A death so brutal
2 min readApr 23, 2022
In October 1998, Matthew Shepherd was beaten, tortured, tied to a post and left to die by two men he met in a bar. It has been twenty-four years since Matthews murder and Wyoming still doesn’t have a hate crimes law on the books. Why not?
No body should die in the manner in which Matthew did. It was the dental brace. That’s how Judy and Dennis Shepard knew it was their son in the hospital bed. “Bandages and stitches all over his…