On this date in 1996 in Tilly, Arkansas, two white supremacists, Chevie Kehoe, 23, of Colville, Washington, and Danny Lee, 23, of Yukon, Oklahoma, murdered Bill Mueller, 52, his wife Nancy Mueller, 28, and her daughter, Sarah Powell, 8, as part of a plan to overthrow the federal government. The family was discovered months later in Russellville, Arkansas; and, in 1999 Kehoe and Lee were convicted. Kehoe was given a life sentence and Lee was given the death penalty. On August 28, 2008, U. S. District Judge G. Thomas Eisele denied new trials for both convicts.

On this date in 2002 in New York City, an African-American gay man, Eric D. Miller, 26, was shot in the chest on a Harlem street as he and a friend, Jason Taylor, 20, walked to a friend’s apartment from the homeless shelter where they had been staying. Miller, a former marine, told police that he and his friend were peppered first with anti-gay remarks by a pair of African-American men, including "Black men shouldn’t be gay," before they had rocks thrown at them. A bottle was later thrown at Mr. Taylor, and shortly after that, Mr. Miller was shot by a man who yelled that Mr. Taylor should burn in hell.

In 2008 on this date in Highland, Utah about 30 miles from Salt Lake City, threatening and bias-laced graffiti was discovered at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' seminary building at Highland High School. The FBI is considering the attack on the seminary a hate crime. The press reported that the FBI said a reward is being offered for information about the hate crime, and anyone with information about the crime is urged to call Salt Lake City Police at 801-799-3000 or the FBI at 801-579-1400.

On this date in 2011 in Waterbury, Connecticut, members of the Bnai Shalom Shul discovered that someone spray-painted a swastika and the word "NAZI" on the side of their Roseland Avenue synagogue in what police have labelled a hate crime.

In Minneapolis, Minnesota, on this date in 2011, a transgendered woman, Krissy Bates, 45, was found murdered in her Linden Avenue apartment. She had been strangled and also stabbed four times in the torso allegedly by a man she had dated for a very brief period of time, Arnold Darwin Waukazo, 40. Although Arnie Waukaso was not charged with a hate crime homicide, Rebecca Waggoner, the anti-violence program director at the advocacy group, OutFront Minnesota said of Bates' murder: "Her life is over because of domestic violence and transphobia, and we can in this case point directly to those two facts. Unfortunately, too often trans women are seen as disposable, at the bottom of the list, and we need to stop that."

On this date in 2012, on Montross Avenue in Rutherford, New Jersey (Bergen County), a white Italian-American Catholic-raised man, Anthony M. Graziano, 19, of Lodi, New Jersey, allegedly firebomed the Congregation Beth El by throwing several Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices at the large white Victorian home which houses a synagogue on its ground floor, and the rabbi’s living quarters on the second floor. The attack was classified by police as a hate crime, as an aggravated arson, and as an attempted murder of Rabbi Nosson Schuman, his wife, their five children, and the rabbi’s parents. The FBI also investigated the attack. The firebombing—which set the rabbi's bed quilt on fire and which caused him to suffer burns on one of his hands—was the latest in a string of anti-Semitic hate crimes in northern New Jersey that took place with a few weeks of each other. A fire was intentionally set at the Congregation K’Hal Adath Jeshuran synagogue in Paramus, New Jersey, on January 3, 2012; and, anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered at synagogues in Hackensack, New Jersey, and Maywood, New Jersey (see our December 23 calendar page). Graziano, an unemployed Hasbrouck Heights High School graduate, was arrested on January 24, 2012, and he was charged with nine counts of first-degree attempted murder, one count of first-degree bias intimidation (a hate crime), and one count of first-degree aggravated arson for the Rutherford firebombing. He pleaded not guilty on January 25, 2012, and he was held on $5 million bail. Graziano also faces arson and hate crime charges related to an attack on the January 3, 2012, fire at Congregation K’Hal Adath Jeshuran (also known as Temple K’Hal Adath Jeshrun). He is said to have purchased materials to make the incendiary devices used in the arsons at a Wal-Mart store.

While walking near Font Boulevard and Tapia Drive near San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California in the early morning hours on this date in 2012, a 20-year-old gay man was punched and kicked and robbed of his mobile telephone by three men in a four-door, cream-colored Oldsmobile sedan, possibly a late 1970s model, who shouted anti-gay slurs at him in what police have called an anti-gay hate crime. Police said the suspects are a 20 to 25 year old black man with a goatee, a white man with a "high-and-tight" military-style haircut, and a Hispanic man. If you have any information about this attack, please call the police department's anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444 or send a tip by text message to TIP411.