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Objective and Focus

Because, the intersectionality of crime and sexual orientation is particularly fascinating, the prime objective of this blog is to discuss and research cases that focus on crimes committed by individuals or against individuals that identified as gay.

More specifically, I ask what maladaptive behaviors, ideas, and attitudes among gay men and gay culture increase the likely hood of victimization?

Does pornography depicting hardcore sadomasochism, drug use, and anonymous sex normalize violence and aggression?

To what extent do contemporary societal perceptions of homosexuality impact the reporting, investigating, and persecution of crimes committed against/by gay men?

Herbert Richard Baumeister

 


Herbert Richard Baumeister was an American businessman and suspected serial killer. Baumeister was under investigation for murdering over a dozen men in the early 1990s, most of whom were last seen at a gay bar. 

Police found the remains of eleven men, eight identified, on Baumeister's property.
On June 24, 1996, investigators recovered human bone fragments of at least eleven people buried in the woods at Fox Hollow Farm, an 18-acre property owned by Baumeister off 156th Street and the Monon Trail in Westfield, Indiana. 

Only eight people have been identified since the initial discovery. The additional three remains are still unidentified although they are all believed to be male and to have been victims of homicide Hamilton County Coroner's office have appealed to the public requesting anyone with missing family members from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s in the Indianapolis area to complete a DNA test in an effort to help identify the victim remains
Confirmed Victims:
  • John Lee "Johnny" Bayer, 20
  • Jeffrey Allen "Jeff" Jones, 31
  • Richard Douglas Hamilton Jr., 20
  • Manuel Resendez, 31
  • Steven Spurlin Hale, 28
  • Allen Wayne Broussard, 28
  • Roger Allen Goodlet, 33
  • Michael Frederick "Mike" Keirn, 45

Terms and Recurring Themes

Chem Sex: the use of drugs to enhance sex, often by increasing desire and reducing inhibition. Commonly used drugs are GHB, mephedrone, and crystal meth.

Sadomasochism: the derivation of sexual gratification from infliction of physical pain or humiliation either on another person or on oneself.

Objectification: (1) the action of degrading someone to the status of a mere object.

Necrophilia: sexual intercourse with or attraction towards corpses.

Cannibalism: the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food.


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