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Hate crime murder victim. 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 ...
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]
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.
Nissen was charged Dec. 7 in federal court with one count of receiving stolen government money in the amount of more than $1,000 and converting it to his own use while knowing it was stolen.
On the other side of the country, in Queens, New York, 19-year-old Joceline Romo and her boyfriend, Fabian Maliza, 24, argued after coming home from a New Year's Eve party. Later, her body was found facedown in her bedroom, beaten and strangled. Her boyfriend has been charged with murder.
His death, alongside two of his friends, Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, is thought to be a hate crime motivated by his status as a transgender man. His murderers, Marvin Nissen and John Lotter forced Teena to remove his trousers at a Christmas party to prove to Teena's partner that he had a vulva.
Derek Snyder was charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime and was being held at the Gwinnett County Detention Center
Ten people, including seven sheriff’s deputies and three hospital workers, were initially charged with second-degree murder in Otieno's death, but charges were later dropped against two of the ...