The multimedia art installation and reporting project features six original portraits by local artist Cbabi Bayoc, inspired by a years-long investigation by St. Louis Public Radio, APM Reports and The Marshall Project into the more than 1,000 unsolved homicides over the last decade.

In St. Louis, people whose loved ones were killed said they didn’t know what to expect from the police. This guide explains the process.

For those whose loved ones were killed in St. Louis, the investigative process could be improved with empathy, better communication and frequent updates.

In this guide, families who have lost someone to violence in St. Louis share what did — and did not — help them rebuild their lives after a tragic loss.

The police department has struggled to solve homicides, partly due to shoddy detective work, staffing shortages and eroding community trust.

These St. Louis families have been waiting for years in hopes of getting answers after their loved ones were killed. While parents, siblings and others say police seem to have forgotten them — they have not.

The city’s homicide unit has dealt with short staffing, long hours and a ballooning DNA backlog.

Several officers in the homicide unit faced internal complaints that they slept on the job, failed to get key evidence and lied to superiors.

In the past decade, police solved fewer than half of the homicide cases with Black victims and two-thirds of the cases with white ones.

Getting and interpreting homicide clearance data involved litigation, complex analysis and patience.