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Tracking Atlanta’s missing and murdered trans people through the decades
CASES
By Patrick Saunders
METRO ATLANTA’S MISSING AND MURDERED transgender and gender nonconforming victims are not forgotten. Thanks to a pair of forensic genealogists in Massachusetts, trans cold cases across the U.S. are finding new life. The Trans Doe Task Force is personal for Anthony and Lee Redgrave, who are both trans. The couple founded the project in 2018. They use genetic genealogy to identify trans and gender nonconforming “Doe cases” gone cold. They’re tracking five cases in Georgia and 174 across the world. The Georgia cases include
victims found in Atlanta, Cobb County and Eatonton going back as far as 1978. “Every day I wake up and think that I could be one of those people on this list,” Anthony told Project Q Atlanta. “For that and the fact that we’ve continued to survive, we have to continue going back to the people who didn’t make it.”
The Redgraves created a company to provide private genetic genealogy services in 2015. In 2018, someone murdered a good friend and trans activist named Christa Steele-Knudslien. “It sort of was a situation where it was the stars Antonio Brown aligning because we were dealing with Christa’s theQatl.com 11
