Robyn C Robel

Robyn C. Robel, a White 57-year-old woman, died on April 23, 2013, in St. Louis, Missouri, after being fatally strangled and left along the Riverfront Trail.

What came after had the hush of a city trying to say a name out loud so it wouldn’t vanish into the background noise. Later that year, on the first night of winter, people gathered at Centenary United Methodist Church for the annual “Longest Night” ceremony, a candlelit remembrance for men and women who had been homeless when ...