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The last time a woman was executed for a federal crime, a kidnapping riveted the nation Samantha Schmidt, The Washington Post Jan. 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The judge called it the most "coldblooded, brutal murder" he had ever tried. News articles described it as the most horrible kidnapping in decades, or as the St. Louis Dispatch wrote, a "tale of evil, stupidity and corruption." On September 28, 1953, Bonnie Brown Heady walked into Notre Dame de Sion, a Catholic school in Kansas City, Mo., and posed as the aunt of Bobby Greenlease, the 6-year-old son of one of the city's richest men. ...

A Missouri man wanted for murder reportedly took his own life on Tuesday after police caught up with him, following the Christmas Day deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her toddler daughter. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Sgt. Benjamin Granda, a spokesman for the St. Louis County Police Department, reported that officers were dispatched to a Spanish Lake home off of Lakeside Lane around 7 p.m. on Christmas Day, after someone placed a call for a welfare check. Fox 2 reports that while inside the home, deputies found the bodies of Charese Garvin and her toddler daughter, Alayah Butler. Auth...

Lawsuit claims St Louis County inmate died of survivable leukemia after being denied medical care Marina Pitofsky © iStock Lawsuit claims St Louis County inmate died of survivable leukemia after being denied medical care The mother of a man who died of leukemia last year while imprisoned in a St. Louis County jail filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit last week, according tomultiple reports. Lamar Catchings was found dead in his jail cell in March 2019, the St. Louis Dispatch reported. He had been in custody at the St. Louis County Justice Center since April 2018. The case...

The first issue of the St. Louis Post and Dispatch was published on Dec. 12, 1878. That was a mere three days after an agent for Joseph Pulitzer bought the bankrupt St. Louis Dispatch in an auction on the steps of the Old Courthouse. The owner of the Post approached him only hours later to merge the two papers. That first edition was only four pages. The front page contained international news, Christmas ads, and a crime blog - staples that survive to this day.  Here's a look at the first crime report in the Post-Dispatch, published  under the title "Vagaries of Vice: Police items an...

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