In 2016 there were 202,193 crimes reported in the U.S. state of Missouri, including 537 murders. Capital punishment is applied in this state. "Missouri...

Crime in St. Louis includes an overview of crime both in the city of St. Louis and in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. Crime in the city increased...

Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Italian-American organized crime family began when two Sicilian mafiosi known as the...

treated as a misdemeanor crime. For this reason the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws considered Missouri to only have partially decriminalized...

bully Ken Rex McElroy in 1981 in Skidmore, Missouri. The book won an Edgar Award for best true crime writing in 1989, was a New York Times bestseller for...

The murder of Jesse Valencia occurred on June 5, 2004, in Columbia, Missouri. The murder was featured on the April 24, 2020, episode of Dateline NBC....

in Missouri first used in 1810 is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Missouri. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Missouri and...

Louis crime family, also known as the Giordano crime family or St. Louis Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in St. Louis, Missouri, United...

an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. In 2020, the city proper...

footwear shop in St. Charles, Missouri. She opened up the shop at noon and was found dead by customers at 2:30 p.m. She had been shot in the back of the...

Audrie Pott of Saratoga, California, and Daisy Coleman of Maryville, Missouri, who were each victims of separate sexual assaults. At the time of their...

evidence tying him to the crime. On April 13, 1986, seventy-nine-year-old Pauline Martz was found dead in her home in Aurora, Missouri. She was beaten, bound...

life sentence in Missouri's Chillicothe Correctional Center for the 2016 shooting of Louis Gumpenberger in her home in O'Fallon, Missouri. Hupp's claim...

The alcohol laws of Missouri are among the most permissive in the United States. Missouri is known throughout the Midwest for its largely laissez-faire...

1991, on the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. The two sisters were raped and then murdered by a group of four...

serial killer and former police officer who murdered two women in St. Joseph, Missouri in September and October 1990, and after his arrest confessed to...

"Diary of a 'thrill-kill': Missouri teen Alyssa Bustamante murders neighbor girl, records event in journal". True Crime Daily. Archived from the original...

Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. Most of the city lies within Jackson County...

was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political...

American criminal and convicted attempted murderer who resided in Skidmore, Missouri, United States. He was known as "the town bully", and his unsolved...

officers and a criminal fugitive at the Union Station railroad depot in Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of June 17, 1933. It occurred as part of the attempt...

the Supreme Court of Missouri. According to the Revised Statutes of Missouri (RSMo), Section 571.030, a person only commits the crime of carrying a concealed...

begins, attorneys agree on the act but not the crime". Springfield News-Leader. Springfield, Missouri: Gannett Company. Archived from the original on...

Crawford was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in nearby Pagedale. He has two sisters, Elonda and Erica. He struggled with his weight in childhood and...

killer who was convicted of killing seven women of various ages in Kansas City, Missouri, though investigators believe he may have additional unidentified...

in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri on June 30, 1999. Sheriffs found two garbled hand-written notes – apparently written in secret code – in the...

journalist, crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan...

Crime has been recorded in the United States since its founding and has fluctuated significantly over time, with a sharp rise after 1900 and reaching a...

The 2016 Kansas–Missouri murder spree was a March 2016 American mass shooting in which four men were shot in a killing spree in Kansas and another was...

in Kansas City, Missouri, between 1998 and 2001. He was arrested shortly after the final murder, and DNA evidence linked him to the previous crimes,...