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Peeble LaDime Doe

Wendy Thorpe

Gordon Church

Luke Davies and Jesse Baird

Ranjith Kankanamalage

Zach Kennedy

August Provost

Seven cases of intimate partner violence and hate crime murders.

The case of Peeble LaDime Doe, a transgender woman who was murdered by her former lover.

This is the first case in the nation to use federal protections to prosecute a hate crime based on gender identity even though South Carolina remains one of the two states with no hate crime protections for queer people.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE

National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Online live chat: thehotline.org

If you or someone you know is in danger call 9-1-1 immediately.

I you'd like to watch any of these episodes you can find them on the Panic: Queer True Crime YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@panicqueertruecrime

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Finally, Panic has been voted one of the best gay true crime podcasts to listen to by the folks at Feedspot. Thanks to you all for making it happen.

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This is the last of the thirty cases Australian investigators reopened to explore whether or not the victims were the victims of gay hate crimes. 

You can find the other cases here or on the Panic YouTube channels. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK4r13FF8ExLGbhfSH6i4hw

I have listed the cases that have the least amount of evidence pointing to a hate crime. Out of respect for the victims, I am posting their names here. 

Anthony Cawsey

Kenneth Brennan

Peter Bauman

Richard Slater

William Dutfield

The Greek Consul

Less Compelling evidence of a hate crime murder.

This is among eight of the original 30 unsolved cases that former police gay liaison coordinator Sue Thompson and criminologist Stephen Tomsen have set aside as less compelling. With the help of gay community leaders, they conducted a “conservative” review of their 30 cases last year and cut the list to the 22 deaths they believe deserve the most police attention.

John Gordon Hughes

Samantha Raye

Scott Miller

Ali Mokdad

Graham Paynter

If you have information on any of these cases. Contact:

CRIMESTOPPERS 1800 333 000 

WWW.CRIMESTOPPERS.COM.AU

This one of those cases that's a punctuation point for the use of the gay panic defense in law. The poor victim was sidelined as the defense did all they could to, if not justify the murder, contextualize it, which now and then seemed like a mission impossible. My heart goes out to Hajna.

The 1962 acid murder of 25-year-old Hajna de Kaplany by her doctor husband of five weeks has at its core an element that is rarely discussed. For all his professional accomplishments, Dr. de Kaplany felt his beautiful wife only wanted him for the social standing and the wealth he could someday provide. On one hot California night, the planning, implanted sense of betrayal, and the need for revenge would explode in an act so brutal that only death could be the possible outcome.

At trial, Dr. de Kaplany's lawyer would be one of the first in the United States to use homosexual panic as part of a mental illness defense to explain the defendant's murderous actions. By the end of the 1960s, homosexual panic would be used solely as a rationale for heterosexual men murdering gay men then trans men and women.

Thanks for joining me for, Acid The Murder of Hajna de Kaplany.

To watch this episode find it at: https://youtu.be/A0Mo9639wvk