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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 .
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.
Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) 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).
The Wonderland murders, also known as the Four on the Floor Murders or the Laurel Canyon Murders, are four unsolved murders that occurred in Los Angeles on July 1, 1981. It is assumed that five people were targeted to be killed in the known drug house of the Wonderland Gang, three of whom—Ron Launius, William "Billy" Deverell, and Joy Miller—were present.
Thomas Uva got out of prison in May 1992 at the age of 28. He and his 31-year-old wife, who worked as the getaway driver, started holding up mafia social clubs throughout New York City that were owned by the Gambino crime family and the Bonanno crime family. As a result, mafia families put out an "open contract" to kill the couple.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Ibragim Todashev. A triple homicide was committed in Waltham, Massachusetts, in the United States, on or very near to the evening of September 11, 2011. [1] [2] [3] Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman, and Raphael Teken were murdered in Mess's apartment. All had their throats slit with such great force that they were nearly ...
Killing of Alexis Sharkey. Alexis Leigh Sharkey ( née Robinault) was an American 26-year-old social media influencer who was last seen alive around 6 p.m. on November 27, 2020. The next day, her naked body was found near her home; she had been strangled.
December 29, 2021. ( 2021-12-29) Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer is a 2021 American limited docu-series made for Netflix and directed by Joe Berlinger. [1] It is the second installment in the Crime Scene documentary series, following Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. [2] Its story focuses on the series of 1970s-1980s murders ...