Is everything known about Matthew Shepard is wrong?

There has been a lot of rumblings about an amateur journalist's book going around which challenges the legacy of the Matthew Shepard murder. Conventional wisdom states that Matthew Shepard was murdered simply because he was gay. However, the amateur journalist's Book, The Book of Matt, argues that Shepard was killed over a bad drug deal.

WTF?

The Weekly Standard has a long article about the book and it's author, Stephen Jimenez.

Read the whole article.