Panic True Queer Crime

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

Podcast Notes:

Akira Ross

Allan Lanteigne/Demitry Papasotiriou

Summit Kumar

Raymond Scotter

Shawndell McCloud

Dr. Louis Chen, Eric Cooper, and Cooper Chen

Warning this case involves the death of a child. Starts at 3:20.

To watch any of these episodes you can find them at:

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

This episode has a case of homophobic murder by a stranger, the murderous obsession of a former lover, the corruption and greed of love gone wrong, a son killing a father to save the honor of the family, and more, a robbery and a murder, and a doctor and family annihilator.

For lots of historical and personal reasons intimate partner violence continues to be under-reported in the queer community but resources are available.

First are resources for the United States.

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.

The International Domestic Violence Resource Guide (2024) is the largest resource from around the world.

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

Here are seven cases of stalking, and homophobia in the United States and Sweden, a case of a stepfather's homophobic rage, and an unresolved case of a body in a fish tank.

These shorts are taken from the Panic YouTube channel. If you'd like to see any of these shorts please join me at the Panic channel using the link below.

Brittany Cosby and Crystal Jackson

Brain Eggs

Josef ben Meddour

Marcus Volk

Lawrence Wong and Thomas Whitney

Zachary Kennedy

Steen Fenrich

To watch these episodes:

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

Please subscribe and like.

Thanks!

Robert Bennett Jr. was a smart guy from a wealthy family he was also a violent sadist who liked to inflict pain on unwitting strangers.

Though this is not a murder case it illustrates what happens when you mix a homophobic cultural attitude filtered down to law enforcement mixes with the influence of a predator from a wealthy family who'd go to any length to protect their son.

Note: I've only just realized that the audio for the previous upload of this episode was icky and is only a few minutes long. Here is the episode in its entirety.

I have also wanted to delve into the lives of Jeffrey Trail and David Madson and Andrew Cunanan's relationship with them both. In part, because as tragic as Gianni Versace's murder was, not to mention the murders of Lee Miglin and poor Andrew Reese who was just doing his job, Trail and Madson's murders seem particularly devasting.

Friends and lovers, secrets and lies.

People who knew them said Cunanan loved and admired Trail and Madson, and they at some stage loved him, yet he killed them both as some sort of retribution for his life falling apart.

I hope you'l listen and share this episode because these two men are worthy of your consideration. Having spent time reading about them I feel even more affection for them and for their loved ones who were lucky to have these extraordinary young men in their lives.

Here are a few links to the 48-hour interview with Jeffrey Trail and a link to some of the letters and pictures Cunanan wrote to Madson.

https://youtu.be/zFhfVTudwQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elzxfa2cwdg

Pictures and Letters

https://www.tumblr.com/andrew-cunanan-true-crime-blog

Peeble LaDime Doe

Wendy Thorpe

Gordon Church

Luke Davies and Jesse Baird

Ranjith Kankanamalage

Zach Kennedy

August Provost

Seven cases of intimate partner violence and hate crime murders.

The case of Peeble LaDime Doe, a transgender woman who was murdered by her former lover.

This is the first case in the nation to use federal protections to prosecute a hate crime based on gender identity even though South Carolina remains one of the two states with no hate crime protections for queer people.

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.

I you'd like to watch any of these episodes you can find them on the Panic: Queer True Crime YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@panicqueertruecrime

Before you go subscribe here and while you're there subscribe there. Hugs!

Finally, Panic has been voted one of the best gay true crime podcasts to listen to by the folks at Feedspot. Thanks to you all for making it happen.

https://crime.feedspot.com/queer_true_crime_podcasts/