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453: New York Homicide: Broken Pride (S1E5)

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A Brooklyn lesbian couple faces a nightmare after an intruder enters their home and attacks them on the Fourth of July weekend in 1995.  Sylvia Lugo is shot twice, and later dies.  As the police investigate, suspicion falls on her partner - until the real perpetrator is shockingly discovered.

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0:00.0

I feel like we've been so lucky lately beginning to talk about lesbians as much we have been. And this one, we're also recording Amy Bradley 3. So, like, we're just so many lesbians. I need them because otherwise I'm not getting through this. Yeah, they kind of got a lot of shit done. Not like I'm saying that it's surprising, but like, wow. They're really burying the lead. This and Lilith Fair. Good job, lesbians. Hell, yeah.

0:27.8

Hi, Jillian Bezavali.

0:28.7

Hi, Patrick Hines.

0:31.4

Girl, my notes begin with, I've got three words for you.

0:32.7

Lesbian.

0:33.5

Exactly.

0:34.0

Lesbians! Exactly.

0:34.7

So this is our 12th bonus episode.

0:36.8

It's an episode of that show New York Homicide, season one, episode five. This episode is called Broken Pride.

0:43.2

These two women had just come back from the Fourth of July holiday weekend, and they were viciously attacked in their Brooklyn grounds. I got a phone call. Amanda had been shot.

0:56.0

Sylvia had been shot and killed.

0:58.0

And I almost dropped the phone.

1:00.0

The community was very, very afraid, and they wanted results.

1:04.0

There was a fellow known as the Park Slope rapist, and he had not been apprehended yet.

1:11.6

But our main suspect was someone closer to home, the only known witness.

1:16.6

To the police, none of her story is making sense.

1:19.6

You see someone shot, you have to make a determination.

1:22.6

Was the person shot? Or could it be self-inflicted?

1:25.6

We were outraged, telling them, no, no, no, no, no, you're barking up the wrong tree,

1:30.3

go find the guy who did this.

1:32.8

Just the facts of the case makes you kind of shake your head and say, I didn't see that coming.

1:39.7

I love that they are telling a lesbian story.

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