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e Arundel County is named after Lady Arundell, of Thomas Arundell, first Baron Arundell of Wardour, an ancient family from Cornwall, England.
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FILE 385 / 4 May 2023 / 160 MIN / full
This week, in Lothian, Maryland ... this is in e Arundel County about 0:00:00
e Arundel County is named after Lady Arundell, of Thomas Arundell, first Baron Arundell of Wardour, an ancient family from Cornwall, England.
about 0:07:35She married Cecilius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore and first Lord Proprietor of Maryland, in an arranged marriage in 1627.
about 0:08:41In 1997 the US Postal Service closed Lothian's post office and replaced it with a larger one in Wason's Corner, six miles away.
about 0:09:34Residents objected; Dick Fries, there for more than 30 years, called it 'a very sharp loss of identity'.
about 0:12:34e Arundel County is named after Lady Arundell, of Thomas Arundell, first Baron Arundell of Wardour, an ancient family from Cornwall, England.
about 0:07:35She married Cecilius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore and first Lord Proprietor of Maryland, in an arranged marriage in 1627.
about 0:08:41In 1997 the US Postal Service closed Lothian's post office and replaced it with a larger one in Wason's Corner, six miles away.
about 0:09:34Residents objected; Dick Fries, there for more than 30 years, called it 'a very sharp loss of identity'.
about 0:12:34A postal service spokeswoman said the service is often torn between preserving a beloved centre of a community and serving customers.
about 0:13:16In 1997 Lothian had two schools, a Texaco and an Amoco station, a couple of churches and a doctor's office.
about 0:13:58Wason's Corner had a sprawling trailer park, a bingo parlour, a bar, a hardware store, a bank, a Dash-In grocery, a Dunkin Donuts and a Taco Bell.
about 0:14:2139%
Biggest faith: Catholic, 18.7%
about 0:19:26White 72.5% · Black 17.4% · Asian 0.8% · Hispanic 6.3%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
about average
Violent crime
▲ about 20% high
Two-bedroom trailer price
about 0:21:57Three-bedroom house price
about 0:22:46"about average"
Direction: about the same.
As told in 2023 about 0:27:38
"about 20% high"
Direction: above.
As told in 2023 about 0:27:41
"6,939"
No direction stated.
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"over 54%"
Direction: above.
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"41"
Comparison: "a little over the normal". Direction: above.
As told in 2023 about 0:18:48
"72.5%"
No direction stated.
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"17.4%"
No direction stated.
As told in 2023 about 0:19:07
"0.8%"
No direction stated.
As told in 2023 about 0:19:07
"0.5%"
Comparison: "0.7% nationally". No direction stated.
As told in 2023 about 0:19:10
"6.3%"
No direction stated.
As told in 2023 about 0:19:26
"39%"
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"18.7%"
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"0.2%"
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As told in 2023 about 0:19:54
"$71,912"
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"128"
Comparison: "100 is the average". Direction: above.
As told in 2023 about 0:20:30
"$544,200"
No direction stated.
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"about $1,550"
Comparison: "above the national average". Direction: above.
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"$50,000"
No direction stated.
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"$360,000"
Comparison: "about $200,000 below the average". Direction: below.
As told in 2023 about 0:22:46
3.1 / 5 · average of 7
“'e Arundel is great' and a wish for more job opportunities for locals, repeated seven times.”about 0:15:43
“'Fix the damn roads': too many potholes, more street lights needed, park equipment upgraded, car parks repaved.”about 0:16:17
“A nice quiet suburban area, but it could use more racial diversity and be more affordable.”about 0:16:41
“Nice place but the people are jerks, little to do and a cramped downtown, though safe and good for families with access to the bay.”about 0:16:53
“The whole review is 'I don't mind the area'.”about 0:17:15
“Has only been to one local restaurant, a Tex Mex place that was by far the worst Tex Mex ever.”about 0:17:41
“Biking is not easy on the roads around here.”about 0:18:14
Lothian, Maryland, is a small community in e Arundel County, about fifty minutes from Baltimore and half an hour from apolis, with a population of 6,939 at the time of the murders.
Anthony worked as a remodelling contractor. He injured his back while the family was living in Michigan, underwent several operations that did not heal properly, and by 2015 was unemployed and in constant pain. The family returned to Maryland and moved into a house at West Bay Front Road in Lothian. She also said he gathered the children to vote on whether she should be allowed home from a trip to Florida, and that the children voted yes.
While in Michigan the couple had met Jacqueline Riggs, a childcare worker born in 1990 in Sault Ste. Marie, who rode motorcycles with the same crowd. The three began a sexual relationship. Anthony then ounced that Riggs was moving to Maryland to live with them, and she took the finished basement apartment of the Lothian house, paying a little rent. The children called her Aunt Jackie.
She had a close relationship with her father. The girl is said to have overheard her father and Riggs discussing a possible pregnancy and to have found a used pregnancy test in the basement; she was upset at the idea of her father having another child.
Riggs was asleep and woke as she was being stabbed. She fought back and suffered 42 wounds, 20 deep puncture wounds and 22 cuts and smaller stabs, with defensive injuries to her hands and arms. He then went upstairs and fired a single round into Anthony Anastasi's temple as he lay in bed.
She said she had spent the day taking children to the dentist and the grocery store and had not turned the lights on in the bedroom. Police from a quiet rural neighbourhood arrived at the house, which was cluttered with papers, books, clothes and stacks of VHS tapes. Anthony was face up on the bed with a single close-range gunshot wound to the temple, no exit wound, and the .45 inches from his hand. A spent shell casing was found nearby, along with his Bible.
The basement door was locked from the inside and the windows were screwed shut. There was no sign of forced entry. At first the case looked like a murder-suicide, but the shell casing in the bedroom was a .380 and the gun beside Anthony was a .45. The bullet recovered from his head was a .380, and the FBI laboratory confirmed it could not have been fired from the .45; the round would have fallen out of the barrel.
The prosecutor said the call made the case significantly stronger.
The four younger children went to live with Anthony's parents nearby.
October 5, 2015 / the Anastasi home, West Bay Front Road, Lothian, Maryland
As told in the episode, on 4 May 2023.
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