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Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on October 6, 1998. [1]
Davis returned to the swamps of Louisiana, and was captured and charged with murder and robbery some years later. Before his lynching, he confessed to murdering his companion, whose real name was Charlotte Shepard. According to him, she was part of a gang of cutthroats that operated in the area shortly after the American Civil War. Eventually ...
Judy Shepard (née Peck; born August 15, 1952) is the mother of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at University of Wyoming who was murdered in October 1998. She and her husband, Dennis Shepard , are co-founders of the Matthew Shepard Foundation , and advocate for LGBT rights .
The hate that Matthew’s murder spotlighted still exists today. Just last year, five people were killed by a far-right gunman in an anti-LGBTQ attack on a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Shepard's murder was, without a doubt, an act of hate and violence. But the latter part of Biden's statement—that his murder was spurred by homophobic animus—is the most important.
On Oct. 6, 1998, Matthew, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, went to an LGBTQ resource group meeting to plan a Coming Out Day event, and afterward he went to a bar ...
The song has a reference to Matthew Shepard's murder. 1999: "Pistol Whipped" - The Blamed wrote and recorded this condemnation of Shepard's murderers. From their 1999 album "Forever". [29] 2000: "Into the Sun" – Jann Arden recorded the song "Into the Sun," listing Shepard among "decent men" who had been killed, for her 2000 album Blood Red ...
People convicted of murder by Wyoming (8 P) L. Lynching ... Missing and murdered Indigenous women in Wyoming; Murder in Wyoming law; R. Rock Springs massacre; S ...