Judy and Dennis Shepard were sound asleep when they got the call. It was 5 a.m. in Saudi Arabia, where the Shepards were living while Dennis worked as an oil company safety engineer. Groggy with sleep ...

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. His ...

Their criticisms were read aloud in their absence during a ceremony at the Justice Department. By Katie Benner The award-winning playwright and director looks hopefully and cautiously toward the ...

(CBS4)--On Oct. 28, 2009, then-president Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law. Shepard's parents tell CBS News progress has been made in the ...

I was 11 when they murdered Matthew. The windswept prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming where he was found – bloodied, beaten, bound to a wooden fence – by a cyclist was a far cry from the dilapidated ...

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming college student who was brutally beaten and left for dead in a remote area of Laramie, Wyoming in ...

"We see in Joe so much of what made Matt's life special," Dennis Shepard said The parents of the late Matthew Shepard — the 21-year-old gay college student whose 1998 killing made him a symbol of ...

WEBVTT SOLEDA 20 YEARS AGO MATTHEW SHEPARD, A 21-YEAR-OLD A MAN, WAS BEATEN TO DEATH IN WYOMING. IT IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WORST ANTI-GAY CRIMES IN U.S. HISTORY. HIS MURDER SPARKED NATIONAL OUTRAGE ...

WORCESTER — In October 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, was kidnapped, beaten, tied to a fence and left to die. Composer Craig Hella Johnson's ...

Last week, Matthew Shepard’s parents, Judy and Dennis, sat for a television interview. Their son, of course, had been beaten, pistol-whipped, tied to a fence post, and left to die near Laramie, Wyo., ...

On the 25th anniversary of the tragic death of Matthew Shepard, University Choir partnered with Lafayette Master Chorale to present Considering Matthew Shepard, a three-part oratorio by composer Craig ...