Marilyn Cazares, a 22-year old homeless trans woman has been found murdered at the building where she was living in Brawley, California.
Her body was discovered on 13 July following reports of a couch fire. Although the police have released few details, Marilyn’s family say that she was stabbed and then set on fire.
Recounting memories of Marilyn, an aunt posted about a time that “she was chilling in the backseat, playing music off of her phone, and jamming out to Billie Jean like the bad ass queen she was!” In reports that misgender Marilyn, another aunt said that she was “killed in a horrific way, in a very brutal, hateful, hateful way.” Mary Ann Isaac, the office manager for the Brawley Feed the Need described Marilyn as the “life of