Town file
Washington Terrace, Utah
Washington Terrace, Utah is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 41, "Remorseless Horrors" (25 October 2017). This episode covers Washington Terrace, Utah, a town of 9,157 people in the north-central part of the state, between Ogden and Salt Lake City.
- Town
- Washington Terrace
- State
- Utah
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 41
- Approximate location
- 41.168, -111.978
Episode 41 / 25 October 2017 / 111 min / full
Remorseless Horrors
"James opens the town section with Washington Terrace, Utah, in the north-central part of the state, between Ogden and Salt Lake City" about 0:05:16
The case: Murder of Charla King (June 20, 1989). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2017
- Population
- 9,157
- Median age
- 34.2
- Median household income
- $44,000
- Median home value
- about $142,000
- Two-bedroom rent
- about $790
- Cost of living
- 90
- Religious
- seventy-eight percent
- Property crime
- ▲ about ten percent over average
- Violent crime
- ▲ about 20% higher
History, in brief
- Locally the press calls the town the terrace; its website slogan is Making life better. about 0:06:59
- Recorded history of the area as a European settlement starts in 1942, with the Terrace House housing project for government workers at government installations; nobody imagined it as a permanent community. about 0:08:31
- With federal funds and private investment the worker barracks were converted into single-family houses, and more houses followed. about 0:09:35
- George Herman Van Luellen, president of the board of directors and go-between for federal funds and grants, tried to name the place Van Luellenville; the name was voted down and the town went with Washington Terrace. about 0:10:28
- A mayoral race years ago ended in a tied vote and was decided by a roll of two dice; Mark Allen was elected. about 0:11:11
- The Ben Lomond Suites hotel, about four miles outside town, is said to be haunted: a bride drowned in the bath in room 1102 on her honeymoon, and her son then killed himself in the next room. about 0:13:34
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Perry, Utah21 miles
- South Salt Lake, Utah32 miles
- Holladay, Utah36 miles
- Oakley, Utah47 miles
- American Fork, Utah55 miles
- Pleasant Grove, Utah56 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.