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City in and county seat of Albany County, Wyoming, United States
Laramie, Wyoming, sits on a high intermountain plain with commonly reported elevations clustered around 7,165–7,220 feet above sea level (about 2,184–2,200 meters), though exact figures vary by source...
Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson carried out the October 1998 beating and killing of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard; both men were arrested, pleaded guilty to murder-related charges...
Matthew Shepard, a 21‑year‑old University of Wyoming student, was lured from a Laramie bar on the night of October 6–7, 1998, brutally beaten, pistol‑whipped, tied to a split‑rail fence outside Larami...
The available accounts converge on a central fact: Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered in 1998, and his death became widely framed as a hate crime motivated by his sexual orientation. Contemporary a...