Why is Spring Brook, Wisconsin so murdery?

Spring Brook is a town of 1,764 in Dunn County, Wisconsin, in the Red Cedar Valley where lumber money once cut two million board feet of pine. Menomonie sits ten miles off, so the show's tally reads as two stops within twenty-five miles of each other in open country rather than a commuter belt. The introduction gives more room to wild rice and the Menominee than to the town's own streets.

The count is seven murders across two episodes, and the spread is worth being honest about. Six come from episode 647, a single case with six victims dated between 1985 and 1987 around Menomonie. The seventh is episode 731, a 2018 killing in Spring Brook itself. One long case carries the number; the town adds one entry.

That ranking, 194 overall and second in Wisconsin, counts the show's cases, not crime statistics. The show picks the towns, and this part of Wisconsin got picked twice.