Anti-transgender hatred fuels an alarming number of murders throughout the world. The Trans Murder Monitoring project was started in 2009 and systematically monitors, collects and analyses reports of homicides of transgender people throughout the world. The statistics that they post each year are extremely disturbing. In Cabool, Missouri, a 17-year-old girl who had recently come out as transgender vanished. An investigation would lead to the doorstep of people she had considered her friends.
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Andrew Vrba Trial – Transgender Teen Murder – Witnesses Dep Rowdy Douglas – Police Interview
“Andrew Vrba Trial – Transgender Teen Murder – Prosecution Opening Statement”
“Andrew Vrba Trial Transgender Teen Murder Witnesses Ashley Boswell & Joseph Steinfeld Sr”
“Andrew Vrba Trial – Transgender Teen Murder – Defense Opening Statement”
Sources:
ABC – 33 KSPR, 22 September, 2017 – “Young Man Missing for Weeks Brutally Murdered in Texas County”
ABC – 33 KSPR, 22 September, 2017 – “Three Charged in Texas County Murder”
Associated Press, 22 September, 2017 – “3 Charged in Killing of 17-Year-Old Whose Body was Burned”
The Kansas City Star, 26 September, 2017 – “Gruesome Details of Transgender Teen’s Ozarks Slaying Emerge as Four are Charged”
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Associated Press, 27 September, 2017 – “Missouri Murder Rekindles Debate over LGBT Hate Crime Laws”
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The Independent, 2 October, 2017 – “Ally Lee Steinfeld Murder”
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West Plains Daily Quill, 5 July, 2018 – “Grisby Pleads Guilty to Abandonment of Corpse”
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News Leader – “Ally Steinfeld Case: Third Suspect Pleads Guilty”
