It has been quite a while since I posted here…I care very much about this project, and I still spend a lot of leisure time on true crime, but I became ill for quite some time again.
In February, I had a heart attack and spent six days total in the ICU. That set me back a few months. I am still trying to get my strength back. I had grand ambitions for this blog, and I am truly sorry that I have no been able to keep up.
Anyhow, I keep going back to these murders of gay men in and around Detroit, and I found this news item from 2016:
Montgomery started a gay rights group in Detroit, the Triangle Foundation, to raise awareness about LGBT violence. But what spurred his activism was the shooting death outside a Detroit bar a man he was dating.
Montgomery was told by police that this was just “another gay murder” and that he shouldn’t expect warrants or arrests.
I just found it alarming how many “gay murders” there were in the Detroit area back then. I myself grew up in Calumet City, Illinois, home to a large number of gay bars, and even I don’t remember that many homicides of gay men.
I hope to type more about these murders, and further thoughts about the Traci murder and possible related murders in the next week or so. The story about the guys who may have done this murder is fascinating.
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