 He was also an independent mediator and arbitrator.His first book was "In Broad Daylight" (1989), an account of the "vigilante killing" of town bully Ken Rex McElroy in downtown Skidmore, Missouri in 1981.50 people, many of whom had gathered earlier in the day to figure out a way to handle the situation with McElroy if he got off on assault charges from an earlier incident, were said to have been on the street near where McElroy was shot with a high-powered rifle and by a second assailant with a .22.