Town file
Golden, Colorado
Golden, Colorado is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 18, "A Triple Murdering Con Man" (17 May 2017). Golden, Colorado, is a small town of about nine square miles at 5,675 feet, twenty miles west of Denver.
- Town
- Golden
- State
- Colorado
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 18
- Approximate location
- 39.742, -105.211
Episode 18 / 17 May 2017 / 67 min / full
A Triple Murdering Con Man
"This week we are in Golden, Colorado, a nine square mile town twenty miles outside of Denver" about 0:02:52
The case: Murder of Rebecca Hulburton, Candice Walters and Angela Frit (June and July 1998). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2017
- Median age
- 30.7
- Median household income
- $58,000
- Two-bedroom rent
- $1,155 a month
- Cost of living
- 148
- Religious
- 36%
- Property crime
- ▼ just below the national average
- Violent crime
- ▼ less than half the national average
History, in brief
- Founded on June 16th, 1859 as Golden City, a gold rush town. about 0:04:03
- Named for Thomas L. Golden, a businessman in the area. about 0:04:23
- It was the first capital of the Kansas territory and then of the Colorado territory, with the capital moved back and forth to Denver City. about 0:04:44
- Colleges started around the town in the 1870s, including the Colorado School of Mines. about 0:05:13
- In 1873 Adolph Coors founded the Coors brewing company in Golden. about 0:05:39
- In the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan held big meetings on South Table Mountain and burned crosses visible from the town. about 0:06:42
- The Klan held weekly rallies near a place called Castle Rock, which they called Castle with a K rock. about 0:07:05
- An estimated 10% of the male population of Colorado in the 1920s were card-carrying Klansmen. about 0:07:15
- After the Second World War it boomed as people, jobs and factories moved west. about 0:07:39
- The town website's slogan is 'It's where the West lives'. about 0:08:13
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Longmont, Colorado30 miles
- Estes Park, Colorado46 miles
- Breckenridge, Colorado47 miles
- Kiowa, Colorado49 miles
- Greeley, Colorado52 miles
- Byers, Colorado53 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.