dr. o'connor. there was all of the story. doc had quite an illustrious history. many run is with the police, although never convicted of a crime. he had honed adult bookstores in denver. he was kind of a mysterious business man who had a background that was kind of hard for people to pin down exactly what it was. but when i learned about dr. o'connor and that he was a link between matthew shepard and aaron mckinney, i was curious. i was also curious about these allegations that aaron mckinney was bisexual. i began to investigate as a journalist, first for the new york times magazine i approached them with the story. the commission to me to write, and i worked on the story on and off for two years from 2002- 2002-2004. and the new york times eventually kill the story. the editor who commissioned it from me had left the magazine. he is gay and now runs new york magazine. and the editors who inherited the story from them were less enthusiastic. so the story was killed. at the same time i have been talking with abc news about doing a story that would come out at the