Read PEOPLE’s 1998 story on Matthew Shepard’s murder.

October 13, 2018 compassq 5 THINGS TO KNOW, HEROES, LIFESTYLES Comments Off on Read PEOPLE’s 1998 story on Matthew Shepard’s murder.
Flowers hang from the fence where Matthew Shepard was left tied and beaten in Wyoming in 1998 (Getty)

Editor’s note: Twenty years have passed since Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student, died after being robbed, beaten and left tied to a fence in the cold outside Laramie, Wyoming, five days before. The night he was attacked…