Why is Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio so murdery?

Cuyahoga Falls sits in Summit County, Ohio, a manufacturing town that started in 1812 when a dam and a flour mill, an oil mill and a saw mill went up on the river and houses followed. Today the show's 2026 count puts it at 50,906, and the towns around it are described as fifteen minutes from Akron and less than an hour from Cleveland.

Seven murders in five episodes lie within 25 miles, and only one of those is in Cuyahoga Falls itself, in episode 742. The rest fan out to Hudson, Coventry Township, Montville Township and North Canton, from 7 to 23 miles off. The dates run 1988, 1994, 2002 to 2013, and 2017, so no single decade does the work. Nor does one big episode: the largest, episode 273, accounts for three victims, and the other four episodes carry one each.

That is the honest shape of it. Seven is a count of the show's cases, not of crime in the town, because the show picks where it goes. Cuyahoga Falls supplies the dateline. The suburbs do the rest.