Town file
Chappaqua, New York
Chappaqua, New York (Westchester County, New York) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 603, "Murder By Moonlight" (12 June 2025). Chappaqua, New York, is a wealthy hamlet in Westchester County, about thirty minutes from New York City.
- Town
- Chappaqua
- County
- Westchester County
- State
- New York
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 603
- Approximate location
- 41.156, -73.768
Episode 603 / 12 June 2025 / 179 min / full
Murder By Moonlight
"We're going to Chappaqua, New York... Westchester... right outside the city there." about 0:04:35
The case: Murder of Peggy Perez-Olivo (November 18th, 2006). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2025
- Population
- 3,062
- Median age
- about 44 and a half
- Median household income
- $196,141
- Median home value
- $1,114,000
- Two-bedroom rent
- $3,100
- Cost of living
- $157,000
- Religious
- 4.9%
- Property crime
- ▼ just under one third
- Violent crime
- ▼ less than one quarter
History, in brief
- In the 1730s a group of Quakers moved north from Purchase, New York, and settled what is now Chappaqua, building their homes on Quaker Road, later renamed Quaker Street. about 0:05:42
- Many of the early homes and businesses were destroyed in the great 1904 Chappaqua Tornado. about 0:06:29
- Chappaqua is a hamlet inside the town of Newcastle. about 0:08:25
The reviews read out
5 stars
"Great place to live, very family-oriented, with great schools, great town and great people, if you can afford it."about 0:06:58
"Claims multiple pedophilia scandals within a six-year period in the mid-2000s and says the school district did as much as it could to limit press attention and defend the institution."about 0:07:41
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Demarest, New Jersey17 miles
- Ramsey, New Jersey21 miles
- Redding, Connecticut22 miles
- Westport, Connecticut22 miles
- Fair Lawn, New Jersey24 miles
- Garfield, New Jersey26 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.