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Wes Julson

Wes Julson

Father of Michele "Shelly" Julson, a missing person from Bismarck, North Dakota; featured on the Dakota Spotlight true crime podcast and documentary film Call Me Shelly.

Aug 6, 2026

37:03
Mm-hmm.
37:04
And at the casino, I went in and I asked them, I said, "Can I put up some posters on my daughter? She's been missing for a while." "No, you can't do that." More or less escorted me out of there.
37:17
But on the way back to this motel then, there was a highway patrolman sitting on the side of the road, and this was after the WE Fest was getting over, you know? I stopped and I walked up to him, and I had a poster.
37:33
And I said, "Sir," I said, "I was just out at the casino out there and they wouldn't let me put this poster up." And it was a sergeant of the highway patrol in Detroit Lakes there.
37:46
And he looked at me and he looked at the poster and he said, "You go back there and you tell them that I said they should post them." Well, I never did go back 'cause I...
38:00
But I was really amazed at how it affected him even.
38:04
And he, but he told me, he said, "You don't ever wanna come looking for a missing person in WE- in the WE Fest," he said, "'cause you will never find them." And he was honest about it, 'cause there was, what, 30, 40,000 people there or whatever it was.
39:38
I asked Wes Julson what advice does he have for other families of missing persons.

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