Town file

Lempster, New Hampshire

Lempster, New Hampshire (Sullivan County, New Hampshire) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 443, "Writing Your Murder Script" (23 November 2023). Edith Meyer, known to everyone as Pen, was born in Boston on 4 July 1949, one of eleven children of a wealthy industrialist.

Town: Lempster
County: Sullivan County
State: New Hampshire
Country: USA
Episodes: 443
Approximate location: 43.237, -72.185

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Episode 443 / 23 November 2023 / 178 min / full

Writing Your Murder Script

"We're going to Lempster, New Hampshire ... this is in Sullivan County." about 0:04:43

The case: Murder of Edith 'Pen' Meyer (February 23, 2005). Read the case file.

The figures, as told in 2023

Population: 817
Median household income: $76,250 a year
Median home value: $275,300
Two-bedroom rent: $1,280
Cost of living: 89
Religious: 23.3%
Property crime: ▼ about one third
Violent crime: ▼ about two-thirds

History, in brief

Granted as a township by colonial governor Jonathan Belcher in 1735 and named Number Nine. about 0:05:35
Number Nine because it was the ninth in a line of forts to guard against Indian attacks. about 0:05:54
Regranted in 1753 as Duplin, after Scottish Lord Thomas Hay, the Viscount Duplin. about 0:06:07
Regranted a final time in 1767 as Lempster, after Sir Thomas Firmer, the second Baron Leominster. about 0:06:23
Lempster was incorporated in 1772. about 0:07:06

The reviews read out

4 stars

"Great town with a small but friendly community; the only thing that could improve would be the middle school."

about 0:08:06

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