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20 years after 'Boys Don't Cry' murders, transgender violence still happens

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20 years after 'Boys Don't Cry' murders, transgender violence still happens

• By NICHOLAS BERGIN / Lincoln Journal Star
• Dec 29, 2013
• Dec 29, 2013 Updated Apr 16, 2018
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Brandon Teena (left) poses with Lana Tisdel in this undated photo. Teena was born in Lincoln as a girl but was living in the Falls City area as a man.

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The bodies of Brandon Teena, Philip DeVine and Lisa Lambert were found in this farmhouse on New Year's Day 20 years ago.

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Tom Nissen in a 1994 appearance several days after his arrest on murder charges for the Dec. 31, 1993, deaths of three people in a Humboldt farmhouse.

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John Lotter goes to a court appearance.

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* John L. Lotter, Feb. 21, 1996, Richardson County. Lotter and Marvin Nissen were convicted of killing Teena Brandon, 21, of Lincoln, a transgender male. They killed Brandon in 1993 to silence him after he told police they had raped him. They also killed Lisa Lambert, 24, and Phillip DeVine, 22, who lived in the same house as Brandon and witnessed the killing. Lotter has maintained his innocence.

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Tom Nissen is serving a life sentence at the Lincoln Correctional Center.

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By NICHOLAS BERGIN / Lincoln Journal Star

Twenty years have passed since two Falls City men murdered Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert and Philip DeVine in a shabby farmhouse on the outskirts of Humboldt.

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