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Nov 3, 2001 The November 2001 edition of PBS’s In the Life will feature a report on the murder of openly gay Navajo youth Fred Martinez Jr. of Cortez. The segment features an in-depth examination of the circumstances surrounding Martinez's murder and looks at how Martinez’s sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ethnicity and class have affected media coverage of the case. The program, entitled "Anatomy of a Colorado Murder," also features interviews with Pauline Mitchell, Martinez’s mother; John Peters-Campbell, the Cortez board member of the Four Corners Gay and Lesbian Alliance for Diversity; Carolyn Wagner, national vice president of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays; Betsy Stephens of PFLAG Durango/Four Corners; Sage Douglas Remington of the Two-Spirit Society of Colorado; and Cathy Renna, news media director for GLAAD. Martinez’s badly beaten and decomposing body was discovered June 21 in a rocky canyon on the south end of Cortez. Eighteen-year-old Shaun Murphy of Farmington has since been arrested and charged with the murder, which is believed to have occurred June 16. The nationally broadcast PBS special will air this Sunday at 10 p.m. in Colorado. |
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