TIFFANY EDWARDS: These people are predators. Like this one journalist actually caught one of the judges in the bathroom at the urinal and was like asking him questions. And the judge was like, “Excuse me, can I please have some privacy?” And the journalist was like OFFENDED that he asked for privacy. I mean, this is not how journalism started, like the Gutenberg press, you know.

DOC O’CONNOR: I’ll tell you what, when Hard Copy came and taped me, I taped them at the exact same time. I have every word I ever said on tape so if they ever do anything funny they better watch their fuckin’ ass.

NEWSPERSON: Wyoming governor Jim Geringer, a first-term Republican up for reelection:

GOVERNOR GERINGER: I am outraged and sickened by the heinous crime committed on Matthew Shepard. I extend my most heartfelt sympathies to the family.

NEWSPERSON: Governor, you haven’t pushed hate crime legislation in the past.

GOVERNOR GERINGER: I would like to urge the people of Wyoming against overreacting in a way that gives one group “special rights over others.”

We will wait and see if the vicious beating and torture of Matthew Shepard was motivated by hate.

SERGEANT HING: You’ve got the beginning of the news story where they have the graphics in the background, and they’ve got: “Murder in Wyoming,” and Wyoming’s dripping red like it’s got blood on it or something, and it’s like, what’s the—what is this, this is sensationalism. And … we’re here going, “Wait a minute. We had the guys in jail in less than a day. I think that’s pretty damn good.”

EILEEN ENGEN: And for us to be more or less maligned.

NARRATOR: Eileen and Gil Engen:

EILEEN ENGEN: That we’re not a good community and we are—The majority of people here are good people.

GIL ENGEN: You git bad apples once in a while. And I think that the gay community took this as an advantage, said this is a good time for us to exploit this.

NEWSPERSON: Bill McKinney, father of one of the accused:

BILL MCKINNEY: Had this been a heterosexual these two boys decided to take out and rob, this never would have made the national news. Now my son is guilty before he’s even had a trial.

TIFFANY EDWARDS: Look, I do think that, um, the media actually made people accountable. Because they made people think. Because people were sitting in their homes, like watching TV and listening to CNN and watching Dan Rather and going, “Jesus Christ, well that’s not how it is here.” Well how is it here?

MOMENT: MEDICAL UPDATE

NARRATOR: Matthew Shepard update at three P.M., Saturday, October tenth.