Aaron McKinney & Russell Henderson : The Murder of Matthew Shepard

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson wanted to rid their town of homosexuals, so they started by torturing and killing Matthew Shepard.

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0:00.0	On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 12, 1998, Aaron Cryfels was riding his bike aimlessly
0:08.0	through the vast open field surrounding Laramie in Wyoming.
0:12.7	It was a cool day which followed an even colder night and a gentle breeze blew over
0:17.4	the land, but this is no fairy tale, and even in the rural landscapes of cowboy country,
0:24.0	monsters are lurking.
0:26.0	Aaron looked over to his left and thought it was strange that a scarecrow had been
0:30.1	strung up along one of the fence lines.
0:33.0	After all, there were no crops to protect out there, at least not at that time of year.
0:38.5	There was something about the scarecrow that made Aaron look closer.
0:42.5	Maybe it was the awkward tilt of the head, or maybe it was the lack of movement even in
0:47.4	the breeze.
0:48.4	Either way, Aaron rode his bike closer and closer until he realized that what he was looking
0:54.3	at was no scarecrow.
0:56.3	He was the body of a man, strung up on the barbed wire fence just like, well, just like
1:02.3	a scarecrow.
1:04.0	As Aaron got closer, he noticed tiny, shallow movements of the man's chest as it rose
1:09.4	and fell ever so slightly.
1:11.9	He was alive, but only just.
1:14.9	His head and face were completely covered in blood except for two small tear tracks running
1:20.1	down his swollen cheeks.
1:22.7	Aaron raced to the closest neighbor's house to call for help.
1:26.6	What Laramie was about to discover would change the nation forever.
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