The Drag Queen Murder (A True Crime Short) by Kathryn Casey

Author:Kathryn Casey [Casey, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction
Goodreads: 11677554
Publisher: Kathryn Casey
Published: 2011-04-19T05:00:00+00:00

IN NOVEMBER, CLIFF AND PATRICE went for a long weekend to Cancun, a trip Cliff had always promised Jimmy. Before leaving Houston, Patrice cut Cliff’s hair and dyed it dark brown, his natural color. Then she took him shopping for jeans, shirts, sweaters, men’s clothing. “Patrice had started saying that she hated seeing me off-stage in drag,” says Cliff. “My nails used to bug her. She would knock on my dressing room door after the show and start taking my nails off. I guess she thought, I’m sleeping with this?”

Although Cliff hadn’t taken hormones in almost three years, there was still a visible effect that he could not easily shed – heavy, fleshy breasts. So he bought a set of weights, “to build up my pecs.” He said of those five days in Cancun: “No one knew us. No one knew I did drag. We were just two people in love on the beach. It was one of the happiest times of my life.”

That Thanksgiving, Patrice bragged to her family about how exciting her life was in the big city. Although she had worked only two days for an oil company during her five and a half months in Houston, Patrice made up a story about a job at a travel agency. She then gave them a phone number answered by a friend who’d agreed to relay their calls. Before the weekend was over, her mother took her on a shopping spree and bought her $600 worth of new clothes. “She was really up,” says Jamie, who met her for a drink. “I remember looking at her and thinking how much she had changed. She used to wear tennis shoes and big shirts; now she had on a dress, high heels, and fishnet stockings.”

In early December, Patrice began suffering from morning sickness. She was torn: Should she have Cliff’s child or an abortion. “I wanted it,” Cliff says. “But Patrice said she just didn’t know if she was ready to settle down.”

Patrice’s friends noticed changes in her. “She started acting nervous about what Cliff would think about everything,” remembers one. “If we went out, she would call and check in with him. It seemed strange. Anxiety was something totally new for Patrice.”

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