Ken Stern holds the cross given to him by his partner of 16 years, Fred Mangione of Katy, who was stabbed to death Jan. 4, 1996. Stern found Mangione bleeding from 35 stab wounds. “Breathe with me,” Stern said over and over as he held his dying lover. Two self-proclaimed white supremacists are serving life sentences for the murder.
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