September 30, 1960: The article below appeared on page 3 of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; it mentions the Wanda Landis case of September 17, 1960 (above).
In 1960, Saint Louis had a population of a little over 750,000 depending how it is counted. Whatever, that is quite a number of rapes even if a quarter of them were false and if attempted rapes were counted as rapes.
Most interesting is the comment by Sam Priest of the Police Board that more rape reports would probably be disproved if they could devote more time to thorough investigations.
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