Monday, November 11, 2013

The "20/20 Special Report" had a lot of very interesting topics discussed in it that really surprised me. The first was in the beginning of the video when they said that Matthew got raped in a high school trip to Morocco. They said that this horrible experience could have led to the decision to do meth, which makes sense because some people turn to drugs after awful experiences such as that one. Then, the video goes on to talk about how McKinney planned on robbing a drug dealer of $10,000 that night which changes his motives. He said that all he wanted to do was rob Matthew, but ended up killing him in the end. McKinney, his girlfriend, and a man all go on to say that it wasn't a hate crime, but that he just wanted to rob Matthew for money to buy drugs, which definitely changes the perspective of the whole story and makes me question what actually happened that night. When I heard that McKinney hit Russel in the mouth after trying to stop him, it surprised me because it shows that Russel tried to stop him, but wasn't able to. And if Russel had tried harder, I wonder if McKinney would have ended up killing both of them, neither of them, or what would have happened. Later in the video, when Doc is talking about McKinney he says, "He's [McKinney] been exposed to a lot of guys,". The part that I found interesting was that Doc raised his voice when he said a lot of guys, making me wonder what he meant, however immediately after Doc says that, he goes on to say that McKinney had a threesome with himself and a girl. I was shocked by this statement because the book gives the impression that McKinney hates gays, yet this statement is the exact opposite. It really makes me wonder, once again, if the motive behind McKinney'y attack really was just to get money for drugs if everyone else is right saying that he killed Matthew because he was gay. After Doc talks about the threesome, McKinney says "No," when asked if he has ever done anything sexual with a guy, however he raises his voice when he says it. I think that Doc is telling the truth about the threesome because he says it casually and when McKinney says "No," his voice gets really high which often indicates that somebody is not telling the truth. McKinney really does seem afraid of gays because even after hearing about his threesome, McKinney continues to deny any sort of sexual intercourse with guys, even though his girlfriend says that she thinks he is bisexual because he asked her to have threesomes with another guy. I wonder if McKinney is really scared to admit that he may be bisexual and is so willing to defend himself that he will kill a homosexual man in an attempt to prove himself. The 20/20 Special Report was very interesting and had a lot of insight into this murder and the lives of everyone that had something to do with the murder.

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