Serial killer who preyed on gay men, was dubbed 'I-95 killer' is executed Florida

Contents:

• GAY MAN CHIGO KILLED HIS WIFE FOR SURANCE PAYOUT, PROSECUTORS SAY
• GAY MAN CHIGO KILLED HIS WIFE FOR SURANCE PAYOUT, PROSECUTORS SAY
• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• GAY MAN WHO STRANGLED WIFE AND BURNED BODY FOUND GUILTY OF MURR
• OH MAN MURRS BT FRIEND TO COVER UP THEIR GAY AFFAIR
• SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988
• AN ATRALIAN MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLGHTER ATH OF A GAY AMERIN 1988
• GAY MAN BTALLY MURRED AND BEHEAD BY FAY 'HONOUR KILLG'

GAY MAN CHIGO KILLED HIS WIFE FOR SURANCE PAYOUT, PROSECUTORS SAY

She said her son, who was openly gay, was killed after his r ran out of gas, forcg him to walk along the road and possibly exposg him to an attack. 's mother, Sandy, told the the Hampton County Guardian, part of the USA TODAY Network, 2015 that she believed her son's ath was the rult of foul play and a possible hate crime bee her son was gay. A Chigo man is currently on trial for allegedly murrg his wife for surance money after realizg he was no longer love wh her bee he was gay.

GAY MAN CHIGO KILLED HIS WIFE FOR SURANCE PAYOUT, PROSECUTORS SAY

It was of Patel and another man — who police would soon learn was at the center of man the photograph was an Atralian doctor whom Patel met on Grdr, the datg app for gay men. The ath of a gay stunt, tortured and tied to a prairie fence Wyomg two s ago, shocked Ameri.

SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA

"WARNING: This feature ntas language that some rears may fd nights earlier, on Tuday 6 October 1998, Matthew Shepard walked alone to a dive bar ptn, Judy and Dennis Shepard at the Matthew Shepard Foundatn Denver last weekThe openly gay Universy of Wyomg hman had jt met up wh iends to plan LGBT awarens week on the town's he uldn't persua them to jo him for a beer the Firi Lounge, the 21-year-old somehow end up chattg to two roofg workers, Rsell Henrson and Aaron McKney, both the same age as pair saw an easy mark the 5ft 2, slightly built County Sheriff Dave O'Malley, who was lead vtigator the se, says: "McKney's own statement said he and Rsell went to the bathroom at the Firi bar and they planned to act like they were gay to try to ga Matthew's nfince. It is a momento honour not even acrd to another proment gay martyr, Harvey Milk, the San Francis polician assassated the Denver cy centre offic of the LGBT rights foundatn named after her son, Judy Shepard, 66, is fightg back predicted Friday's ceremony would probably be more emotnal for her than the funeral bee she felt so "numb" immediately after her son's source, Getty ImagImage ptn, A vigil for Shepard New York Cy 1998The origal service, amid snow flurri the fay's hometown of Casper, Wyomg, on 16 October 1998, was picketed by an anti-gay preacher om Kansas.

Reverend Fred Phelps of Wtboro Baptist Church and his flock, who clud children, held plards dbed wh homophobic slurs and shouted to mourners that the ad stunt was burng Shepard, 69, remembers law enforcement makg him wear a bullet-proof vt to step outsi the Epispal church, which had been sured by bomb-sniffg dogs. Shepard's murr stoked the perceptn of Cowboy Country and flyover stat general as a danger zone for gay at his office the cy of Cheyenne, McKney trial lawyer Dn Ctis matas was a robbery gone bad, even while he accepts sexual orientatn was a factor. "However, McKney's own gay-bashg rhetoric damns him the ey of source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Thoands gathered outsi the US Capol for a vigil after Shepard's athDurg a police nfsn, he said he began to attack Shepard bee the stunt had put his hand on his leg durg the r ri.

We're not gay, and we're gog to jack you up. " Yet another statement to police, he said Shepard simply looked like he was about to grope the jailhoe after his arrt, McKney reportedly wrote to another mate's wife: "Beg a verry [sic] dnk homofobick [sic] I flipped out and began to pistol whip the fag wh my gun, ready at hand. "At trial, McKney's lawyers argued that Shepard had ma their client fly to a rage by touchg his the judge dismissed this "gay panic" a legal strategy - where crimal fendants s of vlent asslt argue they were provoked by an unwanted same-sex sexual advance - is still admissible all but three US stat, acrdg to the Williams Instute at UCLA School of Law.

GAY MAN WHO STRANGLED WIFE AND BURNED BODY FOUND GUILTY OF MURR

Sheriff O'Malley rejects any attempt to downplay the anti-gay element the source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Rev Fred Phelps and his flock prott Laramie 1999"We have never disunted ever that the ial motivatn was robbery, " he says. The moment was re-enacted as a climactic scene 2002 HBO movie The Laramie the angel actn, was replited two years ago Orlando, Florida, when Wtboro Baptist Church tried to dispt the funerals of gay people killed a mass shootg at the Pulse nightclub.

OH MAN MURRS BT FRIEND TO COVER UP THEIR GAY AFFAIR

It also says LGBT Amerins n be fired for their sexualy 29 feels gay rights "took a U-turn" unr the Tmp admistratn.

SYDNEY MAN GETS 12 YEARS FOR MURRG GAY AMERIN 1988

"All of them are that circle of faiary of extreme right-wg relig attus, " she says of the print's bet, " particular to the gay muny, to anybody who's not straight whe Christian. However, Sheriff O'Malley mak clear that theory is not supported by the source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Judy Shepard (L) at the Whe Hoe 2009 for the passage of the anti-hate crim bill named after her son and a black man killed by whe supremacistsThe Old Buckhorn Bar & Parlor Laramie has a mirror pocked by a bullet hole, and walls that bristle wh mounted antelope, buffalo and patron, Jt Bmmet - who proudly scrib himself as "third class whe trash" - says US progrs on gay rights sce Shepard's ath is to be mend.

AN ATRALIAN MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLGHTER ATH OF A GAY AMERIN 1988

Gem Cy, as is known, has no gay bar, though s send annual PriFt last summer was emed a succs. " Back at the end of the last lennium, many Wyomg apparently thought gay people were as rare on the high plas as jackalop, the state's mythil antlered ptn, (L-R) Universy of Wyomg LGBT stunts Js Fahlsg, Carlos Gonzal and Rihanna KelverShepard's murr - together wh the 2005 gay wboy love story Brokeback Mounta - helped dispel that Connolly, a Universy of Wyomg genr and women's studi lecturer, explas.

"I thk 20 years ago some people Wyomg hontly didn't believe they had met anyone who was gay or lbian, " she says.

Everyone unrstands that there are gays and lbians their muni.

GAY MAN BTALLY MURRED AND BEHEAD BY FAY 'HONOUR KILLG'

"That beg said, don't mean that everyone believ gays and lbians are wele or wanted Wyomg. "In 2008, Profsor Connolly was elected as the first openly gay member of the state legislature. She reunts facg a "horrific" backlash last year om angry voters when she troduced a gay rights source, Getty ImagImage ptn, A dirt road near where Shepard was left to dieA Democrat, she is one of a handful of female lawmakers Wyomg.

"Prr to this vtigatn I was pretty homophobic, " the mtached law-giver adms. "Um, I was mean spired towards the gay populatn. "I would be the first person that would tell a joke about gay Amerins and, uh, the word fag rolled off my tongue very easily.

"And when I got volved the vtigatn, I was forced to teract wh Matthew's iends, many of which were gay and lbian. One volved a 20-year-old gay man killed by his brother and s, and another a 14-year-old girl behead by her father a small village after nng away wh her a changg society, as younger, more progrsive Iranians chafe unr the mands of their olr fay members, the killgs have brought about somethg of a have been renewed mands to reform Iran’s penal , which, based on Islamic sharia law, stipulat that as guardians of their children, fathers and grandfathers are exempt om the ath penalty for their murr.