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MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
Tue Jun 4, 2019, 03:44 PM Jun 2019

Is there a multi-state serial killer of black transgender women?

I wonder. There's a new case in Texas just announced today, which brings the Texas total up to 4, I believe. Doing a search on Google, I also see multiple black transgender women murdered in Florida in 2018, and others in other states, including New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina in 2018 and 2019.

This seems very strange to me. Perhaps a truck driver or someone else who travels regularly is carrying out these otherwise unrelated murders of transgender women of color.

Here's a story with a list of victims. It just seems like more than a coincidence to me, somehow.

https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2018

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Is there a multi-state serial killer of black transgender women? (Original Post) MineralMan Jun 2019 OP
Another source irisblue Jun 2019 #1
Yes, and the odds of that seem awfully small. MineralMan Jun 2019 #2
I think there is a good possibility. MicaelS Jun 2019 #3

irisblue

(32,828 posts)
1. Another source
Tue Jun 4, 2019, 03:58 PM
Jun 2019

Last edited Tue Jun 4, 2019, 05:30 PM - Edit history (1)

Link--https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k37ny/another-black-trans-woman-was-found-dead-in-dallas

snip-..."In an announcement following Booker’s death, the DPD warned the public of “similarities” between her killing and the two other violent attacks targeting trans women in recent months, although it has not at this time publicly established a formal connection between them. All four recent cases remain open and unsolved."


There have been many unsolved deaths of transgender women.

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
2. Yes, and the odds of that seem awfully small.
Tue Jun 4, 2019, 04:01 PM
Jun 2019

There just aren't that many, compared to other identifiable population segments. The numbers seem too high to me, by a lot.

It seems very strange.

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