Lana was working at the convenience store when Teena appeared in Falls City. There is only one, ONE, possibly redeeming quality to Linda she was keeping her kids safe from the local criminals. You know, you people are a pain in the ass! he yelled, upon hearing why I was calling, and hung up. It really happened. What aspiring mafioso or gang member, you have suggested, in Brandon goes to an area like that? Researchers are attributing these statistics to the unique combination of easy access to deadly weapons, intense stress, and human devastation that police are exposed to on a daily basis.. She has become more striking with maturity. I believe that this was on December 29, 1993. I hope she now enjoys happiness, not least through her own children and g/children. Photo: @ galpalswatch Source: Getty Images. In short, Brandon Teena was a trans man (he was born as a woman but considered himself a man) from Lincoln who in the early 1990s moved to Humbolt in order to start a new life under his assumed gender. Peirce, who also spent more than half a decade researching and making her film, chose to underscore the disturbing and participatory nature of Laux's questions about the crime by playing out the rape scene in flashback with Swank's voiceover, as she gets grilled by Laux. Linda Gutierres had a rough life. Lana herself suffered injuries requiring hospitalization, but she has since recovered. C: You haven't the slightest idea? Lisa Lambert worked two jobs nursing and bartending to pay rent in a small house she lived in. I was an Army officer for a while: soldiers often dont make old bones stress, smoking, poor diet, risk in civilian life, etc. YES YES YES!!!! Lana already knows that, so she doesnt care, but when she relates this in her Court testimony, Lana uses interesting language she is asked, what she thought about this revelation and Lanas response is really interesting she is just an outsider, who cares what she says. Tisdel's mother, Linda Gutierres, who died on December 2, 2003,[6] at age 54, was portrayed in the film by Jeannetta Arnette. John Lotters sister, Michelle Lotter, wo later came out as a lesbian woman, was friends or in love with a black young man from Kansas, who was wanted on assault charges, and Linda was hiding him in her house. Michelle Lotter is John Lotters sister. I recently re-watched Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir's Emmy-nominated 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story, which unearthed this excruciating exchange. The big question is whether Lana can be blamed for leaving Teena in the company of her rapists, who had just got done humiliating her at a social gathering. She let these dudes rule her OWN HOME? Her predicament was dire and in the aftermath, she bore the blame for the triple homicide. Until next time, cheers. Her mother Linda testified that Tisdel would be with Brandon all day, had trouble sleeping, and their relationship was all she cared about during that time. Killed a man from Nebraska in a head on collision. Tisdel was a close friend of Teena's and was present during the events . What he fails to tell us is that while they needed help, Teena did whatever it took to feed them and financially support them in Omaha, but once the damage took its effect and Teena started acting out, they kicked her back to her mothers trailer in Lincoln how dare she bring violence to their beautiful home in Omaha! Aphrodite Jones reports it wrong. I saw that Lana was in a bad accident where she had rolled her car and being under the influence of pills and her lawyer using her incident to advertise his services. Other people lived there when I saw it. In August 2020, Lana suffered a new tragedy when her Ford pickup crossed a center line and fatally injured Chrysler minivan driver Glenn D. Aston in a head-on crash in Fairview, Kansas. DeVine was supposed to take the Greyhound out of Nebraska on December 30, but he does not and ends up being murdered on December 31st. Thanks BB. This birthday star earned a 2000 Academy Award nomination for her role as Lana Tisdel in "Boys Don't Cry." Her other film work includes appearances in "The Dead Don't Die," "Lizzie" and "The Snowman." Sevigny starred as Nicolette Grant on Friends said Ms. Brandon, 21, had posed for two months as a man, using the name Brandon Teena, and had told stories of an incomplete sex-change operation or of being a hermaphrodite. Tom Nissen was in the same position when he served his time in prison. It wasnt fancy, but it was well lived in. If you follow everything that was said, you will see, that Linda Gutierrez had ties with the Lotter family and was sheltering a wanted person as a favor to them. Linda Gutierrez acted a responsible adult for the police, but did everything she could to help John Lotter and Tom Nissen get rid of forensic evidence after they raped Teena Brandon. As I mentioned, my own time in the military made me aware that such work appears to shorten life; but in the US, at least, law enforcement is worse still. By the time he was 21, Brandon was identifying solely as a man and moved in with his 18-year-old girlfriend, Lana Tisdel, who was initially unaware he had been born female. After the movie was made, Kim Peirce decided to leave Lana penniless in the dust. He was scared of getting into trouble with Leland Tisdel, Lanas father. All she knew, she recalls now, was that she couldn't let Teena go. Lana has a daughter with whom she has a very close relationship and the young woman totally adores her mother. And there is more. That same Christmas eve, just before Nissen and Lotter descended on Teena, Nissen went to the local police station and asked that Teena Brandons bail be revoked and that she be taken back in custody. When I first came across all these facts, I got a distinct inpression that Teena ran into something bigger than the two, maybe the local Ku Klux KLan, but then based on forensic evidence, I now believe that the person who shot the three people was an angry woman hater. Same court documents claim that Nissen and Lotter found out after police interviewed them about the rape. Teena wrote a famous poem: Changes I am going through in my life will change me forever. Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances. Published: Aug. 31, 2020 at 4:23 AM PDT. But when she saw Lana Tisdel, Brandon focused exclusively on her. Eager to come to terms with his department's tragic mishandling of the rape that led to the murder on New Year's Eve in 1993, a small-town sheriff welcomes LGBT-sensitivity training. That's 'our Charlie! Houser said. A year before Boys Dont Cry, Tisdel herself had appeared in the documentary The Brandon Teena Story, and she seemed like a sympathetic character there, too. Stress and emotional pain will make it easier to get fat and harder to lose it. It WAS a shotgun shack you know one room house. In the Hollywood movie, she came off as a sympathetic character who was kind to Brandon (and she had a job). And thats what they did. She kept her kids in the childrens basement out of the reach of the local street hoodlums. I was not required to agree with BBs views in any way. There is deeper background still, but this offers a better glimpse than media into what was going on with the bail money. If you aint one of them? He is now awaiting execution in Tecumseh alongside with Nikko Jenkins, Anthony Garcia and 7 . Lisa Lambert was working two jobs and raising a baby as a single mom. Linda is old, obese, bent. 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). When I first visited the States, in 89, I was struck by how F A T people were. Learn to take that sort of thing (in a comment on the internet, for crying out loud! Her obituary didnt disclose her cause of death. Lisa wants Brandon for herself. You cant tell the whole story in two hours. Lana Tisdel. You understand, that it wasnt about Toms brother physically protecting him, but that Tom Nissen could not strike a gang member in self defense, you punch a gang member, you are dealing with the whole gang. Teena Brandons rape was addressed during the murder trial, and in it, there is testimony Teena Brandon told one of the women that she was raped (not Lana), and that woman told everyone. In the crash, Bachman was driving a 2003 Ford F150. [10], In August 2020, Tisdel was injured in a car accident when she struck Glenn D. Aston, 66, head-on. She called the police from Lincoln and made a police report, in it she expressed fear for Teena Brandons life. Or that the purity police will show up and hold you accountable for what you choose to read on your own time (or pat you on the head because you ran away from it)? Now with a completely new identity, Brandon befriended a girl named Lisa Lambert, who invited him to stay at her place. To a point that she goes to Falls City after Teena is locked up, she tells Lana that Teena is a girl. Leland Tisdel is interesting and worth talking about. They all set Brandon up. People warned her about the Falls City crowd that Teena was seeking to join, but she went anyway. Tisdel (pictured above in her 20s), who had dated Brandon Teena who was born a girl named Teena Brandon but dressed and lived as a man also called out Boys Dont Cry for falsely portraying her as having been present during the shootings that killed Brandon, 22, and witnesses Lisa Lambert, 24, and Phillip Devine, 22, just before New Years Day of 1994. The further you get away from the event, the more information gets distorted. If his parole officer would have found out about Nissen signing this bail package or if Tisdels parents would have complained, Nissen would have ended up back in jail on a parole violation that would have been as serious as his parole officer wanted it to be. Brandon Teena The Boy Who Should've Stayed Alive. Lanas father was Leland Tisdel (1936-2007) died at 71 years young. According to police reports, something else happens. Hearing his cruelty anew, it finally occurred to me why he seems the cruelest in this cast of characters: There's something particularly perverse about a man entrusted with the duty to protect choosing instead to hurt and humiliate. He was a cop for years prior to that. [9] She married Josh Bachman in 2001 and lives in Kansas with their children. Well, 71 IS relatively (operative word) young given that average age of death of males is approaching 85 today (and has not been been 70-odd for several decades). Or was it rebellion against local conservatism. Well, here we are. Lana Tisdels mom said that Tom Nissen is a friend of the family, and she was sheltering Michelle Lotters boyfriend, wanted on the assault warrant. Lana Tisdel decided to use her parents house as collateral for the rest of the bail. The fatality victim was . C: Why do you run around with girls instead of, ah, guys being you are a girl yourself? Where is Lana Tisdel now? Maybe, because Teena always wanted to be an outlaw and this was her chance to do it in real life. Falls City PD were willing to arrest Nissen and Lotter for the beating that they subjected Teena after the Christmas party at Tom Nissens house, but Teena repeatedly refused to place charges. On December 25, mere hours after being sexually assaulted, Brandon faced a demeaning and dehumanizing line of questioning from the Richardson County Sheriff, Charles Laux, when reporting his attackers. The Amateur Radio Operators Preparing for the Worst, How to Make Friends, According to Science, What I Learned About Life at My 30th College Reunion. She has been married to Josh Bachman since 2001, and they are blessed with a daughter and two sons. Girls used to work in ice cream shops and convenience stores, while John Lotters common law wife babysat for Tom Nissens wife. The majority of our caseload is protection order violations, DUIs, driving under suspension and domestic violence.