He preyed on homeless men struggling with addiction, and trawled skid row for his 'crack baby.' Other victims who escaped death in his sex-toy filled shop of horrors spoke about how Buck fulfilled his lurid sexual fetishes by paying to inject young black men with increasing doses of crystal meth during days-long sex sessions. One overdose is an accident, two is a coincidence, but three is a pattern.Įd Buck managed to slip justice twice, but by then, his story had made national news.
Like the others, Brown was also a vulnerable gay black man working in the sex industry. He had been living in a hotel on Skid Row when he met Ed Buck on Adam4Adam, a gay dating and escort site. He told investigators that Buck injected him with meth almost daily for five week. Then on September 11, 2019, a third potential victim named Dane Brown walked into a Shell gas station demanding medical attention for an overdose. Toxicology showed an overdose of methamphetamine and the coroner ruled it an accident. Nearby was a treasure chest of sex toys, that also contained bottles of lubricant, tissues and GHB.ĭean, who worked for Saks Fifth Avenue also worked part time as a porn star known professionally as Hole Hunter. Paramedics again found themselves responding to a 911 call from the residence of wealthy Democrat donor Ed Buck.ĥ5-year-old Timothy Dean laid unresponsive and naked on a mattress, wearing only a pair of white briefs.
Porn was playing on the TV and nearby was a red Craftsman tool box that stored drugs and paraphernalia including 24 syringes with brown residue, five glass pipes, lighters, a scale, straw, and Ziploc bag of 'crystal-like substance.'īy the time paramedics arrived, the young black man was already dead. The medical examiner ruled it an accidental methamphetamine overdose.īut then, 18-months later, a second man died in the same apartment. In the early evening on July 27, 2017, Los Angeles County sheriff responded to a 911 call from a West Hollywood apartment where a 26-year-old black Gemmel Moore laid unresponsive on a mattress on the floor. Published: 21:25 BST, 24 February 2022 | Updated: 23:13 BST, 24 February 2022Ī new doc streaming on ALLBLK titled 'Beyond Ed Buck' takes a deep dive into the murders of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean at the hands of Ed Buck, a wealthy Democratic donor who preyed on vulnerable, gay, black men
How Democratic mega-donor Ed Buck preyed on gay black men during his depraved days-long, drug-fueled sex parties at his Hollywood apartment: New documentary reveals debauched life of prolific predator who fatally injected two victims with meth