Shortly
after midnight on October 7, 1998, 21-year-old Matthew
Shepard met Arron James McKinney and Russell Arthur
Henderson in a bar. McKinney and Henderson posed
as gay men and offered Shepard a ride in their car.
Subsequently, Shepard was robbed, pistol whipped,
tortured, tied to a fence in a remote, rural area,
and left to die. McKinney and Henderson also found
out his address and intended to burgle his home.
Still tied to the fence, Shepard was discovered
eighteen hours later by a cyclist, who at first
thought that Shepard was a scarecrow. At the time
of discovery, Shepard was still alive, but in a
coma. |
