John Lotter was sentenced to death in Nebraska, USA, for the 1993 slaying of transgender man Brandon Teena, 21, and two witnesses to the killing.

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.

2019年4月12日 · Lotter, whose criminal record traces back to a 1987 theft and escape conviction at age 16, occupies a cell on death row in the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution. A youngish John Lotter and in a recent mug shot.

2023年2月2日 · John Lotter and Thomas Nissen were convicted criminals who met Lana Tisdel in November of that year and had been staying with her when Brandon Teena was released from jail. When they learned Teena was assigned female at birth, they became enraged and obsessed with humiliating him.

2018年7月6日 · FALLS CITY, Neb. (AP) — A judge has rejected the latest challenge by a Nebraska death row inmate whose case inspired the 1999 movie “Boys Don’t Cry.” John Lotter’s attorneys had argued it would be unconstitutional to execute him because he functions intellectually as a child.

2013年12月31日 · He started dating Lana Tisdel, and found a family of sorts in her inner circle of friends, including John Lotter and Marvin “Tom” Nissen. But upon discovering Brandon was a biological female,...

2022年6月28日 · There, he befriended ex-convicts John L. Lotter and Marvin Thomas "Tom" Nissen. Lotter and Nissen didn’t initially realize that Brandon was transgender, and once they found out, they became obsessed with proving he had a vulva.

2018年4月4日 · John Lotter was sentenced to death for his role in the 1993 killings of Brandon Teena, a 21-year-old transgender man, and two witnesses, Lisa Lambert and Philip DeVine, at a rural...

When Richardson County Sheriff Charles Laux eventually entered to have a look, he recognized one of the preople on the bed, not as a young man, but as the young woman, Teena Brandon, 21, who'd reported that John Lotter and Tom Nissen had …

John Lotter has been on death row for eleven years for the high-profile shooting of Teena Brandon, who passed herself as Brandon Teena, and for killing two other people on New Year's Eve in 1993 in Humboldt, Neb.