As 2001 wore on, more possible hate crimes continued apace in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Fifty-one-year-old Abdo Ali Ahmed originally hailed from Yemen, but had lived in the US for thirty-five years, and was an American citizen. He had worked as a farm laborer in the rural agricultural community of Reedley, … More Abdo Ali Ahmed
In the wake of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington DC, fear and uncertainty became the norm around the nation, and appallingly, some Americans chose to channel this fear in the most destructive manner possible: by attacking innocent human beings in some sort of delusional attempt to get revenge … More Adel Karas
In the summer of 2001, in Jacksonville, Florida, nineteen-year-old Vickie Cook was spending the evening of Saturday, June 30th at home with her two young daughters, Jazmin and Alexis, and also babysitting two other children. Vickie, described as a smart young woman with a great sense of humor and a fierce devotion to her kids, … More Vickie Cook
On the last day of January 2001, another sex worker would be found dead in Canada, this time not in Edmonton, Alberta, but in Victoria, British Columbia—more than a thousand miles away. Thirty-nine-year-old Roberta Jean Elders was a mother of two who had worked as a prostitute for some time, and had been living at … More Roberta Jean Elders
In January of 2001, in the cold northern climes of Edmonton, Alberta, a young woman would turn up murdered, her death another grim statistic in the disturbingly long list of missing and murdered Aboriginal and mixed-race women and sex workers in Canada. Kelly Dawn Reilly was twenty-three years old in 2001, and like many women … More Kelly Dawn Reilly
On the afternoon of Wednesday, July 25th, 2001, thirty-year-old father of two Richie Clayton was working out at a gym in Aigburth, a suburb of Liverpool, England. He evidently left the gym for a time after his workout, but then returned a couple of hours later. Witnesses spotted him talking on his phone outside the … More Richie Clayton
Twenty-four-year-old Jerry Stamper originally hailed from Battle Creek, Michigan, though he had moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when he was a teenager. For the previous five years, he had been in a relationship with Allen Wellborn, and the couple lived together in an apartment not far from a nightclub Jerry was known to frequent. On … More Jerry Stamper
Rebecca Victoria Hall, known as Becky, was a nineteen-year-old mother living in the Little Horton area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Born on December 30th, 1981, she had a four-month-old son named Jordan and struggled with heroin addiction. To support herself and her child, she earned a living as a sex worker. On the evening … More Rebecca Hall
January 18th, 2001 was, by all accounts, a perfectly ordinary evening for Tara Louise Baker, a first-year law student at the University of Georgia in Athens. She and a friend had been studying at the Law School Library on campus; her friend left at around seven p.m., but Tara—a deeply caring individual whose family and … More Tara Baker
On December 11th, 2000, in Richmond, Virginia, a young man named Donald Harris, known as Donnie to friends and family, was apparently having a normal evening. He left his home on Williamsburg Road at around eight-thirty p.m. and got into his car for the short drive to a local restaurant, where he was going to … More Donald Harris
