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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]
Brenda Andrew and her lover James Pavatt were convicted of the murder of Brenda's husband, Robert Andrew, who was shot twice with a 16 gauge shotgun, Pavatt firing the first shot and Brenda the second shot. 20 years, 4 months and 13 days Shortly before the murder, Robert was nearly killed when the brake lines on his car were cut.
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 .
In other words, Shepard's murder was almost certainly fueled by disagreements over money and drugs rather than gay identity, something that Henderson confirmed in an interview from prison with the ...
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 ...
Judy Shepard said she expected the climate for LGBTQ people to be better than it was 25 years ago, when her son Matthew was killed, but it’s not. “They’re still being denied basic 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.
The Great Basin Murders is the name given to a series of murders of at least nine women committed between 1983 and 1997 across the states of Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. It derives its name from the Great Basin geographical area, as most of the victims had their bodies dumped near interstate highways that transverse it.