Actually, according to one of the leading police investigators for the murder, the case of [[Matthew Shepard]] [[Hate crime|might not even have been a hate crime]].<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=277685&page=3</ref>
Actually, according to one of the leading police investigators for the murder, the case of [[Matthew Shepard]] [[Hate crime|might not even have been a hate crime]].<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=277685&page=3</ref>
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[[NewsMax]] reported the following material about the cases of Dirkhising and Shephard:
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[[NewsMax]] reported:
{{cquote|McGowan did a Nexus search and learned that the Shepard case generated a massive 3,007 stories. "And when the case finally went to trial ... it was all over the broadcast news, received front-page coverage in all major newspapers, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine. (In all, the New York Times ran 195 stories about the case.)
{{cquote|McGowan did a Nexus search and learned that the Shepard case generated a massive 3,007 stories. "And when the case finally went to trial ... it was all over the broadcast news, received front-page coverage in all major newspapers, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine. (In all, the New York Times ran 195 stories about the case.)