Epping, New Hampshire

Episode 39 / 11 October 2017 / 105 min / full

The Orbit Of A Killer

"we are going to Epping, New Hampshire; it is in Rockingham County" about 0:05:08

The case: Murder of Kenneth County (February to March 2006); Murder of Michael Deloge (2004 to 2005). Read the case file.

The figures, as told in 2017

Population

6,835

Median age

41.6

Median household income

$77,321

Median home value

$241,000

Two-bedroom rent

about $1,010 a month

Cost of living

125

Religious

39%

Property crime

▼ a little lower than the national average

Violent crime

right at the national average

History, in brief

• Epping was originally part of Exeter, one of the four original New Hampshire townships. about 0:07:31
• Land was given away to encourage settlement. about 0:07:43
• Epping was incorporated as a town in 1741. about 0:08:12
• Epping was named for Epping in England. about 0:08:20
• After the American Revolution many residents moved to Monmouth, Maine, where a general was offering free land to his soldiers. about 0:08:49
• By 1790 the town already had 1,200 people. about 0:09:47
• Farming was the principal business through the 1800s. about 0:10:02
• Clay reserves under the ground were dug up and made into bricks, and brick making became the town's big industry. about 0:10:30
• A commercial brickyard opened in 1840. about 0:10:50
• The Nashua and Rochester and the Portsmouth and Concord railroads ran through town and were abandoned in the 1930s. about 0:11:20
• For years the town's slogan was Epping, the center of the universe. about 0:06:53
• The town covers 26.2 square miles, about the size of Manhattan. about 0:06:24

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