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Five people found themselves in a run-down Nebraska farmhouse. John Gregory Dunne on how they got there—and why three of them, Teena Brandon, Phillip DeVine, and Lisa Lambert, died.
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.
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]
Brandon Teena, a white transgender man, Lisa Lambert, a white single mother who lived in the farmhouse, and Phillip DeVine, a black man in town visiting his girlfriend, were killed by two men, John Lotter and Tom Nissen.
The men then told Phillip DeVine, who was hiding in a bedroom, to come out of the room and sit on the couch in the living room. Although DeVine complied, one of the men shot him in the head as soon as he was seated on the couch.
In 1993, Teena was killed in the town of Humboldt, Neb., along with two witnesses, Lisa Lambert and Phillip DeVine. The brutal triple homicide garnered salacious, victim-blaming headlines, such...
After midnight on December 31, 1993, Lotter and Nissen broke into Lisa Lambert’s house. They first shot and then stabbed Brandon, killing him, and they then shot and killed Lisa Lambert. They also killed Phillip DeVine, a Black man who was dating Tisdel's sister and staying at Lambert’s home.
That night, Tom Nissen and John Lotter broke into the farmhouse where Teena was staying with Phillip DeVine, an African American man, and Lisa Lambert. They dispatched DeVine and Lambert before turning to Teena. The losses of both DeVine and Lambert were erased from the story.
They found the latter hiding at Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert’s farmhouse outside Humboldt. The duo broke into the house on December 31, 1995, and discovered the 21-year-old trans man hiding...
On December 31, 1993, a 21-year-old trans man named Brandon Teena was shot and stabbed to death near Falls City, Nebraska, by two other young men because...