Editing Matthew Shepard (section)

===''The Book of Matt''===
{{Main|The Book of Matt}}
[[Stephen Jimenez]], the producer of the 2004 ''20/20'' segment, went on to write a book, ''[[The Book of Matt|The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard]]'', which was published in September 2013.<ref name=Jimenez>{{cite book|title=[[The Book of Matt]]|publisher=Steerforth|author=Jimenez, Stephen|year=2013|isbn=978-1586422141}}</ref>  The book said that Shepard and McKinney—the killer who inflicted the injuries—had been occasional sex partners and that Shepard was a methamphetamine dealer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/12/stephen-jimenez-matthew-shepard_n_3914707.html|title=Matthew Shepard Murdered By Bisexual Lover And Drug Dealer, Stephen Jimenez Claims In New Book|work=Huffington Post|date=September 12, 2013|access-date=September 30, 2013|archive-date=September 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916172842/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/12/stephen-jimenez-matthew-shepard_n_3914707.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=jbfh/> Jimenez wrote that Fritzen told an interviewer "Matthew Shepard's sexual preference or sexual orientation certainly wasn't the motive in the homicide...".<ref name=Jimenez />

Some commentators have criticized Jimenez's views on the attack by classifying them as being sensational and misleading.<ref name=jbfh>{{cite web|url=http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/10/18/2802871/book-matt-prove-size-stephen-jimenezs-ego|title='The Book Of Matt' Doesn't Prove Anything, Other Than The Size Of Stephen Jimenez's Ego|work=ThinkProgress|date=October 18, 2013|access-date=October 18, 2013|author=Rosenberg, Alyssa|archive-date=October 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018161518/http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/10/18/2802871/book-matt-prove-size-stephen-jimenezs-ego/|url-status=live}}</ref> Other commentators, however, have spoken up to defend them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2013/09/13/have-we-got-matthew-shepard-all-wrong?page=0,0|title=Have We Got Matthew Shepard All Wrong?|last1=Hicklin|first1=Aaron|website=Advocate|date=September 13, 2013|access-date=March 1, 2014|archive-date=October 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024135906/http://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2013/09/13/have-we-got-matthew-shepard-all-wrong?page=0,0|url-status=live}}</ref> Some police that were involved in the investigation have criticized Jimenez's conclusions,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69201|title=Shepard book stirs controversy|work=The Bay Area Reporter|date=October 24, 2013|last=Hemmelgarn|first=Seth|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110042205/http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69201|archive-date=November 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2014/11/24/book-matt-author-responds-media-matters-steve-jimenez |magazine=Out |date=November 24, 2014 |first=Stephen |last=Jimenez |title=Book of Matt Author Responds to Media Matters |access-date=October 12, 2018 |quote=two police officers, Dave O'Malley and Rob DeBree, have quarreled with some of the findings |archive-date=October 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013014249/https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2014/11/24/book-matt-author-responds-media-matters-steve-jimenez |url-status=live }}</ref> while other police said that there was evidence that drugs were an important factor that led to the murder.<ref name="Bindel"/>