Town file
Longmont, Colorado
Longmont, Colorado (Boulder and Weld counties, Colorado) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 576, "Electronic Murder Bread Crumbs" (1 March 2025). Jason Schaefer was born in 1988 and worked as a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service out of the Longmont, Colorado, post office.
- Town
- Longmont
- County
- Boulder and Weld counties
- State
- Colorado
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 576
- Approximate location
- 40.168, -105.101
Episode 576 / 1 March 2025 / 74 min / express
Electronic Murder Bread Crumbs
"this is longmont colorado which is a denver suburb basically ... this is in both boulder and weld counties" about 0:04:40
The case: Murder of Jason Schaefer (October 13, 2021). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2025
- Population
- 98,789
- Median household income
- $83,104
- Median home value
- $535,800
History, in brief
- Founded in 1871 by a group of people from Chicago. about 0:05:30
- Originally called the Chicago-Colorado Colony. about 0:05:38
- The founders sold memberships in the town and used the proceeds to buy the land for the town hall. about 0:05:45
- It was the first planned community in Boulder County, with streets laid out in a grid within a square mile. about 0:05:56
- It grew as an agricultural community after the railroad arrived, growing wheat in the wheat belt and possibly feeding the Coors brewery. about 0:06:09
- It later became a suburb and has been one since. about 0:06:36
The reviews read out
5 stars
"A nice and growing community north of Denver and east of Boulder, very family friendly, with a vast system of parks and running trails, a great commute and a vibrant main street with a small town feel."about 0:06:40
3 stars
"Grew up there and still lives there; as a kid there was not much to do, there are a lot of issues with teenagers and drugs, and it is like a small town with too many people where everyone knows everyone and is nosy."about 0:07:18
3 stars
"The town is right in the middle: not rural or overpopulated, hot or cold, conservative or liberal, everything very average and that is okay."about 0:08:15
1 star
"Nasty, spiteful, awful people who treat service workers terribly, with zero empathy, rude and unkind, and the worst interactions in years."about 0:08:34
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Greeley, Colorado24 miles
- Estes Park, Colorado27 miles
- Golden, Colorado30 miles
- Carr, Colorado52 miles
- Byers, Colorado57 miles
- Kiowa, Colorado66 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.