Location: Humboldt, Nebraska
Cause of Death: Shot to death, then stabbed, by John Lotter and Marvin Thomas Nissen.
Date of Death: December 31, 1993
Remembering Brandon
On December 31, 1993, John Lotter and Marvin Thomas Nissen murdered Brandon, Lisa Lambert, and Philip De Vine in a farmhouse in rural Richardson County, Nebraska. These multiple murders occurred one week after Lotter and Nissen forcibly removed Brandon’s pants and made Lana Tisdel, whom Brandon had been dating since moving to Falls City from Lincoln three weeks earlier, look to prove that her boyfriend was “really a woman.” Later in the evening of this assault, Lotter and Nissen kidnapped, raped, and assaulted Brandon. Despite threats of reprisal should these crimes be reported, Brandon filed charges with the Falls City Police Department and the Richardson County Sheriff, however, Lotter and Nissen remained free. Lotter and Nissen have both been convicted; Lotter is currenlty on death row and Nissen, who testified against Lotter, was sentenced to life without parole.
Brandon was a female-bodied twenty-year-old who passed, to some extent, as a man, without hormonal or surgical intervention. Given the name “Teena Renae Brandon” at birth, Brandon used a number of different gender-neutral and masculine names. Upon first arriving in Richardson County, Tenna Ray Brandon said it would be easier to be called “Brandon”. Although “Brandon Teena” has become codified as the name with which to refer to Brandon, there is little evidence for Brandon’s own use of this name.
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