Remembering Our Dead

Githe Goines

Githe was an African trans woman whose strangled body was found dumped in a scrap yard two weeks after they had gone missing.

Their killing was reported as being the 198th homicide in New Orleans in 2011.

Local police found the dead body of Githe Goines, a 23-year-old transgender woman, in a scrap yard in New Orleans, Louisiana after she had been missing for two weeks.

Local media reports have not accurately identified Goines as a transgender woman in the reporting of her death, but New Orleans sources assure that Goines identified as a woman. The Orleans Parish coroner’s office believes Goines was strangled to death.

Local law enforcement have not released information regarding possible suspects in their investigation of this homicide.

TvT project: The Times Picayune 30.12.2011; Youth Breakout 10.01.2012

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/man-found-strangled-thursday-in-eastern-new-orleans-scrap-yard/article_4afe6cc6-5a6e-5fcf-87c0-c2e3e1e6c3a1.html

https://thecoastnews.com/center-hosts-commemoration-for-murdered-transgender-people/

https://lgbticons.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/why-there-is-no-straight-pride/

Report added: 1 Nov 2018. Last updated: 7 Mar 2026

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