This week marks seven years since the death of 16-year-old Kedarie Johnson in Burlington, Iowa. The teen was gender nonconforming and non-binary, and was murdered seemingly in response to that gender expression. Still Kedarie's killers, two cisgender men, were not charged with a hate crime.

Writing and research by Aurora Cady.

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Podcast:
A Hateful Homicide - The Murder of Kedarie Johnson: "A Teenage Tragedy"

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