Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Webster Groves, MO

Webster Groves is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis in St. Louis County, about 10 miles southwest of downtown, with 24,010 residents at the 2020 census.

The city was created in 1896 when five separate railroad communities — Webster, Old Orchard, Webster Park, Tuxedo Park and Selma — merged to form a single municipality.

Developers of the Webster Park subdivision promoted the young community in 1892 as the 'Queen of the Suburbs,' selling its country air and quick rail commute into St. Louis.

The land under Webster Groves traces back to an 1802 Spanish land grant of 6,002 acres made to Grégoire Sarpy by the last Spanish lieutenant governor of the Illinois Country.

Webster Groves had 9,334 households in the 2020 census, with an average of about 2.4 people per household.

The city is home to the main campus of Webster University, founded in 1915 by the Sisters of Loretto as Loretto College, one of the first Catholic women's colleges west of the Mississippi River.

Webster University has grown from that small women's college into a global institution with campuses in Europe and Asia, about 7,600 students and an alumni network of around 200,000.

Douglass High School in the North Webster neighborhood was, from the 1920s until desegregation in 1956, the only high school in St. Louis County open to Black students.

Webster Groves High School's Statesmen meet Kirkwood High School in the Thanksgiving Turkey Day Game, one of the oldest high school football rivalries west of the Mississippi River.

The community was the subject of the landmark television documentary '16 In Webster Groves,' an early experiment in prime-time sociology that examined suburban teenage life.