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Brandon Teena was an American transgender man who was raped and killed by two men in Nebraska after they discovered his female anatomy. His life and death inspired the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry, and drew attention to hate crime laws in the US.
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 biographical film about Brandon Teena, a trans man who was murdered in Nebraska in 1993. Hilary Swank won an Oscar for her portrayal of Brandon, who falls in love with Lana Tisdel, played by Chloë Sevigny.
A South Carolina man suspected of killing his roommate has been arrested and charged with murder after the woman's body was found buried under a firepit earlier this summer. Penni Whiteside had ...
A list of notable people who have died in prison, whether in prison or in hospital while still serving a prison sentence. The list covers various periods of history, causes of death, and nationalities of the inmates.
A local sheriff shot and killed a district judge inside a courthouse in Kentucky on Thursday, according to police. Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines allegedly killed Judge Kevin Mullins, 54 ...
Phillip Dean Hancock (February 15, 1964 — November 30, 2023) was an American convicted murderer who killed a total of three people between 1982 and 2001. In 1982, Hancock was charged with fatally shooting a drug trafficker, Charles Lester Warren, which he claimed was a killing done in self-defense, and he was subsequently given a four-year jail term for first-degree manslaughter. 19 years ...
Stephanie Adams, a former Playboy playmate, killed herself and her 7-year-old son by jumping from a hotel in New York City. The mother-son pair was involved in a custody battle with Adams' ex ...