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Unsolved: Missing in the Mountains | Ep. 7

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VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Six-year-old Kelly Hollan Jr. went outside to play on Feb. 12, 1982, and never came home. Detectives do not think they will ever find Kelly, but his mother believes he is still out there. Shay McAlister covered the case for WHAS 11 in Louisville and shares what she learned with co-host Madison Wade. If you have any information about the disappearance of Kelly Hollan Jr., please call Kentucky State Police Post 13 at (606) 435-6069. To learn more about this case, visit: https://www.whas11.com/article/news/crime/unsolved/unsolved-missing-in-the-mountains/417-609722295 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is of all studios production.

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Every unsolved case leaves a vacuum of unanswered questions, and that's especially true when

0:11.6

a child is at the center of the investigation.

0:14.2

Tonight, R. Shay McCallister and the unsolved team take you to Hazard Kintucky, where a six

0:19.1

year old boy...

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Back in 2018, I covered a decades old unsolved case from the city of Hazard in the mountains

0:25.7

of Eastern Kintucky.

0:27.7

The whole country, about 200 miles away from my home in Louisville.

0:33.7

It's about a three and a half hour drive, and when I finally got there, I met up with

0:37.6

a master trooper with the Kintucky State Police.

0:40.5

Trooper, master trooper, Jody Sims with Kintucky State Police, post-13, and Hazard.

0:45.7

Trooper Sims had agreed to show me around the city, which calls itself the Queen City of

0:49.9

the Mountains.

0:50.9

It's a tiny community by Louisville standards, but up in this part of the state with a population

0:56.0

of around 5,000, it's the biggest city around.

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A cluster of buildings and houses zigzagging out from a main street, and then slowly disappearing

1:05.2

into a seemingly endless expanse of rolling green mountains on all sides.

1:10.2

It's extremely rural, rough terrain.

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You have steep mountains all around you.

1:17.0

Neral, dirt, gravel roadway, creeks.

1:21.5

It's just very, it's a very rough terrain.

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Trooper Sims led me out of town, up into the mountains, to a remote hollow about 30 miles

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