Panic True Queer Crime

This collection of cases includes the murder of three trans women of color, the most at-risk group in the LGBTQ+ community. Two cases of intimate partner violence, please see this description for help. 

The murder of a 19-year-old murder in prison because he was gay and black. A gay man was murdered in his home by a jealous boyfriend and the victim's friend, and two gay men were murdered by a group of friends led by a homophobic leader. 

 

Intimate Partner Help:

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Online live chat: thehotline.org If you or someone you know is in danger, call 9-1-1 immediately. 

Thanks to MysticMag for the global resource guide. 

One of the first to be compiled. https://www.mysticmag.com/psychic-reading/domestic-violence-resource-guide/

Episode Description

Benjamin Renwick 

Dylan Gurley

Micah Laureano

Leo Nunes

Tzatzi Sanchez

Savannah Williams

Starr Brown

Tommy Lee Trimble and John Lloyd Griffin

Vanity Williams

 

Peter Coshan

Lisa Stone

Curtis Marsh

Gaurav Gopalan

Matthew Mickens-Murrey

Ukea Davis and Stephanie Thomas

Vanity Williams

 

 

Several of the cases in this episode involve unsolved cases. In the next episode, I will delve into the reasons why this might be the case. 

Two of these cases involve the murder of black trans women, the highest rate of murder in the LGBTQ+ community. 

The last two cases happened at the same time in the same city 

 

 

 

 

To watch any of these stories you can find them on the Queer True Crime YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK4r13FF8ExLGbhfSH6i4hw

For Help

National Domestic Violence Hotline 

1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Online live chat: thehotline.org

If you or someone you know is in danger call 9-1-1 immediately.

The International Domestic Violence Resource Guide (2024) is the largest resource worldwide. 

https://www.cvpsd.org/post/domestic-violence-resources-in-the-north-america

If you suspect elder abuse, call 1-833-401-0832 and enter your 5-digit zip code to be connected to the Adult Protective Services in your county, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. 

Please subscribe to the channel. 

 

 

 

Anna Flores

Pauly Likens

Alex Rodda

Liara Tsai

Bruce Becker

Curtis Marsh

Kevin Clewer

Charles Gibson 

Brad Nelson Winters

 

Here is a collection of murders some of them due to intimate partner violence and some hate crimes. The thing they have in common is the loss and heartache of family and friends. 

While might surprise some that young men, mostly, still struggling with their sexual identity resort to murder when threatened, ongoing scholarship suggests that the causes might be complicated, a mixture of internalized homophobia and other pathologies that fuel murder. 

Intimate partner violence in the queer community remains underreported. Please use the resources below if you or someone you know needs help. 

Finally, the murder of Kevin Clewer remains unsolved though it seems authorities have a suspect. The murders of Clewer, Charles Gibson, and Brad Winters were thought to be part of a serial killer’s ramp-up thank goodness they were not. 

Murders of queer people continue to be under-reported so I thank you for your loving attention to these cases.

To watch any of these stories you can find them on the Queer True Crime YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK4r13FF8ExLGbhfSH6i4hw

For Help

National Domestic Violence Hotline 

1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Online live chat: thehotline.org

If you or someone you know is in danger call 9-1-1 immediately.

The International Domestic Violence Resource Guide (2024) is the largest resource worldwide. 

https://www.cvpsd.org/post/domestic-violence-resources-in-the-north-america

If you suspect elder abuse, call 1-833-401-0832 and enter your 5-digit zip code to be connected to the Adult Protective Services in your county, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. 

Please subscribe to the channel. 

 

In 1998, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia became the location of two of the most violent murders Australia has ever seen.    In 1998, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia became the location of two of the most violent murders Australia has ever seen.    19-year-old, Mark Valera's pent-up rage led him down the path of murder, leaving destruction in his wake and sparking an equal fury that ultimately led to the killing of his own father.   The murders committed by Mark "Valera" van Krevel further revealed a disturbing wave of child molestation in New South Wales, implicating some of the community's most respected figures including one of Valera's victims.   At the time, Australia, like many places worldwide, was experiencing a surge of violence against the LGBTQ+ community, involving the police on some occasions.    Equally damaging is the capricious conflation of pedophiles, hebephiles, and homosexuals. Wollongong's former Mayor Frank Arkell, who was not gay, was shortly before his murder with 29 charges of child molestation.   Valera's vigilantism removed the possibility of justice for the 29 victims and possible vindication of the alleged victims from a previous case.     Valera's first victim, David O'Hearn, was a quiet man beloved by his family and friends. The extreme violence surrounding these events has unfortunately overshadowed O'Hearn's life and death. This retelling serves to honor his memory.

Six stories of possible greed, intimate partner violence, murderous internalized homophobia, and your garden variety homophobia. 

Toslimy Bang and Terence Brown

Blaze Bernstein

Kelly Moriarty and Doris “Pat” Carter

Michael Causer

John Paul Kelso

John Walter Lay

John Edwards

To watch any of these stories you can find them on the Queer True Crime YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK4r13FF8ExLGbhfSH6i4hw

Or click on any of the titles. 

For Help

National Domestic Violence Hotline 

1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Online live chat: thehotline.org

If you or someone you know is in danger call 9-1-1 immediately.

The International Domestic Violence Resource Guide (2024) is the largest resource worldwide. 

https://www.cvpsd.org/post/domestic-violence-resources-in-the-north-america

In this episode four stories of murder, homophobia, and mental health in crisis. 

Isaac Herrera

Jordan Taylor

Terrance Brown

Reginald Folks

To watch any of these stories you can find them on the Queer True Crime YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK4r13FF8ExLGbhfSH6i4hw

For Help

National Domestic Violence Hotline 

1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Online live chat: thehotline.org

If you or someone you know is in danger call 9-1-1 immediately.

The International Domestic Violence Resource Guide (2024) is the largest resource worldwide. 

https://www.cvpsd.org/post/domestic-violence-resources-in-the-north-america

Happy Pride and welcome to season four of Panic.

This is the second season of Panic and the fourth for the podcast as a whole. 

In the second season, I want to continue to explore the themes of the podcast and YouTube channel, and how homophobia in all of its permutations plays itself out in the lives of queer folks and the people who love them. I'll continue to explore intimate partner violence while providing resources for help and healing. 

I want to explore more stories of murdered trans people. I only learned when I started to cover some of these cases that many states across the United States have no formal process for addressing gender identity often referring to a murder victim by their dead name which is then disseminated to the media and family. How do those inequalities affect an investigation?

Thanks and hugs to those of you who continue to listen and those of you who are new. 

Happy Pride.

Panic

 

 

Gary Gleeson

Alex Rodda

Raymond Kindred

John McGrail

Leonard Riendeau

Charles Kimball

John Fuoroli

Brandi Mells, Shanta Myers, Jeremiah, and Shaniese Myers 

To watch any of these stories you can find them on the Queer True Crime YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK4r13FF8ExLGbhfSH6i4hw

For Help

National Domestic Violence Hotline 

1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Online live chat: thehotline.org

If you or someone you know is in danger call 9-1-1 immediately.

The International Domestic Violence Resource Guide (2024) is the largest resource worldwide. 

https://www.cvpsd.org/post/domestic-violence-resources-in-the-north-america

 

If you suspect elder abuse, call 1-833-401-0832 and enter your 5-digit zip code to be connected to the Adult Protective Services in your county, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. 

Please subscribe to the channel. 

 George Webber In this episode, A closeted man's search to fulfill his fetish leads him to hire a 16-year-old from a Craigslist ad.

Charlie Howard Two gay men are attacked by a group of teens ending in murder. 

Carlos Collins A former police officer's inability to let go ends in murder.

James Sheehan Suffering from stage 4 cancer, an elderly man leans on a friend whose only interest is his money.

Darrin Thorpe His death has been called a drug overdose but his husband suspects it might be a murder. 

Carzella Little A late-night argument between girlfriends ends in murder. 

 

To watch any of these stories you can find them on the Queer True Crime YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK4r13FF8ExLGbhfSH6i4hw

 

For Help

National Domestic Violence Hotline 

1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Online live chat: thehotline.org

 

 If you or someone you know is in danger call 9-1-1 immediately.

 

The International Domestic Violence Resource Guide (2024) is the largest resource worldwide. 

https://www.cvpsd.org/post/domestic-violence-resources-in-the-north-america

If you suspect elder abuse, call 1-833-401-0832 and when prompted enter your 5-digit zip code to be connected to the Adult Protective Services in your county, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. 

Please subscribe to the channel. 

 

On September 7, 1982, the Gainesville, Florida Labor Day Weekend was disrupted when University of Florida's Professor Howard Appledorf's neighbors spotted his condo had been broken into.  

Inside police found a highly staged scene and the professor asphyxiated on his sofa, as the three young suspects fled they left behind a frenzy of fears about cults and witchcraft. 

The tale that would unravel would be far sadder, exposing the life of a victim lived in the closet and three young perpetrators abandoned to the streets where they became both prey and predator. 

If you'd like to watch this episode you can find it on the Panic YouTube Channel. 

https://youtu.be/8GMO1WoZnyo