The Laramie Project Page #4

and they were like:

"This is not a place where I can live.

How can you live there? I had to get out."

But every once in awhile, there'd be a guy:

"Gosh, I miss laramie.

"I mean, I really love it there.

That's where I want to live."

And they'd get this starry-eyed look,

and I think...

...if that is where you wanna live, do it.

So I get into my office one day and

I have a message to call this woman back.

So I call her back and she goes,

"I hear you are a lesbian.

"I hear you are one." And I'm like, "uh-huh?"

She goes, "I'm one, too." She wanted

to come over and meet me immediately.

She also warned me about the fact...

...that there's other lesbians in this town

who would not be seen with me.

That just to be seen with me

would taint them irreparably.

That just to be seen with me

would be a big problem.

I love this land.

I mean...

...I really love this land.

I'm gonna make this brief, quick, just

get it over with, but it will be everything.

Factual, just the facts. 10:00.

I punch in, my regular time for Tuesdays.

At 10:
30 we're having karaoke night...

...so there's maybe 20 or 30 people

milling around.

That's when Matthew Shepard

comes in alone, he comes in and...

...he sits right where you're sitting

right now, orders himself a Heineken.

So what can I tell you about Matt?

Well, manners...

...politeness, intelligence.

Taking care of me, as in tips.

Everything, he just offers conversation.

He comes in,

he's always dressed nice, clean-cut.

Didn't seem to have any worries.

He wasn't waiting on anybody.

He just wanted to enjoy his drink

and the company around.

I guess it was maybe 11:30 or 11:45.

That's when Russell Henderson

and Aaron McKinney came in.

They come in, approach the bar,

they sit here and order a pitcher...

...and as you know, they pay for the thing

entirely in dimes and quarters...

...which, let me tell you,

is something you just don't forget.

You don't forget something like that.

$5.50 in dimes and quarters?

It's a freaking nightmare

for a bartender.

Money meant nothing to Matthew

because he grew up with a lot of it.

He'd have handed over his wallet

in a second...

...because money meant nothing to him.

I mean, his shoes might have

meant something, but...

They can say it was robbery

all they want to, but I don't buy it.

Not even for an iota of a second.

Iook, when they came in,

Henderson and McKinney...

...to me, they didn't seem

to be intoxicated at all.

They came in,

they order a pitcher of beer...

...they take it back there into the pool area,

and they just kept to themselves.

It was going on for half an hour...

...and then I noticed Russell and Aaron

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