Town file
Dover, New Hampshire
Dover, New Hampshire is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 550, "Kinky Killer Couple" (30 November 2024). Elizabeth Marriott, known as Lizzie, was 19 in the autumn of 2012 and in her sophomore year at the University of New Hampshire, studying marine biology.
- Town
- Dover
- State
- New Hampshire
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 550
- Approximate location
- 43.186, -70.884
Episode 550 / 30 November 2024 / 73 min / express
Kinky Killer Couple
"This is in southeastern New Hampshire, practically Maine; it's in Dover, New Hampshire." about 0:03:24
The case: Murder of Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Marriott (October 9, 2012). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2024
- Population
- 32,599
- Median household income
- $82,387
- Median home value
- $416,800
History, in brief
- Dover was a mill town for years, making textiles like a lot of north-eastern cities. about 0:04:48
- The Dover Cotton Factory started in 1815, bringing cotton up from the south and shipping finished cloth out through the ports to Europe. about 0:04:59
- It was renamed the Cocheco Manufacturing Company in 1827. about 0:05:20
- On December 30th, 1828, about half of the 800 women employed at the mill walked out over lower wages and longer hours, the first women's strike in the United States. about 0:05:39
- Dover became incorporated in 1855. about 0:05:57
- It was a huge national producer of textiles until the Depression, when the mills moved south and many businesses closed. about 0:06:04
- Dover, New Hampshire is the birthplace of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. about 0:06:23
The reviews read out
5 stars
"A quaint New England town with Victorian style homes, great pizza, excellent schools, good fishing and canoeing, and Portsmouth only 15 minutes away."about 0:06:35
4 stars
"A lifelong resident calls it one of a kind with a charm of its own; easy to leave but always come back, and the people are not nice but love you deep down."about 0:07:30
3 stars
"They need to stop building brand new houses where people do not want them."about 0:08:11
1 star
"Absolutely a hellhole: the state is beautiful but the people are not, outsiders are treated badly and even the police gaslight you; the worst city the reviewer has ever lived in."about 0:08:46
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Kittery, Maine9.9 miles
- Lebanon, Maine15 miles
- Epping, New Hampshire15 miles
- Hampton, New Hampshire17 miles
- Fremont, New Hampshire18 miles
- Sanford, Maine18 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.