Town note
Guide Rock was named after a prominent rock bluff which they called Bluff Parher, a French name.
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FILE 128 / 18 July 2019 / 136 MIN / full
"This is Guide Rock, Nebraska... it's in south-central Nebraska, right on the border to Kansas down there" about 0:05:04
Guide Rock was named after a prominent rock bluff which they called Bluff Parher, a French name.
about 0:09:21The bluff was an important landmark to early trappers and to the Pawnee Indians in the area.
about 0:09:34The town itself was first settled in about 1870.
about 0:09:48It was named after a French trapper who saw the bluff and used it as a guide.
about 0:09:57Guide Rock was named after a prominent rock bluff which they called Bluff Parher, a French name.
about 0:09:21The bluff was an important landmark to early trappers and to the Pawnee Indians in the area.
about 0:09:34The town itself was first settled in about 1870.
about 0:09:48It was named after a French trapper who saw the bluff and used it as a guide.
about 0:09:57The city council voted between Guide Rock and Spotted Tail as the name for the town, and it was a 6-6 deadlock.
about 0:10:59The secretary, George Simpson, cast the deciding vote in favour of Red Cloud, so Guide Rock became a different town.
about 0:11:06The railroad came through Guide Rock between 1881 and 1882.
about 0:12:36A settler family who arrived around 1871 built a cabin on the homestead from walnut logs hewn and notched with an axe, with the cracks plastered with sand and lime; snow still drifted onto their beds through the walls.
about 0:13:36That first cabin was still standing a century later, after a second and third house had been built on the same hill.
about 0:14:03In the fall the family made sorghum molasses by pressing juice from cane and boiling it in large open kettles; cornbread, molasses and meat or game was the common diet.
about 0:15:18Droughts, bugs and grasshoppers were ever-present threats to the early settlers.
about 0:15:51Later, larger farms came in and the farm population decreased as farms were consolidated, and the town has shrunk ever since.
about 0:16:05Many people in the county drive about 40 miles to Hastings, Nebraska, where the jobs are.
about 0:16:38Webster County is represented by the licence plate prefix 45 because it had the 45th largest number of vehicles registered when the system was established in 1922.
about 0:17:14Webster County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level greater than 4 pCi/L, which is the highest potential level.
about 0:17:49about 72%
Biggest faith: Protestant share, over 50%
about 0:22:13White about 200 out of 215 · Hispanic 11
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
▼ just low
Violent crime
▼ just low
Registered sex offenders
five
Residents per registered sex offender
41 to one
Deaths per 1,000 residents
number 37 on the list of top 101 counties in America
Two-bedroom, one-bath house, 1,420 square feet
about 0:25:18Three-bedroom, one-bath house, 1,296 square feet
about 0:25:59Four-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath house, 1,738 square feet
about 0:26:09".50 square mile"
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"690"
Comparison: "1930". No direction stated.
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"215"
Comparison: "down 13% since 2000". Direction: below.
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"35%"
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"28%"
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"about 40"
Comparison: "a little older than the average". Direction: above.
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"52%"
Comparison: "111 males and 102 females". No direction stated.
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"about 41%"
Comparison: "50-50 is the normal". No direction stated.
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"double"
Comparison: "normal". Direction: above.
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"double"
Comparison: "normal". Direction: above.
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"about 200 out of 215"
Comparison: "93% or so". No direction stated.
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"11"
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"three"
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"two"
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"about 72%"
Comparison: "a lot for this area". No direction stated.
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"over 50%"
Direction: above.
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"about 20%"
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"78%"
Comparison: "last presidential election". No direction stated.
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"18%"
Comparison: "last presidential election". No direction stated.
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"2.9%"
Comparison: "unhealthily low". Direction: below.
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"$37,128"
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"about $58,000"
Comparison: "average for the rest of the country". No direction stated.
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"33%"
Comparison: "a third of the population". Direction: below.
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"34%"
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"19%"
Comparison: "usually about 1%". No direction stated.
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"15%"
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"about 77"
Comparison: "100 is the average". Direction: below.
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"$22,975"
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"about $507"
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"$7,000"
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"$53,000"
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"$30,000"
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"just low"
Direction: below.
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"just low"
Direction: below.
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"five"
Comparison: "41 to one ratio". No direction stated.
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"41 to one"
Comparison: "205 to one last week". No direction stated.
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"well above the state average"
Comparison: "Nebraska state average". Direction: above.
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"significantly older"
Comparison: "Nebraska state average". Direction: above.
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"number five in Nebraska, number 59 on the list of top 100 cities"
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"number 37 on the list of top 101 counties in America"
Comparison: "2007 to 2013". No direction stated.
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From 1997 onwards she built a long criminal record of theft, receiving stolen property, forgery, bad cheques, identity theft and prescription fraud, mostly around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Davidson County, Tennessee.
Ronald's mother, Virginia Barone, 68, lived one house over.
They eventually reached Guide Rock and went to their separate houses.
She admitted going to Marihue's house and taking several items, and leaving town in Virginia's Pontiac.
By then the pair had begun spending Virginia's money. During the day they used the card at Walmarts in Hastings, Grand Island and York, taking more than $2,000 in purchases and cash back. At 1:30 p.m. they sold a television, a video game system with 13 games and a guitar amp at a pawn shop in Grand Island for $309.
At 7:40 p.m. they were stopped for a traffic violation on Interstate 80 near Plattsmouth, Nebraska. A state patrolman escorted them to the Fitzgerald Hotel around midnight, where they paid cash. The next morning staff found cigarettes burning on the carpet and the room in disarray, collected the receipts they had left behind and called the police. The manager also said they had walked south with their bags. About ten minutes later an older Jeep with the keys still in it was reported stolen from the Dollar General down the street.
Meanwhile Trevor Marihue had returned home at about 9:30 p.m. to find his house burgled: his television, game system and 13 games, two laptops, two guitars and a guitar amp were gone. The following morning a neighbour asked for a welfare check at Virginia Barone's house. A sheriff's deputy found her car missing, her telephone ripped out and lying in the driveway, and possessions scattered about. Inside, furniture was broken and knocked over, and a trail of blood led into a back room, where Virginia's body lay under a pile of assorted boards. She had multiple stab wounds, cuts on her fingers consistent with defensive wounds, and blood droplets on her face. The autopsy found 22 stab wounds, ranging from half an inch to eight and a half inches deep, 20 to the chest, torso and stomach and two to the back. Seven wounds angled downward and 13 upward, suggesting more than one knife or grip. The cause of death was stab wounds and blood loss.
The stolen Jeep contained a bag with Marihue's name on it, two laptops, a guitar and a knife with a four-inch blade in the glove box. At booking both had cuts and bruises.
She said she threw the knife into a cornfield. She said she had been under the influence of prescription drugs during the earlier interview.
Prosecutors assured the judge that life meant his entire natural life. The appellate court rejected each ground: the evidence was sufficient, the letter was properly authenticated, the knife objection had been waived and the knife was plainly relevant, and the instructions were correct.
Ronald Jemalowski still lives in Guide Rock, with three houses and plenty of open space.
October 2013 / her home in Guide Rock, Nebraska
As told in the episode, on 18 July 2019.
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