TDoR 2001 / 2001 / January / 26 / Brandi Houston


Brandi Houston

Age 35

26 Jan 2001
Houston, Texas (USA)
Strangled

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Brandi Houston
Brandi Houston [photo: www.texasobituaryproject.org]

Brandi was strangled by Richard Masterson who claimed that her death was an accident. Masterson was executed by lethal injection in 2016.

The media reported that Brandi was a drag queen or "female impersonator".

HUNTSVILLE - Richard Allen Masterson, a convicted killer who once encouraged jurors to sentence him to death, was executed Wednesday for the 2001 strangulation of a professional Houston female impersonator.

As the killer's family and friends watched from a barred witness room, Masterson raised his head and directed a kiss in their direction.

In his final remarks, he said that he was being sent to a "better place."

"I am all right with this," he said. "You have to live and die by the choices we make. I have made mine."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/20/richard-masterson-darin-honeycutt-houston-texas-death-penalty-execution

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Convicted-Houston-killer-executed-6773138.php

https://www.newsweek.com/richard-masterson-texas-execution-murder-death-penalty-lethal-injection-417887

http://www.laprensa.hn/mundo/921851-410/texas-ejecuta-a-un-hombre-por-la-muerte-de-un-travesti

http://www.lavozdemichoacan.com.mx/mundo/texas-ejecuta-a-hombre-que-asesino-a-un-travesti/

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/texas-death-row-inmate-claims-killing-sex-accident-article-1.2502164

http://www.texasobituaryproject.org/012701honeycutt.html

Report added: 22 Dec 2018. Last updated: 13 Jan 2021

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