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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 ...
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Apr 12, 2019 · Brandon Teena’s Killers: 25 Years Later. An Update on John Lotter and Thomas Nissen. This week, we’ll take a little sabbatical from Forensic Files to observe the 25th anniversary of Brandon Teena’s murder — a true-crime case little known outside of Nebraska until Hollywood came knocking. Brandon died at the hands of two lowlifes named ...
Feb 2, 2023 · On December 24, 1993, 21-year-old Brandon Teena was attending a party with several friends and acquaintances in Richardson County, Nebraska, when he was emotionally and physically assaulted and ultimately raped. As reported by Investigation Discovery, two of the other attendees, John L. Lotter and Thomas "Tom" Nissen, learned Teena was ...
Dec 31, 2013 · December 31, 2013. Brandon Teena, left, with Lana Tisdel in an undated photo (Associated Press) Twenty years ago in a little Nebraskan town called Falls City, a handsome 21-year-old transman with ...
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May 9, 2024 · December 31, 1993, Humboldt, Nebraska (aged 21) Brandon Teena (born December 12, 1972, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.—died December 31, 1993, Humboldt, Nebraska) was a biologically female individual who lived his life as a male and was murdered by two former friends after they discovered his biological sex. Teena and his story have been at the ...
Oct 21, 2019 · The murder of 21-year-old Brandon Teena was different — it garnered national headlines. In 1993, Teena was killed in the town of Humboldt, Neb., along with two witnesses, Lisa Lambert and ...
Ultimately, Brandon’s status as a trans man was enough for Lotter and Nissen to murder him. When Joann Brandon, the mother of Teena Brandon, challenged Richardson County for failing to protect Brandon, Chief Justice John Hendry pointed out that Sheriff Laux’s inability to provide protection for Brandon was “extreme and outrageous, beyond ...