Missouri, United States. He was known as "the town bully", [1] and his unsolved killing became the focus of international attention. Over the course of his life, McElroy was accused of dozens of ...
The county was organized February 14, 1845, and is named for the Nodaway River. [ 3 ] It is the largest in area of the counties added to Missouri in the 1836 Platte Purchase and the fourth-largest county by area in Missouri. Nodaway County comprises the Maryville, MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Branson Kayne Perry (born February 24, 1981; disappeared April 11, 2001) is an American missing person who vanished under mysterious circumstances from his residence at 304 West Oak Street in Skidmore, Missouri. His disappearance received national media coverage and was profiled extensively by journalist and crime writer Diane Fanning in a book ...
July 19, 2024 at 11:53 PM. Chillicothe, Missouri (AP) – A woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years of a life sentence was released Friday, despite attempts in the ...
660. FIPS code. 29-68132 [3] GNIS feature ID. 2395893 [2] Skidmore is a city in western Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. The population was 245 at the 2020 Census. The small farming community is known for the unsolved extrajudicial killing of Ken Rex McElroy. Skidmore also has a yearly "Punkin' Show."
Missouri Death Row Inmate Marcellus Brown, is set to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 26, 2024 in the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
On December 23, 2006, a young couple living in a neighbourhood in New Bloomfield, Missouri, were brutally murdered by a relative inside their house. [2] [3]On that day itself, both Sarah and Benjamin Bonnie, aged 25 and 28 respectively, received a call from Sarah's cousin, 34-year-old Brian Joseph Dorsey, who owed money to drug dealers looking for him and he wanted to borrow money from Sarah.