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Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) [2] is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine at the hands of John Lotter and Tom Nissen is chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine). [3]
Brandon Teena [note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [2] [3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry .
Days prior, Teena had reported to police that Lotter and his accomplice Tom Nissen had beat and raped him upon discovering he was transgender. Nissen was sentenced to life. Raymond Mata Jr. Kidnapped, murdered and dismembered 3-year-old Adam Gomez, his ex-girlfriend's son. 23 years, 327 days Marco Torres
Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.
Updated April 10, 2024 at 8:31 AM. Despite dozens of prison staffers’ campaign to save him, Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for killing his cousin and her husband in 2006. Dorsey, 51 ...
This is a list of people executed in the United States in 2006. Fifty-three people were executed in the United States in 2006. Twenty-four of them were in the state of Texas. One ( Brandon Wayne Hedrick) was executed via electrocution. [1] [2] The states of California, Montana, Nevada, and North Carolina, have not carried out an execution since ...
A man convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband after they brought him to safety when he told them that drug dealers were at his door will be executed Tuesday, Missouri's governor said ...
Murders of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGiffrey. Mary Antoine. 30 September 1814. " [K]illed a 'female' who had 'alienated her husband's affection'"; daughter of Abram Antoine [q.v.]; first reported execution of a woman in the State of New York. Charles Thompson and James Peters (aka Peterson) [15] August 1815.