Craig Anthony Underwood was 27 years old when he was killed in St. Louis on Saturday, March 19, 2011. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department investigated his death, and the Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in St. Louis through 2017, lists it as a homicide that remained open with no arrest.
Beyond his name, his age and the date of his death, almost nothing about Craig Anthony Underwood has been made public. No news story about the killing, obituary, memorial page or family fundraiser could be found for this account. He surely had family, friends and neighbors who remember who he was, but none of that has entered the public record.
Because so little has been released, even the basic circumstances remain unknown to the public. The record does not say how he was killed, whether he was attacked indoors or on the street, whether he knew his attacker, what time of day it happened, or whether he died at the scene or later at a hospital.
It does not say whether investigators ever identified a suspect.
Craig Anthony Underwood is also listed on CrimeTea, an online database of unsolved cases, where his death is recorded as an active murder case in St. Louis. The entry repeats the basic record but adds no details about what happened, which suggests that little beyond the police record has ever surfaced.
Craig Anthony Underwood's name also appears in a 2018 Washington Post investigation that listed thousands of homicide victims across major American cities whose killings had not led to an arrest. Being on that list means that, years after the killing, the case was still counted among those for which no one had been arrested.
He was 27 and died on a Saturday in mid-March, as the first warm days of spring were arriving. Public-records listings show several men named Craig Underwood in the St. Louis area, but none can be tied to him, and none says anything about his death.
The location recorded in the Post's database places his death in north St. Louis, a few miles north of downtown, in a residential area of older brick homes, churches and vacant lots. People who lived or worked in that area in March 2011 may remember the police activity that followed his death.
The killing came during a stretch when St. Louis consistently ranked among the most violent big cities in the country. The city recorded 143 homicides in 2009 and 144 in 2010, a very high toll for a city of about 320,000 residents, and a large share of those cases never led to an arrest. Homicide detectives carried heavy caseloads, and killings that drew little press attention were easily forgotten by the wider public.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Craig Anthony Underwood could be found in news archives or public records. More than 15 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who knew Craig Anthony Underwood and saw him in the days before he died, or who heard talk afterward of what happened, may be able to help. Even a small detail, such as a name overheard, a car seen leaving the area or a conversation remembered, can help detectives move a case forward. Anyone with information can call the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Division at 314-444-5371, or leave an anonymous tip with CrimeStoppers at 866-371-TIPS (866-371-8477).
