"Police said he beat her with a baseball bat early Sunday, drove off with her in his car and assaulted her again — they haven’t said how — before dumping her body in a pond near her home." But according to police, there is no evidence of a hate crime. Virginia law defines a hate crime as one in which a person tries "to intimidate or instill fear in people targeted for their race or religion." What about for their gender? Why isn't rape a hate crime? Why isn't beating a woman to death and throwing her body in a pond a hate crime?