Dean R. Hoag ’71

Dean R. Hoag ’71, of Saint Louis, Mo.; Jul. 15. While attending Brown, he spent time playing in the Cape Cod Baseball League, but when a career as a professional baseball player was not an option  he enrolled in law school, and upon graduation he joined the Circuit Attorney’s Office in Saint Louis. In 1982, he joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he served as an assistant U.S. attorney for 40 years, primarily in the Organized Crime and Drug Task Force Unit. During his federal career, on occasion he was asked by the Department of Justice to prosecute high-profile state-court murder cases. The most notable of such cases was State v. Edward Post, involving the bathtub drowning of a New Orleans woman by her husband during a weekend trip to Saint Louis. In his retirement, he was appointed by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office to a specially created Cold Case Unit where he helped solve and prosecute murder cases that had gone unsolved for decades. He is survived by his wife, Mary; a daughter; a son; and three siblings.