Town file
Raymond, Wisconsin
Raymond, Wisconsin (Racine County, Wisconsin) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 259, "A Bizarre Psychopath & His Porn" (20 January 2022). Raymond, Wisconsin, is a small farming community in Racine County, about twenty-five minutes from Milwaukee and Racine, and in the summer of 1990 it became the centre of a murder investigation that horrified even experienced detectives.
- Town
- Raymond
- County
- Racine County
- State
- Wisconsin
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 259
- Approximate location
- 42.799, -88.011
Episode 259 / 20 January 2022 / 161 min / full
A Bizarre Psychopath & His Porn
"Raymond, Wisconsin, in southeastern Wisconsin, in Racine County, about 25 minutes to Milwaukee" about 0:06:10
The case: Murder of James M. Madden (June 27, 1990); Unsolved 1986 Connecticut dismemberment (November 1986). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2022
- Population
- 3,932
- Median household income
- about $70,000 a year
- Median home value
- $332,800
- Two-bedroom rent
- about $931
- Cost of living
- 105 out of 100
- Religious
- 47%
- Property crime
- ▼ about half
- Violent crime
- ▼ about a third
History, in brief
- Originally known as Raymond Center; the name was shortened to Raymond and it became a ghost town for a long time before repopulating. about 0:06:10
- S.C. Johnson and Son, Dremel Corporation and Reliance Controls Corporation were among the industries in the Racine area. about 0:07:01
- A wagon maker founded in the 1800s became the Mitchell and Lewis Company, which made motorcycles and cars at the start of the 20th century. about 0:07:04
- Racine was home to Insinkerator. about 0:07:34
- The Horlicks malt factory in Racine made malted milk balls. about 0:07:58
- The Western Publishing Factory in Racine printed Little Golden Books. about 0:08:05
The reviews read out
5 stars
"I love living out in the country. It is beautiful."about 0:08:44
5 stars
"I would not trade my living place for anything. I love it."about 0:08:53
4 stars
"A very nice place to live but could be improved: the elementary school does not really prepare you for high school and there is not much sense of community, though Foxconn and talk of becoming a village may change that."about 0:09:44
"A small town with nothing going on, which is the point: one elementary school and a little hardware store and that is it."about 0:11:02
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Pewaukee, Wisconsin22 miles
- Spring Grove, Illinois27 miles
- Oconomowoc, Wisconsin32 miles
- McHenry, Illinois35 miles
- Libertyville, Illinois36 miles
- Grafton, Wisconsin36 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.