The book of Matt : hidden truths about the murder of Matthew Shepard / Stephen Jimenez.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hanover, New Hampshire : Steerforth Press, c2013.Description: viii, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781586422141
  • 1586422146
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.152/3092 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6773.52 .J56 2013
Contents:
Pt. 1: Darkness on the edge of town -- Pt. 2: Book of Matt -- Pt. 3: Rogers Canyon -- Pt. 4: The circle unbroken.
Summary: "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, interviewing 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"--Abridged from publisher's web site.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-357).

Pt. 1: Darkness on the edge of town -- Pt. 2: Book of Matt -- Pt. 3: Rogers Canyon -- Pt. 4: The circle unbroken.

"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, interviewing 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"--Abridged from publisher's web site.

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