ken mc elroy is who this case must have been based on. he was murdered in miss, in 1981. i knew while watching this that this story seemed familiar.it has been covered by real life mystery programs except no one was convicted in that case.
shareThere are a lot. One was "R. W. Collins" who stole money and parachuted out of a plane. Any resemblance to D. B. Cooper? And then there was one about a foreign leader who came to the USA for hospital treatment, kinda like the Shah of Iran?
shareI did not like this episode but figured they were in the last season so a lot of "just get it done" attitude as the ideas were running out. Quincy is way too locked in on "the guy had money" once he talked to the deceased's girlfriend. !0,000 dollars in 1982 is enough for a bully to hang up his brass knuckles? And the episode shows near the beginning that the bully forces his way into stores including cash registers getting the audience to sympathize with his victims? And yet Quincy has full doubt on this? What part of enough is never enough to such low life's does Quincy not understand. And to top it off once the murderer is revealed (Charles Aidman's TV wife) she tears off on some tangent about how the bully inspires primal lust in her and she was jealous that the bully lusted after a bigger dummy than she was. Quincy had to always be the shining example of virtue but here it would have been good to have Quincy have personal feelings in terms that the townspeople were justified and perhaps Quincy overlooks something that would have flushed out the killer. The closing scene should have been Quincy alone questioning his actions that he could not have both justice for the bully AND the townspeople. That his personal feelings were the ones that set the verdict instead of the courts. Even at its most moralisitic the show usually hit its target but here the whole effort is a miss.
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