Town file
Cabot, Arkansas
Cabot, Arkansas (Lonoke County, Arkansas) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 623, "On Deadly Ground" (21 August 2025). Beverly Carter was born Beverly Lynn Lounds on December 20th, 1963, at McClellan Air Force Base in Anniston, Alabama, the daughter of an Air Force father.
- Town
- Cabot
- County
- Lonoke County
- State
- Arkansas
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 623
- Approximate location
- 34.975, -92.028
Episode 623 / 21 August 2025 / 183 min / full
On Deadly Ground
"We are going to Cabot, Arkansas, CABOT, Cabot. This is in central Arkansas, a suburb of Little Rock, and it is in Lonoke County." about 0:04:42
The case: Murder of Beverly Carter (September 2014). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2025
- Population
- 26,411
- Median age
- 35.8
- Median household income
- $62,006
- Median home value
- $211,800
- Two-bedroom rent
- $940 a month
- Cost of living
- 82 out of 100
- Religious
- 40.6%
- Property crime
- ▲ slightly above
- Violent crime
- ▼ about one third beneath
- Self-defence class enrolment
- surged 300%
History, in brief
- Cabot began as a small settlement around a refuelling station on the railroad, after the railroad bypassed Austin. about 0:05:56
- Cabot first appeared in 1873 and was named after railroad executive George Cabot Ward. about 0:06:45
- Cabot was incorporated in 1891 as the 139th city in Arkansas. about 0:06:51
- On March 29th, 1976, a large tornado destroyed downtown Cabot and killed five people. about 0:07:06
- Cabot Fest was established in 1978 to celebrate the town's resilience after the tornado. about 0:15:26
- The population was about 5,000 in the early 1980s and about 27,000 by the time of the episode. about 0:07:39
The reviews read out
5 stars
"A quaint and safe town with amazing schools, close to Little Rock and Conway, affordable housing and plenty of places to eat and shop, and a good place to raise children."about 0:07:54
3 stars
"There is just food and shopping and literally nothing else, just houses and strip malls; don't move here."about 0:08:34
3 stars
"A very nice place to live with very good public schools, an ACE programme to graduate early, and a strip mall with a Marshall's."about 0:08:50
1 star
"The reviewer is not from Cabot, has been there three years with no friends, and found snooty, stuck-up, fake people; they travel to Little Rock for activities and shopping."about 0:09:29
4.9 stars
"Rated 4.9 out of 134 reviews, a highly rated haunted house in Cabot."about 0:17:46
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Austin, Arkansas3.1 miles
- Kensett, Arkansas27 miles
- Bryant, Arkansas36 miles
- Pleasant Grove, Arkansas59 miles
- Malvern, Arkansas61 miles
- Mount Ida, Arkansas96 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.