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In 2004, the ABC News news program 20/20 aired a report by TV journalist Elizabeth Vargas that quoted statements by McKinney, Henderson, Price, Rerucha, and a lead investigator. The statements alleged that the murder had not been motivated by Shepard's sexuality but was primarily a drug-related robbery that had turned violent. [ 7 ]
"The week prior, Matthew had been viciously attacked in a horrific anti-gay hate crime and left to die – simply for being himself." Shepard's murder was, without a doubt, an act of hate and ...
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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.
Jimenez first visited Laramie shortly after the murder, planning to write a screenplay and believing that the murder was a straightforward homophobic killing. [20] Jimenez spent 13 years researching the murder, and came to the conclusion that Matthew and one of the men convicted of his murder were involved in the illegal trade in crystal meth .
It's been 25 years since Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, died six days after he was savagely beaten by two young men and tied to a remote fence to meet his fate.
At the time of the murder, Alabama was one of 19 states whose hate crime laws did not cover crimes motivated by LGBT identity. Alabama State Representative Alvin Holmes was motivated by both Gaither's and Matthew Shepard's murders to file a bill extending hate crime laws in Alabama to protect the LGBT community. [19]
Due out in October, the Investigation Discovery special takes an in-depth look at the 21-year-old's tragic death and its impact on the LGBTQ rights movement.