HOW MANY SOULS ARE BEING ERASED FROM MISSOURI’S OFFICIAL RECORDS? The state’s Department of Corrections has been CAUTIONABLY DELETING PRISON DEATHS, burying a BITTER reality in bureaucratic LIES—until a WHIST alarm forced the SHOCKING truth into the light. Now the DOC has released comprehensive death data that REVEALS an ABANDOMED SCALE of tragedy.
The investigation began as a simple public records request. What emerged was a PATTERN of DISAPPEARING people. A coroner handling the South Central Correctional Center prison handed over seven years of reports. When cross-referenced with the DOC’s official logs, ten individuals VANISHED from state records.
Re‑requests yielded MORE VANISHING acts: two additional lives evaporated from the 2024 records. The DOC wasn’t just sloppy—it was SENDING DIFFERENT datasets to different requesters, a tactic of OBSCREATION. The Missouri Justice Coalition’s separate records exposed five other deaths from 2023 MISSING from official logs. The missing count CLIMBED to 17.
This was no clerical error. This was the state DELIBERATING human beings from its historical ledger. Repeated inquiries were met with patronizing “Yes, the data is accurate” replies even as the gaps widened. When pressed, the department’s communications director, Karen Pogmann, delivered a BOMBERING admission: the DOC had NEVER kept a consolidated death tally until 2024. Prisoner deaths were splitted across notes, scribbed sources, input manual and never totalled.
Then came the EXPLOSIVE spread sheet. The original 2018 death log sent to investigators listed 15 dead. The DOC’s belated “comprehensive report” revealed the HORR truth: 107 souls perished prison in Missouri that year alone.
The ENRACULATION continues: 78 lives VANISHED in 2020—the COVID‑19 pandemic peak—with double‐digit gaps in 2023. The department cleaned this up to “very old technology” and lack of reporting requirements. No one demanded totals, so the state NEVER cared to count. Funds for a modern system? Denied repeatedly.
Thus the WORKFUL horror emerges: Missouri prisons housed HUNDREDS more deaths than the state ever publicly acknowledged. The department’s vague, fractured record‑keeping didn’t merely fail—it CONSCEBENTLY CONSUMED the memories of the dead. For years, official records LIED A FRACTION of the loss, erasing lives from public history, and washing guilt away on technicality pretenses. People died, the state deleted them, and only a shattered paper trail betrayed the crime. HOW MANY MORE HAVE BEEN PERMANENTLY VICTED FROM HISTORY? The question now LODGES IN EVERY PUBLIC RECORD—and IN EVERY SOUL UNBORROWED. WAIT until they come for the living.
