Shepard’s murderer unsuccessfully claimed gay panic, a defense that’s still legal in 47 states.
A member of the LGBT community celebrates the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a colonial-era ban on gay sex in Mumbai, India, on September 6th, 2018.
Depending on where you’re born, things might not have gotten that much better.
Despite protests in New York and beyond, police reform is in a dismal state.
The public murder of a young woman near her home in Kew Gardens made the bystander effect a household term in 1964. Now, fifty years later, it can be used to illustrate another psychological phenomenon: the surprising fallibility of memory.
Since the LAPD’s cold case unit began 10 years ago, detectives have used science to arrest serial killers and dozens of others who thought they had gotten away with murder.
By leaving out crucial statistics, the Netflix phenomenon plays into clichés about murdered women.
