Town file
Sarah, Mississippi
Sarah, Mississippi (Tate County, Mississippi) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 1, "A Quadruple Murder in Mississippi" (18 January 2017). Sarah is an unincorporated community in Tate County, in north-western Mississippi.
- Town
- Sarah
- County
- Tate County
- State
- Mississippi
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 1
- Approximate location
- 34.570, -90.209
Episode 1 / 18 January 2017 / 62 min / full
A Quadruple Murder in Mississippi
"It's a town called Sarah Mississippi, an unincorporated municipality in Tate County in northwestern Mississippi." about 0:01:03
The case: Murder of Barbara Brawner, e Craft, Carl Craft and Paige Brawner (April 25th, 2001). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2017
- Population
- 2,775
- Religious
- about 60%
- Violent crime
- ▲ higher than the national average by a good chunk
- Inmates on Mississippi's death row
- 52
- Male death row inmates
- 50
- Female death row inmates
- 2
- White death row inmates
- 22
- Black death row inmates
- 29
- Asian death row inmates
- one
- Prisoners executed in the electric chair between 1940 and 1952
- 75
- Prisoners executed in the gas chamber
- 35
History, in brief
- Sarah is an unincorporated municipality, administered as part of a larger administrative division rather than by its own government. about 0:01:05
- Tate County was formed in 1873, in the far north-western portion of Mississippi. about 0:01:30
- Sarah's post office is on Sarah Road; the zip code is 38665 and the elevation is 187 feet. about 0:02:20
- James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla in Tate County. about 0:05:51
- An F4 tornado hit Tyro, a few miles away, on December 23rd, 2015. about 0:07:18
- KKK flyers calling Martin Luther King a communist pervert were left in driveways around Tate County on Martin Luther King Day in uary 2014. about 0:14:29
- Mississippi joined the Union in 1817. about 0:16:37
- Mississippi left the Union in the 1860s and rejoined afterwards. about 0:16:41
- Mississippi hanged people until 1940, when it began using the electric chair. about 0:16:56
- Between 1940 and 1952, 75 prisoners died in Mississippi's electric chair. about 0:17:12
- A gas chamber was installed in Mississippi in 1954 and used until 1989. about 0:17:35
- Only 35 people were executed in Mississippi's gas chamber. about 0:17:44
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Horseshoe Lake, Arkansas24 miles
- Horn Lake, Mississippi28 miles
- Falkner, Mississippi74 miles
- Walnut, Mississippi78 miles
- Jonesboro, Arkansas90 miles
- Booneville, Mississippi94 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.