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Gay Panic: Stories of Straight Men Who Kill the Gay Men Who Love Them
Gay Panic Stories of Straight Men Who Kill the Gay Men Who Love Them Author:David McConnell Here's the America that everyone, both gay and straight, needs to know about. Included among the true crime stories: —
Matt Williams and his brother were raised with peculiar beliefs. When they tried to start a racial holy war to clean up a sick society, they included a gay couple on their hit list.
Joshua Cottrell's grift... more »er family was so used to lies they didn't believe him when he said he'd killed a friend. After Richie Phillips' body was found stuffed in a suitcase at the bottom of a lake, his mother and aunts recalled how Joshua always said he didn't like fags.
Terry Mangum claimed he went to a gay bar to find someone who'd pay for him to go to welding school. Later he said he'd planned the murder for six months after reading the Bible for thousands of hours.
John Katehis, a sixteen-year-old who answered a Craigslist ad from "SmotherMe." A well-known New York radio personality, "SmotherMe" was later found stabbed on the bed in his Brooklyn apartment.
In each story, victims, murderers, friends, and relatives all come breathtakingly alive. Researched from small-town Alabama to San Quentin State Prison, these stories play out before the reader's eyes exactly as they happened, an inexorable sequence of real events -- grisly, touching, and disturbing.
David McConnell is the author of The Silver Hearted and The Firebrat, as well as a journalist.« less