Ryan Krull
Staff Writer at St. Louis Magazine | Co-Author of The St. Louis Daily
I am a staff writer at St. Louis Magazine and co-author of The St. Louis Daily, the newsletter that every day tells you everything you need to know about this town in about ten minutes.
Prior to that, I covered all things St. Louis for the city's alt-weekly The Riverfront Times. I wrote around 500 stories a year—some of them quite good. In 2024, the paper very sadly went kaput after almost 50 years. (Not my fault. I was out on paternity leave when it happened.) You can find a few clips from that time below, saved for posterity via the Wayback Machine.
"The Package Killer"
Back in 2018, I was thumbing through a newspaper archive when I stumbled on this 1991 headline, FBI: Serial Killer Slew 3 Women Here. A year later, I was the first to write about the so-called "Package Killer" in more than two decades. I was there three years later when police announced to the victims’ families that the cold case had finally been solved.
I am currently at work on a book about the case, the detective who solved it after three decades, and my own years-long involvement—teetering at times too close to friendship—with the primary suspect. I am represented by Samantha Shea of Georges Borchardt, Inc.
A Serial Killer Murdered 3 Women in 1990 in St. Louis. He’s Never Been Caught
Serial Killer Gary Muehlberg Faces His Victim’s Family in Court
St. Louis County Prosecutor Stopped a Serial Killer and Didn’t Even Know It
How Notorious Serial Killer Gary Muehlberg Terrorized St. Louis
Serial Killer Gary Muehlberg Probably Knows More than He’s Saying.
Other writing
A Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn’t Like the Prosecutor. The Police Department Did Nothing to Stop Him. (Propublica)
A Retired Detective Says He’s Too Sick to Testify at Murder Trials. Now Those Cases Are Falling Apart. (Propublica)
Remembering Tiananmen Square Is Dangerous, Even in Hong Kong (The Atlantic)
Borges, Burgin, and Infinity (The Millions)