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Queer Crime
Eugene Falleni: The trans man who killed to protect his identity
By all accounts, Annie Birkett died a horrible death. However, it was not the victim that gave the case its notoriety, but her transgender husband Eugene Falleni, who was eventually convicted of her murder. Eugene Falleni was born in about 1875 and was given the name Eugenia, but from an early age identified as male. …
The Doodler: the fight to find America’s forgotten serial killer
For the past 48 years, he’s been known only as The Doodler. Between January 1974 and September 1975, The Doodler killed at least six and up to 14 men in San Francisco. Targeting gay men, he got his moniker from his pickup routine- sketching his victims as he sat at the bar. In a 2021 …