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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 .
Susan Polk. Susan Polk (born Susan Mae Bolling in 1957) is an American woman convicted in June 2006 of second degree (unpremeditated) murder for the 2002 death of her husband Dr. Frank "Felix" Polk. [1] [2] Polk's trial, described by one correspondent as "circus-like", drew extensive media attention with its sensationalist elements.
Iveson's disappearance on 30 January 2007 is being treated as murder. The 36-year-old's wife was pregnant with his fifth child when he vanished from Nantwich, Cheshire. In April 2012, two men were found not guilty of his murder; the trial heard that Iveson owed almost £250,000 to his brother-in-law. February 2007: James Andre Smartt-Ford: London
Daron Wint. On May 14, 2015, three members of the Savopoulos family—Savvas, Amy, and their son Philip—as well as their housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, were killed at the Savopoulos home in Washington, D.C. [1] [2] The victims were held hostage for 19 hours, starting on May 13. Ten-year-old Philip was tortured in order to coerce $40,000 in ...
Pausanias of Orestis ( Ancient Greek: Παυσανίας ἐκ τῆς Ὀρεστίδος) was a member of Philip II of Macedon 's personal bodyguard ( somatophylakes ). He assassinated Philip in 336 BC, possibly at the behest of Philip's wife Olympias, or even his son Alexander the Great. Pausanias was killed while fleeing the assassination.
On November 17, 2022, Roldan pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in relation to Decker's disappearance. Her body remains undiscovered. [8] On February 21, 2023, Roldan was sentenced to 40 years in prison, the maximum permitted for second-degree murder, with all but 12 years of his sentence suspended.
On October 17, 1941, Peters discovered Coneys at the refrigerator. Peters struck at Coneys with a cane he carried, but Coneys clubbed him with an old pistol he had found in the house. After the gun broke apart, Coneys continued the battery with a heavy iron stove shaker and bludgeoned the 73-year-old Peters to death.