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Hello, everyone, This is James, host of Dakota Spotlight podcast, and I have a bonus episode to share with you today. It's a single episode story. Today is November 16, 2019. A lot of you are waiting patiently for season two, the untold story of the 1976 murders of Wade and Ellen Zick of Zeeland, North Dakota.

I truly appreciate your patience, and I thought in the interim I would share with you

another story which I produced a couple years ago for a different podcast.

I hope you enjoy it.

Rest assured, though, that I am working very hard on season two.

In fact, let me relate to you something that will demonstrate exactly how deeply involved

I've become in this Zeeland story.

A few days after Wade and Ellen Zick were murdered in July of 1976, a farmer was doing some

mowing in a ditch near the intersection of highways 12 and 83 near Selby, South Dakota.

While working his machinery, he thought he saw something lying on the ground, not a pop bottle or a can,

something else. So he stopped, and he took a closer look.

He picked up a brown or gold-colored wallet.

There was no money in it, although there were several photographs of children,

those small school photos that so many parents and grandparents often carry with them.

There was also some identification.

The name was Mrs. Ellen M. Zick.

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