Town note
Summerville is located on a pine-forested ridge.
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FILE 492 / 11 May 2024 / 70 MIN / express
James says they are heading down south to Summerville, South Carolina, in southeastern South Carolina, about 30 minutes from Charleston. about 0:03:00
Summerville is located on a pine-forested ridge.
about 0:05:00It was first inhabited in the late 1700s by people coming from the low country.
about 0:05:06Settlers came inland for refuge from the summer heat, mosquitoes and disease.
about 0:05:14Plantation families lived there from May to September each summer.
about 0:05:25Summerville is located on a pine-forested ridge.
about 0:05:00It was first inhabited in the late 1700s by people coming from the low country.
about 0:05:06Settlers came inland for refuge from the summer heat, mosquitoes and disease.
about 0:05:14Plantation families lived there from May to September each summer.
about 0:05:25In the last decade of the 1800s most of the downtown was destroyed by fire.
about 0:05:45A huge earthquake in 1886 also damaged the town.
about 0:05:49The town was rebuilt and then burned to the ground again.
about 0:06:01The Congress of Physicians in Paris declared Summerville one of the world's two best places for treating lung disorders.
about 0:06:31It stayed a bedroom community and did not reach 6,000 people until the late 1970s.
about 0:06:55The population doubled in the 1980s and has grown sharply over the last 20 years.
about 0:07:03The town has two mottos: the Flower Town in the Pines and At the Heart of It All.
about 0:04:17Summerville claims to be the birthplace of sweet tea.
about 0:09:42"about 50,000"
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"under 6,000"
Direction: below.
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"$64,507 a year"
Comparison: "national average". No direction stated.
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"$355,200"
Comparison: "national average". No direction stated.
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"$277,500"
No direction stated.
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3.3 / 5 · average of 3
“A charming and quaint town whose historic areas should be preserved; it is getting overcrowded and the roads need improving.”about 0:07:09
“It is boring and there is not much to do unless you have a job.”about 0:07:43
“Very disappointing: traffic noise, bad roads and strip malls reminded the reviewer of poor Florida beach towns; they prefer a stronger community feel and will keep looking.”about 0:08:34
After leaving the army she worked as a travelling nurse, and the couple often lived apart. Their life together was chaotic: both drank heavily, took pills and smoked meth and crack, and their arguments repeatedly brought the police. In 2016 they returned to Charleston together, then separated.
There she met Jordan Brooke Lum, born Patricia Ann Hill in Pima County, Arizona, who had changed her name after a divorce. The arrangement soured almost at once.
He reached the house in the afternoon to find Jordan dead. He recorded two conversations, one in which she admitted killing Jordan alone, then left and called 911. He told the operator there had been a murder and that his wife had shown him the body, wrapped in blankets in a crate in the garage; he said she had hit Jordan with a hammer, cut her throat and stabbed her repeatedly.
After she refused to drop it they kicked in the door and disarmed her. In the garage they found Jordan's decomposing body in a wooden crate, with a bloody knife nearby.
The medical examiner, Dr Batalis, testified that the blunt-force wounds to the head, the cut throat and nineteen stab wounds to the chest were each fatal. Over defence objection the judge admitted graphic autopsy photographs, including close-ups of the head and neck wounds.
Jordan is buried at Carolina Memorial Park in North Charleston. The house at Angora Way was sold in 2018 for $277,500.
April 2, 2017 / her home at Angora Way, Summerville, South Carolina
As told in the episode, on 11 May 2024.
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