The Murder of Dime Doe: "Actions Have Consequences"

Friday August 2nd, 2019 Allendale South Caroline, 24-year-old Black Transgender Woman and Hairdresser Dime Doe. She disappeared around 11:30pm that Friday after dancing the night away. The Doe Family immediately became concerned when she became unresponsive that Saturday August 3rd, her loved ones went to the Allendale Sheriff's Department and was encouraged to wait another 24-hours and in the early morning hours of Sunday August 4th, 2019 The Doe Family returned to file a missing person's report and Detective Elliott Wiggins and Federal Bureau of Investigative Agent Chad Yarborough were brought onto the scene and the investigation began leading to the discovery of Dime's body with 3- gunshot bullets to the head someone leaving her body in an abandoned field. The investigation would lead to 22-year-old Black Cisgender male Daquaa Ritter barber, and intimate partner of Dime Doe. When their relationship was revealed his actions would lead to consequences that would result in Dime making herstory as the first case to receive a hate crime statue under the Matthew Sheppard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Act. Find out more on this episode Season 6 Episode 4.