A New Monument To Matthew Shepard

Here's something few people know: After Matthew Shepard was murdered, people from all over the country visited the fence where he had hung for 18 hours before being discovered. The fence quickly became a pilgrimage site for many people who came to pay their respects, to honor the Wyoming college student's memory, to mourn his fate; it became a monument to remembrance. Only a few months after the 1998 murder, the property's owner, upset by the vast number of visitors, removed the fence. This action didn't make the papers; no television network broadcast it.