Panic True Queer Crime

Panic True Queer Crime


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The Wicked and Cruel Crimes of Ed Buck
April 03, 2023

Wicked and cruel are the words that come to mind for what Ed Buck did when he invited mostly young black men to his apartment in West Hollywood. Buck would entice these men into a meth-fueled session

Catfished: The Murder of Clifford Lambert
March 20, 2023

AAll Palm Springs, Ca. Clifford Lambert wanted love, all Danny Garcia and Kaushal Niroula wanted was Mr. Lamberts wealth, all of it. In 2008, years of scams, lies, and greed would finally end in murd

The Murdaughs and the Killing of Stephen Smith
February 24, 2023

In the early morning of July 8, 2015, Stephen Smith, a 19-year-old nursing student living in Hampton County, South Carolina, was found dead in the middle of a dark country road. His death would be the

Lesbian Intimate Partner Murder
January 31, 2023

One of the reasons I wanted to make this video focused on lesbian intimate partner murder is that the attention to intimate partner violence amongst LGBTQ folks is so underreported even academic resea

Love and Murder in the Closet
January 12, 2023

What happens when you mix love and sex and the fear of exposure? It can sometimes result in murder. In this episode three cases of love turned to murder. On February 17th 2022, the twenty year olds Ph

Acid: The Murder of Hajna de Kaplany
December 23, 2022

This one of those cases that's a punctuation point for the use of the gay panic defense in law. The poor victim was sidelined as the defense did all they could to, if not justify the murder, contextua

Louis Kenneth Neu: Indecent
November 08, 2022

In the 1920s through the 1960s indecent proposals, indecent advances, and honor slayings were all buzzwords used to explain one man's rationale for killing another. The handsome singer Louis Kenneth N

Friends: The order of James Sheahan
October 28, 2022

San Francisco resident 75-year-old James Sheahan had terminal cancer but that wouldn't be his cause of death. It would be his friendship with a man whose greed and desperate need to be with the love o

Scammed: The Murder of Ellis Greene
September 11, 2022

In 1988, 55-year-old, Yale-educated Dr. Richard Boggs and business partners 46-year-old, Melvin Eugene Hanson, and 25-year-old John Hawkins joined together in an insurance scam that would net them a m

Intimate Partner Murders
August 28, 2022

Thank you for joining me for, Intimate Partner Murders. Intimate partner and domestic violence have many of the same root causes as they do elsewhere. Here are three stories of same-sex intimate partn