Ed Buck gets 30 years in prison for drug-related killings of gay men
Los Angeles Times.”These were men I cared for and loved. I would never do them harm,” he said. “Their deaths were a tragedy – but I did not cause their deaths.“I would like to go back and change things, and if I could I would.”Buck asked U.S.
District Judge Christina A. Snyder to “take a look at my life in total,” including his philanthropic work raising money for AIDS-related causes and animal welfare, and not “the horrible caricature the government painted me as — a meth-fueled ax killer.”Related: Ed Buck found guilty over fatal meth overdoses of two men at his homeDuring his trial, the court heard Buck had a fetish for injecting men—usually Black men—with meth, sometimes when they were unconscious.
He often preyed on vulnerable individuals, offering them money in exchange for doing as he wished with them.Buck’s arrest came following the deaths of two men.
Gemmel Moore, 26, was found dead of an overdose in Buck’s West Hollywood apartment in 2017. Then, 18 months later, Timothy Dean, 55, also died after an overdose while in Buck’s home.Moore had left a diary in which he said Buck, who is gay, had a fetish for injecting him with meth and had got him addicted.
