Word: murderes
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Police have not found a murder weapon and have not identified any possible motives for the killer...
About ten people gathered to participate in the event, which came in the wake of the Nov. 28 murder of Rita (originally William) Hester, a transgendered man to woman, stabbed over 20 times in her Allston apartment...
...think that hate crimes against transgendered people have been generally ignored by the press," Baldwin said. "I felt that Rita Hester's murder was also given less attention because not only was she transgendered, she was also African-American and working class, and those biases also come into play...
...parallel that comes to mind is the huge public outcry after Matthew Shepard's death versus the virtual silence after Rita Hester's equally brutal murder," he said...
Both DeBlosi and Baldwin said that some people have used Hester's occupation to justify her murder...