The headline at Reduxx was awful but unsurprising for those who believe (as I do) that so-called transgenderism is a form of mental illness: “Trans-Identified Male Found Guilty of Torturing Victim, Treated Corpse ‘Like Garbage’.” I still read the essay because it involved San Francisco, where I grew up. The details were gruesome, but what was really horrifying was that the prosecutor respected the killer’s pronouns and that, per California law, the killer will almost certainly end up in a women’s prison.
The Reduxx essay describes in chilling detail what David Anderson, 41, and Gerald Rowe, 52, were found guilty of doing to George Randall-Saldivar, 23:
According to testimony heard at the trial, Saldivar was an “acquaintance” of the killers, and had visited Rowe and Anderson at Rowe’s apartment on Market Street on February 3, 2019. The three men were said to have engaged in intercourse together before the murder took place.
Following the sexual activity, Anderson threatened Saldivar with a machete, then tied him up and hung him from the ceiling before mercilessly torturing the victim over a period of four hours.
“A noose was placed around the victim’s neck with the attached rope tethered through a pulley device near the ceiling. The victim’s hands were bound behind his back with zip ties, a strap, and duct tape. The victim was tortured for more than four hours in this position as he was screamed at, hit, punched, sodomized, assaulted with pliers, and a bag placed over his head,” the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office wrote.
After hours of brutally abusing the victim, Rowe left the residence to purchase fentanyl. Rowe and Anderson injected the victim via syringe with a lethal dose of fentanyl mixed with water.
Horrifying, yes, but in some ways, a garden-variety crime story. It’s got it all: A trio of dysfunctional people who knew each other, used drugs, and engaged in weird sex, ending with depraved, sadistic violence and murder. True crime aficionados have seen this before.
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Approved ~ MJM
