206. Looks Like An Execution At Exit 34 - The Unsolved Killing Of Officer Jason Ellis
In the early morning of May 13, 2013, 33 year-old Bardstown Kentucky police officer Jason Ellis, just weeks away from his seventh anniversary on the job, was heading home after a late night of arrests and subsequent paperwork. Ellis took Exit 34 off the Bluegrass Parkway, headed for his home in nearby Bloomfield, when he encountered tree limbs blocking the exit ramp. He turned his car to block the ramp to prevent other drivers from hitting the debris, and suddenly, with an armful of the limbs in his arms, he was shot four times – in the side, neck, arm and head – with what authorities later determined to be 12-gauge shotgun rounds. He died at the scene. Ellis was probably the most beloved officer in the Bardstown PD – he left behind a wife and two young sons. Primarily assigned to the K-9 unit, Ellis’ K-9 partner – a German Shepard named Figo – was not with him as he drove home that night. It was a photograph of Figo putting his paw on his partner’s casket at Jason Ellis’ funeral that captured the attention of the nation and the world. But neither Ellis’ family or Figo (who died in 2017) – or anyone – has yet to see justice. For the snipers who clearly staged this assassination have never been caught. Join Melissa as she goes through all the facts and theories surrounding this mysterious unsolved killing – including rumors and suspicions that Ellis’ murder was connected to five other murders in the Bardstown area in the years before and after his death – including an alleged connection to something called the “Cornbread Mafia” – we kid you not. Listen and find out if you might be able to provide a clue that leads to the answer in this tragic murder.