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Russ Langmore

Russ Langmore (18 September 1972-August 2017) was an American criminal and the patriarch of the Langmore family of Camden County, Missouri. Born in Osage Beach, the son of an abusive US Navy veteran and the brother of Cade and Boyd Langmore, he fathered Wyatt and Three Langmore and became the head of a family frequently involved in criminal dealings such as robberies. Russ had a long record of arrests, including an arrest for soliciting a male prostitute in Jefferson City, and, in 2017, he secretly struck up a relationship with undercover FBI Agent Roy Petty, who had come to the area to investigate the money launderer Marty Byrde, a rival of the Langmores. Petty used the relationship as a ploy to blackmail Langmore, recording him announcing his intent to kill Byrde in a bid to force Langmore to become an informant against his niece Ruth Langmore, who could, in turn, be used as an informant against her employer Byrde. Russ and Boyd were thus forced to plan to kill and rob Byrde and go on the run, but Ruth, fearing implication in Byrde's murder, murdered her uncles by rigging Byrde's dock with electrical wires, causing the two men to electrocute themselves to death as they attempted to climb onto the dock.

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