If you try to be an optimistic person, I have a new report on violent crime in Missouri that might just give you additional hope. It's certainly not all good news, but there appears to be a silver lining to the storm cloud of violence in the Show Me State.
It's a list I thought Missouri had found a way to get off of, but I was very wrong. The new 2024 murder rate rankings have just been released and the Show Me State has soared to the top not just once, but twice.
There's one title that has been passed around in recent years, but St. Louis, Missouri has been slapped with the 'murder capital' moniker more often than not. Well, based on new data, there's a new king of this awful distinction, but there's also some very good news to go along with that also.
A Missouri mother was found dead in her on January 31, 1994. No one was ever convicted of her murder. Now, 28 years later the FBI in Kansas City has announced they are reopening the case.
Well, this is a twisted story - literally in a snake kind of way. There's a new episode of 48 Hours that recently devoted an episode to the murder of a Missouri snake breeder. Spoiler alert: he wasn't killed by snakes.