• Missing + Marginalised,  Missing Person

    Missing & Marginalised: Jax Gatton + Brett Williams

    This week on Missing & Marginalised we are covering two trans people, Jax Gratton, a trans-woman, and Brett Charles Williams a trans-man. Below is all the information we have as well as how to get in touch with the right people if you do know something about these cases Jax Gratton Jax Gratton, 34, is missing from Denver, Colorado. She’s a hairstylist and a transgender woman. She was last seen just before 10pm leaving her apartment in the 4200 block of East Iliff Avenue, leaving without her makeup or medication, and leaving her beloved cat behind.  Jax is around 150 pounds, is 5”11 tall, has blue eyes and pink hair…

  • Murder

    Ellen Rae Greenberg & Sam Goldberg

    On January 26th, 2011, 27-year-old teacher Ellen Rae Greenberg was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment with 20 stab wounds to her chest, scalp and the back of her neck. When police arrived on the scene, they quickly concluded that Ellen died by suicide. Her fiancé, Sam Goldberg, told them that Ellen had been fine when he went to the gym at around 4.45pm – but when he returned at 5.30 he couldn’t open the door, and she wasn’t answering his calls or texts. He finally broke the door down at 6.30, and found Ellen’s body right there. The latched front door, and Ellen’s recent struggle with anxiety, were enough…

  • Crimes against Children,  Missing Person,  Murder

    Asha Degree

    On February 14th 2000, 9-year-old Asha Degree left her home in Shelby, North Carolina in the middle of the night. She was seen by three drivers walking along a nearby road, and some of her belongings were found in a barn – but Asha has never been seen since. No-one knows why she left her home, or where she went. 17 months later her bookbag and clothes, wrapped in two garbage bags, were found less than 50 yards from Highway 18, “between the road and the creek” – but 25 miles away from where Asha was last seen. For almost 25 years no serious suspects or persons of interest were…

  • Crimes against Children,  Murder

    Jermaine Bass

    On August 29th, 2022, Jaylah Lavia’h Bass and JJ Bass were shot in their bed with a gun belonging to their parents, Shirley and Jermaine Bass. As sheriff’s deputies arrived and administered medical care to the children, Jermaine insisted that his gun had gone off as he changed the magazine in their bedroom. 5 shots were fired – 4 of them into the heads of his children. JJ screamed in pain, yelling “ow, my head!” – but somehow he survived. Tragically, after being shot “in the centre of her forehead”, 5-year-old Jaylah did not. Today the murder trial of FL v. Jermaine Bass began, with Bass facing charges of first-degree…