- Mass Market Paperback: 406 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime Classics; Reprint edition (28 Nov 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312942362
- ISBN-13: 978-0312942366
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.8 x 2.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 205,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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96 of 99 people found the following review helpful
In Broad Daylight
3 Dec 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I live within 50 miles of Skidmore, Mo. I was 12 years old when the shooting happened.I remember watching scenes from Skidmore on Channel 2 news out of St. Joseph Mo the day of the shooting.
The book tells the story quite well. If you have a picturesque mind, what you imagine as you read is how the town really looks. I have friends from Skidmore that were affected by Ken Rex one way or another and to this day if they know who did it they don't say a word.
That's what makes rural America different from the big city. Justice will be done using the civil system or your own.
The book tells the story quite well. If you have a picturesque mind, what you imagine as you read is how the town really looks. I have friends from Skidmore that were affected by Ken Rex one way or another and to this day if they know who did it they don't say a word.
That's what makes rural America different from the big city. Justice will be done using the civil system or your own.
83 of 91 people found the following review helpful
Dangerous thoughts and ideas
18 Dec 2004
Format:Hardcover
The book is well written, which would get it a 5 star rating from me even if it didn't examine a fundamental paradox of civilization without actually saying so.
A modern town, full of generally law-abiding citizens is forced to live with the kinds of fears law was created to protect them from. When the laws turned backward on themselves and became an instrument of the only person in the community who ignored the law completely, the law abiders all became accessories to a remedy forbidden by their own laws.
Afterward, the machinery of justice finally cranked up and spent an enormous amount of energy trying to make these reluctant lawbreakers pay for the crime of doing what the law was hired to do, and failed.
If you believe the machinery of justice is the friend to the common citizen, you don't want to read this book.
If you have a crack-house the police `can't do anything about' operating in the abandoned house down the block from you, you don't want to read this book.
If your wife or daughter is being stalked by some guy who has a history of rape or homicide, but the police can't stop him, don't read this book.
If there's a guy in your neighborhood who's been in prison for child molesting, you definitely don't want to read this book.
Probably no one should read this book.
A modern town, full of generally law-abiding citizens is forced to live with the kinds of fears law was created to protect them from. When the laws turned backward on themselves and became an instrument of the only person in the community who ignored the law completely, the law abiders all became accessories to a remedy forbidden by their own laws.
Afterward, the machinery of justice finally cranked up and spent an enormous amount of energy trying to make these reluctant lawbreakers pay for the crime of doing what the law was hired to do, and failed.
If you believe the machinery of justice is the friend to the common citizen, you don't want to read this book.
If you have a crack-house the police `can't do anything about' operating in the abandoned house down the block from you, you don't want to read this book.
If your wife or daughter is being stalked by some guy who has a history of rape or homicide, but the police can't stop him, don't read this book.
If there's a guy in your neighborhood who's been in prison for child molesting, you definitely don't want to read this book.
Probably no one should read this book.
80 of 90 people found the following review helpful
Why did it take so long?
18 Dec 2004
Format:Hardcover
McElroy should have been killed long before July 1981. Apparently, he never intimidated the right people outside of Skidmore. Should have killed his attorney too!
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