Town file
Burlingame, Kansas
Burlingame, Kansas (Osage County, Kansas) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 9, "Jealously Turns Into Multiple Murders" (15 March 2017).
- Town
- Burlingame
- County
- Osage County
- State
- Kansas
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 9
- Approximate location
- 38.752, -95.836
Episode 9 / 15 March 2017 / 64 min / full
Jealously Turns Into Multiple Murders
"It's in Osage County... about 25 minutes outside of Topeka." about 0:04:50
The case: Murders of the Kahler family and Dorothy White (November 28, 2009). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2017
- Population
- 892
- Median age
- 42
- Median home value
- $72,000
- Two-bedroom rent
- about $727 a month
- Cost of living
- 77
- Religious
- 41%
- Property crime
- ▲ about 10% higher
- Violent crime
- ▲ 21% higher
History, in brief
- The town came about in the 1850s, right after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. about 0:05:43
- The railroad came through Topeka in 1868 and connected it to Burlingame, which made it a town. about 0:06:03
- A huge malaria outbreak in 1856 led about half the people to leave. about 0:06:31
- The town motto is 'where rail crosses trail'. about 0:19:13
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Emporia, Kansas31 miles
- Oskaloosa, Kansas43 miles
- Edgerton, Kansas47 miles
- Lenexa, Kansas57 miles
- Prairie Village, Kansas67 miles
- Atchison, Kansas67 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.