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207:, a "small but booming northwest Arkansas town." 22-year-old Joshua Macave Brown shared Carpenter's apartment. Carpenter, who managed a beauty salon, was a friend of Dirkhising's parents. Dirkhising had stayed with the two men at their apartment on weekends only to work at the salon to make money to rebuild his car for two months prior to his death. Brown had been sexually molesting Dirkhising for two months before his death; he claimed that the boy was a willing participant, even though Jesse was dating a girl so this is unlikely and something only the defense tried to use. Jesse's family had been told that he was helping out at the salon. 1779: 1664: 1570: 1381: 1314: 1212: 1196: 566: 580: 594: 1411: 191:
sex crime, while the adult Shepard was ostensibly murdered as part of a hate crime. While both heterosexuality and homosexuality have been cited as issues in both cases, the circumstances were different and in contrast: Shepard was an openly gay man who was attacked by two heterosexual men, while Dirkhising was raped by two men who were described as lovers in a police affidavit.
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Despite his being at their home with approval from his parents, the defense argued he was complicit in the sexual acts, and therefore the death was accidental. Considering how he was a minor and the men were adults, this was considered unlikely. Further details revealed in the court case depicted a
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for the crimes. Neither man had any known prior convictions. The two men were tried separately, as it was believed "each of them will blame the other for the murder." The Arkansas state prosecutor "maintained that the older man had mapped out the assault and watched a portion of it" so chose to send
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people and to what they view as a 'liberal' press" had raised questions about the Dirkhising case. Shipp said, however, that she "made a clear distinction" between the Dirkhising and Shepard cases: "Matthew Shepard's death sparked public expressions of outrage that themselves became news. . . . That
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were not justified because the two cases varied with the Dirkhising murder offering "no lessons," whereas the Shepard murder "touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's
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magazine editorial, asserted that " was the kind of depraved act that happens with even more regularity against young females and, indeed if the victim had been a 13-year-old girl, the story would probably never have gotten beyond Benton County, much less Arkansas. The same editorial also said: "A
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The media coverage of the Dirkhising case was repeatedly and consistently contrasted with that of the high-profile Shepard case, although the cases were dissimilar in several important details. While both victims died as the result of assaults by two men, Dirkhising was a minor and the victim of a
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argument. But sex with children is a crime regardless of the sexes involved, and is not synonymous with homosexuality. . . . "The reason the Dirkhising story received so little play is it offered no lessons. Shepard's murder touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's
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recorded 3,007 stories about his death compared with only 46 in the month after the Dirkhising murder. However, once the media seized on the story, this count rapidly rose into the thousands. Many of the articles justified the lack of coverage, citing that the death did not justify national
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ran a story with the headline "Media tune out torture death of Arkansas boy." The story contrasted the lack of coverage of the Dirkhising case with the treatment the murder of Matthew Shepard received. The story quoted Tim Graham, director of media studies at
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was the only network to cover the murder trial and conviction. The prosecutors "argued that Jesse suffocated to death during the sexual assault because of a combination of the drugs and the way he was trussed up." In March 2001, Brown was found guilty of
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a child, and a diagram of how to tie up and position the boy, as well as other notes of fantasies of molesting children. It was speculated that one of the men planned the assault and the other carried it out. The
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call. They went to the home of Davis Carpenter, where Joshua Brown was also present. Police found that Dirkhising had been tied to a mattress and that his ankles, knees, and wrists had been bound with
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as "ugly nonsense". Sullivan squarely summed up the differences in media coverage as being due to political interests. Sullivan stated that whereas the Shepherd case was used to support including
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attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons. "Jesse Dirkhising's death gives us nothing except the depravity of two sick men."
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Dirkhising's case initially was reported regionally by "news organizations in Arkansas and also covered by newspapers in Oklahoma and Tennessee," yet almost no national press. The
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recorded in their affidavit a statement by Brown that he had been molesting Dirkhising for at least two months prior to Dirkhising's death. Brown called the molestation '
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ran the story on its local wires but not nationally until a month later when the story was focused on the lack of coverage rather than the crime itself. A
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and Shepard's murder was a hate crime involving adults. Also the sexualities of the victims and attackers differed somewhat with Shepard being an
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worth addressing at the outset is the failure to distinguish between homosexuality and pedophilia, which creates a false parallel at the core of
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The Dirkhising case was repeatedly compared with the media coverage of the murder of Matthew Shepard although Dirkhising was a minor in a
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from Benton County citing excessive pretrial publicity. "It's been on everyone's lips down here for a month and a half," Buckley stated.
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article ran a story nearly a month after his death, noting the lack of national coverage in contrast to that given to the 1998 death of
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the boy, then called 911. Dirkhising later died in the hospital, his death hastened apparently as the result of positional
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that Brown was solely responsible for the rape and murder of Dirkhising while Brown said that Carpenter was the director.
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Davis Don Carpenter and Joshua Brown were each charged with capital murder and six counts of rape, and they faced the
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article, the lack of coverage of Dirkhising's case was noted by conservative commentators and was attributed to the
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The story of the September 26 death was transmitted by Associated Press national news wires on October 29, and the
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Lieb, David A. (1999-11-02). "Two Men Accused of Murder, Rape of 13-Year-Old Boy". Associated Press. p. E1.
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Brown to trial first. Carpenter's court-appointed attorney, criminal defense lawyer Tim Buckley, sought a
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for its support of hate-crime legislation. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), however, complained that
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of the perpetrators as well as the nature of the crimes. Conservative political commentator
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people in federal hate-crime law the Dirkhising case was ignored for concerns of inciting
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to similar charges and was also sentenced to life. Subsequently, Carpenter said on the
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for sexual activity. Brown also later claimed he himself was "under the influence of
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Edge with Paula Zahn, FOX News, May 16, 2001; Accessed through Ebsco, June 17, 2006.
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story on the lack of coverage on October 22, 1999, a month after Dirkhising's death.
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was "almost alone among national newspapers" reporting on Brown's trial and
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attention; initial reports failed to mention that the two perpetrators were
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barbarians does not fit the "villain-victim script of our cultural elite."
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by the Arkansas Supreme Court in September 2003. In April 2001, Carpenter
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Dirkhising was the son of Tina and Miles Yates Jr. from the small town of
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On September 26, 1999, Dirkhising's murder was discovered by police of
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men, while Dirkhising's attackers were lovers and presumed to be gay.
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search revealed only a few dozen articles that appeared only after
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of the two cases and explored the issues of what was considered a
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Dirkhising's death received only regional media coverage until a
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Jesse Dirkhising's death has not done so is hardly the fault of
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and belts. Dirkhising had been gagged with his own underwear, a
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On October 22, 1999, approximately one month after his death,
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and duct tape. Brown told police they had given Dirkhising an
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Oxford, Ohio
Rogers, Arkansas
positional asphyxia
Springdale, Arkansas
Prairie Grove, Arkansas
tortured
raped
positional asphyxia
Washington Times
Matthew Shepard
hate crime legislation
conservative
media coverage
hate crime
Prairie Grove, Arkansas
Rogers
Rogers, Arkansas
911
duct tape
bandana
enema
amitriptyline
resuscitate
asphyxia
pedophile
sedate
Arkansas State Police
horseplay
age of consent

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