A transwoman was found strangled inside her Manhattan Hotel room Venus Xtravaganza, a 23-year-old transgender woman of Italian-American and Puerto Rican descent, was a vibrant performer in New York City's ballroom scene. Her life, however, was cut tragically short in December 1988. On Christmas Day of that year, her body was discovered under a mattress in a room at the Duchess Hotel in New York City. An investigation determined that she had been strangled to death four days earlier, on December 21st.
The initial investigation into her murder yielded no
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