Town file
Maynardville, Tennessee
Maynardville, Tennessee (Union County, Tennessee) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 26, "Two Murders, Two Murderers" (12 July 2017). Maynardville, Tennessee is a small town in Union County, about 35 minutes from Knoxville, and in August 1986 Jack Romines lived there with his wife Wanda, 51, and their 15-year-old daughter Sheila.
- Town
- Maynardville
- County
- Union County
- State
- Tennessee
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 26
- Approximate location
- 36.247, -83.806
Episode 26 / 12 July 2017 / 70 min / full
Two Murders, Two Murderers
"Going to Mainardville, Tennessee ... It's in Union County, Tennessee" about 0:05:16
The case: Murders of Wanda and Sheila Romines (August 17, 1986). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2017
- Population
- 2,355
- Median age
- 38.5
- Median home value
- $105,700
- Two-bedroom rent
- $590
- Cost of living
- 79
- Religious
- 35%
- Property crime
- ▲ almost twice the national average
- Violent crime
- ▼ about half the national average
- Cost of 's time on death row
- $780,000
History, in brief
- Originally known as Liberty in the 1800s. about 0:06:21
- Liberty was where Union County was created in the 1850s and was chosen as the county seat. about 0:06:23
- The land for the courthouse was donated by Marcus Monroe, a local minister. about 0:06:31
- Country singer Roy Acuff was born here in 1903 and was known as the king of country music. about 0:07:02
- Acuff is credited with creating the string-based country sound known today. about 0:07:09
- In 1952 Hank Williams said of Acuff: he's the biggest singer that this music ever knew. about 0:07:21
- Acuff moved to Nashville and formed Acuff Rose Music in the forties, signing Hank Williams, Roy Orbison and the Everly Brothers. about 0:07:39
- Acuff was the first living inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. about 0:07:54
- Brad Pitt's character in Inglourious Basterds is a moonshiner from Maynardville. about 0:08:08
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Pigeon Forge, Tennessee34 miles
- Cosby, Tennessee44 miles
- Whitley City, Kentucky50 miles
- Baileyton, Tennessee54 miles
- Tellico Plains, Tennessee67 miles
- Stab, Kentucky72 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.