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Multiple Juveniles Charged in
Homosexual Survivalist’s Murder
by Dean A. Beers, CLI, CCDI, CFDI-Expert and Karen S. Beers, BSW, CCDI, CFDI-SME
Our agency was retained by the attorney representing right torso flank towards the front and chest.
the decedent’s family in a civil wrongful death; there Anatomically – from back to front, upward at a sharp
was a concurrent criminal homicide. The juveniles angle, and one from right to left and the other without
reported going to the decedent’s junkyard several times much side-to-side deviation. This information
after school and on weekends. They reported it was well determined the decedent was not moving towards the
known he was homosexual targeting younger boys in juveniles, but away. Next it was determined he was
the community. On the occasion of the event, they climbing up the ladder to exit the bunker – the only
were invited to his ‘survivalist bunker’. In this bunker manner of ingress and egress. Additional information
he provided alcohol and marijuana, as well as watched from the private investigator determined the decedent
homosexual pornography. During their time in the was a homosexual with a live-in partner of 20 years
bunker, the decedent made sexual advances towards one until recent to the incident. In addition, there was no
or more of the juveniles. In the course of the physical criminal history or any report of criminal activity –
altercation, they each grabbed a semi-automatic rifle including as a suspected pedophile or sexual assailant.
and shot the decedent multiple times as he came at The decedent was well known in the community,
them, killing him. including his homosexuality, with no indications of
moral turpitude. Law enforcement found no
The private investigator conducted the scene pornographic material in the bunker; they did find
investigation and provided photographs and reports of material in the decedent’s house – the juveniles stated
the incident for review. In review of the scene they had never been in the house. In the bunker was
investigation, including by law enforcement, and with found alcohol and marijuana. At autopsy the decedent
the autopsy reports and photographs, it was determined was negative, and the juveniles were never tested.
the trajectory of the gunshot wounds came from at least
two different locations – one to the right of the The civil case was settled, and the juveniles were either
decedent, and one directly behind, and both were convicted or reached a plea agreement.
below the decedent – going from his lower back and
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