from somebody who should know: an investigator on the initial case and a source for the ABC program:
"Only three people know what really happened that night," retired Laramie Police Chief Dave O'Malley said. "One of them is dead and the other two are known liars and convicted felons -- murderers."
O'Malley was a detective with the Laramie Police when 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered six years ago.
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O'Malley said that he did find out what the focus of the show was shortly after the interview was over and the crew left Laramie. Someone with the crew had left copies of e-mails on his dining room table -- 10 pages of information discussing the overall focus of the program and "their pre-conceived focus that this was not a hate crime. This was a drug crime. That's what they went with," he said.
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O'Malley said that "It is abysmil that they (20/20) don't present the other side of the issue ... to be objective in their reporting."
Shame on ABC.
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