Episode 181: Fred Martinez Jr. | The Murder of Two Spirits
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4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Trigger Warning: mentions of suicide and hate crimes
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/01/gay-youths-death-shakes-colo-city/98d8eab5-4afb-41b9-b83c-35d69d7cc88e/
https://otherwisechristian.com/2020/01/06/gender-diversity-nadleehi-and-dilbaa/
https://www.pbs.org/video/independent-lens-gender-as-a-spectrum-not-a-divide/
https://www.greeleytribune.com/2019/03/02/weld-residents-face-felony-charges-for-allegedly-robbing-extorting-man-out-of-120/
https://www.denverpost.com/2009/11/27/film-explores-death-of-transgendered-colo-teen/
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hate-crimes-media-and-emt_b_334566
Two Spirits (2009) from filmmaker Lydia Nibley
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys welcome to episode 181 of the true crime couple. I'm Kay and I'm John. |
| 0:05.4 | We hope that you're all doing well and you're getting ready for the approaching |
| 0:09.0 | summer season or winter season depending on where you're listening from. |
| 0:14.0 | But before we get into the episode we just wanted to thank anyone who has left us a review |
| 0:19.0 | or has joined our Patreon page. |
| 0:21.0 | If you've joined Patreon since the last episode, we will be giving you a shout |
| 0:26.3 | out at the end of this episode. So if that's you, please stay tuned. Or if you just want to hear me butcher some names you can stay |
| 0:34.8 | till the end and that's the end of our intro always short and sweet the way you like |
| 0:41.0 | it so John are you ready to hear something crazy? Of course. |
| 0:46.5 | Our case today is one that is a cross section of important issues when it comes to coverage in the true crime world and the fact that these |
| 0:55.8 | two groups are vulnerable in our world today. |
| 0:59.9 | And that is the convergence of missing and murdered indigenous people and crimes against the LGBTQ plus community. |
| 1:08.0 | The under-representation of these groups in true crime media is a shame because statistically they have faced |
| 1:15.9 | violence at a higher rate than other cultural or racial groups. At the crux of |
| 1:21.5 | today's case we have a vulnerable victim who was brutally murdered as part of a hate crime because of who he was proud to be. |
| 1:30.0 | This is the story of FC Martinez. |
| 1:34.0 | Police say the suspect 31 year old Jeffrey Dahmer has confessed to the killings of 11 people |
| 1:42.0 | whose remains were found in his apartment. |
| 1:45.0 | We are all evil in some form or nothing. Are we not? |
| 1:49.0 | Lock your doors, lock your windows, if you have the ability to provide additional security devices |
| 1:55.0 | then by all means do so. |
| 1:57.0 | I struggled with the beginning of this episode because I was unsure how to approach the addressing of our victim and he |
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