@jcboy,
More than twenty years ago I was handling a total loss fire claim where the insured was found dead.
I hired a Cause & Origin expert who wrote a a report that asserted that it was a well known fact that the insured was a homosexual and that scorned homosexual lovers can be extremely violent in their retribution.
The autopsy report indicated that our insured had died from blood loss due to castration and that someone had put needles in his eyes, prior to him dying.
I thought the report was ridiculous and I laughingly read it out loud in my office. At roughly the same time a young file clerk who we all figured was gay was walking down the aisle beside my desk.
"Oh, Danny S-------, I know him." declared the clerk. "He throws great parties,"
I asked the fellow if he knew Danny was dead and he didn't, but he wasn't all that surprised to learn that he had been murdered, because Danny was known to" play around."
This was simply one case of murder among millions and is not proof of anything.
It is very often tragic when someone is murdered , but it is very, very rare that any murder can be described as more tragic than another.
To JCBoy's credit he hasn't even remotely suggested that that these two men were murdered simply because they were homosexual.
It's the rare person who deserves to be murdered, and the chances are great that these two guys didn't dredge their fate.
Murders, however,very often have weird back stories.