Town file
Fenton, Missouri
Fenton, Missouri (St. Louis County, Missouri) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 289, "Charles Manson & The ThunderCats" (3 June 2022).
- Town
- Fenton
- County
- St. Louis County
- State
- Missouri
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 289
- Approximate location
- 38.529, -90.451
Episode 289 / 3 June 2022 / 64 min / express
Charles Manson & The ThunderCats
"We're going all the way to Fenton, Missouri... it's a suburb of St. Louis nowadays." about 0:03:05
The case: Murder of Shirley Ann Crook (September 1993). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2022
- Population
- about 4,000, 4,027
- Median household income
- almost $90,000
History, in brief
- The earliest evidence of ancient people in the area was excavated from the Fenton Mounds, two conical earthen burial mounds near the south-western border of Fenton. about 0:04:27
- Diagnostic pottery shards from the mounds date them to between 1,050 and 1,400 AD. about 0:04:37
- In 2001 the mounds were levelled and a Walmart Supercenter was built on the site. about 0:04:51
- Fenton was very rural until about 20 years before the episode, then its population spiked as people fled St Louis and it became a suburb. about 0:03:17
- People from Fenton are called Fentonians or Fentonling. about 0:03:31
The reviews read out
5 stars
"Lived there 55 years and would never live anywhere else; excellent Rockwood and Lindbergh schools, nice stores, several parks and a recreation centre, a wonderful and very safe community for a family."about 0:06:32
2 stars
"Close to good schools and shopping, but property tax is high and the sewage treatment centre needs an upgrade; Fenton used to be rural with horse farms, now overpopulated and gentrified, with aggressive drivers, rising crime and flood erosion."about 0:06:55
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Columbia, Illinois14 miles
- Festus, Missouri21 miles
- Troy, Illinois33 miles
- Bonne Terre, Missouri42 miles
- New Florence, Missouri60 miles
- Cape Girardeau, Missouri97 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.