Murder in Small Town X (sometimes abbreviated MiSTX) is an American reality television series created by George Verschoor, Robert Fisher Jr., and Gordon Cassidy and was hosted by Sgt.

It is notable for the fact that its winner, New York City fireman Ángel Juarbe Jr., died in the September 11 attacks exactly one week after the show's finale aired.

A large number of improvisational actors and actresses were stationed around the real-life town, and their job was to provide clues (useful and not useful) to the investigators.

The question would usually be pointed to one of the track teams, meaning whoever was involved with that line of investigation has the highest potential of answering it correctly.

The two investigators would each choose a map and head out to the two different remote locations completely alone, with their movements recorded only by night-vision cameras.

The murder had been committed with the assent of many of the town's leaders, who met in a secret lodge, a society called "The Order of the Scarlet Lupine" or the "O.S.L."

As it turned out, he murdered one of the men responsible for the killing of his family, but he was overwhelmed with guilt and committed suicide.

The killer was revealed to be William Lambert (whose real last name is Duchamps), a business partner of Nate Flint and a common target of suspicion (although all initial theories about him turned out to be irrelevant).

They were Blodgett (killed by his father), DeBeck, Flint, Merchant, Rose, Thibodeaux, and the eliminated investigators, using their corpses to recreate the unfinished family dinner they had before being interrupted by the fire.

The fictional police chief, Dudley Duncan, chased him up a flight of stairs and shot him in his bedroom, sending him crashing out the window and falling two stories to the hard concrete below.

Because Ángel was immune (as he was chosen by Katie to be the lifeguard), there was no reason to vote and Alan and Jeff were immediately handed their maps.

Exactly one week after the airing of the finale, the show's winner, Ángel Juarbe Jr, being a seven-year veteran of the FDNY, was one of the first responders in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.

[6] On November 28, 2001, his body was found and identified in the Marriott hotel rubble next to the World Trade Center towers.

The format was sold to the BBC who made a British version (with slight amendments to the rules) in 2003 entitled The Murder Game.