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by Gyrogearhead
Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:38 pm
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: MO: Death of a bully unsolved after three decades
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Re: MO: Death of a bully unsolved after three decades

Besides the news stories, I remember there was a movie made about this event that had some well known (not stars) actors. I've seen it on cable a couple of times and the movie seems to follow exactly the sequence portrayed in the news articles. Interesting aspect is you never know if the "good guy" in the movie was one of the gunmen. It's one of the blanks left for the viewer to fill in.

An interesting subplot in the movie was an insinuated Quid-Pro-Quo tie in with the then practicing county DA. When the DA wanted some "muscle" applied to one of his "problems" he would call McElroy and in return his boy was taken care of in court.

This real life DA didn't survive in the election following the killing and the DA that recently retired was the elected replacement. In the story in last Sunday's paper he says that this was his first case so he's spent 29 years trying to collect enough evidence to take it to trial.

Wish I could think of the name of the movie but my "Oldtimers" is acting up today.

Gerry

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