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Obscura: A True Crime Podcast

MURDERED: Cayler Ellingson | McHenry, ND 2022

Obscura: A True Crime Podcast

Justin Drown

History, News, Society & Culture, True Crime, Personal Journals, Documentary

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Cayler Ellingson fell to fate beneath North Dakota wheels, leaving ripples across McHenry’s pastoral lands.

Cayler Ellingson, 18, effused vibrancy, quintessentially teenage in his search for horizons, dreams boundless as sky. His trajectory, caught suddenly, stilled amidst the autumnal passage of 2022.

September 18 found Ellingson's life halted, undertaken violently in McHenry, ND. An avoidable end saddled in unable wheels and echoing radio interference, becoming ghastly render known by few.

Investigation skirmished with sparse fragments, drawing patterns from hushed and half-revealed testaments. The justice sought relied heavily on mirrored accounts reflective only through reviewed choreography.

As courtrooms staged the case, the community-centered resolve surfaced through formal denouncements. Restorative reflection demonstrated lessons learned, won within quiet pursuit of shared grief’s evolution.

This episode features police radio exchanges and courtroom proceedings. Listener discretion advised.

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1:42.1

Welcome to Obscura, where we shine a light on the dark. Oh, So, September 18th, 2022, North Dakota. State radio receives a 911 call. 9-1-1-1-1-1, what is your emergency?

1:44.8

Hello, my name is Shannon Brand.

1:47.6

I'm in McHenry, North Dakota.

1:51.2

The thing is, is that I hit a man with my vehicle. I need an ambulance here immediately.

1:56.0

Okay, you hit a person with your vehicle?

1:59.0

Yes.

2:00.0

Okay, I got you on 104th Avenue on Highway 1 and 12th Street, is that sound right?

2:05.0

You know what, I'm sorry in these small areas, I don't know the street numbers, but do you need me to stay on the lines where you can trace me or whatever?

2:15.8

I'm working on that right now.

2:16.8

You need to get here immediately.

2:18.3

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, you just come here.

2:21.0

Yep, we're gonna, we're working on that right now.

2:23.0

Okay.

2:25.0

Is he conscious and breathing?

2:28.0

Um, hold on a minute here.

2:31.0

I had to walk away to get some signal here so I could talk to you.

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