Town file
McLean, Virginia
McLean, Virginia (Fairfax County, Virginia) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 444, "A Tale Of Two Sisters" (25 November 2023). In 2017 Pam Hargan, born in 1954, was a vice president of Lockheed Martin who had built an estate worth about eight million dollars.
- Town
- McLean
- County
- Fairfax County
- State
- Virginia
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 444
- Approximate location
- 38.944, -77.193
Episode 444 / 25 November 2023 / 70 min / express
A Tale Of Two Sisters
"'this is mclean virginia ... at the tip top of the upper virginia panhandle'; the 911 dispatcher answers as Fairfax County police and fire, 'which is where this town is'" about 0:03:11
The case: Murders of Pam and Helen Hargan (July 14, 2017). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2023
- Population
- 49,310
- Median household income
- $242,610
- Median home value
- $1,186,400
- Crime overall
- ▼ less than half the national average
History, in brief
- Named for John Roll McLean, former publisher and owner of the Washington Post. about 0:04:51
- In 1902 McLean, Stephen Benton Elkins and a French aristocrat, Jean-Pierre Genard, brought the railroad charter through the town, connecting it to Washington DC. about 0:05:03
The reviews read out
5 stars
"An exchange student says the school was the first they attended in the US, and that students and teachers were welcoming, so they adapted and made friends easily."about 0:05:57
4 stars
"Pros and cons: great public schools, close to DC and Tyson's, mostly clean and very green, a good library and community centre, close to parks, safe for families but deteriorating; against that, cookie-cutter houses, no walkable or bikeable downtown, no Whole Foods in town and Balducci's overpriced with out-of-date meat."about 0:06:44
2 stars
"Very congested with tons of traffic, it takes forever to go anywhere, and there are few sidewalks, which makes walking dangerous; public transport is encouraged and widely available through city buses and the metro."about 0:08:04
1 star
"People in the area are snobs with million-dollar homes, the schools are too hard, the area is insanely expensive, the writer could not get into any Virginia schools because their GPA at Langley was not good enough, and the kids are spoiled, some getting $500 a month in allowance."about 0:08:22
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Bethesda, Maryland5.0 miles
- Largo, Maryland20 miles
- Woodbridge, Virginia21 miles
- Dumfries, Virginia27 miles
- Elkridge, Maryland30 miles
- Lothian, Maryland32 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.