Carleton Spiller

Carleton Spiller was a 19-year-old Black man from St. Louis, Missouri. What’s striking about his case is how quickly the trail goes quiet in the public record: beyond the basic fact that he died, accessible online reporting and publicly indexed materials do not preserve a clear, widely documented narrative of how his final hours unfolded, where exactly the violence occurred, or what chain of events led to the fatal outcome.

In the years since, there has been no consistently available, v ...