William Parr was a 62-year-old St. Louis cab driver who was killed after leaving the Greyhound Bus Terminal on the night of March 17, 1981. He had been dispatched to pick up a package at First National Bank on Locust and deliver it to a business on Hanley Industrial Drive. Minutes later his cab was seen parked at the bank with its dome light on and a man later identified as Kelvin Shelby Malone was seen nearby carrying a suitcase. Dispatcher calls to Parr went unanswered.

Parr’s abandoned cab was later found in Berkeley, and in the early morning hours of March 18 Parr was discovered in Entrance Park with blood at his nose and ear and personal items beneath him; he was taken to Christian Northeast Hospital and pronounced dead. Investigators connected a Greyhound arrival, witness sightings of a suitcase-carrying man, and two .25-caliber pistols recovered from Malone and an associate after a San Jose vehicle stop. An FBI ballistics examiner later reported a match between a bullet removed from Parr and test bullets from one recovered pistol.

The case led to charges and a capital trial against Malone; the record describes him as a black male tried by an all-white jury. What does anyone who knew Parr or who was in downtown St. Louis that night remember about his last run?