For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for ...

Deandra Buchanan, an inmate at the Jefferson City Correctional Center serving a first degree murder sentence for killing his girlfriend and two others in 2000 (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). On ...

After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time.

A southern Missouri teenager reported missing earlier this month has been found dead, according to the Missouri State Highway ...

A fourth person was charged in connection to an 18-year-old who was found dead in southeast Missouri recently.

The Missouri Supreme Court Building in Jefferson City on March 12 (Clara Bates/Missouri Independent). A Missouri man who was sentenced to death by a trial judge in 2009 despite a jury deadlocking on ...

Members of the Missouri State and college football community took to social media to mourn the death of Bears safety Todric McGee. Missouri State announced McGee's death Saturday morning, saying he ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence. Since the law changed in 1984, at least 18 people have been sentenced to death by a ...

According to the Pemiscot County Prosecution Office, three men have been charged in connection to the murder of 18-year-old ...

After a six-day trial in Missouri, a jury sentenced Joshua Rocha to death in the killing of North Kansas City officer Daniel ...

On Nov. 7, 2000, Deandra Buchanan was at home in Columbia with his stepfather, aunt and girlfriend, celebrating news that the aunt had found an apartment and was going to move into her own place.

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