The Unresolved Death of a Transsexual
By AAN Staff
september 12, 2003 01:12 pm
Buddy Jo Rishel was born in a man's
body but lived as a woman named Jennifer
Pate. She was found dead, apparently having been dragged behind a pickup truck after a night
spent drinking with two long-haul
truckers. The two men were cleared by a coronor's
jury of any criminal acts, but the death
haunts Jennifer's mother. “They got away with
killing her. That’s how it looks to me,” she tells Missoula Independent's Mike Keefe-
Feldman. "And I will never rest until I think
justice is done.”