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Brandon Teena was a transgender man who was raped and killed by John Lotter and Tom Nissen in 1993 in Nebraska. His life and death inspired the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry, and led to increased awareness of hate crime laws.
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]
Norm Macdonald (1959-2021) was a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his deadpan style and political satire. He died of leukemia in September 2021, after a career that included SNL, The Norm Show, and Netflix talk shows.
John List was an American mass murderer who killed his wife, mother, and three children in 1971, and then disappeared for 18 years. He was a devout Lutheran who claimed to have saved their souls by killing them, and was finally caught by America's Most Wanted in 1989.
John Edwards was a Florida State University student who was killed by two men during a camping trip in 1994. The killers, Loran Kenstley Cole and William Christopher Paul, were arrested, convicted and sentenced to death and life imprisonment respectively.
John Loder (1898-1988) was a British film actor who worked in Germany, Britain and Hollywood. He was married to Hedy Lamarr from 1943 to 1947.
John Joubert was an American serial killer executed in Nebraska in 1996. He confessed to murdering three boys in Maine and Nebraska in 1982-1983, after being arrested for a different crime.
The Brandon Teena Story is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir. [1] The documentary features interviews with many of the people involved with the 1993 murder of Brandon Teena as well as archive footage of Teena. [2]