317: Matthew Shepard: An American Hate Crime

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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On the evening of October 6, 1998, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was kidnapped by two young men. He was taken to a remote Wyoming prairie where he was tied to a fence, beaten unconscious, and left to die. 25 years later, this new documentary reexamines the crime, the nation's response to it, and what--if anything--we have learned.

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0:00.0	Girl who's surprised at in the gay hate crime doc? I know like three people on this thing not not me not a me
0:13.9	Hi Julia, but Jillian
0:16.8	Patrick kinds, but I'm hi Julia, but the volume hi my voice is doing a weird thing today
0:21.4	I don't know what it is. I can't explain it. I don't know how to fix it. It's just I feel very like
0:25.2	Are you so great? You look great. You just say yeah, I am Steve Tifton said that we should say that
0:29.6	This is true crime obsessed podcast where we recap true crime documentaries. Okay, Steve Tifton
0:34.6	Are people sitting here being like what? What is that? What's going on?
0:37.7	Um, they have come to obsessed. It's like right around the corner. It's right. It's right there
0:41.7	It is October 20th of the 22nd and Dallas. It's all your favorite true crime podcasters live tapings drag brunch drag bingo
0:48.4	Your tellers with sing-along karaoke. Yep. All the programming just lots lots and lots and lots going on lots
0:54.1	And I'm signing every last book. That's right. That's my plan. Amazing. Before we get into this
0:58.2	There's rules that we have to tell what we want to say ID sent us this. They asked us if we wanted to cover it
1:03.2	We love ID hi Debbie. We love you. Hi Debbie
1:05.4	We said yes, and they sent it to us
1:07.2	So tell them what they need what we need to tell them. So this is out on ID
1:10.3	I believe it came out yesterday October 9th, but as of the 17th it will be on what we're calling max
1:16.0	Yes, that's like the HBO thing, right? Yeah, it's HBO max, but it's max
1:19.4	Okay, do we tell them what we're talking about tonight? It's called Matthew Shepherd and American hate crime
1:25.0	Guess who didn't was outwriting his mountain bike
1:28.9	And he sees what he thinks is a scarecrow
1:33.7	You're insulted in your soul like what you see when you first come on something like that
1:40.2	This is a side of rage something very personal something very terrifying about that. Did he seem remorseful?
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