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Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard
Steerforth
October 2013
On Sale: September 24, 2013
368 pages
ISBN: 1586422146
EAN: 9781586422141
Kindle: B00C4B23QW
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Non-Fiction | True Crime
Late on the night of October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a
twenty-one-year-old gay college student, left a bar in
Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged “strangers,” Aaron
McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later,
Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of
town, unconscious and barely alive. He had been
pistol-whipped so severely that the mountain biker who
discovered his battered frame mistook him for a Halloween
scarecrow. Overnight, a politically expedient myth took the
place of important facts. By the time Matthew died a few
days later, his name was synonymous with anti-gay hate.
Stephen Jimenez went to Laramie to research
the story of Matthew Shepard’s murder in 2000, after the two
men convicted of killing him had gone to prison, and after
the national media had moved on. His aim was to write a
screenplay on what he, and the rest of the nation, believed
to be an open-and-shut case of bigoted violence. As a gay
man, he felt an added moral imperative to tell Matthew’s
story. But what Jimenez eventually found in Wyoming was a
tangled web of secrets. His exhaustive investigation also
plunged him deep into the deadly underworld of drug
trafficking. Over the course of a thirteen-year
investigation, Jimenez traveled to twenty states and
Washington DC, and interviewed more than a hundred sources.
Who was the real Matthew Shepard and what were the
true circumstances of his brutal murder? And now that he was
larger than life, did anyone care? The Book of Matt
is sure to stir passions and inspire dialogue as it
re-frames this misconstrued crime and its cast of
characters, proving irrefutably that Matthew Shepard was not
killed for being gay but for reasons far more complicated —
and daunting.
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