1623
Europeans first came to the Rockingham County area in 1623.
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FILE 145 / 14 November 2019 / 163 MIN / full
We're going all the way up to New Hampshire this week... we're going to Freemont, New Hampshire. It's southeastern New Hampshire, kind of a little outside of Manchester. about 0:04:59
Europeans first came to the Rockingham County area in 1623.
about 0:08:46The area's government was linked with Massachusetts until New Hampshire became a separate colony in 1679.
about 0:08:53New Hampshire did not have counties for another hundred years.
about 0:09:03Fremont was settled in the 1720s and was first part of the town of Exeter.
about 0:09:48Europeans first came to the Rockingham County area in 1623.
about 0:08:46The area's government was linked with Massachusetts until New Hampshire became a separate colony in 1679.
about 0:08:53New Hampshire did not have counties for another hundred years.
about 0:09:03Fremont was settled in the 1720s and was first part of the town of Exeter.
about 0:09:48The area was famous for heavy growth of eastern white pine, reserved as mast wood for the British al Navy.
about 0:09:56In 1734 the surveyor general David Dunbar visited the mill to inspect the lumber and local citizens fired shots at him until he left.
about 0:11:07Dunbar returned with ten men and was attacked again; the citizens disguised themselves as Native Americans and the group dispersed to a local tavern.
about 0:11:32The episode was known as the Mast Tree Riot and has a plaque.
about 0:12:35The township was granted in 1764 and the governor named it Poplin.
about 0:12:58Poplin petitioned the legislature in 1853 and became Fremont in 1854, named after General John C. Fremont.
about 0:13:08John C. Fremont was the first candidate of the Republican Party in the presidential election of 1856.
about 0:13:43The town has a meeting house built in 1800 that is still in perfect condition and is on the national register of historic places.
about 0:14:20Fremont was once home to the largest brickyard in the state, producing five million bricks a year.
about 0:14:35Spalding and Frost Cooperage, established in 1874, is one of the oldest operating wooden barrel manufacturers in the country.
about 0:15:24In 1976 Spalding and Frost Cooperage built the largest barrel in the world, 15 feet high and ten feet wide.
about 0:16:22In 1998 the Red Hook brewery in Portsmouth built a barrel 17 feet high and eight feet wide.
about 0:17:1139%
Biggest faith: Catholic residents, 29%
about 0:25:17White 96.3% · Asian 1.8% · Black 0.0% · Hispanic 1.1%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
▼ less than half
Violent crime
▼ about half
Three-bedroom, two-bath manufactured home, 1,404 sq ft
about 0:28:13Three-bedroom, two-bath house, 1,568 sq ft
about 0:28:25Four-bedroom, three-bath house, 2,700 sq ft on Lovers Lane
about 0:28:45"less than half"
Comparison: "the national average". Direction: below.
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"about half"
Comparison: "the national average". Direction: below.
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"4,580"
Comparison: "up 78% since 1990". Direction: above.
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"about 45 and a half"
Direction: below.
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"67%"
Comparison: "usually 50-50". No direction stated.
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"3.2%"
Comparison: "usually 10%". No direction stated.
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"96.3%"
No direction stated.
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"1.8%"
No direction stated.
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"0.0%"
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"1.1%"
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"2.7%"
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"44%"
Comparison: "last election". No direction stated.
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"50%"
Comparison: "last election". No direction stated.
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"6%"
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"39%"
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"29%"
No direction stated.
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"0.3%"
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"0.0%"
No direction stated.
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"$90,709"
Comparison: "$57,000 in the rest of the country". No direction stated.
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"13%"
Comparison: "double the national average". Direction: above.
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"122"
Comparison: "100 is the average". Direction: above.
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"$295,900"
No direction stated.
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"34%"
Comparison: "usually like 10%". No direction stated.
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"about 45%"
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"11%"
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"about $2,040"
Comparison: "$1,200 average". No direction stated.
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"$134,000"
No direction stated.
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"$299,000"
No direction stated.
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"$469,900"
No direction stated.
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3.3 / 5 · average of 3
“There are rare acts of vandalism such as breaking mailboxes, but the police officers are responsive; the neighbourhood kids speed past the house and the area is dark, though most neighbours keep outside lights on.”about 0:17:58
“People either want nothing to do with you or the local housewife needs to know everything about you so she can have her afternoon tea with a side of drama.”about 0:21:23
“Crime is not really a thing in Fremont, and nothing like Englewood, where you would hear gunshots every night.”about 0:22:18
His girlfriend, Maria Zarate, was the mother of two of his children. Also living in the house was Joanna Kozak, 38, who watched the children, answered the phone and did odd jobs in exchange for room and board.
Kozak had arrived from Virginia as a fugitive.
He told Zarate that Kozak had packed her belongings and run off during the ride because she was a fugitive and thought the police were closing in. He then told her that he had killed Kozak. According to Zarate, he said he had done it for his family, his business, himself and her.
The story he told was that he had taken Kozak to an isolated corner of Scribner cemetery in Raymond, the next town, where they had sex. He asked her to lie face down, handcuffed her hands behind her back, pulled down her stockings so that she could not stand, and beat her about the back of the head with a bar from a weight set. He pressed the bar against her throat and stood on it until she stopped breathing. They disposed of her belongings as well. He later took Zarate to the spot, told her that the head was right where she was standing, and said he was going to urinate on the body. Zarate spat on the grave and told Kozak that she had been the one who called her stupid.
She then decided to leave, went to Manchester Airport to fly back to Florida, and from there telephoned the Epping Police Department to report that a crime had been committed at Scribner cemetery in Raymond. In November the FBI interviewed her and she told the whole story.
By then the police had another reason to look at the house. Donna Blackburn, a 30-year-old woman, had been hired to replace Kozak as nanny. She told a friend, the friend called the police, and the investigation into the household began.
It also turned up bondage photographs, a videotape of child pornography, 107 dildos, a computer disc labelled 'Killings', another labelled 'How to abduct a child', blank Massachusetts driving licences, two electronic voice disguisers, a video camera and a pistol. Police also believed he had been running a false-licence business on the side.
The fingertips were gone. An autopsy showed that she had died from repeated blows to the back of the head and strangulation.
Donna Blackburn, who had moved to Kentucky, was the key witness, but the prosecutor, Carleton Eldridge, did not subpoena her because he regarded her as a friendly witness who would appear voluntarily. Eldridge had a history of criticism over his handling of rape cases and had said publicly that there was a biological element to rape, comparing female resistance to the behaviour of deer and elk. He was re-elected.
She described the killing, the severed fingertips, the pepper and the visit to the grave.
Kozak's mother, Katy Kozak, said she hoped he would live to be 120. Joanna Kozak is buried at Christ Church cemetery in Maryland; she had not spoken to her parents in five years before her death.
June 1992 / an isolated corner of Scribner cemetery, Raymond, New Hampshire
As told in the episode, on 14 November 2019.
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