Why Matthew Shepard’s Story Was So Important For Investigation Discovery to Finally Tell, 25 Years Later

Jason Sarlanis is the president of Turner Networks, Investigation Discovery (ID) and HLN, linear and streaming. The two-hour documentary special “The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime” airs Monday, Oct. 9, at 9 p.m. ET on ID (ahead of the 25th anniversary of Shepard’s death on Oct. 12). Last week, I was sitting in a …