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Flowers sit on the corner of the Matthew Shepard Memorial Bench outside the University of Wyoming's arts and sciences building, Laramie, Wyoming, 27 September, 2008.

Shepard was kidnapped and tortured outside Laramie on the evening of October 6-7, 1998 and later died October 12, 1998 at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado.

AP Photo/Laramie Boomerang, Andy Carpenean, found at: Boston Globe, © 2008 NY Times Co.