MURDERED: Matthew, Daniel, & Islan
This week we have a very special episode for Pride Month. We tell the stories of three people joined together not just by the desire to live peaceful, happy lives as their authentic selves, but also because they faced a similar indignity in how our legal system allowed injustice in their cases.
Aaron McKinney
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Episode Source Material
- Suspect charged with murder in East Austin ‘suspicious death’
- ‘I think I killed someone,’ murder suspect tells police after stabbing
- Jury weighs murder charge in Austin stabbing death of Daniel Spencer
- Jam session with Austin musicians leads to fatal stabbing conviction
- Man convicted of stabbing Austin musician to death gets 10 years probation
- Texas Man Who Killed Neighbor Uses ‘Gay Panic’ Defense And Avoids Murder Charge
- Man Claims He Killed Neighbor in Self-Defense After Victim Tried to Come Onto Him: ‘I’m Not Gay’
- Alleged ‘gay panic defense’ in Texas murder trial stuns advocates
- Gay Student Attacked In Wyoming
- Hate crime stuns university
- Gay Student Beaten, Burned
- Murder charges planned in beating death of gay student
- G.I. man found hate crime victim on canyon road
- Men Held in Beating Lived on the Fringes
- Short Fuses and Awful Choices
- The Crucifixion of Matthew Shepard
- Murder Defendant Linked to 2nd Attack
- Wyo. Judge Bars ‘Gay Panic’ Defense
- New Details Emerge in Matthew Shepard Murder
- Matthew Shepard murder timeline
- The Murder of Matthew Shepard
- Matthew Shepard Murder Timeline
- Matthew Shepard’s Story
- Transgender Woman Dies After Beating in Harlem, Cops Say
- Killing of Transgender Woman Shocks Harlem Community
- Suspect Indicted in Beating Death of N.Y. Trans Woman Islan Nettles
- Trial Begins for James Dixon, Man Accused of Killing Black Transgender Woman Islan Nettles
- Brutal New Details Emerge in Trial of Man Accused in Death of Islan Nettles
- James Dixon Pleads Guilty in Death of Islan Nettles
- Islan Nettles’s Killer Is in Jail, But Has Justice Been Served?
- Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Beating Death of Transgender Woman
- Advocates And Family Of Islan Nettles Say Killer’s Sentence Isn’t Enough
- James Dixon Sentenced to 12 Years for Death of Black Trans Woman Islan Nettles
- Trans Woman’s Killer Used the “Gay Panic Defense.” It’s Still Legal in 42 States.
- New details emerge about suspects in gay attack
- Neighbors Trace Two Men’s Journey to A Wyoming Jail
- ‘Gay Panic’ Defense Stirs Wyo. Trial
- Suspect charged after allegedly stabbing a man to death
- I track murder cases that use the ‘gay panic defense,’ a controversial practice banned in 9 states
- Matthew Shepard: The murder that changed America
- Girlfriend of Shepard’s convicted killer testifies of cover- up
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