Bardstown - Revisited (Part One: Officer Jason Ellis)

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 10 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the early morning hours of May 25th, 2013, an officer in the small town of Bardstown, Kentucky was headed home.

That officer - Jason Ellis - was a Cincinnati native who had moved to the region a little less than ten years prior. He was married, with two sons, and had left behind his childhood dreams of becoming a professional baseball player to become a member of law enforcement.

But before Officer Ellis could make it home, he was murdered in cold blood - the victim of an ambush, just minutes from his home. To this day, it remains unknown who targeted Jason Ellis... or why.

This is the first part of a new Unresolved series, Bardstown - Revisited. I originally covered Jason's story back in January of 2016, but have gone back and added in new information, rerecorded everything, and changed things significantly.

Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan

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Music Credits

Sergey Cheremisinov - "Sleepwalker I"

Lee Rosevere - "Morning Mist"

Scott Holmes - "Old Oak Tree"

how the night came - "III - H3PO4"

Kai Engel - "Silence"

Graham Bole - "Rhubarb (Cover)"

Vitus Von Degen - "Pieta"

Alan Spiljak - "Clouds"

Alan Spiljak - "Something Wonderful"

Graham Bole - "Nae Shaam"

Other music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

Transcript

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0:37.6	Bardstown Kentucky has a deep history dating back to the year 1780. European Americans settled
0:44.7	this area during their westward expansion and Bardstown became the second oldest town in Kentucky's
0:50.5	state history. A quick internet search will enlighten you to the town's many claims to fame,
0:55.7	including story visits from US President Abraham Lincoln, the outlaw Jesse James, and the legendary
1:02.6	Frontiersman Daniel Boone. Much more recently, Bardstown has won a handful of awards complimenting
1:08.7	the beauty and grandeur of the small town. Rand, McNally and other destination contemporaries have
1:14.6	voted Bardstown as the most beautiful small town in America on more than one occasion. The town
1:20.4	has been made famous for one reason or another since its inception, but in the past few years,
1:26.2	a more grimy, unsettling story has begun to write itself in the history book of Bardstown.
1:32.0	Unfortunately, the story doesn't have a clear cut ending and there really isn't anything
1:36.8	resembling a conclusion to this story, but there's no better or worse place to start the story
1:43.4	than on the fateful day of May 24th, 2013.
1:58.6	Welcome to Unresolved. I am your host, Michael Weelon. If you have followed along with the
2:04.3	podcast for a while now, you'll recognize this story as being one I've already covered,
2:09.4	all the way back in February of 2016. The entire Bardstown saga was one that I covered in the
2:15.3	early days of this podcast, but for a while now, I've really wanted to go back and add in some
2:20.8	new information, in addition to fixing some things and re-recording everything. So over the next
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