Town file
Ambridge, Pennsylvania
Ambridge, Pennsylvania (Beaver County, Pennsylvania) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 279, "Bumbling In Blood" (30 April 2022). Ambridge is a steel town in western Pennsylvania, in Beaver County.
- Town
- Ambridge
- County
- Beaver County
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 279
- Approximate location
- 40.592, -80.227
Episode 279 / 30 April 2022 / 63 min / express
Bumbling In Blood
"This is Ambridge, Pennsylvania. It's in western Pennsylvania." about 0:02:41
The case: Murder of the Lucick family (August 4, 1981). Read the case file.
History, in brief
- Originally called Old Economy; locals shortened the name to Economy. about 0:02:53
- Renamed Ambridge after the American Bridge Company, which owned most of the town and made steel there; it was a company town. about 0:03:11
- The American Bridge Company ended its operations in Ambridge in 1983. about 0:03:48
- A local man wrote 'Rustbelt Boy', a book about the town's decline and the loss of the steel industry. about 0:04:18
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Daugherty Township, Pennsylvania11 miles
- Wheeling, West Virginia43 miles
- Brookfield Township, Ohio48 miles
- Bellaire, Ohio48 miles
- Howland Township, Ohio52 miles
- North Canton, Ohio64 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.