Remembering Our Dead

Stella Essie

Stella was hit around the head with a sledgehammer by Loveless Austin after he found out she was transgender.

She had just begun a relationship with him but when he discovered that she was trans he left her. He returned the following day with a sledgehammer and knife to kill her. He also stole various household items, which he took to a pawnbroker.

Austin was convicted of her murder and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Source: The Chicago Tribune, August 28, 1985 and September 12, 1986

http://www.transviden.dk/stella-essie-draebt-19850717/

http://students673.ucr.edu/docsserver/lgbt/trans_remembrance_display_posters.pdf

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10_JeZ7LEIRhvewTCoL5mVkH6MQJzf7fSXl4-P6QJ0v0/edit#gid=0

https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-stella-essie-jerome-br/123502310/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-murder-of-transgender-wo/72548620/

Report added: 24 Feb 2019. Last updated: 12 Mar 2024

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