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Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

Bardstown (Part Two: "America's Most Beautiful Small Town")

Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.5190 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After the murder of Officer Jason Ellis, the relatively small area of Bardstown, Kentucky was on-edge. However, their fears were not soothed with the introduction of a troubled group of young men, who called themselves the "Bardstown Money Gang." In the following years, a woman and her teenage daughter - named Kathy and Samantha Netherland - were mysterious found murdered in their own home. And with the backdrop of these prior tragedies - the veil of police corruption looming around the town - a young mother went missing, showing that one of America's most beautiful small towns had some ugly truths to face. 

Part two of two.

 

Written and hosted by Micheal Whelan 

Music and production by T. Nordgren 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome once again to the Unresolved Podcast, a podcast all about looking at stories

0:25.4

that have no ending.

0:26.8

I'm your host, Michael Wheelan, and this episode is part two of my look at Bard's Town,

0:31.5

Kentucky.

0:33.5

This is an incredibly tragic story following the murder of police officer Jason Ellis

0:39.2

just off of exit 34 on May 25th, 2013.

0:44.4

If you recall, on the last episode we left off immediately following Jason's murder,

0:49.3

and the investigation had just begun.

0:51.8

It did by the Kentucky State Police Force, the investigation soon hit a brick wall,

0:56.2

but that didn't stop weird events from occurring over the next couple of years.

1:00.6

Events which have left people questioning everything they once knew about Bard's Town.

1:04.9

So now, without wasting any more time, here we go, into the odd tale of Bard's Town,

1:10.3

Kentucky.

1:22.6

The investigation into finding Jason's killer, or killers, was looking at any and every

1:37.0

possible avenue for a lead.

1:39.8

With no eyewitnesses or murder weapon to go off of, the investigation had to lean on a juicy

1:45.2

$200,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, most of which was raised in a fun

1:51.0

raising format by citizens of Bard's Town.

1:53.4

It is, by most standards, the largest reward in Kentucky history.

1:59.0

Despite having no leads to go off of, the investigators were certain that at least two

2:03.6

people had been at the crime scene, based off of information that they still haven't

2:07.6

released to the public.

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