New York Crime

James Kuehnlein: Cop Fired For Controversial Recording Gets Probation For Domestic Assault

In 2007, James Kuehnlein, then a St. George police officer, made headlines after his bosses fired him over comments he made, caught on tape, taunting a driver. He reportedly said, "You want to try me? You want to try me tonight? You think you've had a bad night? I will ruin your ****ing night." He ... More >>

Thieves' Bazaar: Hospitals, doctors and dealers have made Medicare the nation's sweetest crime. The feds are now trying to shutter the door.

Thirty years after a white minister's son was beaten to death in the Central West End, one black man remains in prison. But there's plenty of guilt to go around.

Country Club Sopranos: American banks are on a massive crime spree. Obama and Romney hope you won't notice.

Riverfront Carjacking Ends with Car Crash in Brooklyn, Illinois

A pair of carjackers are in custody in Illinois this morning after shooting a man near the Poplar Street Bridge after midnight last night. Police say that at 12:24 a.m., a 41-year-old black man and a 27-year-old black woman were sitting on the hood of their car near Poplar Street and Leonor K. Sulli ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Special Best Of Edition

Lt. Tim Fagan on the Glendale Murder-Suicide: "I Have A Picture of Someone Who Loved Their Children Very, Very Much"

Lt. Tim Fagan of the Major Case Squad just spent almost twenty long, calm minutes answering questions from the press about the status of their investigation into the July 30  murders of Catherine Murch and her children, Mitchell and Mary Claire. The investigators have determined that it was a m ... More >>

Catherine Murch Shoots Her Children, Herself in Apparent Murder-Suicide

The Major Case Squad continues to investigate what appears to be the murder-suicide of Catherine Murch, 42, and her two children Mary Claire, 9, and Mitchell 11. Mitch Murch II, husband and father, is not a suspect at this time. Details of what happened Monday morning in the quiet suburb of Glendale ... More >>

Police Issue Statement on Glendale Murder-Suicide Investigation

The Major Case Squad and the Glendale Police have issued a statement on the status of their investigation into the suspected murder-suicide of the Murch family. It's early days in their investigation so information is sparse, and subject to change; a police press conference scheduled for 4:15 p.m. t ... More >>

The Columbine Effect: Thirteen years and a hundred school shootings later, why is Hollywood obsessed with this one?

Wrong-man thriller Man on a Ledge goes thud

Anthony Matthews: Few Clues in Murder of Venice Official

​Authorities in metro East St. Louis are at a loss to explain the murder of the Venice street superintendent over the weekend. Anthony Matthews, 56, was walking out of his home around 7:30 p.m. Saturday for his part-time job as a security guard at a Brooklyn strip club when he was shot to death by ... More >>

Perv and Protect: Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually molested by cops. Should the Scouting program share the blame?

Lost Boys: New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker — and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide

Miles Davis' East St. Louis Childhood Home Is Falling Apart

Andrew TheisingMiles Davis' East St. Louis childhood home in October 2011.​There was a deep puddle the width of the entire dirt road, so Dr. Andrew Theising, a political science professor at Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville, wheeled his car over the gravel shoulder instead. He was taki ... More >>

Miles Davis' Childhood Home Is Falling Apart In East St. Louis

Andrew TheisingMiles Davis' East St. Louis childhood home in October 2011.​There was a deep puddle the width of the entire dirt road, so Dr. Andrew Theising, a political science professor at Southern Illinois University -- Edwardsville, wheeled his car over the gravel shoulder instead. He was ta ... More >>

In a tiny town just outside Joplin, a landmark adoption case tests the limits of inalienable human rights

Be Nice to Your Service Person or Suffer the Consequences

Wikimedia CommonsHave you had your McBeating today?​Yesterday Gut Check discussed why you shouldn't be an asshole to staff members in restaurants, taking the stance that the No. 1 reason to act decent is because there's a human being on the receiving end of the crazy blind rage. Today, we hav ... More >>

Screw Loose: St. Louis Actors' Studio gets tangled up with a crazy whore and goes Nuts

St. Louis Aerotropolis Partner Arrested for Child Porn

kveo.comRobert Hedrick was denied bail, so maybe he still has available that $50 million for St. Louis Aerotropolis.​Wow. Rough couple weeks for St. Louis officials hoping to turn Lambert Field into a major cargo hub with China and Latin America. First, industry experts assail the project (Exhibit ... More >>

Ten Biggest Musician Death Conspiracies

wikimedia commons​There's always been a sense of glamour in the blur of all that is sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, and it doesn't end when the music's done, or even when the rock stars die. Instead, an eerie feeling of mystery and unfinished business surfaces when the demise of a music icon is ... More >>

Midnight Specialty: The Black Rep puts a twist on the Lead Belly legend with Black Pearl Sings!

Cops Bust Truck Hauling Tomatoes and 600 Pounds of Pot on I-55/70

​On Monday morning, February 14, Illinois State Police found 600 pounds of marijuana in a tractor-trailer hauling tomatoes on Interstate 55/70 near Highway 159 in Collinsville. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Jose A. Martinez of Glendale, Arizona, and Manuel Medrano of Merced, Calif ... More >>

Man Killed Last Night at Peek-A-Boo Club; Latest Shooting at Brooklyn Strip Joints

​Police are searching for the suspect who shot and killed a patron at the Peek-A-Boo Club in Brooklyn, Illinois, around 4 a.m. this morning. According to reports, a man was kicked out of the strip club for fighting. That same man allegedly returned to the club with the gun and shot two men in the ... More >>

Black Pearl, Yung Ro Team Up to Offer Free Cover-Up of Gang Tattoos

Page, right, talks with his son, the rapper Yung Ro, outside the promotional party for his upcoming album.​In St. Louis, any tattoo with a six-pointed star likely signifies membership with the criminal group Gangster Disciples. Two overlapping circles might mean affiliation with a North City g ... More >>

Good Ink: Downtown Artist Offers Free Cover-Up of Gang Tattoos

Page, right, talks with his son, the rapper Yung Ro, outside the promotional party for his upcoming album.​In St. Louis, any tattoo with a six-pointed star likely signifies membership with the criminal group Gangster Disciples. Two overlapping circles might mean affiliation with a North City g ... More >>

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

More Muggings Near Wash. U. Campus; Two Incidents Occur Last Night

​Four people were robbed in two separate muggings last night near the Washington University campus. The first incident occurred at Rosedale and Skinker near Washington University's north campus. St. Louis police inform Daily RFT that two male suspects punched and knocked a 20-year-old male to the ... More >>

Pinalcchio: Forensics experts say a deputy's tale about getting shot by drug smugglers doesn't add up

Asylum Denied: Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

Jerry Cole: St. Louis Homicide No. 73; Police Suspect Drug Deal Gone Bad

Twenty-two-year-old Jerry Cole, of the 5400 block of Lindenwood in south St. Louis was on the northside last night when he was shot and killed around 7:40 p.m.​Police say that Cole parked his car in the 4200 block of Harris (above) and walked toward a green Pontiac Bonneville.

Seized: Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

Brian Duff: Suspect Tells FBI He Robbed Bank to Pay Off His Drug Dealers

Airsoft guns can look real when you paint their tips black -- as Duff allegedly did before his heist.​Hey, at least his excuse makes sense! Brian Heath Duff reportedly told FBI agents last week that he robbed a bank in southwestern Illinois because he owed drug dealers thousands of dollars as a re ... More >>

Five Hollywood Heist Movies That Resemble Yesterday's ATM Solutions Robbery In St. Louis

Image source​Several local news outlets have already donned their deerstalker hats and done their best Sherlock Holmes impressions by connecting the robbery of ATM Solutions Inc. in Midtown yesterday with two other similar burglaries of armored cars in 1999 and 1992.In the heist yesterday, four ma ... More >>

Cowboy Down

Rob Krentz's family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher

Smack Is Back, But Did It Ever Really Leave?

Mexican drug cartels are bringing in new ultra-potency heroin. So what else is new?​You may have seen the story the Associated Press moved the other day, a breathlessly written special report about how Mexican drug cartels are smuggling in cheap "ultra-potent" black tar heroin that's so pur ... More >>

Winfield Cop Busted Buying Cocaine; Claims He Was Replacing Damaged Police Evidence

Bud Chrum has traded his cop uniform for a prison jumpsuit.​Hmm. Something tells me they do not teach this at the police academy. Winfield police officer Bud Chrum was arrested Friday on charges of purchasing $160 worth of cocaine. As the Post-Dispatch reports today, Chrum told narcotics officers ... More >>

Archbishop of New York Faces Scrutiny for Handling of Sex Abuse Case in St. Louis

Archbishop Dolan​Timothy Dolan was a bishop in St. Louis in the early 2000s before being named archbishop of Milwaukee and from there moving on to serve as the current archbishop of New York. A year into his tenure in the Big Apple the archbishop has been generaly well-received, though questions p ... More >>

Honor Thy Father: A Muslim man in Phoenix "honor killed" his Americanized daughter

Reemus Moore, Larry Edwards Arrested for January 11 Murder of Bryan Neal

Remus Moore​Two St. Louis men are in custody for the January 11 murder of Bryan Neal in a north St. Louis residence. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney last week charged Remus R. Moore, 27, of the 3900 block of Greer, with first-degree murder, four counts of first-degree robbery and five counts of arm ... More >>

King Khan Was Caught With Magic Mushrooms, Kentucky Paper Reports

King Khan performing last year in Brooklyn. Image Via.​That would be the Kentucky New Era, whose tagline, "News that hits home," seems especially fitting in this instance.Late Friday evening, the paper published a story with the awesomely un-ironic headline "Musician Arrested, Rock Band Stuck In C ... More >>

St. Louis Geezer Buys $100,000 Worth of Bernie Madoff's Jewelry To Teach Daughters A Lesson in Fiscal Responsibility

Photo of Lester Miller via St. Louis Business Journal​Lester Miller knows a thing or two about being filthy rich. He also knows what its like to be dirt poor. Maybe that's why he's taken such an interest in the rags-to-riches-to-orange-jumpsuit story of Bernie Madoff.Miller, a 77-year-old Ladue re ... More >>

The Big Bloody: Melee At Brooklyn's Bottoms Up Strip Club

A strip joint, a late-night shooting, at least 30 shell casings recovered, three weapons five arrests, and one man hospitalized: Was Adam "Pacman" Jones in town Saturday this weekend?Yes, the Belleville News-Democrat is reporting yet another shooting incident at a Brooklyn, Illinois strip club, this ... More >>

The Big Bloody: Police Arrest Suspect for Murder Outside Peek-a-Boo Strip Club

Dorian Boyd​Here's an update to a story we posted last week. Police in Illinois believe they've nabbed the man who shot and killed 22-year-old Dion E. Hardin last week as Hardin left Club Peek-a-Boo in Brooklyn, Illinois. Hardin was shot just as he left the Metro East strip club in the early ... More >>

Blown to Peaces: Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed a cop in the name of revolution.

UPDATED: Shooting Investigation Closes Poplar Street Bridge This Morning, Initial Reports Suggest Ties to East Side Nightclub

flickr.com/photos/bkrammeThe Poplar Street Bridge (foreground) as viewed looking toward East St. Louis. ​All westbound lanes of the Poplar Street Bridge were closed this morning at 7 a.m. for about 15 minutes as St. Louis police searched for evidence tied to a double-shooting.Details are scare but ... More >>

Hornswoggled!: Welcome to Gerald, Missourah — the town that did just fall off the turnip truck

The Rockwell Files

Steven Spielberg's stolen painting, a St. Louis art thief, and a plot to kill Martin Luther King. It could make a helluva movie.

Can You Dig It?

Warriors come out and play

Best Evidence

George Allen claims police made him confess to rape and murder. Twenty years after Allen was convicted, his last hope hinges on a DNA test.