At the same time, investigators “failed to appreciate” the barriers that “prevented some witnesses from coming forward”– including a deep mistrust of police in marginalized communities and a long history of criminalization of the LGBTQ+ communities.

The barriers that witnesses faced were the risk of being outted to their homophobic community. 6 out of 8 of his victims were brown men. They kept quiet because of their own culture of homophobia.

Also, the stereotypes are true! Gay men are promiscuous and often lead a very high risk lifestyle.