Town file
Belmont, New Hampshire
Belmont, New Hampshire (Belknap County, New Hampshire) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 97, "Overwhelming Evidence Of Overkill" (13 December 2018). Belmont, New Hampshire, sits in the middle of the state, about half an hour from Concord and two hours from Boston, in Belknap County.
- Town
- Belmont
- County
- Belknap County
- State
- New Hampshire
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 97
- Approximate location
- 43.440, -71.479
Episode 97 / 13 December 2018 / 138 min / full
Overwhelming Evidence Of Overkill
"We are going to New Hampshire, going to Belmont, New Hampshire; it's in Belknap County" about 0:07:37
The case: Murders of Jennifer and Jeremy Heward (September 2006). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2018
- Population
- 7,315
- Median age
- about 39 and a half
- Median household income
- $65,500
- Median home value
- $201,600
- Two-bedroom rent
- about $1,150
- Cost of living
- 103
- Religious
- 33%
- Property crime
- ▲ about 20% higher than the norm
- Violent crime
- ▲ about a third higher
History, in brief
- Originally known as Upper Gilmanton. about 0:10:59
- The town was chartered in 1727. about 0:11:07
- Water power from the Tioga River helped it develop as a mill town. about 0:11:13
- In 1833 the Gilmanton Village Manufacturing Company was built, making cotton and woollen textiles. about 0:13:12
- In 1921 it became the Belmont Hosiery Company, making silk and woollen stockings. about 0:15:11
- That business went out of business in 1955. about 0:15:30
- The mill building was later renovated and is now a community centre. about 0:15:37
- Belmont was separated from Gilmanton by an act of the legislature and incorporated in 1859 as Upper Gilmanton. about 0:15:58
- In 1869 the name was changed to Belmont after August Belmont. about 0:16:05
- August Belmont was a German Jewish American politician, financier, foreign diplomat and ambassador, chairman of the Democratic National Committee in the 1860s, and a horse breeder who founded and gave his name to the Belmont Stakes. about 0:16:26
- The town hoped he would contribute to it, but he never acknowledged the gesture. about 0:17:18
- Richard Paul Pavlick, 1887 to 1975, a retired postal worker from New Hampshire, stalked president-elect John F. Kennedy with the intent of assassinating him on December 11th, 1960 in Palm Beach, Florida. about 0:18:29
- Pavlick planned to blow himself and Kennedy up with dynamite but stopped because Kennedy had his wife and children with him. about 0:18:56
- He was arrested before he could stage another attempt. about 0:19:55
- The population was about 1,200 in 1860 and 1,900 by 1960. about 0:20:17
- It was 2,400 in 1970 and is now 7,315, up 26 per cent since 1990. about 0:20:21
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Plymouth, New Hampshire23 miles
- Deerfield, New Hampshire24 miles
- Hooksett, New Hampshire24 miles
- Lebanon, Maine29 miles
- Epping, New Hampshire34 miles
- Dover, New Hampshire35 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.