Richard Patterson, 65, of Margate, was acquitted of killing 60-year-old girlfriend Francisca Marquinez in 2015 after a week-long trial, according to the Sun Sentinel. During the trial, his lawyers initially argued that Marquinez died accidentally while performing oral sex on him at her apartment. To bolster their defense, Patterson’s lawyers filed ...
But after a medical expert testified that choking during the sex act was unlikely, the defense reversed course on the theory. The judge never ruled on the request to put Patterson’s member on display in court. “That’s not the way she died,” defense lawyer Ken Padowitz said.
Harry Hay, who founded a secret organization six decades ago that proved to be the catalyst for the American gay rights movement, died early Thursday morning at his home in San Francisco. He was 90. Although little known in the broader national culture over the years, Mr. Hay's contribution was to do what no one else had done before: plant ...
The impulse came out of a brew of other identities and allegiances that mingled in him, all of them described by his biographer, Stuart Timmons, in ''The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement'' (Alyson Publications, 1990). He was an ardent American Communist, a romantic homosexual, an amateur musician and aspiring actor, ...
Harry Hay was born Henry Hay Jr. in England in 1912, and raised by nannies. His father was a manager of gold and diamond mining in South Africa for Cecil Rhodes, and of copper mining in Chile, before settling the family in California.
He attended Stanford University, but did not graduate. It was the actor Will Geer, who decades later played Grandpa Walton on television, who introduced Mr. Hay to Communist organizing, including the general union strike which closed the Port of San Francisco in 1934.
Rudolf Steiner (64), Austrian esotericist who developed anthroposophy and Waldorf education, died from illness on 30 March 1925, but the nature of the illness was never confirmed and remains controversial, with theories suggesting cancer or poisoning as the most probable causes.
His death cause is unknown. Naia (15–17), is a human skeleton of a female teenager who was discovered in 2007 in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico who had lived 12,000–13,000 ago. It is believed that Naia had died falling into Hoyo Negro, but this is not known for certain.