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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 .
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]
7 January 2022 [39] Babu Emmanuel Lokiri. triple murder. hanging. Sudan. 23 October 2023 [40] Geedow Mohamed Fidle and Ismail Abdullahi Abdirahman. murder. public firearm.
Date apprehended. December 11, 2008. Bernard Lawrence Madoff ( / ˈmeɪdɔːf / MAY-dawf; [2] April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021) was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. [3] [4] He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock ...
Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved December 7, 2019. Hall, previously known as Leroy Hall Jr., was sentenced to death in 1992 for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend Traci Crozier in Chattanooga. Hall threw a burning 2-gallon jug of gas at her while she was sitting in her car. ^ Timms, Mariah (November 16, 2019).
"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not ...
The Second Boer War (Afrikaans: Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, lit. ' Second Freedom War ', 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.
Abraham Lee Shakespeare (April 24, 1966 – c. April 7, 2009) was a casual laborer from the US who won a $30 million lottery jackpot in Florida, receiving $17 million in 2006. In 2009, his family declared him missing, and in January 2010 his body was found buried under a concrete slab in the backyard of an acquaintance.