Posted on 08/21/2003 4:47:51 AM PDT by JesseHousman
A 13-year-old boy in Arkansas dies after a horrific sexual crime but much of the national media ignore the story. Conservative columnists and other critics think they know why — because the boy's accused killers are gay.
"[The media] doesn't want the public to think about homosexuality and pedophilia and torture and the murder of children," says Don Feder, a conservative columnist at the Boston Herald. The boy, Jesse Dirkhising, was bound, drugged, tortured and raped for five hours before he died in 1999.
Last month, a jury convicted Joshua Brown, 23, of rape and murder. Brown was sentenced to life in prison without parole, the maximum sentence. Brown's lover, Davis Carpenter, 39, goes on trial next month.
But the case received little attention in the national media. Critics say that is evidence of pro-gay bias, noting that news organizations gave extensive coverage to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man who was hung on a fence post by two straight men and left to die.
Protesters outside Brown's trial in Bentonville, Ark. held signs that read, "Pro-Gay Media Shame." Conservative and anti-gay groups have made the same argument for months on their Web sites and in their publications.
Their argument was given more weight when it was embraced by one of the country's most provocative gay writers, Andrew Sullivan, in The New Republic.
Sullivan compared media coverage of the two cases, and found what he described as a "staggering" discrepancy. He concluded that the media "hyped" the Shepard case to build support for the inclusion of gays under federal hate crime protection, and ignored the Dirkhising case for fear of feeding anti-gay prejudice.
"I think there is clearly evidence that many in the media decided we're not going to go there because we know it will feed anti-gay prejudice," Sullivan told ABCNEWS.
Editors at the television networks and major newspapers have responded that they covered the Shepard crime because it was part of a national issue — hate crime legislation.
"For a crime story or a murder story, even a horrific and sad one like [that of] Jesse Dirkhising, to be covered by the national press, I think there has to be an issue of larger social significance attached to it," says Martha Moore, a media reporter for USA Today.
Editors say that while it may seem cold, countless rapes and murders — gay and straight — regularly go unreported in the national media because they are not part of a larger issue.
Editors also say that the horrific details of the Dirkhising case made it hard to report.
According to an account Brown gave police after his arrest, he and Carpenter had tied Dirkhising to a bed with duct tape as part of a "game." Then they gave Dirkhising an enema of urine that they had dosed with amitriptyline, an antidepressant and a sedative.
Jesse was gagged with a pair of dirty underwear while Brown raped the boy and Carpenter directed the scene, according to Brown's account. The boy died of suffocation, which Brown said was an accident.
Brown told police he was acting on instructions that Carpenter wrote and drew for him on a pad of paper. Prosecutors plan to use the notes and diagrams as evidence at Carpenter's trial.
Another charge prosecutors intend to make at Carpenter's trial is that the men were planning on other rapes. Prosecutors intend to to submit handwritten short stories that police found in Carpenter's apartment, which were explicit writings envisioning future rapes and tortures, mentioning one local girl by name.
Consider this:
Homosexual Serial Killers Gilles de Rais 300+ 1430s France
Randy Steven Kraft 65 (est.) 1971 to 1983 Oregon, Michigan, etc. "Score Card Killer"
Michael Swango 35 - 60 1983-97 Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota, Virginia "Doctor of Death" -- killed hospital patients
Andrei Chikatilo 52 until 1992 Russia
Fritz Haarmann 40 (est.) until 1924 Germany "Butcher Of Hanover"
John Wayne Gacy 33 until 1978 Chicago
Patrick Wayne Kearney 28+ 1968 to 1977 Redondo Beach, Calif. gay cruising areas of Hollywood; "Trash Bag Killer"
David D. Hill 28? 1968 to 1977 Redondo Beach, Calif. Hollywood
Patrick Kearney's lover; confessed to being co-killer with Kearney, but police weren't sure about the extent of his involvement
Hans Grans 27+ until 1924 Germany accommplice and love of Haarmann, the "Butcher Of Hanover"
Wayne Williams 27 1979-81 Atlanta
Dean Corll 27 1960s to 1973 Ft. Wayne, Indiana; later Houston, TX
Elmer Wayne Henley 27 1960s to 1973 Ft. Wayne, Indiana; later Houston, TX
David Owen Brooks 27 1960s to 1973 Ft. Wayne, Indiana; later Houston, TX
Donald Harvey 25 - 40 (est.) 1970-71 London, Kentucky
Juan Corona 25 1971 From Mexico; moved to Yuba City, CA in 1950s
Norman Afzal Simons 21 (est.) 1986-1994 Capetown, South Africa victims were mixed-race boys; believed to be the "Station Strangler"
Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo 21 (est.) until 1989 Matamoros, Mexico "Matamoros Cult Killer"
Carl Panzram 21 1910-1930 Warren, Minnesota USA, West Africa
Larry Eyler 19 1980s Chicago Illinois and Indiana
Jeffrey Dahmer 17 1978, 1988-91 Milwaukee and Chicago cannibal
Robert Berdella ? until 1988 Kansas City Kansas
Dennis Nilsen 16 1978-83 U.K.
Marcelo Costa de Andrade 14 until 1991 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
William Bonin 12+ 1979-80 Downey, Orange County, Calif.
Henry Lee Lucas 12+ 1970s and 80s Most in Texas, Southeastern U.S.
Ottis Toole 12+ 1970s and 80s West Coast, Florida, etc. accomplice of Henry Lee Lucas
Bruce Lee 12 1980 England (NOT the famous actor.) Killed victims by arson.
Johannes Mashiane 12 until 1989 South Africa "The Beast of Atteridgeville"
Vaughn Greenwood 11+ 1974-75 Los Angeles
Thomas Quick 10+ Sweden Started killing when he was 14 years old.
Richard Speck 8+ 1966 Chicago married, bisexual
Peter Kurten 8+ 1905-1921 Germany "The Vampire of Dusseldorf"
Alton Coleman 8 1984 Midwestern U.S.
Cayetano Hernandez 8 1963 Yerba Buena, Mexico
Eleazor Solis 8 1963 Monterey, Mexico
David Bullock 6+ 1981-82 New York City NY
Vernon Butts 6+ 1979-80 Calif. Orange County, Calif. accomplice of William Bonin
Paul Bateson 6 ? (est.) 1977-78 New York City NY
Albert Fish ? until 1936 USA child molester and canibal
Michael Terry 6 1980-86 Atlanta Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina
Orville Lynn Majors 6 Indiana Vermillion County Hospital, Indiana
Charles Cohen 5+ Delaware Delaware, San Francisco, New York, Miami, and New Orleans
Andrew Cunanan 5 1997 San Diego, Calif. Minnesota; Chicago, IL; South Beach, FL killed fashion designer Gianni Versace
Michael Lupo 4+ 1986 from Italy London
Peter Moore 4 1995 north Wales
Westley Allan Dodd 3+ Washington, Oregon
David P. Brown (a.k.a. Nathaniel Bar-Jonah) 3+ 2000 Massachusetts Montana victims were young boys
Bruce Davis 2+ 1968-72 Los Angeles Charles Manson accomplice
Serial Killers who were Lesbians
Magdalena Solis 8 1963 Monterey, Mexico
Aileen Wuornos 7+ 1989-90 south of Daytona, Florida Florida killed male "johns"
Tyria Moore 7+ 1989-90 south of Daytona, Florida Florida killed male "johns"
Catherine Wood 6 Grand Rapids, MI Grand Rapids, MI nurse who killed patients
Gwen Graham 6 Grand Rapids, MI Grand Rapids, MI nurse who killed patients
Serial killers are nearly always men (93%). Furthermore, of the relatively few female serial killers, one third of them worked in partnership with males. In the United States, serial killers are predominantly white. This makes sense statistically, because about 80% of the population is white. Whites, however, are over-represented among serial killers. Although blacks are over-represented among the persons convicted of murder in general, they are under-represented among serial killers. Asians are also under-represented; Asian serial-killers are extremely rare in the United States. Some homosexual serial killers were openly gay or lesbian. Some were closeted homosexuals. Many of the most famous gay serial killers (e.g., Jeffrey Dahmer, Andrew Cunanan, John Wayne Gacy, etc.) were homosexuals, but they became widely known due to the nature of their crimes or the identities of their victims, not because they in any way represent serial killers generally. Homosexual serial killers have most frequently chosen young boys or gay men as their victims, although some have victimized females as well. Most of the killers have raped their victims either before or after killing them, although in some cases they have killed after consensual homosexual sex. There have been heterosexual serial killers who have targeted gay victims (e.g., Colin Ireland), but this is very rare. But more importantly, none of the serial killers listed here represent typical homosexuals, who, like the general population, are almost never involved in violent crime. The exact nature of each individual's feelings, attitudes, and behavior with regards to sex is unique, in the general population as well as among serial killers. Legally, all or nearly all of the homosexual serial killers on this list would be considered sexual deviants because of the extreme and violent nature of their acts -- not simply because of their homosexual orientation.
I beleve we've gone beyond the insinuation stage.
Anyone who vehemently defends perverts and their filthy acts that go beyond their bedrooms into the playgrounds, is part and parcel of this most serious problem of the homosexual agenda.
This is an evil perversion that is staining morals, civilized behavior, education and even religion. There is absolutely nothing to commend this abnormal and evil behavior.
Your persistance in defending it is contrary to intelligent discourse.
I can, however, understand someone who is caught up in such a licentious style of living trying to explain their existence to anyone who will listen. I would suggest to that person that they are simply taking a whiz in a hurricane when the audience truly believes in God and His Commandments.
There is a way out of such a perverted existence and I don't mean suicide: once practicing this evil behavior, one can climb out of the sewer and live and enjoy a normal life. It has been proven.
This is really comparing apples and hand grenades. IOW, your comparison is so much of a stretch that it is ridiculous.
People who are so disturbingly obsessed with other people's sex lives are the ones who have a mental illness in my opinion.
Instead of being a morals fascist, won't you try minding your own business and affording free Americans a modicum of individual liberty to live the life they choose and either enjoy the blessings or suffer the consequences free from your unnecessary intervention.
Wow. Thanks for the ping and the post. Good article ...Amazing since it came from the lamestream media too !
You apparently reacted before actually reading what I wrote. Go back and try again.
I suppose he's included because two of his victims were an elderly couple with the last name of "Gay"!
That seems to be one hell of a misrepresentaion. It certainly throws into question the rest of this list. Not that it's relevant anyway. How many serial killers in history have been heterosexual? Is there any correlation or relevance. No, none whatsoever.
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