Town file
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Woonsocket, Rhode Island (Providence County, Rhode Island) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 225, "The Baby Faced Serial Killer" (27 May 2021). Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is a small city of about 41,500 people in Providence County, twenty minutes from Providence and an hour from Boston, its population falling since a peak in 1950.
- Town
- Woonsocket
- County
- Providence County
- State
- Rhode Island
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 225
- Approximate location
- 42.002, -71.500
Episode 225 / 27 May 2021 / 172 min / full
The Baby Faced Serial Killer
"Woonsocket, in northeastern Rhode Island, in Providence County, area code 401, eight square miles" about 0:07:31
The case: Murders of Audrey Harris, Christine Dumont and Stacy Goulet (2003 to 2004). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2021
- Population
- 41,508
- Median age
- 37
- Median household income
- $38,340
- Median home value
- $207,800
- Two-bedroom rent
- $990 a month
- Cost of living
- 103
- Religious
- 54.4%
- Pedophiles
- ▲ 30.2
- Danger ranking in Rhode Island
- second most dangerous city
- Property crime
- ▲ slightly above average
- Violent crime
- ▲ about two percent above average
History, in brief
- A lot of French Canadians moved to Woonsocket; in 1913 the city had the sixth largest population of French or French Canadian foreign nationals in the entire country. about 0:08:34
The reviews read out
5 stars
"Good amount of stores, a bus route that goes anywhere in the city and to Providence, plenty of schools including a brand new middle school, people from different cultures who get along, a fair share of crime but overall a safe place."about 0:09:40
4 stars
"Pretty close to perfect, but the city of Woonsocket has been dying for years while neighbouring cities improve year by year."about 0:10:12
1 star
"The reviewer was jumped and needed 1K of surgery on his mouth; calls it the worst place he ever lived, the second most dangerous city in Rhode Island, with nearly double the national average of pedophiles, 30.2 against 18.1."about 0:10:54
1 star
"In a little over a year there were two shootings and a fatal stabbing close by; the police are useless, the state police had to take over, officers photographed asleep in their cars, and prisoners get barely anything to eat."about 0:12:00
1 star
"The worst city in Rhode Island the reviewer has lived in: crime, abundant drug dealers, trashy and neglected, with residents described as scum."about 0:13:22
2 stars
"The city is taking a wrong turn crime-wise, with a lot of people being arrested, so future generations will have drug addicts as role models."about 0:14:03
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- North Smithfield, Rhode Island2.9 miles
- Pawtucket, Rhode Island11 miles
- East Providence, Rhode Island16 miles
- Cranston, Rhode Island16 miles
- Sharon, Massachusetts18 miles
- Foster, Rhode Island19 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.