

He’d twice received a Governor’s Award and in 2008 was Officer of the Year. By 2013 Jason Ellis had been a police officer for about seven years.
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He’d been a baseball star in college, eventually turning pro and playing for a Cincinnati Reds Minor League club for a few years in the early 2000s.

No one is certain there is a connection aside from location.Įveryone wants to know what the hell is going on.īardstown Police Officer Jason Ellis, May 25, 2013 Victims include a Bardstown police officer, an elementary school special education teacher, and her teenage daughter. There has been a string of unsolved murders and an unsolved disappearance in Nelson County. There were about 6600 residents then, and even if the county seat for Nelson County sometimes felt for just a moment like the setting for a folksy episode of the Twilight Zone-one where all the good townsfolk are revealed as malevolent robots in the final act, or cultists searching for a sacrifice-there was no real sense of danger.īardstown today has more than doubled in population, and the shadows have grown deeper.

All towns and cities have shadows, but when I lived there from May to September 1990 as a cast member in The Stephen Foster Story, I didn’t see many. At first, it’s as if the wind carrying the scent from the distilleries lining the town perimeter makes you a little high. When the sweet smell of bourbon fills the air, you know you’ve arrived. A “Welcome to Bardstown” sign is unnecessary, though. A new visitor from the city-Nashville to the south or Louisville to the north-might be forgiven for thinking they’re driving into nowhere. Trees crowd both sides of the road, lush green walls that grow denser as you go. In the summer, the drive from I-65 into Bardstown, Kentucky is beautiful.
