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QUEER CRIME: How Homophobia Helped 4 Same-sex attracted Serial Killers Proceed 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 period, we know that cases that become 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 grow. Queer Crime is a monthly column focusing on authentic 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 victims were treated, by the police, the media, and the common. Due to deeply ingrained biases, ign
Killer of gay men faces execution
The killing spree began in Daytona Beach.
Eventually, in 1994, six men were savagely beaten and choked. One was bludgeoned with a discarded toilet.
Each guy fought for his experience, but lost.
In every case, the victims had something crammed down their throats — a towel, wads of toilet paper, a fistful of dirt.
On Thursday, their killer, Gary Ray Bowles, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.
Executions mark the finish of some of society's most heinous killings, but they also elicit objections to the practice of state-sponsored death. Holding the opposing view may change into more difficult when it is argued on the behalf of an unrepentant serial murderer like Bowles, but there is still no end to the debate about the death penalty's value.
Bowles, 57, started his eight-month homicidal binge by killing John Hardy Roberts, 59, on Parade 14, 1994, inside the victim’s beachside home in Daytona Beach. He was arrested a few days after killing his sixth victim, Walter Hinton, 42, in Jacksonville on Nov. 20, 1994.
Bowles committed three murders in Florida — in Daytona Beach, Jacksonville and Hilliard. He killed two other men in Georgia — one in Sa
On the eve of his 58th birthday, just hours after telephone chatting farewell with his wife Primrose, Dr. Harold Shipman, Britain's most prolific serial killer, cheated the hangman's noose by committing suicide with bed sheets in his prison cell.
Over 23 years he killed 215 patients. Jane Gaskill, daughter of parent victims, said of the suicide, "He's won again. He's managed us all the way, even to the last step. I hate, abhor him for it."
Dr. Shipman's horrific tally is matched by Luis Alfredo Gravito Cubillos, convicted in 2002 of murdering 200 children ages 8 to 13 in Columbia, South America. His victims were tortured, decapitated. Sentence total: 2600 years (judicial overkill; 563 more to go).
Here's tallies for some of America's infamous serial killers: David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz (6 killings; 6 maimings; 1400 arsons); Richard "Night Stalker" Ramirez (20; 13 convictions); "Zodiac Killer," identity still unknown 44 years later (6); John Wayne Gacy (33); Ted Bundy (35 to 60), Jeffery Dahmer (17, some ritual cannibalism).
The number of female serial killers compared to males is small. Harold Schecter's "The Serial Killer Files" (Balantine Books) profiles 13 of history
Source: Kevin Sullivan
As I was reading Kevin Sullivan’s brand-new book, The Trail of Ted Bundy, I was reminded of a production, Kalifornia. It’s about a journalist who drives cross-country with his girlfriend, a photojournalist, to experience, document about, and document celebrated crime scenes. To assist with expenses, they summon another couple that needs a ride. You can guess what happens.
What drew me to the production was the idea of experiencing the psychological strength linked with extreme crimes and criminals. I’ve gone to quite a several properties in which a crime has occurred and many have a dim aura. Some have even become murder tourism destinations. Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel, for example, and Lizzie Borden’s house. To earn the full effect requires context, so research is involved.
This is what Sullivan, author of 11 books, has done. Ted Bundy remains one of the country’s most notorious serial killers. Just before his execution in 1989, he confessed to killing around three-dozen young women in seven states during the 1970s. He tried every trick he could believe of to persuade rule enforcement to save him from Florida’s electric chair. None worked.
In 2009, Sullivan published The B Ted Bundy Source: Drawing by Katherine Ramsland/ Used with permission Ted Bundy has been the subject of more media focus than any other modern-day serial killer. Certain notions show up in many accounts, including some proven to be false. What’s the deal? Why do we retain such claims? There might be a personal investment that feeds resistance, but some people just accept information that seems to solve a mystery. Thus, misconceptions persist. I’ve invited Kevin Sullivan, the author of six books about Bundy, to assist with this list. It’s not exhaustive, but these five myths show up repeatedly. 1. Sam Cowell, Bundy’s grandfather, was really his father via incest. This was conclusively disproven in 2020 when psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow-Lewis had a copy of Ted Bundy's DNA sequence tested for a key genetic indicator of incest. She'd received the DNA info from Mike McCann, who’d tested a licked stamp from Bundy's letter to his girlfriend. Cowell was not his father. 2. Bundy’s victim type is a female with long, dusky hair parted in the middle because that was the hairstyle of a college girlfriend who’d rejected him. I see this one almost every moment I read or view an accoun