October 12,2018

The Mercury News

What Matthew Shepard's killer has to say, 20…

4, 1999: Judy Shepard stands with Detective Sgt. Rob DeBree as her husband Dennis reads a statement to the media regarding Aaron McKinney's plea bargain in the murder of Shepard's son Matthew, at the Albany County Courthouse, in Laramie, Wyo.

October 12,2018

CNN

Matthew Shepard's mom: We've stepped back

Twenty years have passed since the tragic death of Michael Shepard, a boy who was beaten, tortured and left for dead because he was gay. Matthew Sheppard's mom speaks about the political and social climate in the years since his death. Source: HLN.

October 12,2018

WAFF

Matthew Shepard, gay student killed in hate crime, to be interred at Washington National Cathedral

(CNN) - The world is remembering a young man whose death 20 years ago became a rallying point for the gay rights movement. Matthew Shepard was a 21-year-old, openly gay political science student at the University of Wyoming. He died on Oct. 12, 1998 ...