Roles were reversed a bit in this episode of City Confidential. Usually, the writers target the city or town and are quick to label numerous things (usually bad, but always creative) while the subsequent crime case has more ambiguity. Here, they can't really put a label on the area in question but the criminal story and villain seems pretty obvious, right from the start. The only question is what will happen to him.
St. Louis, it is said in this episode, is a little bit Southern and Northern, and a bit Eastern and Western. "It's a miniature New York," notes one scribe, commenting on the "diversity" of it, people of many ethic origins settling here on the banks of the Mississippi. That's one thing everyone agrees on: this is "river town." Way back, that was the only way you could get to St. Louis, up (or down) the Mississippi.
It's also mixture of blue and white collar. It's a famous beer town with Budweiser as it's undisputed king, and this place loves its baseball team: the Cardinals. Few fans, if any, are as devoted and loving to their team as St. Louis is to their Cardinals. But St. Louis, and the adjoining suburb of St. Charles, is a lot more than just what it appears on the surface. It may be better-known as a beer and baseball town, but it is home to many cultural activities far removed from the suds.
As most big cities, it has more than its share of crime, though, and, like most big cities in American, people migrated to the outlying areas in recent decades. In this case, a popular spot was St. Charles. Families are looking for safe areas to bring up their kids. St. Charles looks pretty good, although by now - as often is the case - it, too, has become congested.
St. Charles was also home of an All-American family: The DeCaros, Rick and Liz. Sweethearts since they were 16, they got married because she got pregnant, but things had worked out. By 1991, they were in the process of happily raising four kids and were labeled "The Leave It To Beaver" family in the area. However, you know (because this is a crime show), bad things were right around the corner.
Some really bizarre things began to happen in the spring of 1992, such as Liz being run over by Rick in their garage; two weeks later their van stolen and burned and a few weeks after than, Liz found dead inside the house. Hey, the husband was out-of-town with the kids in the Ozarks. It couldn't have been him, right? Wrong. When you see some of the "coincidences" in this case, it turned out to be an easy one to solve for the police. It just became way too obvious. I won't go into details to spoil everything, but it is an interesting show and St. Louis is an interesting city. Go Cardinals!
St. Louis, it is said in this episode, is a little bit Southern and Northern, and a bit Eastern and Western. "It's a miniature New York," notes one scribe, commenting on the "diversity" of it, people of many ethic origins settling here on the banks of the Mississippi. That's one thing everyone agrees on: this is "river town." Way back, that was the only way you could get to St. Louis, up (or down) the Mississippi.
It's also mixture of blue and white collar. It's a famous beer town with Budweiser as it's undisputed king, and this place loves its baseball team: the Cardinals. Few fans, if any, are as devoted and loving to their team as St. Louis is to their Cardinals. But St. Louis, and the adjoining suburb of St. Charles, is a lot more than just what it appears on the surface. It may be better-known as a beer and baseball town, but it is home to many cultural activities far removed from the suds.
As most big cities, it has more than its share of crime, though, and, like most big cities in American, people migrated to the outlying areas in recent decades. In this case, a popular spot was St. Charles. Families are looking for safe areas to bring up their kids. St. Charles looks pretty good, although by now - as often is the case - it, too, has become congested.
St. Charles was also home of an All-American family: The DeCaros, Rick and Liz. Sweethearts since they were 16, they got married because she got pregnant, but things had worked out. By 1991, they were in the process of happily raising four kids and were labeled "The Leave It To Beaver" family in the area. However, you know (because this is a crime show), bad things were right around the corner.
Some really bizarre things began to happen in the spring of 1992, such as Liz being run over by Rick in their garage; two weeks later their van stolen and burned and a few weeks after than, Liz found dead inside the house. Hey, the husband was out-of-town with the kids in the Ozarks. It couldn't have been him, right? Wrong. When you see some of the "coincidences" in this case, it turned out to be an easy one to solve for the police. It just became way too obvious. I won't go into details to spoil everything, but it is an interesting show and St. Louis is an interesting city. Go Cardinals!