Fifteen years ago, Matthew Shepard was found savagely beaten, unconscious, and tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming, sparking international attention and the watershed hate crimes bill signed by President Obama in 2009. When investigative journalist Stephen Jimenez traveled to Laramie to conduct research for a screenplay about Shepard, he uncovered instead a tragic story involving another corrosive problem facing the American heartland: methamphetamine. Over the course of a decade-long inquiry, Jimenez found a tangled web of secrets around the murder and an apparent cover-up reaching all the way to the White House. A 2012 Norman Mailer Nonfiction Fellow and recipient of an Emmy and the Writers Guild of America Award, Jimenez has written and produced programs for ABC News 20/20, Dan Rather Reports, Nova, and Court TV.