Condemned Ohio Man Blames Killing on ‘Homosexual Panic’

This will go nowhere: A condemned killer is asking the Ohio Parole Board for mercy, saying he experienced a "homosexual panic" of self-revulsion before killing a man he picked up at a bar more than 30 years ago. Death row inmate Robert Van Hook was sentenced to die for fatally strangling and stabbing David Self in Cincinnati in 1985. Van Hook fled to Florida, where he was arrested and confessed.

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Condemned Ohio Man Blames Killing on ‘Homosexual Panic’

I read that one. He would visit homosexual bars and places they hung out, lure them and rob them.