On July 10, 1981, the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri changed forever. 60 people gathered around the town bully in the middle of the day and shot him dead on Main Street. Yet no one claimed to see who killed Ken Rex McElroy, and no one was ever brought to trial despite Federal investigations into the case and eyewitness testimony from his widow. Since that vigilante killing, this town of under 300 people isolated deep in America’s heartland continued to make headlines for all the wrong reasons, suffering a string of gruesome, violent acts. Murders, suicides, and disappearances plagued the community as decades passed. The worst of these bore striking similarities to the McElroy case—violent altercations in broad daylight and in plain view, bound most of all by a familiar, deafening silence among the townspeople. Residents argue that their rural home is just like any other small Midwestern town, but for years, many have wondered if it has been cursed. This unique true crime series peels back the layers on the peculiar strain of violence infecting Skidmore, and examines the price society pays for vigilante justice.