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Inmate being held on suspicion of killing Billy Jack Gaither's murderer A man convicted of the murder of gay man Billy Jack Gaither has himself been killed in an Alabama prison. Steven Eric Mullins was found unresponsive last Tuesday at the St. Clair Correctional Facility, Alabama Department of Corrections officials announced Monday. Mullins, 45, was serving a life sentence for the 1999 kidnap and murder of 39-year-old Gaither in Coosa County. Gaither’s murder sparked a national outcry and a movement to include sexual...

The victims reportedly met his killer via a personals ad. The alleged killer of a gay man in Spain has been arrested, 18 years after he brutally killed his victim and scrawled “Hitler was right!” in blood on the wall. In 2000, a gay Barcelona man named Vitervo met up with another man he met via a personals ad. Authorities believe the two met at Montgat train station before going out for drinks. They returned to Vitervo’s home, which he shared...

Yesterday, we shared with you the news of Bruce McArthur’s arrest and his prior history with the law. Lat year, the Toronto gay community was shook but a number of disappearances in the Gay Village area. While most shooed away the thought of a real problem occurring, the police were not so sure. Then last week, 66-year-old landscaper Bruce McArthur was arrested by the police under the suspicion that he was involved with the disappearances of two men named Selim Esen...

"My fears had come true and he did what he said he was going to do." In a shocking statement, the widow of the man who killed 49 people in a 2016 shooting spree at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub admitted she knew he had been planning a massacre for some months. USA Today reports that, in a 12-page handwritten statement to the FBI, Noor Salman claimed she saw her husband, Omar Mateen, prepare for the June 12, 2016, assault. Written just hours after...

Omar Mateen killed 49 and wounded 53 when he attacked gay nightclub Pulse in June The wife of the Orlando shooter has been arrested in connection with the shooting. Noor Salman was taken into custody by FBI at her home outside San Francisco, the New York Times reports, quoting a law enforcement official. They also quote a source familiar with the arrest claiming she was charged with obstruction of justice. Since the 12 June attack on LGBTI nightclub Pulse, which left 49 dead...

Omar Mateen was named the shooter at the massacre in Orlando gay nightclub Pulse. A report says that his wife, Noor Mateen knew about his plans to massacre a gay club, but she did not take any measure. “Omar Mateen’s current wife, Noor, told the FBI she was with him when he bought ammunition and a holster, several officials familiar with the case said. “She told the FBI that she once drove him to the gay nightclub, Pulse, because he wanted...