Town file
Enid, Oklahoma
Enid, Oklahoma (Garfield County, Oklahoma) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 581, "Sexy Sunday School Teacher Slaughter" (20 March 2025).
- Town
- Enid
- County
- Garfield County
- State
- Oklahoma
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 581
- Approximate location
- 36.407, -97.870
Episode 581 / 20 March 2025 / 179 min / full
Sexy Sunday School Teacher Slaughter
"We are going to Enid, Oklahoma, northwestern Oklahoma, and this is in Garfield County." about 0:04:50
The case: Murder of Robert 'Rob' Andrew (November 20, 2001). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2025
- Population
- 52,129
- Median age
- 34.9
- Median household income
- $57,772 a year
- Median home value
- $126,400
- Two-bedroom rent
- about $940
- Cost of living
- 72
- Religious
- 58.7%
- Property crime
- ▲ about 50% higher
- Violent crime
- exactly average
History, in brief
- Before the 1893 land run the land where Enid is was part of O County in the Cherokee Outlet, occupied by the Cherokee people after the Trail of Tears. about 0:06:09
- The place was then known as Skeleton. about 0:06:25
- In 1889 a railroad man renamed the station Enid after a character in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idols of the King. about 0:06:40
- A local legend says chuck-wagon settlers hung a sign reading 'dine'; people turned it round so it read 'enid' and the name stuck, though the episode says this is not true. about 0:07:31
The reviews read out
5 stars
"This experience is amazing, but it is kind of small."about 0:08:29
4 stars
"Enid is very boring but the reviewer likes that; has lived there three years, says the crime rate is low, the only issue was threats at Enid High School and nothing happened, so it is a little boring."about 0:08:41
1 star
"One of the most boring cities the reviewer has lived in; the city does not want to build anything to attract tourists, officials do not do what the residents elect them to do and hold back paperwork for new businesses."about 0:09:44
1 star
"There is one taxi that is very sleazy looking; one shitty taxi and the whole town is ruined."about 0:10:48
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Okarche, Oklahoma47 miles
- Seiling, Oklahoma62 miles
- Arkansas City, Kansas65 miles
- Wellington, Kansas65 miles
- Mustang, Oklahoma71 miles
- McLoud, Oklahoma81 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.