The four people pictured above have been arrested in Texas County, Missouri on charges of brutally beating transgender teenager Ally Steinfeld to death.
On Monday, 19-year-olds Andrew Vrba and Isis Schauer and 24-year-old Briana Calderas were arraigned for first-degree murder, armed criminal action and abandonment of a corpse.
James T. Grigsby was also arraigned on the charges of abandonment of a corpse and tampering with evidence in a felony case.
The Springfield News-Leader reports that Schauer and Calderas informed police they’d assisted in burning Steinfield’s corpse after he’d suffered repeated stab wounds and had his eyes gouged out.
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The remains were discovered near Calderas’ mobile home in Cabool. Ally had been reported missing by family.
The last three people known to have been with Steinfeld were Vrba, Schauer and Calderas. The Steinfeld family had spoken to all three suspects and believed them to be lying about where Steinfeld was.
During police questioning, Schauer said he had no part in Steinfeld’s disappearance. However, it’s alleged that Facebook messages turned up on Schauer’s phone telling her to “stick to the story” and “quit talking.”
Vrba, who later confessed to the murder, is believed to have sent those messages to Schauer. Vrba also said he first tried to poison Steinfeld before stabbing him in Calderas’ home.
Schauer later revealed she was, in fact, aware of the murder and helped dispose of the body.
Vrba also said that he, Schauer and Calderas burned Steinfeld and put some of his bones into a garbage bag which was placed in a chicken coop. Schauer and Calderas said Vrba told them he’d also gouged Steinfeld’s eyes out, stabbed him in the genitals and then bragged about the murder.
Steinfeld’s sister Ashleigh Boswell described Steinfeld as “a very loving, outgoing person” who “didn’t like conflict whatsoever” and had talked to the family about undergoing gender reassignment surgery one day.
“We honestly don’t understand why they done it,” she added. “It just don’t make any sense.”
A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help pay for Steinfeld’s funeral expenses.
Sam6969
Pure sadism.
ChrisK
Be interesting what they get since Tiger Mandingo from the same state got 30 years for possibly infecting his lover with hiv.
sandypaganucci
this is one of the SICKEST violations of humanity that i have ever encountered. as a lawyer, i am sure that they will add hate crime enhancements AND add the terrible charge of MAYHEM to an expanding world of pain for these creeps. just saying…
ChrisK
Damn. I guess their gay panic defense will have to be thrown out by their court appointed lawyer now.
barkomatic
What an unspeakable act. There’s really nothing to be said about this cruelty other than the perpetrators are incredibly dangerous and they can never be free again.
abachooklas
Yikes! This is awful! Sure hope they have field days in the slammer. Speaking of slamming; they look like they’re on meth. Stay away from drugs!
gravityyaoi
This is horrible. But I do believe this is more drug fuelled than transphobia.
Curtispsf
And gravitytaoi, you say that “this is more drug fueled than transphobia” based on WHAT evidence? The victim was attacked SOLELY because he was trans. Drugs may have, indeed, played a part int these monstrous acts but the motivator was that the victim was trans.
ChrisK
I thought it was said they had some kind of twinkie addiction. It’s true and most likely was the cause.
He BGB
Drugs had to be involved. Because WHY?
Curtispsf
These individuals, especially Vrba are MONSTERS, and we should eliminate MONSTERS permanently from the planet.
Ummmm Yeah
Kinda like when that trans stripper gouged out that gay man’s eyes and crammed a wooden stake down this throat to kill in in Florida in August. Except none of the GLBT sites reported on that.
mhoffman953
Because that doesn’t fit the leftist narrative. I think trans people are mentally ill but that doesn’t give people the right to kill anyone. The people in this story should get the death penalty quickly but I’m guessing the women will get lighter sentences than the men because it always works that way
marcus_collack
Ummm yeah, is it, lets dispel some of those lies, since today I got time cuz.
1. It was reported on newnownext, in august, which is probably where you read it.
2. Not trans
3. There was a gun involved
4. Deadly domestic dispute between boyfriends is not kinda the same
5. If anyone is interested in the story, http://www.newnownext.com/stripper-stab-eyes-shove-wood-mouth/08/2017/
Gilliflower
marcus_collack, did you read the comments? Apparently http://www.newnownext.com got the story wrong according to people that knew her (the transitioning, trans victim). Apparently she was messed up in drugs, etc, and guilty of poor reasoning, etc. Anyway, the whole situation looks complicated.
Chris
What a horrific thing to do. No one should experience what happened to Steinfeld.
Esscourt
Make all four of them kneel on the ground and shoot them in the head. Fast and simple, then we’re rid of this trash.
MRKB
Why does the article acknowledge that Ally was transgender but then the writer uses male pronouns? This is a problem. Regardless of the circumstances surrounding her death, we still owe it to her to gender her correctly/according to her own identification.
Jaxton
These people are evil.
marcus_collack
Evil, they are evil and should never be in society ever again
Raymond
THEY MUST DIE!!!!!
Dinodogstar
I’m in and from St. Louis MO, near to where this took place. The latest is that it’s just three of these charged with her murder, though i’m not sure why int’s one less than reported here. From what i’ve been told by the news media, the teen girl’s death is not framed as a ‘Hate Crime’, when the MURDER of a person does not warrant that additional charge. There’s a lot of statements and chatter out there locally and nationally, that it’s somehow inappropriate to label this as “anti-Trans” , anti-lgbtqi+, which is another way of saying most do not want to deal with trans-hate and Trump’s top-down support of it. CLEARLY the act of stabbing the trans-girl’s genitals tells us at least SOME of the hate realized was gender-related, and cannot be wishfully explained-away as it is. (The chatter is that this was truly just some roommate-violence, as if that makes transphobia go away.) In St. Louis MO, it should be said, we have what we think is the only public memorial space set aside for recognizing trans-gender violence and murder, the “Transgender Memorial Garden” …. on Fakebook : transmemorialgardenSTL . We were honored to have had Caitlyn Jenner come to it’s christening. It’s also, I think, best and proper to refer to the murdered girl by the name and gender-pronouns appropriate to it, though her family hasn’t done that consistently. It’s important as well, to NOT solely participate in discussions about the case or trans-hate in lgbtqi+ sites, but where there are no supportive voices being heard. It’s part of what is challenging and changing the culture itself, being ‘out’ as however you chose to, the most transformative act we cane do, and if for no other reason, to end anti-lgbtqi+ hate and violence. Thanks and say something ! ……………. “The most important and changing act we can do as lgbtqi+ people, is to simply tell our stories.” (paraphrased, but pretty close) Judy Shepard of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Thank you.
ShowMeGuy
…..burning Steinfield’s corpse after *he’d suffered repeated stab wounds and had +his eyes gouged out…
*SHE’D +HER