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In what may be a first-of-its-kind case, it was revealed yesterday that a New York woman charged with murdering her 86-year-old mother had killed before — as a man.
Prior to a sex-change operation, Corriana Thompson, 45, who was arrested on murder charges Sunday, was Corey Wayne Balashek, who served time in prison for the 1981 strangulation of a female nurse.
Thompson, of Albany, took her mother's maiden name after she had the gender-bending operation sometime after getting out of prison in the 1990s.
"Sounds like a great movie," said Brian MacNamara, an assistant professor of law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
The bizarre case could be a first.
A longtime FBI spokesman, state criminal-justice officials, academicians, and gay- and transgender-rights activists could not recall a similar situation in which a person was twice charged with murder — once as a man and once as a woman.
http://nypost.com/2005/04/12/he-sla...l-strangler-killed-as-a-woman-man-police-say/
Prior to a sex-change operation, Corriana Thompson, 45, who was arrested on murder charges Sunday, was Corey Wayne Balashek, who served time in prison for the 1981 strangulation of a female nurse.
Thompson, of Albany, took her mother's maiden name after she had the gender-bending operation sometime after getting out of prison in the 1990s.
"Sounds like a great movie," said Brian MacNamara, an assistant professor of law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
The bizarre case could be a first.
A longtime FBI spokesman, state criminal-justice officials, academicians, and gay- and transgender-rights activists could not recall a similar situation in which a person was twice charged with murder — once as a man and once as a woman.
http://nypost.com/2005/04/12/he-sla...l-strangler-killed-as-a-woman-man-police-say/