now there will be no more deaths like Allen Schindler's." Allen Schindler’s case was presented in the 2018 TV documentary crime series, The 1990s: The Deadliest Decade, season 1, episode 8, "Don't Ask Don't Tell." The episode, which aired on Jan. 7, 2019, on Investigation Discovery, chronicled the events that led up to Schindler’s murder and featured excerpts from Schindler’s journal and autopsy report, as well as details from veteran LGBTQ rights activist, Michael Petrelis' 900-page file on Schindler and Terry Helvey’s written confession. Interviews were given by Allen Schindler’s mother, Dorothy Hajdys-Clausen, Jonathan Witte, Michael Petrelis, and former reporter for the Stars and Stripes, Rick Rogers. In 2020, U.S. Navy veteran Shon Washington honored Schindler on the 28th anniversary of his death in a viral social media post sharing his experiences as a gay Navy officer serving under DADT. Washington ended the post by thanking Schindler and his mother for impacting his life and helping repair his fraught relationship with his own mother. Schindler is buried in Evergreen Hill Memory Gardens in Steger, Will County, Illinois. The date of death on Schindler’s gravestone is marked October 28, 1992, in accordance to the doctor's pronouncement of death. See also Barry Winchell Judge Advocate General's Corps Military law References External links Allen R. Schindler, Jr. FB Memorial Page Memorial Hall: Allen Schindler, Jr. Allen Schindler, Jr. news via Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Crime of Gay Hate, the murder of Allen Schindler 1969 births 1992 deaths 20th-century American military personnel United States Navy sailors American people murdered abroad American victims of anti-LGBT hate crimes American LGBT military personnel 1992 in LGBT history LGBT people from Illinois People from Chicago Heights, Illinois Military personnel from Illinois Deaths by beating People murdered in Japan Violence against gay men 1992 murders in Japan October 1992 events in Asia Violence against men in Asia 20th-century LGBT people People convicted of murder by the United States military