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Jul 2, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
In November 1957 a 51yo male was arrested by police investigating the disappearance of shopkeeper Bernice Worden. What police found in subsequent searches was beyond nightmares. Today’s #tkad trans killer a day is the Butcher of Plainfield, Ed Gein.
Edward Theodore Gein was a bright Wisconsin farm kid, but he had a drunk father and overbearing mother. Augusta Gein (picrel) made Ed dress as a girl. Ed’s father’s drinking did him in by 1942, and his brother died soon after in suspicious circumstances, but Ed was not suspected.
Jul 1, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
As promised to @ripx4nutmeg, July will feature a trans killer a day #tkad for as long as I can stay unjannied for it. The first one is a doozy.
Wolfgang 'Beate' Schmidt 🧵
In May 1990, Christa Najoks was raped and killed, and her body left in a junkyard near Brandenburg.
The police found ladies' underwear at the scene, but it wasn't Najoks'. A #transgenocide had begun.
The murder remained unsolved in March 1991, when Inge Borkheide's body was found stabbed, raped, and shat upon in the Neuendorf woodlands.