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CLOUD — Kay Myers drove all night to thank St. Cloud police for solving her sister Norma Page's 1979 murder. Overcome by exhaustion and emotion, Myers spoke of her family's 31-year-vigil for justice.
'I stand here just representing my sister Norma,' Myers said at St. Cloud City Hall on Thursday, the morning after the arrest of Steve Bronson Jr. On a charge of first-degree murder. 'We drove all night from Nashville not knowing why I just felt I needed to be here today. This is where her heart is.' Myers is one of three surviving sisters of Norma Page who lobbied St. Cloud police for decades to continue investigating and solve her murder.
The contributions by the sisters and a cousin were acknowledged by Police Chief Peter Gauntlett. 'As a result of a letter Kay had sent us in August of last year' the case was reviewed and pursued as a cold-case investigation using the latest developments in DNA analysis, he said at a news conference. 'Kay kept copious notes over the yearsThis story had already been written.
This was just the last chapter.' Gauntlett also acknowledged that the case would not have been solved without improved DNA analysis and testing by DNA Labs International, a private lab in Deerfield Beach, and the assistance of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Bronson was never on our radar,' he said of the original investigation. 'So for 31 years he was not on anyone's radar.' Bronson, a Kissimmee resident, served about 20 years in some of the toughest prisons in Florida and California for a series of violent crimes and escape. Page was likely tortured before death At the time of Norma Page's killing he had been released on probation and was living in Kissimmee, about 10 miles from St.
The evidence that led to the arrest of Bronson, 62, included three separate splashes of his blood after he cut himself while repeatedly striking Norma Page in the head with a glass Del Monte ketchup bottle that shattered during the attack, according to an arrest affidavit released Thursday. During an interview Wednesday with St.
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Cloud detectives, Bronson said he attacked Norma Page after first seeing her watering the lawn of her home, once a parsonage for the Church of the Nazarene on Tennessee Avenue, according to Gauntlett. Bronson said he asked the 28-year-old minister's wife for a glass of water and then overpowered her. The arrest affidavit states that she was tied to her bed, stripped and stabbed 34 times. Those injuries included multiple superficial slices on the left side of her neck that were described as signs she likely had been tortured and taunted before she died. Bronson's blood was found inside the victim's blue-and-white swimming suit top that had been stripped from her body and discarded in a nearby bathroom. Other samples of his blood were found on a toddler's shirt found on the floor of the children's bedroom where Norma Page died.
A third specimen was found on a bloody towel dropped outside the parsonage, according to the affidavit. 'It was like her to give' Myers was shocked to learn her sister was attacked after she was asked for a glass of water. 'It was like her to give. She was compassionate. She was a mother of young children,' Myers said. 'The Bible says, 'Just give a cup of water in my name,' and she did that and that cost her life.' Myers and the rest of her extended family belong to the Nazarene Church.
Her husband, Jack Myers, runs Music City Mission, a homeless shelter in Nashville. Her mother, Nola Thomas, died last October at 95 from Alzheimer's. She continued to ask about her long-dead daughter before she died. 'To the end, she'd occasionally look up and say, 'Where's Norma? Where's Norma? Why didn't she come to see me,' Myers said. 'I feel she was hanging on for this day.'
Jim Page and his sons, Adam and Steve, did not attend the news conference. Page, who serves as senior minister of Apopka Calvary Church of the Nazarene, thanked St. Cloud police for their efforts in a statement Wednesday evening. Bronson remained held Thursday under guard at an undisclosed hospital in Osceola County. After being arrested and charged with first-degree murder Wednesday afternoon, Bronson complained of chest pains when being driven to the Osceola County Jail in a county Corrections van, according to interviews. Bronson has an undisclosed medical history and has lived for years in a series of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, according to police. Authorities are looking at Bronson for other crimes Bronson is the focus of at least two more murder investigations, according to interviews Thursday with Kissimmee police and the Osceola County Sheriff's Office.
He is a person of interest in the unsolved killing in August 1995 of Maria Ferreira, a 20-year-old Massachusetts woman whose body was found on railroad tracks near downtown Kissimmee, said Kissimmee Police Capt. James Napier. Ferreira stayed in the same crack house where Bronson lived at the time near the corner of Brack and Cypress streets on the city's northside. 'He is cooperating with our investigation,' Napier said.
The other case is the 1989 killing of Bertha Hemminghaus, a 79-year-old widow who had been living at Good Samaritan Village, a retirement community south of Kissimmee, according to sheriff's spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain. Bronson was a 'person of interest' at the time of the killing and is being looked at again, she said. Detectives from the sheriff's office and Kissimmee police will interview Bronson as his health permits, according to interviews. Henry Pierson Curtis can be reached at 407-420-5257.
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Enjoy exploring! Part I: Life Part II: Part III: Thomas Bevan’s father was a wildlife manager, and his mother a school teacher. Thomas was an only child, and was soon trying on his mother’s clothing. He tried to tell his parents that he was not really a boy, but quickly learned that his gender identity was something that should be kept a deep secret, and concentrated on science and on sports.
Partly because they did not live in town, Bevan did not make male friends, and his female friends withdrew as puberty developed. Loneliness led to depression. The football coach got Bevan an award in the senior year. He picked Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, for its football team and its (ROTC). Bevan graduated AB in psychology in 1969, and spent the next four years at Princeton University. Thomas, like so many others, married a woman thinking that it would ‘cure’ the urge to cross-dress.
However the graduate student housing provided the privacy to do so when his wife was at work. Bevan was able to talk freely with “a somewhat mysterious lecturer” (p73). This was, who was working on the ideas that he would publish as, 1978. Bevan later described Jaynes as a mentor. Bevan gained a PhD in physiological psychology at Princton 1973 with a thesis on Experimental Dissociation of Hypothalamic Finickiness and Motivatonal Deficits from Hyperphagia and from Hyperemotionality. After graduation Bevan served as a Captain in the Army Medical Service Corps, and was involved in developing antidotes to chemical weapons and agents. After leaving the army, Bevan became a civilian contractor.
One of the projects that he worked on was aircraft sensors. The Bevans had two daughters. Bevan's job involved near continuous travel, and the associated hotel stays provided opportunities for cross-dressing.
Sometimes there would be a local transvestite group that provided dressing facilities at its meetings. Bevan accumulated enough female clothing – between purges - that a second bag was being checked on air flights.
Bevan found ’ Conundrum, and later some books by in libraries, but being in the closet hid the book in the stacks rather than check it out. By the 1990s Bevan had rented a post-office box, and bought books and Tapestry magazine from IFGE. “I particularly studied How to Be a Woman though Male, information I use to this day”. With the end of Cold War I, Bevan felt that he could come out a little. However most transvestite groups met on weekends only, and he was not prepared to tell Mrs Bevan.
So he went instead to a BSDM group that met on a weeknight. Using the listings in Tapestry Bevan did find cross-dressing groups in different cities to attend. The Bevans separated. Bevan also started taking testosterone by patches, hoping that it would ‘cure’ the cross-dressing. Thomas found another wife using the new invention tele-conferencing.
This wife knew from the beginning that Thomas was a cross-dresser. Bevan found a job in where she lived, and moved in with her: “she panicked when she saw all the ‘junk’ that I had, which consisted mostly of professional technical files, electronic junk and all my carpentry and metal working tools”. From 2000-2005, Bevan was an Associate Lab Director at Georgia Tech Research Institute, and did work for Department of Defense customers. Using the name 'Dana', Bevan found a therapist who was experienced in Transgender issues, although Bevan continued to pretend that it was marriage counseling. From 2005-2011, Bevan was a Research VP at KFORCE Government Services in Atlanta, working on artificial intelligence algorithms for Homeland Security. In 2007 Dana gave a paper at the IFGE conference held in Philadelphia. Dana started transition in 2011.
She gave presentations at the Southern Comfort Conference in 2011 and 2012, and to WPATH in 2012. In 2013, as Dana Bevan, she published The Transsexual Scientist: The Causation and Experience of. Transgenderism and Transsexualism, a mixture of autobiography and the science of TSTG as she named her condition. The next year, reverting to her male name, Thomas Bevan, she published a 280 page exposition, The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism: A New View Based on Scientific Evidence. She gave a workshop at the.
In the title of The Transsexual Scientist, Bevan refers to herself as ‘transsexual’, tells of taking hormones, electrolysis but says nothing of surgery. In the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, 2017, Dana says: “I still present as male at family gatherings, primarily because of in-laws and friends of my children.
The trend seems to be that younger people are more accepting, so we’ll see what happens with my grandchildren’s generation.” Dana ends her autobiography, The Transsexual Scientist with. “Knowing what I know today, I should have chosen transsexuality earlier in my life and fought for being my authentic self, no matter what the cost. The delay has cost me time, friends and productivity. I had several good opportunities to choose correctly but I passed them up, choosing to fight another day.” (p. 155) Dana’s theoretical position will be discussed in.
Bevan, Experimental Dissociation of Hypothalamic Finickiness and Motivatonal Deficits from Hyperphagia and from Hyperemotionality. PHD, Princeton,1973. Thomas E Bevan. “Physiological correlates of information processing load-ongoing research and potential applications of physiological psychology”. The Role of Behavioral Science in Physical Security Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium, March 23-24, 1977. US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: National Bureau of Standards. Thomas E Bevan.
“Biosensor for Assessment of Defender Performance Capability”. The Role of Behavioral Science in Physical Security Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium, May 2-4, 1978. US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: National Bureau of Standards. Dana J Bevan. The Transsexual Scientist: The Causation and Experience of Transgenderism and Transsexualism. Bevan Industries Inc, 2013.
“An Interview with Dana Bevan ’69”. Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Alumni/ae Association, May 2, 2013. The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism: A New View Based on Scientific Evidence. Praeger, 2014. Dana Bevan. “Transgender Science Recap”.
Sisterhouse, Mar 2, 2015. William Ray. “The Science of Gender”. The Wireless, 6 th August 2015. Bevan, Being Transgender: What You Should Know. Praeger, 2016. Dana Bevan.
Thea Peach State Conference. Thea, 2/22/2016. Allison Tate. “5 Transgender Myths.Busted: In the wake of Trump repealing transgender protections, scientist Dana Bevan is here to bust your misconceptions”.
Advocate, February 24 2017. Lisa Furlong. “Dana (Thomas) Bevan ’69: A transgender bio-psychologist on embracing her true self”.
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, May-June 2017. TGForum says that “Thomas E Bevan” is a pen name; Dartmouth Alumni Magazine says that it is her professional name. It is the name on her PhD. In Bevan’s 2013 and 2014 books she uses the term TSTG as a collective noun, for individual trans persons, for the phenomenon and as an adjective. E,g: “Many TSTG suffer from depression”; “TSTG behave as they do”; “Although TSTG is no longer regarded as a disorder”. Fortunately the usage has not caught on. She does not use the acronym in Being Transgender, 2016, but does still use it on her LinkedIn page and elsewhere.
“For the purposes of research I treat transgenderism and transsexuality (TSTG) as one phenomenon. Many transgendered people become transsexuals. Most important, there is no scientific evidence to distinguish between the two, other than the frequency of TG presentation.” (2013 interview with Dartmouth GLBT Alumni) This statement will of course alienate many transsexuals. While the DNA and epigenetic triggers may be indistinguishable between transvestites and transsexuals, they do not constitute the totality of causality, and a scientific approach that does not examine the wider picture is not the best of science. See more in part II. The text of The Transsexual Scientist disguises the names of the universities that Thomas attended, but then openly names them on and only on the back cover.
Likewise the text hides the name of the mentor at Princeton, but gives his name in a dedication at the front of the book. On p30 of The Transsexual Scientist Bevan says “I gradually put aside my love of music and art lest these be seen as ‘feminine’”. This was in the mid 1960s when the Beatles and the Stones were changing music.
The feminist criticism of ‘60s music is that it was far too masculine. Bevan is yet another writer who repeats the misinformation that ‘transvestism’ was coined by Magnus Hirschfeld (p38). However she does not like the term: “Today, transvestite is regarded as a pejorative word and is used primarily in degradation of transsexuals and transgender people” (Psychobiology: 42). This may be so in the Tri-Ess culture, but despite Prince's efforts, Tri-Ess never did own the word. Is Bevan a Princian? In addition to her statement: “I particularly studied How to Be a Woman though Male, information I use to this day”, let us look at the appendices to The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism.
The only autobiographies listed are her own, Jan Morris, Jennifer Boylan's She's Not There, and for some strange reason, the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. The only self-help books are two by Prince, Crossdressing with dignity by Peggy Rudd and Identity Management. The only support groups are Beaumont Society, Seahorse Society, Renaissance, Tiffany Club, Transgender Educational Association, Tri-Ess and Susan's Place.
So she certainly looks like a Princian. Essays on trans, intersex, cis and other persons and topics from a trans perspective.All human life is here. I have a social science degree. I spent several years in the 70s doing Gay Lib counselling, and moved on to organizing trans groups.
I was rejected by the Clarke Institute (now CAMH) in the mid 1980s, probably because I do not match either of their stereotypes, but was accepted by Russel Reid on our first meeting in late 1987, and had surgery from James Dalrymple some months later. I have mainly worked as an IT consultant. I have been with the same husband for 45 years.
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