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Source: Associated Press
By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER
Today
HOUSTON, Mo. (AP) Some of Ally Lee Steinfelds burned remains were found in a bag in a rural southern Missouri chicken coop. Authorities say both of the transgender teens eyes had been gouged out and she had been stabbed in the genitals.
As questions swirl about why the quiet 17-year-old was killed in such a ghastly manner, authorities arent saying what led to the killing. But they dismiss the possibility the death was a hate crime.
Authorities identified the remains as those of Joseph Matthew Steinfeld Jr. Ally Lee Steinfelds birth name. They were found last week in the town of Cabool, near the mobile home of one of the alleged killers, 24-year-old Briana Calderas, with whom Steinfeld was living.
Calderas and two 18-year-olds, Andrew Vrba and Isis Schauer, are charged with first-degree murder and other counts. A fourth suspect is charged with abandonment of a corpse and tampering with evidence.
Both Sheriff James Sigman and prosecutor Parke Stevens Jr. insist the crime was not motivated by Steinfelds gender identity.
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Gothmog
(145,965 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,150 posts)but to arrive at that conclusion you have to know everything about their lives.
everything
Eliot Rosewater
(31,150 posts)is to know everything about their relationship and unless they are believing the criminals, how could they?
irisblue
(33,059 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)another girlfriend. Then he came out as trans and got killed.
No doubt the sheriff knows a lot more of the details, but it sure could have been a highly unusual lovers' spat.
LostOne4Ever
(9,301 posts)She died because of hate, please at least refer to her as the correct gender in recognition of that.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)and that was when "he" had a girlfriend. She was "she" when it tragically ended.
And it may well have been a hate crime, but we don't know for sure yet.
LostOne4Ever
(9,301 posts)She was just unable to express that until she came out.
And it was a hate Crime. The mutilation to her genitals is proof of that.