Marsha P. Johnson Case Reopened!
By Michael Musto Mon., Nov. 26 2012 at 10:00 AM
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2012/11/narsha_p_johnso.php (http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2012/11/narsha_p_johnso.php)
Marsha P. Johnson was the transgender performer and activist whose body was found in the Hudson in 1992, the police deciding it was a suicide, as various observers reacted in deep suspicion, certain there was more to the story.
Well, the case has just been opened again!
A transsexual activist named Mariah Lopez tells me she got someone at the Manhattan D.A.'s office to assign someone to look more closely at what really happened.
Mariah feels it was a murder, and says that Sylvia Rivera--the late LGBT rights legend who was Mariah's soul mother--felt the same way.
Wow! So glad to hear this!
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EXCLUSIVE: DA reopens unsolved 1992 case involving the 'saint of gay life'
The controversial death of Marsha P. Johnson, dubbed the 'mayor of Christopher Street,' is being put back under the microscope
By Shayna Jacobs / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, December 16, 2012, 9:40 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/da-reopens-unsolved-1992-case-involving-saint-gay-life-article-1.1221742 (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/da-reopens-unsolved-1992-case-involving-saint-gay-life-article-1.1221742)
Prosecutors will take a fresh look at the 1992 death of gay icon and "mayor of Christopher Street" Marsha P. Johnson, the Daily News has learned.
Johnson, an unmistakable Greenwich Village fixture who posed for an Andy Warhol series on drag queens, was pulled from the Hudson River, fully clothed, near Christopher St. on July 6, 1992. She had been missing for days.
Her death was ruled a suicide by the city's medical examiner, but Johnson's friends and family believe she was attacked by bullies who regularly harassed and assaulted her at the pier.
The ruling was changed from "suicide" to "undetermined" in December 2002, as a result of a police investigation that determined there was not enough information to call it a suicide.
Now, two decades after her death, the Manhattan District Attorney's office has agreed to reconsider the case, law enforcement sources confirmed.