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Patricia Wright, a semi-retired Berkeley school district teacher, was murdered on November 11, 2016, in her East Oakland home. She was 57. Her wife, Charlotte Reed, 56, and Reed’s 19-year-old son, Benny Diambu-Wright, were also killed; all three suffered fatal gunshot and stab wounds.

Authorities say Dana Rivers, a 61-year-old former school teacher and transgender activist, was arrested at the scene while covered in blood and attempting to flee on Reed’s motorcycle. Investigators reported Rivers had tried to set the house on fire to destroy evidence; the fire was contained. Prosecutors linked the killings to Rivers’ involvement with an all-female motorcycle gang known as the Deviants and presented threatening texts from the club president to Reed as part of the motive theory.

Rivers was charged with special-circumstance murder for the triple homicide. During the trial Rivers claimed legal insanity and self-defense and was found legally sane at the time of the killings; a jury later returned guilty verdicts. Does anyone have information about Patricia, Charlotte, Benny, or their connections to the Deviants that could shed light on this case?