Negligent Homicide Investigations

According to Merriam-Webster, the idiom to get away with murder is “usually used figuratively to describe someone who does something very bad or wrong without being criticized or punished.” In St. Louis, getting away with murder just means killing someone and never getting caught. And it’s disturbingly common. A joint investigation from APM Reports, The Marshall Project, and St. Louis Public Radio. Why 1,000 homicides in St. Louis remain unsolved. “The city’s homicides, especially those that remain unsolved, tend to happen in geographic clusters … there are 40 unsolved homicides from the last decade within a half mile radius of 4240 John Ave.”