I’ve been saying for years now that we never did get the true story of this.
Until now:
I’m not going to get into the details, except to note one thing: one of the killers was not a homophobic hater, but was in fact an on-again off-again lover of Matt’s. This is hardly the stuff of a homophobic hate crime; it was a meth-fueled murder spree that was ignited because the perpetrators were trying to steal a cache of the drug from Shepard.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that what happened here was the story got twisted around by people seeking to change the story so the advantaged a certain group. Never let a good crisis go to waste. When the truth doesn’t serve the narrative, alter the truth.
