On July 10, 1981, Ken Rex McElroy was shot to death on the main street of Skidmore, Missouri. Forty-five townspeople watched. His wife, sitting next to him in the truck, identified the gunman. Despite three Grand Jury investigations and an FBI probe, no indictments were ever issued, no trial held – and the town of Skidmore has protected the killer with silence ever since.

“In Broad Daylight: A murder in Skidmore, Missouri” is an Edgar Alan Poe True Crime award winner written by Harry N. MacLean. This riveting, contemporaneously penned book takes you inside the minds and souls of the townspeople of this small midwestern town as they grapple with a monster in their midst.