#TodayLGBTQHistory 1988: Having tied up, tortured, and robbed one gay man the night before, two Hartford, Connecticut, teenagers -- Sean Burke and Marcos Perez -- go out drinking and looking for someone else gay to beat up. They find their victim when they meet thirty-three-year-old Richard Reihl at a downtown gay bar. After talking with Reihl for a few minutes, they all agree to go back to his apartment where the two teenagers knock Reihl in the head with a fireplace log, bind him up with duct tape, and then, despite his begging and pleading, bludgeon him to death with blows to the head and chest. Despite attempts by the defense to portray the two teenaged assailants as star athletes and All-American boys who deserve leniency and compassion, a judge sentences them to forty and thirty-five years in prison, respectively, for the killing.
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:56:06 +0000
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