Town file
Davenport, Iowa
Davenport, Iowa (Scott County, Iowa) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 465, "Chainsaws, Torsos & Murder Tacos" (8 February 2024). Joyce Amelia Monahan was born in 1949 in Granite City, Illinois, the oldest of three children.
- Town
- Davenport
- County
- Scott County
- State
- Iowa
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 465
- Approximate location
- 41.557, -90.604
Episode 465 / 8 February 2024 / 169 min / full
Chainsaws, Torsos & Murder Tacos
"This week, in Davenport, Iowa ... this is in eastern Iowa, over in the Quad City area ... This is in Scott County." about 0:08:09
The case: Murder of Joyce Klindt (March 1983). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2024
- Population
- 101,725
- Median age
- 37 and change
- Median household income
- $56,000
- Median home value
- $165,200
- Two-bedroom rent
- $900 a month
- Religious
- 49%
- Property crime
- ▲ almost double
- Violent crime
- ▲ about 50% above
History, in brief
- The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 included the land that became Iowa. about 0:08:51
- Lieutenant Zebulon Pike was the first US representative officially to visit the upper Mississippi area. about 0:09:05
- In 1832 the Sauk, Meskwaki and Kickapoo were defeated by the US in the Black Hawk War. about 0:09:43
- The Black Hawk Purchase took six million acres for $640,000 in September 1832, about eleven cents an acre. about 0:10:17
- The purchase was named after Chief Black Hawk, who was being held prisoner; Chief Keokuk had not taken part in the battle. about 0:10:41
- A bridge across the river was completed in 1856. about 0:11:18
- On 6 May 1856 a steamboat captain deliberately crashed his boat into the new bridge; the lawsuit against the Rock Island Railroad ended in a hung jury, with Abraham Lincoln as the railroad's lead defence lawyer. about 0:11:27
- Laura Flynn Boyle and Otto Frederick Rohwedder, the inventor of the sliced-bread machine, came from Davenport. about 0:11:57
The reviews read out
5 stars
"Was worried about buying a house there, but the experience has been great, with great neighbours."about 0:12:50
5 stars
"Natural disasters usually miss Davenport and it is a pretty safe place to live."about 0:13:07
"Has lived there since birth and does not plan to move away."about 0:13:24
4 stars
"A perfect place to start a family and Iowa nice is real, but expect the smell of farms and several new fast-food places."about 0:13:32
2 stars
"Can never find jobs that fit or that are legally okay to work for."about 0:14:04
1 star
"One of the trashiest and most depressing places the reviewer has lived, worse than a third-world country, with junkies, alcoholics, aggressive drivers, young people leaving and high prices."about 0:14:45
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Muscatine, Iowa26 miles
- Clarence, Iowa33 miles
- West Liberty, Iowa34 miles
- Bellevue, Iowa49 miles
- Earlville, Iowa73 miles
- Libertyville, Iowa86 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.