Town note
Residents named the town in honour of Chief Logan, of the Mingo tribe, who was known as Logan the Orator.
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FILE 108 / 28 February 2019 / 139 MIN / full
James says 'We're going to Logan, Ohio here. It's in South Central Ohio... almost an hour outside of Columbus' and 'it's in Hocking County' about 0:04:38
Residents named the town in honour of Chief Logan, of the Mingo tribe, who was known as Logan the Orator.
about 0:07:55Chief Logan was a Cayuga born into the Iroquois Confederacy; he moved to the Ohio area in the 1760s and became affiliated with the Mingo.
about 0:08:13Logan took revenge for family members killed by white settlers in Virginia in what became known as the Yellow Creek Massacre, and his actions helped spark the Dunmore War in 1774.
about 0:08:29In 1869 the US government removed the Indians in the area, three tribes, to Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
about 0:10:01Residents named the town in honour of Chief Logan, of the Mingo tribe, who was known as Logan the Orator.
about 0:07:55Chief Logan was a Cayuga born into the Iroquois Confederacy; he moved to the Ohio area in the 1760s and became affiliated with the Mingo.
about 0:08:13Logan took revenge for family members killed by white settlers in Virginia in what became known as the Yellow Creek Massacre, and his actions helped spark the Dunmore War in 1774.
about 0:08:29In 1869 the US government removed the Indians in the area, three tribes, to Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
about 0:10:01In 1881 a band of Cuyugas from Canada joined the Seneca tribe in Oklahoma.
about 0:10:25Shortly before Oklahoma became a state, members of the tribes were given individual land allotments as the government tried to get rid of tribal-owned land and force personal land ownership on them.
about 0:10:34After the war over his massacre, Chief Logan made a speech known as Logan's Lament, and people began calling him the Orator.
about 0:11:22In 1880 Logan had 2,600 residents, three newspaper offices, six churches, two banks, a railroad, manufacturing businesses, and an iron and steel company as big employers.
about 0:11:47In 1882, in a town of 2,500 people, 395 sheep were killed by dogs, with the dead sheep valued at $1,448.
about 0:12:30In the same year 259 sheep were injured, with damage to them of $599, and the collection from the dog tax was $2,710.
about 0:13:13The town's records listed births of 276 white males, 294 white females, 13 black males and six black females.
about 0:13:35The pauperism records listed 47 males and 58 females in the infirmary, 35 males and 41 females admitted during the year, and 40 males and 54 females otherwise supported by the county.
about 0:13:55The cost of keeping the infirmary to the county was $7,205; keeping other paupers cost $3,756.72; all paupers including medical care cost almost $11,000, or $0.17 per pauper per day.
about 0:14:24The records listed 192 deaths, 285 white marriages and seven black marriages, and 350 mortgages recorded for $2.5 million.
about 0:15:17The dog tax at $1 per capita raised $1,681, implying 1,681 dogs; there were also poor, bridge, road, township and sub-district taxes, and the poor tax raised $12,000.
about 0:15:43Personal property in the town included 4,895 horses valued at $283,000, 12,242 cattle, 268 mules, 86,996 sheep, 6,752 hogs, 705 carriages, 658 watches and 415 pianos and organs.
about 0:17:00Coal mining dominated the late 19th century and continued into the 20th, providing most of the jobs in the county.
about 0:18:3025%
Biggest faith: Jewish, 0.0%
about 0:24:09White 95.2% · Black 0.81% · Asian 0.44% · Hispanic 1.61%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
▲ double the average
Violent crime
▼ about 10% under the average
Listing: three bedroom, two bath, 1,200 sq ft, a little rundown
about 0:27:42Listing: three bedroom, two bath, 1,893 sq ft, needs a paint job, separate garage and big front porch
about 0:28:04Listing: six bedroom, two bath, 2,518 sq ft, vinyl siding
about 0:28:27"7,030"
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"up 6%"
Direction: above.
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"39.6"
Comparison: "about two years older than normal". Direction: above.
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"almost 54%"
Comparison: "way out of whack". No direction stated.
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"a little less than normal"
Comparison: "normal". Direction: below.
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"less than normal"
Comparison: "normal". Direction: below.
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"a little bit higher"
Comparison: "normal". Direction: above.
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"higher"
Comparison: "normal". Direction: above.
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"95.2%"
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"0.81%"
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"0.44%"
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"1.61%"
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"25%"
Comparison: "half the norm; usually 50%". Direction: below.
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"0.0%"
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"0.0%"
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"29%"
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"66%"
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"about 5%"
Comparison: "a little high; about 4%, or 3.9%, in the country". Direction: above.
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"$35,000"
Comparison: "normal in the country is about $54,000". No direction stated.
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"22.5%"
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"$89,000"
Comparison: "the normal average is $100,000". Direction: below.
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"65 out of 100"
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"$121,700"
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"about half the houses"
Direction: below.
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"$830"
Comparison: "seems high for the cost of living". Direction: above.
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"$36,000"
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"$99,900"
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"$199,900"
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"double the average"
Comparison: "national average". Direction: above.
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"about 10% under the average"
Comparison: "national average". Direction: below.
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2.0 / 5 · average of 1
“Logan is a lot like a lot of other small towns, with a small-town family feel where everyone knows everyone, but there is a lot of drugs, it seems like every other person is involved in drugs or crime, everyone has at least one relative addicted to something, and it is narrow-minded, sheltered and lacking diversity.”about 0:21:56
Bill and Sandy had been together since 1983. Bill was a would-be preacher who hung around the Faith Tabernacle Church in Logan, played the piano and guitar there, and in 2004 converted the garage of the family home into a church. Nobody came.
Bill got a minister's licence, which was later permanently revoked, and set up something he called Mercy Ranch, a home where he said he would minister to orphans, widows and the homeless. It did not work, and few people stayed.
Summer, 25 with three small children, felt controlled and wrote in her diary that she was losing her sense of self and felt like a slave. Summer and Adam became a couple.
In December 2010 Summer came to the Inman house with Adam and a deputy sheriff to collect her belongings, because the house was being foreclosed on. Bill asked that Adam wait at the end of the driveway; the deputy refused. Bill threatened to shoot Adam, then to beat him, and ended up wrestling the deputy. The Inmans were distraught at losing the grandchildren; friends said Bill and Sandy lost weight, looked haggard and took less care of themselves.
Summer moved in with her mother, Debbie Cook, and her stepfather. On 18 March 2011 Bill bought a white 2003 Ford Crown Victoria from Majestic Motors in Akron, a former Streetsboro police car with the rear passenger locks disabled and police fittings still in it. On the evening of 22 March 2011 Summer went to clean the Century National Bank in Logan. Shortly after 11 p.m. three masked people stun-gunned her in the bank car park and forced her into a white car. Summer's father Michael Cook and her mother called 911 and drove to the bank, finding her coat and iPod on the ground. Witnesses said a blonde woman was in the front seat and two men put Summer into the back. Police took nearly an hour to arrive. The next day 400 people held a vigil and sang Amazing Grace.
Colton Kilkenny saw a white police-style car at Faith Tabernacle Church on Route 33 in Nelsonville around 11.30 p.m.; Crystal Farris also saw it, with two men outside and a blonde or red-headed woman in the front. The car had no fingerprints inside. The GPS and phone records put the Inmans in Logan at 5.45 p.m. on 22 March; the GPS was in Logan until 8.07 p.m., was off until 11.46 p.m. in Nelsonville, then travelled north through McConnellsville, Zanesville, Interstate 70 and Interstate 77 to the Cleveland-Akron area, stopping at the Blue Sonic Car Wash in Seven Hills. The Inmans admitted travelling together that night with the GPS, but said they were never in Logan.
She said the abduction was her idea, so that she could beg Summer for weekend visits with the grandchildren. He then put a zip tie around her neck. Officers opened it and found two feet sticking out of the sludge. Summer was fully clothed, still wearing the black T-shirt that said 'I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem', her hair in a ponytail and her purse on her arm. The autopsy found ligature strangulation; the zip tie was so tight that the coroner had to wedge wire cutters under it. She had not inhaled sewage, so she was dead before she went in. She was killed between 11 and 11.45 p.m. on 22 March, within about 45 minutes of the abduction, and had bruises from fighting.
A letter from Summer's mother was read in court, describing six-year-old Alex asking how mummy died. He wanted to take the stand but did not. Bill's statement said he regretted his actions. Summer's family remembered her as full of life, like sunshine, flowers and butterflies.
March 22, 2011 / the Century National Bank parking lot in Logan, Ohio; her body was found in a septic tank at Faith Tabernacle Church in Nelsonville
As told in the episode, on 28 February 2019.
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