Town file
Skidmore, Missouri
Skidmore, Missouri (Nottaway County, Missouri) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 625, "Murders & Miracles" (28 August 2025).
- Town
- Skidmore
- County
- Nottaway County
- State
- Missouri
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 625
- Approximate location
- 40.288, -95.080
Episode 625 / 28 August 2025 / 180 min / full
Murders & Miracles
"We are going to Skidmore, Missouri ... this is in northwestern Missouri ... This is in Nottaway County." about 0:04:17
The case: Murder of Bobby Joe Stanet (December 16, 2004). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2025
- Population
- 250
- Median age
- 48
- Median household income
- $56,667 per year
- Median home value
- $121,700
- Two-bedroom rent
- about $790 per month
- Cost of living
- 77
- Religious
- 53.6%
- Property crime
- ▲ slightly above
- Violent crime
- ▼ about one third over
History, in brief
- In 1981 Ken McElroy was shot to death with at least two different guns while sitting in his truck in front of the tavern in Skidmore; fifty people saw it and all denied seeing anything, his wife identified one of the gunmen, and two grand juries declined to indict. about 0:05:49
- In October 2000 Gregory Dragoo beat and dragged his girlfriend Wendy Gillenwater down several country roads outside Skidmore, killing her; her body was found outside her home and he was convicted of second degree murder and got life without parole. about 0:06:27
- In 2001 Branson Perry vanished from his home in Skidmore; his grandmother found the door unlocked and the house deserted, about a hundred people were interviewed over the following month and a half, and the case is still unsolved. about 0:06:47
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Maryville, Missouri12 miles
- Rulo, Nebraska25 miles
- Shenandoah, Iowa36 miles
- Atchison, Kansas50 miles
- Cameron, Missouri58 miles
- Oskaloosa, Kansas75 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.