Frank R. Triggs Jr., a 38-year-old man from Chester, Pennsylvania, was murdered on June 25, 1987. According to court testimony, two men, Frank Chester and Richard Laird, kidnapped Triggs, drove him to a rural area and brutally attacked him; the attackers believed Triggs was homosexual and the killing was prosecuted as a hate crime.

A jury convicted both Chester and Laird of the murder. Both were initially sentenced to death; later filings changed those penalties in different ways, with Chester’s sentence commuted to life without parole while Laird remained on death row. The case attracted attention for its motive and for the legal outcomes that followed.

Anyone who knew Frank Triggs Jr., his movements in Chester in the weeks before June 25, 1987, or has information about the crime is asked to come forward.