Massachusetts Transgender Victims

Rita Hester
Location: Boston, MA
Cause of Death: Multiple stab wounds
Date of Death: November 28, 1998
Source: IYF, November 1998

Georgette Hart
Location: Charlestown, MA
Cause of Death: Throat slashed, penis cut off & stuffed in her mouth, driven over with car.
Date of Death: Late 70s-early 80s
Source: Personal testimony
Notes: Born in Charleston, "Boston's most beautiful drag queen." She was murdered after leaving a bar in Charlestown.

Denise Pugliesi
Location: Brighton, MA
Cause of Death: Blunt trauma (beaten to death)
Date of Death: January 1, 1979
Source: Personal testimony
Notes: Her body was found in a park in Brighton

Monique Rogers
Location: Boston, MA
Cause of Death: Drowned
Date of Death: August 3, 1986
Source: Gay Community News, August 24, 1986
Notes: Monique was pulled out of Boston Harbor during a series of gay- and trans-bashing incidents in the city. It is likely that this is the case referred on some other websites as "Mary S."

Chanelle Pickett
Location: Watertown, MA
Cause of Death:Strangled by William Palmer. She also suffered a beating that left her face terribly bruised and bloody.
Date of Death: November 20, 1995
Source: Dallas Denny, GEA and Nancy Nangeroni

Debra Forte
Location: Haverhill, MA
Cause of Death: Multiple six-inch stab wounds to the chest, any of which would have been sufficient to kill her. She was also beaten about the head and shoulders, by Michael Thompson
Date of Death: May 15, 1995
Source: Dallas Denny of GEA and Nancy Nangeroni
Notes: Thompson pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder, and received a life sentence with parole in 15 years.

Monique Thomas (aka Rufus P. Thomas)
Location: Dorchester, MA
Cause of Death: Murdered, allegedly by George Stallings
Date of Death: September 11, 1998 (estimated, body was not discovered for a week)
Source: Dallas Denny of GEA
Notes: George Stallings, caught using Thomas's car and credit cars, has pinned the murder on "some men" who, he said, had discovered that Thomas was biologically male. Stallings has been charged with first-degree murder.

Unknown person dressed in women's clothing
Location: Boston, MA
Cause of Death: Murdered
Date of Death: 1979
Source: The Boston Globe, September 25, 1995

Lisa Daniels
Location: Dorchester, MA
Cause of Death: Shot to death
Date of Death: September 17, 2005
Source: Boston Herald September 20, 2005
Notes: Lisa was 42 years old, and was found dead near a local Stop n Shop.