FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Blake Schindler, who was 17 when he participated in a robbery that led to Ken Allen’s death. In Franklin ...

Mike Bizelli Fay, smiling, appears to scowl. She was adopted by Gale Frey and her husband Dave Melot, who run a non-profit, pit bull rescue group in t...

BODY CAM VIDEO St. Louis Officer David Steinmeyer was on video in 2014 bragging about beating protesters. A St. Louis County cop who was caught on vid...

Declaring the site a public nuisance, a judge has ordered the popular Missouri swimming hole known as the Offsets permanently closed to the public unl...

INSTAGRAM Ex-officer Mike Weston plays with his handcuffs in one of his Instagram posts. A bodybuilder cop who ran an anonymous, protester-bashing Twi...

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DANNY WICENTOWSKI Jason Carr, pictured left in a 1983 news report, and right in a 2004 prison ID photo. A convicted murderer who...

Even a cow knows his own mortality. Two years ago, six steers knew enough to notice an unchained gate at a St. Louis slaughterhouse. It may have been ...

COURTESY EAST ST. LOUIS POLICE Dave Toliver is facing a felony charge of damage to property. An alleged toilet chucker from Florida is facing a felony...

IMAGE VIA ERIC CATALANO On Tuesday, Mark Bertram walked into Eric Catalano’s tattoo shop in Hecker, Illinois, with a uncommon request: fingernai...

One morning, a federal prosecutor named John Davis was driving to his job at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis when he looked in the rearv...

Ken Allen’s killers left him hog-tied on the floor. When prosecutors called it an accident, his daughter fought back

He was a daredevil, a savior and a man who cheated death. But it was the life he took that made him famous