You drive into Fredericktown from the north and you are struck by its beauty. Nestled in the northeastern foothills of the St. Francois mountains, the first sight you see is God's Country Cowboy Church. With just over 3,000 residents, this was Norman Rockwell's small town America. Until it was ripped apart.
Who stabbed and killed Marcy Macinski? It's been 35 years and the family is still asking questions.
A family of nine, two grandparents, five young adults featuring three Cyphers boys and two daughters-in-law, and two small grandchildren, a 10-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl, pull out of the driveway. Destination, Branson, 7 hours away.
Barbara Williams was brutally murdered in her St. Louis County home 30 years ago in a case that appeared to have plenty of evidence and only to turn ice cold.
Four decades ago on a quiet fall morning, horror rang out in our community, as four employees were gunned done at Pope’s Cafeteria, inside the West County Shopping Center. A family member of one of the victims opens her scrapbook, and her heart, as she relives her memories of that fateful day.
Detectives working the I-70 serial killer case are now closely examining a new clue.
News 4 has learned that the person identified earlier this week as the I-65 serial killer is now being looked at as a possible suspect in the I-70 murders, with a local task force scrambling to compare notes with police authorities in Indiana.
An investigator hired by the St. Louis Circuit Attorney to work the 2018 criminal case against former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens has accepted a plea deal.
It was a crisp winter Saturday morning, and Vicki Webb had only one thing on her mind: “My day started out wonderfully. I was going on vacation!” Webb remembered.
The hunt to find a serial killer continues.
For some people, deciding on their life's pursuit never ends. That would not be the case for Raymond Floyd.
On a warm summer day in 1983, Channel 4 was covering a news story at City Hall. While there, a wedding ceremony was taking place. A few wedding pictures would be a nice way to close the evening’s newscast. With that, Larry Wolff kissed his bride Denise. They rushed home to tell all their friends that they got married on television.
September 25, 1993. Some 500 days after Sarah Blessing was killed, Mary Ann Glasscock went to work at Emporium Antiques in Fort Worth, Texas. A friend went to the business later in the day and discovered Mary’s body.
In a cold case where nothing made sense about the killer or his motives, it may have been the oddest choice of all.Why did he kill in the first place? It must have just been for the thrill.
It's been almost nine years now since Gary Workes and Maurice "Bud" Karzin were murdered in their apartment. A rare homicide turned cold case for University City police, and questions left unanswered for the families.
Airplanes are sitting on tarmacs, and you can park in the front row these days at Lambert. Yet the federal government is forking over $10 billion in stimulus money to airports, even though some airports already receive government subsidies.
Larry Ankrom would spend that life at the FBI headquarters in Quantico, Virginia, specializing in behavioral science, eventually becoming chief of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit for the western part of the United States. In layman's terms, Ankrom is an FBI profiler.
Flight 5087 landed with zero passengers, subsidized by taxpayers through the essential air service program. This empty flight cost taxpayers nearly $3,000 to operate each way. $6,000 for a round trip of none.
There have been so many senseless homicides over the years that over time, the memory fades. Years go by, and as their cases turn cold, they are often forgotten. But not this one. Not the one that was so brutal, so beyond the pale of anything human. No, this one would never be forgotten.
Finishing the job has always mattered to McCarrick, who has overseen numerous homicide investigations in his career, including Nancy Kitzmiller and the I-70 serial killer.
‘The Godfather of Homicide’ | Meet the man who has investigated more than 1,000 murders in St. Louis
The legendary detective is 83 now, not that anyone would ever know it. We met to talk about cold cases in the St. Louis area, a topic nobody knows better than Joe Burgoon, having spent 44 years on the streets of St. Louis, 27 of them in homicide.
“I heard about Colorado, and at first I thought, ‘Wow!’’ Meyer said. “Especially with the grocery store. But the more I thought about it, I realized it wasn’t really the same. Colorado was an active shooter. We were gunned down execution style.”
He rode more than 41,000 races, winning more than 7,000 times. In 1979 he was the leading rider in the country, winning nearly 500 races. He also led the nation in 1981.
A three bedroom house sat at the intersection of Delmar and Whittier, roughly one mile east of the Cathedral Basilica, and one mile west of the Fox Theatre. In the early morning hours of February 10, 1959, it was about to become ground zero.
For those of you who were not alive in 1980, it's impossible for me to describe what was sweeping through America at that time.
