Summary of Harry N. MacLean's In Broad Daylight

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 On July 10, 1981, Cheryl Brown, who lived on a farm a few miles west of Skidmore, watched as the town was pushed too far. Cheryl had been working at the B B Grocery for about 15 months when violence erupted again. If McElroy intended to carry out his threats, he would either hit her father at home or come in the back of the store like he did last summer.
#2 When McElroy was in town, his wife, Trena, would usually stay out in the truck with him. Cheryl would always spot the other McElroy trucks and their owners, and would speak their names as if they were on an honor roll.
#3 As the shooting continued, Cheryl rushed to the telephone in the front of the store to call her baby sitter, who lived in town. More shots were fired as she explained to the baby sitter that it wasn't safe to bring the children to the store.
#4 On the day of his death, Ken had been involved with Alice for more than 20 years. They had lived together for 16 years, and had three children. Alice was no longer in love with Ken, but still cared for and respected him.

Sujets

• Love
• Love (disambiguation)
• True Crime
• General officer
• Murder
• General
• Sexualité
• sexualité
• Sexualité

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 30 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669394617
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Harry N. MacLean's In Broad Daylight
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On July 10, 1981, Cheryl Brown, who lived on a farm a few miles west of Skidmore, watched as the town was pushed too far. Cheryl had been working at the B B Grocery for about 15 months when violence erupted again. If McElroy intended to carry out his threats, he would either hit her father at home or come in the back of the store like he did last summer.

#2

When McElroy was in town, his wife, Trena, would usually stay out in the truck with him. Cheryl would always spot the other McElroy trucks and their owners, and would speak their names as if they were on an honor roll.

#3

As the shooting continued, Cheryl rushed to the telephone in the front of the store to call her baby sitter, who lived in town. More shots were fired as she explained to the baby sitter that it wasn't safe to bring the children to the store.

#4

On the day of his death, Ken had been involved with Alice for more than 20 years. They had lived together for 16 years, and had three children. Alice was no longer in love with Ken, but still cared for and respected him.

#5

The family returned to the farm on Saturday morning, and found Tonia had calmed down somewhat. They watched TV around noon when news of the killing came on, and a picture of their father with a thick, fleshy face and cold eyes appeared on the screen.

#6

On the morning of July 10, 1981, Highway Patrolman Dan Boyer was heading north on Highway 71, only a mile or so out of St. Joseph, when the call came over the radio to return to Troop H headquarters immediately. When Boyer pulled in a few minutes later, the dispatcher explained that someone had called in a report that Ken McElroy had been shot and killed on the main street of Skidmore.

#7

As Boyer drove to Skidmore that morning, he told Bryan, a young academy graduate who was riding with him, that McElroy wasn't the one who had been shot. The patrolmen had just passed through Savannah, about thirty miles south of Maryville, when the second call came over the radio.

#8

The incident seemed to be over before it began. McElroy was polite and soft-spoken, and he offered no argument. He kept his hands on the steering wheel at all times, except to reach for his driver's license, which he did very slowly.

#9

Boyer met another car at the McElroy farm. The dispatcher had told him to drive Trena to St. Joseph, since she thought the local police were involved in her husband's murder.

#10

Boyer continued to investigate the shooting, and he soon realized that the locals were lying about what happened. They would not help him with his investigation, and were openly hostile towards him.

#11

Skidmore is a small town in northwest Missouri farm country. It has always been a farming village, and the population has hovered around 450 for the past fifty years.

#12

In Skidmore, Missouri, life is pretty much like it is in every small town in America. The residents are friendly to each other and outsiders, but there are distinct differences between friendliness and openness.

#13

The town of Skidmore is a midwestern version of the southern rednecks, made up of people who exist on the outermost fringes of the community. The lowlifes live in rundown houses or trailers, drink a lot, and never pay taxes.

#14

Rising on the other side of the depression, Elm becomes the one-block business section and reveals with uncompromising clarity the extent of the town's economic decay. The few businesses that remain are barely hanging on.

#15

The town of Skidmore is located on Route DD, and it is famous for its Christian Church, which believes that baptism by total immersion is the only gateway to eternal life in Christ. The weather affects all the rhythms of life in the community. If the moisture falls in the right amount and at the right time, there might be a good harvest.

#16

Route V is one of two roads linking Maryville and Skidmore. It is a narrow blacktop with no shoulders that twists and turns over the hilltops and through the troughs. In the spring and fall, after a heavy rain, tractors and combines track mud onto the highway, creating slicks that send unwary vehicles sliding into ditches and fence posts.

#17

McElroy was a calm and quiet man, who was happiest when he was drinking with friends. He was never seen in public looking dirty or wearing seedy clothes. He wore many of his shirts loose to conceal a. 38-caliber pistol in a leather holster, custom designed to lie flat on his rib cage beneath his left armpit.

#18

Ken McElroy, the son of Mabel and Tony, was never his father’s favorite child. He was always the baby of the family, and his mother’s preference for Tim, who would grow up to be the ideal son, created a distance between him and his brother.

#19

Ken was always a loner, and he didn’t participate in any school activities. He was extremely mean to other kids, and his teacher found him hard to control.

#20

Ken was a troublemaker in school, but he was also known to steal. He had a best friend named John, who he first met when they were in first grade. The two boys would sit together in school until the teacher split them up for disrupting the class.

#21

Ken and John were rebels with big chips on their shoulders. They spent most of their time riding horses, and when they weren’t hunting, they were riding around to girls’ houses. They never had any money, and they spent most of their time trying to figure out how to get it.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In 1952, when he was eighteen, Ken McElroy married Oleta, a sixteen-year-old girl from St. Joe. In 1955 or 1956, they moved back to Missouri, where Ken began committing petty crimes. He started off small time, stealing one hog or calf at a time. He rigged a toggle switch to shut off the running lights in his Ford and shored up the plywood lining in the back.

#2

Ken was a very dangerous man. He would threaten people with violence if they crossed him, and he would carry out his threats on those who angered him. He was always drunk, and would tease young girls and boys.

#3

In 1959, Sharon became the second Mrs. Ken McElroy. She and Ken had moved to a tiny house outside Burlington Junction. Sharon seemed to both love and fear Ken. She had tried to get away from him many times, but it never lasted very long.

#4

Linda learned that Ken had brought a fourteen-year-old girl named Sally D. out to live with him and Sharon. He had sex with both of them and frequently beat them up. One night, Ken dumped Sally out of the car onto a lawn in town, screaming and bleeding.

#5

Ken had a network of girlfriends who took the stolen animals and sold them at various markets and auctions using their own names. He would visit them several days later to settle up. He would have sex with the women and give them a little something for their effort.

#6

Linda and her husband, the foster parents, fell in love with all three of Sally’s children when they came to live with them on the farm. They never learned who their father was, but they remembered him as their mom’s boyfriend.

#7