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Believed to have been named after Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark.
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FILE 556 / 21 December 2024 / 73 MIN / express
We're going to Idaho, northern panhandle Idaho, on the Washington border; Lewiston, Idaho is this town. The Nez Perce County Jail is named later. about 0:04:38
Believed to have been named after Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark.
about 0:05:12Victor Trevitt came up with the idea of the name but chose Lewis rather than his own hometown of Lewiston, Maine, and did not tell anyone that was also his reason.
about 0:05:22The town's two nicknames are L Town and River City.
about 0:04:34About five hours from Boise and eight and a half hours from Idaho Falls, on the Washington border in the western panhandle.
about 0:03:44Believed to have been named after Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark.
about 0:05:12Victor Trevitt came up with the idea of the name but chose Lewis rather than his own hometown of Lewiston, Maine, and did not tell anyone that was also his reason.
about 0:05:22The town's two nicknames are L Town and River City.
about 0:04:34About five hours from Boise and eight and a half hours from Idaho Falls, on the Washington border in the western panhandle.
about 0:03:44The city's reservoir failed on January 18th, 2023, releasing 3 million gallons of water and causing flooding.
about 0:05:53Hot August Nights kicked off in 1987 as a way to bring the Lewis Clark Valley music and artists it had never had; a classic car show was added after the first few years' success.
about 0:09:14"33,964"
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"$60,581"
Comparison: "about $69,000 in the rest of the country". No direction stated.
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"$327,500"
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3.0 / 5 · average of 3
“First saw Lewiston at night coming from the north: the view down into the valley, the town lights and the river were incredible; the town mixes old brick buildings with new hip stores, the streets are clean and patrolled, and they would recommend it without hesitation to a couple starting a family.”about 0:06:30
“A retirement community with not much going on and a calm town they would not want to see change; not right for them, though a young person might like it.”about 0:07:53
“A great place to start a militia or a meth lab; the town smells of rotten eggs and garbage because of the paper mill and composting plant, there is nothing but junk food, and everyone is obese (the reviewer at 190 pounds is skinny by Lewiston standards).”about 0:08:29
Small Town Murder Express episode 556 goes to Lewiston, Idaho, in the western panhandle near the Washington border, about five hours from Boise. The town of 33,964 has two nicknames, L Town and River City, and is believed to have been named after Meriwether Lewis; Victor Trevitt, who suggested the name, kept quiet that he was also honouring his hometown of Lewiston, Maine. Its reservoir failed on 18 January 2023, releasing three million gallons of water. The hosts read a five-star review praising the view from the north, a three-star review calling it a quiet retirement community, and a one-star review calling it a great place to start a militia or a meth lab and complaining about the smell from the paper mill and composting plant.
Brian K. Elliott was born in Lewiston on 16 June 1959 to Alfred and Betty Elliott, one of four brothers. He lived just across the border in Washington state and worked at Paulucci's shoe and clothing store on Main Street, where his boss Jack Paulucci called him a good worker. After each discharge he stopped taking his outpatient medication and became aggressive.
On 29 June 2002 the store was busy. At about 2 p.m. Elliott told his colleagues he was going upstairs to check on something. He refused to give his name, spoke nonsensically and called himself Dump Truck, and voluntarily committed himself to the fifth-floor psychiatric unit. At 4 p.m. Bill Lee went upstairs and found Elliott's decapitated body at the top of the stairs, his head lying beside it. A trail of blood ran from the apartment to the hospital and bloody footprints lined the hallway, which was later sealed as a biohazard.
He said he had been drinking beer and taking Benadryl while watching television when he began hearing voices, that Elliott was the mark of the beast, and that he cut off his head with a knife and then mutilated the severed head to stop it talking. He wrote down that he was following the instructions of Melcerdak, and said he heard God tell him to finish Elliott off. Police found the knife in a shrub at Third Avenue and Sixth Street in Pioneer Park.
Two psychiatrists diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder.
June 29th, 2002 / the apartments above Paulucci's shoe and clothing store, Main Street, Lewiston, Idaho
As told in the episode, on 21 December 2024.
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