Shelbina, MO – Missouri State Senator Cindy O’Laughlin, Senate President Pro Tem, faces grave accusations of abusing her power in an alleged break-in at the Shelby County Historical Society Museum in Shelbina. A Facebook post from the Society, dated March 25, 2025, claims O’Laughlin and Kathleen Wilham busted locks and dismantled the museum’s security system on March 22, an act of audacity from a high-ranking official that has yet to see accountability. While O’Laughlin isn’t pictured in the photo accompanying the post, a commenter, Lea Ann Oliver Robertson, asserts she was present, intensifying scrutiny on the senator’s role in this developing scandal.
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The Shelby County Historical Society’s post lays out a sequence of events that spotlight O’Laughlin’s alleged overreach. Three weeks prior, Wilham reportedly sanctioned the removal of museum items without notifying other members, sending a full trailer load of holdings to one neighboring county society and at least ten boxes of “very valuable” artifacts to another. The Society responded by changing the locks and closing the museum until a new board could be elected, a desperate bid to protect their collection. Yet, on March 22, the post alleges O’Laughlin and Wilham “had the new locks busted” ...
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