Fifteen years after Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence and fatally beaten after leavg a bar Wyomg, a new book claims the gay teenager was murred for “reasons far more plited” than beg homosexual.
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- THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
- MATTHEW SHEPARD NOT MURRED FOR BEG GAY, NEW BOOK CLAIMS
- MATTHEW SHEPARD, MURRED GAY STUNT, FALLY LAID TO RT
THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
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MATTHEW SHEPARD NOT MURRED FOR BEG GAY, NEW BOOK CLAIMS
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