Louis Ray Finchem

In 2010, the city of St. Louis, Missouri, recorded the death of Louis Ray Finchem, a Black male whose life was cut short in a homicide that would later become a data point in a national conversation about unsolved crimes. While specific details regarding the exact date and circumstances of the incident have faded from immediate public view, his death occurred during a violent year for the city. Finchem was one of many individuals whose cases were cataloged in a broader examination of homicide in ...