New York’s Tectonic Theater Project, which created The Laramie Project, a theatrical work that examines the events surrounding a gay man’s murder, is creating an epilogue to the famous work. The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later will include new interviews with some of the residents of the town where university student Mathew Shepard was killed and an epilogue that represents an interview with his killer.
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Greg Pierotti, a gay actor/writer who helped create the original docudrama, interviewed Aaron McKinney, who’s serving two consecutive life sentences at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap, Va., for Shepard’s murder.
In 1998, McKinney and a friend picked up Shepard, then a 21-year-old student, in a Laramie bar, and robbed and savagely pistol-whipped him, then left him tied to a fence in a remote area. He wasn’t found until 18 hours later and died in a Colorado hospital on Oct. 12.
“The night I did it, I did have hatred for homosexuals,” McKinney said in the interview, though he said his initial motivation was robbery. “Well, he was overly friendly. And he was obviously gay. That played a part ... his weakness. His frailty. And he was dressed nice. Looked like he had money.”
Pierotti logged more than 10 hours of interviews with McKinney, but failed to get the killer to express any remorse.
“As far as Matt is concerned, I don’t have any remorse,” McKinney is quoted as saying in the script.
When pressed again on the question of regret, McKinney said he was sorry for Shepard’s family and that his life had taken such a bad turn.
“Yeah, I got remorse. But probably not the way people want me to,” McKinney said. “I got remorse that I didn’t live the way my dad taught me to live.”
Here is Rep. Virginia Foxx, Republican from North Carolina and one of probably the two stupidest people ever be elected to the United States Congress had to say about this crime earlier in the year. What say you now, Rep. Foxx??
Via Mutate Web