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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]
Unidentified murder victims in Wyoming (1 P) ... Matthew Shepard; Y. Marcela Hope Yellowbear This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 12:27 ...
Murder in Wyoming law; R. ... Matthew Shepard; Spring Creek raid; Starkweather/Fugate murders This page was last edited on 29 March 2013, at 19:05 (UTC). ...
It has been 25 years since the body of Matthew Shepard was discovered in Laramie, Wyoming. The gay college student had been tied to a fence post, tortured and left to die. The murder drew national ...
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 was a student who was tortured and murdered in 1998 near Laramie, Wyoming. The attack was widely reported due to him being gay , and the trial employed a gay panic defense . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Byrd was an African American man who was tied to a truck by two white supremacists and a third man who had no racist background, dragged behind it, and ...
Shepard's murder was, without a doubt, an act of hate and violence. ... with Shepard set to receive a $10,000 shipment of methamphetamine around the time he was killed. Also relevant is that ...
The Matthew Shepard Foundation is an LGBTQ nonprofit organization, headquartered in Casper, Wyoming, which was founded in December 1998 by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their son, Matthew, who was murdered in 1998. [1] [4] The Foundation runs education, outreach, and advocacy programs. [3]