And we’re pretty sure the true crime show about him is already in production and will be on A&E or TruTV any night now when we get home drunk at 2AM and want to watch something disturbing before bed.
So, in case you missed our profiles of Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Herb Baumeister, and Robert Berdella, here’s another collection of early warning signs to look out for, lest you end up raped, strangled and dumped in a bayou.
Ronald Dominique
1964 –
Not quite as maniacal as some of his predecessors in gay serial rape/killing, Ronald Dominique was at least as brutal and almost as colorful. After an adolescence spent in Thibodaux, Louisiana, where he was a member of the high school chorus and was ridiculed for being a fag, Ronald grew into a bit of an outcast who lived in a trailer park with his mother and sometimes got drunk at the local gay bar and did bad drag impersonations of Patti LaBelle. Over 9 years he claimed the lives of 23 men–mostly prostitutes or homeless drug addicts–and dumped their bodies in sugarcane fields, ditches and bayous across southeastern Louisiana.
Clues That This Guy Was Fucked Up
Appearance: fat, balding and ruddy-cheeked with a face too small for his head; nice eyes, but never exactly the most popular girl at the party.
Relationship History: lived with family, mostly his mother and sister, until just before his arrest when he was under 24-hour police surveillance and decided to move into homeless shelter to avoid dragging his family into the investigation.
Jail Time: First arrested in 1985 for telephone harassment; later arrested again in 1996 for forcible rape after a half-naked young man escaped out the window of Dominique’s house claiming he’d tried to kill him. The murder spree began a year later, beginning with 19-year-old David Levron Mitchell. Dominique was arrested in 2002 for slapping a woman during Mardi Gras.
What Got Him Off: He seemed to like younger guys, but one of his victims was 40 (must have been a slow night at the bar). Whether he got off on the strangulation and murder of his victims, or whether he was exacting some sort of punishment on them that he thought he deserved himself, will remain unclear until someone writes the book on this one. He claims he only committed the murders to avoid going to jail for rape. What’s clear is that he enjoyed overpowering, tying up and ass-raping his victims, and he only became violent once his prone lovers were fully restrained. He typically lured victims home with the promise of money, and was known to use a ruse in which he showed men a picture of an attractive woman he claimed to be his wife, who he would pay them to fuck. Men who refused to be tied up once he got them home generally left unharmed. It was a tip from one of these near-victims that led to his arrest in December 2006.
Not Really That Nice: No one much liked him, particularly in the gay community, and it’s a wonder he managed to go eight years making men disappear without being caught. Perhaps that says more about Louisiana law enforcement and the political will to protect homeless gay hookers than anything else.
Our guess is that Ronald Dominique will likely die in prison before long–given that he was hospitalized for a heart condition just prior to his arrest–but not before he gets ass-raped himself a few hundred more times in a Louisiana prison. But let this be a lesson to all the rentboys out there: There are more Bob Berdellas and Ronald Dominiques out there in this cruel world. A couple hundred bucks ain’t enough for getting bound and gagged by a stranger.
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I’d totally do him. Kidding.