Town file
Claymont, Delaware
Claymont, Delaware (New Castle County, Delaware) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 422, "Dead In A Ditch" (9 September 2023). Wayne Capelli was 43 in 2013.
- Town
- Claymont
- County
- New Castle County
- State
- Delaware
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 422
- Approximate location
- 39.803, -75.460
Episode 422 / 9 September 2023 / 69 min / express
Dead In A Ditch
"James says the episode is in Claymont, Delaware, at the north-eastern tip of the state, in Newcastle County" about 0:04:15
The case: Murder of Wayne Capelli (February 2013). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2023
- Population
- 9,508
- Median household income
- $58,904
- Median home value
- $280,200
History, in brief
- The first people to live there were Aboriginal Indians of the Middle Woodland period, 1100 to 1600 BC, about three thousand to three thousand five hundred years ago, and evidence of them is still found all over the area. about 0:05:13
- The Dutch named Naamans Creek, and the settlement was named after the chief of the Lenape Indians who occupied the region. about 0:05:37
- The settlement grew from the 17th to the 20th century with grist mills, farms, lumber mills, steel mills and later a chemical plant. about 0:05:50
- It was originally called Grubbs Landing, after a man named John Grubb who purchased the land. about 0:06:15
- Since the 1990s there have been major revitalisation efforts around the Claymont Stone School, the Darley House and the Robinson house. about 0:06:24
- The Claymont Renaissance Development Corporation is working to stimulate economic growth. about 0:06:53
The reviews read out
5 stars
"Very clean area with good roads; Claymont is a safe place to find a home, very calm, and the cops do not joke around; nightlife is boring but Wilmington is twenty minutes away."about 0:07:03
3 stars
"There is nothing exciting about living in Claymont; it is very boring and quiet, with little violence or police activity."about 0:08:12
3 stars
"Very quiet at times, but filled with very stupid people doing stupid things; one wrong turn takes you from nice houses and good people to craziness."about 0:08:28
1 star
"The overall experience of living there is horrible because the people who recently moved in are delinquents, drug dealers and halfway house residents, who have supposedly overrun the local elementary school and community centre."about 0:08:51
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Chester, Pennsylvania5.5 miles
- Wilmington, Delaware6.0 miles
- New Castle, Delaware11 miles
- Hockessin, Delaware12 miles
- Pitman, New Jersey18 miles
- Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania20 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.