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Killers On Gay Dating App Lure Dallas Man To His Death

Police don't consider the murder an anti-gay hate crime.

A gay Dallas man who was strangled to death after being lured to an apartment by three men in 2014 was under the impression he was going to have a threesome, a jury learned this week.

Jefferson County prosecutors said 53-year-old Kevin Moyer met the three charged with his murder — Arthur Harmon, Cody Lewis, Yiannis Mihail — on the gay dating app Jack'd.

Lewis pleaded guilty to murder, while Harmon and Mihail opted for trials.

A defense attorney for Harmon denied his client was involved, but said the other men “communicated on a website and then met up that night for a possible relationship."

KBMT reports the jury watched a a 2014 interview on Wednesday, where Harmon admitted the men "planned to rob Moyer because they needed rent money."

After Moyer was robbed, the men strangled him to death by wrapping an elastic band called "vet tape" around his neck. His body was later found by police, "dead, naked, and wrapped in a blanket in the back of a Volkswagen Jetta."

A mop, a pellet rifle, and a bloodied knife related to the crime were also found in bags left at another location, though details of their relevance to the case have not yet been revealed.

After the body was discovered, police reportedly also found blood stains in the bedroom where Moyer was beaten.

Towleroad's John Wright claims that authorities told him in 2014 that they didn't "believe the murder was an anti-gay hate crime."

The trial continues this week, albeit without special hate crime charges.

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