/unsolved This multi-part investigation by © 2024 ÍâÍøÌìÌÃ, APM Reports, and The Marshall Project explores how police in St. Louis — one of America's deadliest cities — have struggled to solve killings, leaving thousands of family members without answers. en-US Copyright © 2024 ÍâÍøÌìÌà Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:00:00 GMT /law-order/2024-06-10/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-murders-takeaways The police department has struggled to solve homicides, partly due to shoddy detective work, staffing shortages and eroding community trust. Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:00:00 GMT /law-order/2024-06-10/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-murders-takeaways Rachel Lippmann, Tom Scheck, Jennifer Lu /law-order/2024-06-07/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-murders-families These St. Louis families have been waiting for years in hopes of getting answers after their loved ones were killed. While parents, siblings and others say police seem to have forgotten them — they have not. Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:00:00 GMT /law-order/2024-06-07/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-murders-families Shahla Farzan, Rachel Lippmann, Brian Munoz, Tom Scheck /law-order/2024-06-06/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-murders-budget The city’s homicide unit has dealt with short staffing, long hours and a ballooning DNA backlog. Thu, 06 Jun 2024 10:00:00 GMT /law-order/2024-06-06/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-murders-budget Tom Scheck, Jennifer Lu, Rachel Lippmann /law-order/2024-06-05/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-murders-officers Several officers in the homicide unit faced internal complaints that they slept on the job, failed to get key evidence and lied to superiors. Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:00:00 GMT /law-order/2024-06-05/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-murders-officers Rachel Lippmann, Tom Scheck, Jennifer Lu /law-order/2024-06-04/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-murders-race In the past decade, police solved fewer than half of the homicide cases with Black victims and two-thirds of the cases with white ones. Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:00:10 GMT /law-order/2024-06-04/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-murders-race Tom Scheck, Jennifer Lu, Rachel Lippmann /law-order/2024-06-03/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-homicides In one of America’s deadliest cities, police have struggled to solve killings due to staffing shortages, shoddy detective work and lack of community trust. Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:00:00 GMT /law-order/2024-06-03/st-louis-missouri-police-unsolved-homicides Alysia Santo, Rachel Lippmann, Jennifer Lu, Tom Scheck /law-order/2024-06-03/st-louis-police-unsolved-homicides-methods Getting and interpreting homicide clearance data involved litigation, complex analysis and patience. Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:00:00 GMT /law-order/2024-06-03/st-louis-police-unsolved-homicides-methods Jennifer Lu, Rachel Lippmann /law-order/2023-07-17/st-louis-police-have-failed-to-solve-nearly-60-of-homicides-committed-since-2017 Newly released data reveals no resolution for families of more than 750 homicide victims. Police refused to release homicide clearance data, so we sued to find out. Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:00:00 GMT /law-order/2023-07-17/st-louis-police-have-failed-to-solve-nearly-60-of-homicides-committed-since-2017 Rachel Lippmann, Tom Scheck, Jennifer Lu /law-order/2021-11-22/st-louis-police-department-hides-key-details-about-homicide-cases-from-the-public APM Reports is suing the police department for withholding data about which homicide cases have been solved. The department told APM Reports and © 2024 ÍâÍøÌìÌà that information was a part of an investigative record. Mon, 22 Nov 2021 12:00:28 GMT /law-order/2021-11-22/st-louis-police-department-hides-key-details-about-homicide-cases-from-the-public Rachel Lippmann, Tom Scheck, Shahla Farzan, Jennifer Lu