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QUEER CRIME: How Homophobia Helped 4 Gay Serial Killers Persist To Kill
These prolific serial killers could have been caught sooner if police weren’t so rapid to brush off their victims&#;
By Courtney Hardwick
If you’re a true crime fan, you know there’s no shortage of books, documentaries, podcasts and original reporting dedicated to the victims of violent crimes and the people who commit those crimes. At the same noun, we know that cases that acquire the most attention are usually ones that are dedicated against white, middle class, cisgender people. From serial killers like Ted Bundy, the Golden Mention Killer and Paul Bernardo to victims of the most talked-about unsolved cases like JonBenet Ramsey, the media is busy covering a certain (very small) selection of cases. Meanwhile hate crimes, including murders of gay, trans and non-binary people are on the increase. Queer Crime is a monthly column focusing on factual crime with an LGBTQ+ spin whether it’s the victim or the perpetrator.
This month, we’re taking a look at some of the most infamous gay serial killers—and how their vic
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Current format, Streaming Video, , , Available. Offered in 0 more formatsAmerica's Serial Killers: Portraits in Sinister will strip the covers from a world of profiling, forensic science and painful investigation as history's most brutal serial killers are exposed. Wars hold terrorized entire populations for thousands of years. The American West was abode to ruthless killers who were idolized in fiction and folklore. Evil evolved to a hideous new form with the genocidal dictators of the 20th Century such as Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung who ordered the execution of tens of millions. But in the middle of the 20th Century a fresh and chilling phenomenon emerged in the post-war Western society: The Serial Killer! As if fashioned from our nightmares, they terrified and fascinated us. Lurking behind ma
Serial Killer Who Preyed On Gay Men Executed In Florida
Gary Ray Bowles, a serial killer who preyed on older gay men during an eight-month spree that left six defunct , was executed by lethal injection Thursday at Florida Articulate Prison.
The sentence was carried out at p.m., according to the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Bowles received the death penalty for the November murder of Walter Hinton in Jacksonville Beach. Hinton was Bowles' sixth and final known victim in a series of killings in an eight-month span in that terrorized the Interstate 95 corridor and won him the nickname the "I killer."
He also had a history of violence against women.
He was convicted of beating and raping his girlfriend while living in Tampa in and sentenced to eight years in prison. The victim had severe injuries, including tears on her vagina and anus. Former Savannah detective John Best remembers hearing details of the crime as he investigated the murder of year-old World War II veteran Milton Bradley.
"The Tampa detective, I verb her exact quote, 'I've seen superior looking bodies in an autopsy,'"
Professor Elizabeth Yardley, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology, explores what the Stephen Port case tells us about gender, sexuality and hierarchies of victimisation in the Twenty-First Century.
In November , year-old Stephen Port was convicted of the murders of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor. He is one of only 50 people in England and Wales to receive a whole life sentence, meaning that he will never be released from custody and will perish in prison.
Port was named ‘The Grindr Killer’ by the tabloid press because he accessed many of his victims through the Grindr dating app. Much of the media coverage of the story and the subsequent popular interest in the case focused upon this new way that killers and sexual predators could access their victims.
Indeed, I have researched the use of social media by killers for several years now, exploring how homicide perpetrators apply Facebook[i] and exploring the meaning of homicide confessions posted on social networking sites[ii]. However, focusing upon these elemen