Gay murderers
QUEER CRIME: How Homophobia Helped 4 Male lover Serial Killers Carry on To Kill
These prolific serial killers could have been caught sooner if police weren’t so swift 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 aggressive crimes and the people who commit those crimes. At the same moment, we know that cases that receive the most attention are usually ones that are involved against white, middle class, cisgender people. From serial killers like Ted Bundy, the Golden Declare 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 soar . Queer Crime is a monthly column focusing on genuine 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 male lover serial killers—and how their vic
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 dead, was executed by lethal injection Thursday at Florida State 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 hallway 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 harsh 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 recall her exact quote, 'I've seen better looking bodies in an autopsy,'"
'The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer' premieres Feb. 18 on Hulu
In the wealthy suburbs of Indianapolis, husband and father of three Herb Baumeister led a double life - businessman by day, serial killer by night. Throughout the s, he targeted gay men, amassing a victim count possibly surpassing that of Jeffrey Dahmer.
The fresh true crime series, "The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer," premieres Feb. 18 on Hulu.
The four-part ABC News Studios docuseries follows Hamilton County coroner Jeff Jellison as he launches a new investigation decades after thousands of bones were found in the woods behind Fox Hollow Farms, Baumeister's stately home.
Using new DNA technology, Jellison and his team work to identify the human remains, bringing long-deferred closure to victims' families and unearthing unsettling questions about potential accomplices, missing evidence, and a key witness whose story keeps changing.
Through never-before-seen archival footage and new interviews with those central to the story, this new docuseries explores h
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 being sentence, meaning that he will never be released from custody and will die in prison.
Port was named ‘The Grindr Killer’ by the tabloid flatten because he accessed many of his victims through the Grindr dating app. Much of the media coverage of the story and the subsequent well-liked interest in the case focused upon this recent way that killers and sexual predators could access their victims.
Indeed, I own researched the use of social media by killers for several years now, exploring how homicide perpetrators use Facebook[i] and exploring the meaning of homicide confessions posted on social networking sites[ii]. However, focusing upon these elemen