Paragould is on the east side of Arkansas, the Ozarks are in the middle and western side of the state. St. Louis and Kaneas City Missouri are closer to the places mentioned in the tv show than Paragould is. Drawing a correlation between the two seems a little far fetched.

I live 15 miles from there. It's a bit of a shithole. Lots of white trash meth addicts and illegal Mexican immigrants. Close enough to Memphis, west Memphis, and other ghetto ass towns for black crime to migrate there.

I didn't see anything about this on the local news, or hear about it from any of the people I work with that live in Paragould.