True Crime: Missouri: The State’s Most Notorious Criminal Cases

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True Crime: Missouri tells 11 stories of deadly doings in the “Show-Me” state. Writer David J. Krajicek also considers whether there’s something in the state’s bloodlines that makes Missourians a particularly foul breed. One new resident of the state said a neighbor suggested that Missourians like to care for conflicts themselves. His advice: “You shoot, you shovel, and you shut up.”   

Among the featured crimes in the book:

  • Lee Shelton’s barroom murder of Billy Lyons in St. Louis, which inspired the preferred song “Stagger Lee.”
  • The vigilante killing of the “town bully” of Skidmore, Ken McElroy. Did the tiny town, which has shrunk to nearly ghost-town status, curse itself by keeping a secret about the slaying?
  • The heartless kidnapping and murder of millionaire Robert Greenlease’s son in Kansas City by a few St. Joseph barflies.
  • The Kirkwood City Council massacre.
  • The “throwaway” serial killings of in all probability two dozen young prostitutes in Kansas City by a garbage collector named Lorenzo J. Gilyard.
  • The forgotten story of “Cockeyed” Cook, a lost soul from Joplin who massacred an entire circle of relatives and dumped them down a mineshaft.
  • The “American Gothic” killers, farmer Ray Copeland and his wife, Faye. They murdered their farm hands near Chillicothe in a ordinary plot to earn money, and then made the mistake of planting their human crop too shallow.
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