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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Five unsolved murders in 'The Most Beautiful Small Town in America,' Bardstown

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Since 2013, there have been four murders and one disappearance in a small Kentucky town. The person who disappeared is presumed dead. Nancy Grace goes in-depth with the producer and co-host of the podcast "Bardstown," Jessica Noll. Investigative reporter Shay McAlister of WHAS reveals a new release of all their collective information and evidence in these cases.

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:21.3

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0:29.5

Thank you, azurestandard, for being our partner.

0:36.9

What the hay is going on in Bardstown? I'm telling you, people drop light flies there. How can it

0:43.6

still be on salt? I don't understand this. And here's another conundrum. Typically, you find serial

0:52.5

killers use the same M.A. motor-support and I-motive operation. But here, the murders are entirely

0:59.7

different. Is it the same person? If it's not the same person, how many killers are in this small

1:07.3

town? And how is it? They've never been caught.

1:11.6

I'm Shane McAllister. I'm a reporter at WHAS-11 in Louisville. I want to tell you a story about

1:30.7

a town in Kentucky, a beautiful, close-knit town where some truly horrible things have happened.

1:36.0

I know everybody, so it's hard to also to think that somebody here in my town could

1:41.3

would do such a thing. A police officer with a wife and two young sons, a teacher and her teenage

1:47.6

daughter, a 35-year-old mother, an 18 months later, her father, four of them murdered, one of the missing,

1:56.4

considered dead. All of the cases are unsolved. It makes me fearful to even speak of it, so that kind

2:04.6

of gives you a little insight. We'll tell you about those victims and not only how they died,

2:10.0

but how they lived. And delvin to the lives turned upside down by these horrific crimes.

2:15.9

Growing up here and dealing with everything that's going on now, it's like I'm surprised

2:20.4

it's town's even standing. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. You

2:24.7

were just hearing Shane McAllister investigative reporter to H-A-S-Luval. Also with me right now,

2:30.8

Jessica Nolvestka, the journalist podcast producer with Vault Studios, they have dug in and managed

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