Even after a decade living in Boston, Rita Hester always spent Thanksgiving with her close-knit family in Hartford. But in 1998, tired of travel after a recent trip, the 34-year-old broke with ...

Wednesday marks the 20th International Transgender Day of Remembrance, which was started to remember Rita Hester. She was a black trans woman murdered in Allston in 1998, just a couple days shy of ...

Who killed Rita Hester? That is the question Boston police detectives have been asking for the 25 years since Hester was found dead in a Brighton apartment. On Nov. 28, 1998, Hester was found ...

The remembrance event started in Boston in 1999, one year after Rita Hester’s murder, spread to San Francisco, and is now observed around the world. Detectives assigned to the Unsolved Homicide ...