Town file
Cape St. Claire, Maryland
Cape St. Claire, Maryland (Anne Arundel County, Maryland) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 485, "Adopting Murder" (18 April 2024). Robert Lee Schwartz was born in 1931 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, the middle of three sons.
- Town
- Cape St. Claire
- County
- Anne Arundel County
- State
- Maryland
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 485
- Approximate location
- 39.044, -76.445
Episode 485 / 18 April 2024 / 168 min / full
Adopting Murder
"We are going to Maryland to Cape St. Claire, Maryland; it is in Anne Arundel County, outside Annapolis." about 0:04:05
The case: Murders of Robert and Catherine Schwartz (January 16-17, 1984); Murder of Robert Austin Bell (July 9, 1990). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2024
- Population
- 8,762
- Median age
- 42 and a half
- Median household income
- $115,000
- Median home value
- $445,600
- Cost of living
- 114
- Religious
- about 39%
- Property crime
- ▼ a little low, not 20% ish
- Violent crime
- ▼ about one quarter below
History, in brief
- In the early 1900s Dr Hugh H. Young, a doctor on the staff of Johns Hopkins University, began buying farmland to build a community. about 0:05:22
- His first community was called Persimmon Point, but only a few lots sold before the Great Depression and it never took off. about 0:05:30
- After the Depression and the Second World War people began moving out to the suburbs, and the area grew. about 0:06:30
The reviews read out
5 stars
"A wonderful family 70s-style neighbourhood where neighbours look out for each other and it takes a village."about 0:06:37
5 stars
"The reviewer would never live anywhere else as much and refuses to try."about 0:08:07
5 stars
"Blown away by the town, its people and its schools and beaches."about 0:08:15
5 stars
"Glad the reviewer and their wife decided to raise their family in the town."about 0:08:58
4 stars
"The reviewer is not yet twenty-one but sees the bars packed all the time."about 0:09:04
3 stars
"The community helps out somewhat, but not an amazing number of people do."about 0:09:21
3 stars
"The weather is seasonal and can be both hot and cold."about 0:09:33
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Lothian, Maryland17 miles
- Elkridge, Maryland19 miles
- Middle River, Maryland20 miles
- St Michaels, Maryland21 miles
- Largo, Maryland24 miles
- Joppatowne, Maryland26 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.