This week, in Elkland, Missouri, when seven family members are brutally murdered, in two different homes, the lone survivor tells a tale of killing the murderer, after being wounded by him. The killer looks to be a teenager, who just snapped, due to too much responsibility for the family farm. But nothing turns out to be anything like it seems. The truth turns out to be a much more disturbing story, that leaves everyone in complete shock!!Along the way, we find out that we don't don't know anything about bluegrass music, that you can only put so much adult responsibility on a 14 year old, and that if you're going to slaughter 7 people, and try to frame someone else, you should plan the whole thing a little bit better!!New episodes every Thursday!Donate at: patreon.com/crimeinsports or go to paypal.com and use our email: [email protected] to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder & Crime In Sports!Follow us on...twitter.com/@murdersmallfacebook.com/smalltownpodinstagram.com/smalltownmurderAlso, check out James & Jimmie's other show, Crime In Sports! On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Wondery, Wondery+, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What is the context of the Elkland, Missouri murders?
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Chapter 2: Why is the Buckner family overwhelmed with farm responsibilities?
Semen salesman.
That's me. I sell semen right there. But the residents of the town say basically this meant that everything fell on 14-year-old Kirk's shoulders. We'll talk about his wife and Kirk's mom, but at the same time, the other kids are kind of too young to really –
eight is the oldest kid that's eight is a terrible employee they're awful they're just not good at shit you know never mind child labor for morality reasons also they're just bad at it they're just not good at farming didn't they have one older than eight they have 14 kirk is the 14 year old so everything falls on kirk's shoulders because yeah because the other any help no the other ones are too young and we'll talk about mom in a minute here
But they say so. Not only that, Steve is also he operates a business that artificially inseminates cows. So, OK, he'll sell you semen.
Yeah.
And you can artificially inseminate the cows. And he also replenishes storage tanks on nearby farms with liquid nitrogen that's used to keep bull semen cold. This guy knows his fucking jizz, man. His farm jizz. He could write an encyclopedia of farm jizz, this guy.
And the temperature with which to keep it fresh.
Yeah. He knows everything. He is the fucking jizz sage over here. That's him. So Kirk, like we say, the 14-year-old, things fall on him. He's a freshman at Marshfield High School. He's entered calves in the local fair, stuff like that. He's a farm boy. He's a little farm kid. He almost drowned two years earlier in 1985 in a local pond.
His friend Bill Shoemaker ended up getting a medal from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for saving him and pulling him out of the water.
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Chapter 3: How did the tragic events of September 25, 1987 unfold?
I think so, wasn't he?
I don't fucking remember.
Yeah, because I can see Leonardo DiCaprio calling him Gilbert.
Yes, yeah, that's right, Gilbert. And I remember my grandmother being very sad and then being very happy when she saw Titanic because she said, oh, mother boy, he's not, he's okay. She doesn't understand, she didn't understand acting and she thought he was really, yeah. Pretty good at it. Yeah, she was so happy when she saw Titanic. That's the boy. I'm so happy.
He was a handsome young boy and he had the problems.
I remember him saying Gilbert though, saying the B with his top teeth on the bottom lip, not Gilbert. When he was sad, I hated it.
So the cardicle goes on to say two piles of garbage lay just outside the door. Candy wrappers and old boots were strewn out in front under a five-foot maple tree where a ramshackle ladder of two-by-fours had been nailed to the trunk. Here's a quote from an Elkland resident. Quote, she weighed 300 pounds and never took a bath. Then he said, quote, don't quote me by name. I've got to live here.
That's what he said to the newspaper. Never took a bath. That's the main problem.
She's a pig.
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Chapter 4: Who were the victims found in the Buckner and Schnick homes?
He doesn't even live here. Nope. 14-year-old Kirk. He'd been shot three times, Kirk, in the chest, neck, and back, and he'd been stabbed twice.
What the fuck?
Kirk is very dead. A .22 caliber revolver is found in Kirk's right hand as he lay there dead.
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Chapter 5: What is the aftermath and investigation following the murders?
Can't be.
So the news media hears about this slaughter at two farms. They go bonkers. I mean, fucking bonkers, man. It's a lot. So this is how they think it went down based on everything and based on what Jim Schnick told them and based on what the scenes tell them here. They seem to think the boy just snapped Kirk. He snapped. He couldn't take it anymore. He said, fuck it. I'm done. Killed his mother.
They think first outside, then went in and killed his two brothers, then his little brother. And then Steve, they think somehow was either coming home from something or about to leave to go somewhere. And he went out and shot him in the truck, drove the truck to the cemetery, dumped him off there. That's what they think, which is about three miles away.
Then he had driven to the schnick farm with his dad's truck covered in blood and killed his aunt. And before he got to the kids or anything else, they think that Jim, because Jim said that he was unaware that anything was going on in the house. He came in from his morning milking. And took off his boots.
Yeah.
And sees what was going on. It was just before 6 a.m. It was dark in the house. Yeah. And apparently Kirk came up and fired at him.
Yeah.
And that's when he said that hit him in the leg. And so he got a hole. He stumbled into the kitchen because it's small, grabbed a knife and just lunged at Kirk from a close range and stabbed him in the chest, which actually pierced his heart. Thank you.
Thank you.
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