Town note
The town is named for Samuel W. Wall; the name means the berg of Walls.
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FILE 665 / 15 January 2026 / 183 MIN / full
Here we're going to Walberg, North Carolina, not Durham. This is central North Carolina... This is in Davidson County. about 0:04:31
The town is named for Samuel W. Wall; the name means the berg of Walls.
about 0:05:25Samuel W. Wall was in the area by 1860, and the second generation of the family ran a coachmaking business.
about 0:05:37The coachmaking business had $600 of capital investment, three employees and produced ten buggies and carriages worth $1,100 a year.
about 0:05:50Wall's sons Charles and George founded a lumber company with a saw planing mill, making planks, wooden boxes and finished products such as couch frames.
about 0:06:14The town is named for Samuel W. Wall; the name means the berg of Walls.
about 0:05:25Samuel W. Wall was in the area by 1860, and the second generation of the family ran a coachmaking business.
about 0:05:37The coachmaking business had $600 of capital investment, three employees and produced ten buggies and carriages worth $1,100 a year.
about 0:05:50Wall's sons Charles and George founded a lumber company with a saw planing mill, making planks, wooden boxes and finished products such as couch frames.
about 0:06:14George Wall made a land purchase in 1888, and relatives lived in the family house until the late 1970s.
about 0:06:40The town was not incorporated until 2004.
about 0:06:5040%
about 0:09:35White 92.4% · Black 0.3% · Asian 1.1% · Hispanic 5.8%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
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Violent crime
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Four-bedroom, two-bath house, 1,910 square feet
about 0:11:34Three-bedroom, three-bath house, 2,340 square feet
about 0:11:46Four-bedroom, four-bath house on 14.61 acres, 3,481 square feet
about 0:12:40"3,050"
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"50.8%"
Comparison: "49.2% men". No direction stated.
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"38.3"
Comparison: "38.4 national average". No direction stated.
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"67%"
Comparison: "one of the highest the hosts have seen". No direction stated.
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"36%"
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"4%"
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"92.4%"
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"0.3%"
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"1.1%"
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"5.8%"
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"40%"
Comparison: "50-50 is the normal nationally". Direction: below.
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"Methodist"
Comparison: "Baptist a close second". No direction stated.
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"$83,011"
Comparison: "$69,000 average". No direction stated.
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"$277,500"
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"$950"
Comparison: "$1,250 to $1,280 nationally". No direction stated.
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"$279,900"
Comparison: "recently cut by $20,000". No direction stated.
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"$381,990"
Comparison: "newly built". No direction stated.
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"$989,900"
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"about one quarter above"
Comparison: "national average". Direction: above.
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"about one quarter beneath"
Comparison: "national average". Direction: below.
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4.3 / 5 · average of 4
“A beautiful town where many longtime residents know each other well; some residents are obnoxious and the safety of the roads is subpar, but it is more pleasant than a large city.”about 0:07:03
“A small town full of great people where pretty much everyone knows each other and residents love to support the local community.”about 0:07:46
“I like where I live; most of the people are nice.”about 0:07:59
“Break-ins have been more frequent lately.”about 0:08:08
Jason Corbett was born in Limerick, Ireland, on 12 February 1976, one of eight children of John and Rita Corbett. He had a twin brother, Wayne, and the family was close and hard-working. Jason became a plant manager for an international packaging company. In 2003 he married Margaret Fitzpatrick, known as Mags, and they had a son, Jack, in September 2004 and a daughter, Sarah, in August 2006. On 21 November 2006, with Sarah eleven weeks old, Margaret had a severe asthma attack while feeding her in the middle of the night. Her nebuliser gave no relief.
Jason was thirty, a widower with two small children. After about eighteen months he decided to look for a live-in nanny and placed an advertisement describing himself as a widowed father of two. She told Jason she had graduated from Clemson, had been an approved foster parent and had extensive experience with children. None of that was true; her only childcare experience was babysitting as a teenager.
Cuss officers initially refused her entry because she had a one-way ticket and no work visa, but she talked her way in. She became the children's nanny and within the first month she and Jason were involved. Jason worried that they were moving too fast and that the children might lose another mother if the relationship failed, and they discussed it in emails. They stayed together.
She told her book club that she had given birth to Sarah. She kept a framed photograph of a girl by her bed at college and told her roommate it was her sister who had died of cancer, although she had no sister. She claimed to have been an Olympic swimmer and a Montessori teacher.
Jason proposed at Freddy's Bistro in Limerick on Valentine's Day 2010, and they married in Knoxville on 4 June 2011. They bought a five-bedroom, 3,400 square foot house in the Meadowlands Golf community in Wallburg.
The marriage deteriorated. Jason refused, partly because of her lies and erratic behaviour, and partly because he did not want to take away the only mother the children remembered. He had made a will after Margaret's death naming his sister Tracy and her husband as the children's guardians, and he never changed it. By the summer of 2015 Jason was planning to divorce her and return to Ireland with the children. He was transferring money and looking at flights. On 30 July 2015 she filled a prescription for trazodone.
He brought a tennis racket for Sarah and an aluminium Louisville Slugger baseball bat for Jack.
She said that when she returned Jason was awake and furious at being woken, and that he jumped on her, put his hands round her neck and choked her. First responders found Jason naked on the floor of the master bedroom with his skull crushed. Blood covered the walls, both sides of the door, the hallway and the bathroom. His body was cold and the blood was already congealed.
The autopsy found at least twelve blows to the head, four of them potentially fatal on their own and eight enough to render him unconscious, with at least one blow delivered after death. There were no defensive wounds. The children were taken to the Dragonfly House the next day.
A judge returned the children to Ireland in Tracy's care.
August 2, 2015 / his home at Panther Creek Court, Wallburg, North Carolina
As told in the episode, on 15 January 2026.
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