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On Saturday, Oct. 11, a man named Russell Byers died. He lived in Creve Coeur, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. He was 94 years old. He lived a rich and full life. He was a criminal for almost all of it.

Byers stole cars and precious art from the Saint Louis Art Museum. He was a fence . He is known to have threatened more than a few people, though he always maintained that he “didn’t kill people or deal drugs.” He believed that committing those crimes was too easy a way to end up in prison. Even though his own attorney said that Byers was “one of the most dangerous criminals” in St. Louis, and despite a life of a never-ending litany of criminal activities and ma

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