This coming from a rapist is an obvious red flag. Nissen was like your average reader in all of this. Had Teena been willing to have the two arrested, she would have survived Falls City. HUMBOLDT, Neb. Everyone assumes that Teena was raped at the industrial location in the Southeastern part of Falls City. Lana herself suffered injuries requiring hospitalization, but she has since recovered. Lisa Lambert was a single mother from Pawnee City, Nebraska, who often let friends stay with her in exchange for their help and company, because she lived outside of town. What status does she have for a younger guy to be spending time in her company? When Lana Tisdel posted Teena's bail, she learned Teena was assigned female at birth. Its not clear what type of work she does or whether she and her husband are still together. Lana Tisdel (dated Brandon) talking about what happened the night at the Christmas party at Tom Nissen's. Credit: the Brandon Teena Story (This account is for information only and a tribute account. Without their excellent investigative journalism we would have never learned of the extreme misconduct and inhumanity Brandon suffered from Laux. In addition, you can retire with half pay after 20 years of service. On December 31, 1993, Tom Nissen, who was accompanied by John Lotter, murdered Philip DeVine, Lisa Lambert, and Brandon Teena in Humboldt, Nebraska. How old is Lana Tisdel now? I dont understand, either, how a simple $2500 bond could involve a house and property as collateral. A practical open house. According to police reports, something else happens. This was some kind of the real or imagined underworld, and Nissen and Lotter fully expected Teena to keep quiet and to be able to beat and rape her with impunity, and to possibly turn her out as a prostitute, whether she stayed in Falls City or went to Lincoln or to Omaha. It's a simple concepthonoring however people want to define themselvesbut it requires a leap of imagination Lotter, Nissen and Laux couldn't makeand it would have made all the difference. Rough crowd has its privileges. This woman should have gone to prison with them. In a rural area of the middle of nowhere SE Nebraska, who are they shaking down to finance their enterprise? The men responsible for those lost livesJohn Lotter and Tom Nissenare still sitting on death row today. She did not realize that Brandon was born a female until December 19, 1993, when he was arrested for forging checks and was . You need to contact the shows producers and purchase the episode from them. As far as I am concerned, go near any checkpoint with armed men pulling selected people out of the crowd. That makes it easier to get fat. Two people that they were friends with during this time were John Lotter and Tom Nissen. With Brandons murder too and a dad who died relatively young, thats much loss. 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. Why didnt Teena stay with Lisa, helped her raise an infant, and maybe find a job pumping gas in Humboldt, NE, just a 15 minute walk from Lisas house? On this photo are Brandon Teena and Lana Tisdel. I think that Teena Brandon deserves some real credit there. If you ever go to Falls City, you will notice that you can see the Courthouse building from Tom Nissens house. It makes sense that someone spurred Brandon to report the sexual assault its hard to go to authorities about sex crimes. Tom Nissen was a jobless father of three out on parole, and it wasnt just the prison that he feared. i tried to contact the people who are part of the cast of the story of Brandon Teena but to no avail , https://www.wibw.com/2020/08/31/nebraska-man-killed-late-saturday-in-head-on-crash-in-brown-county/. A side question worth looking into is why nobody came to help her. with a coin on my groin [citation needed]. Teena also befriended several locals, including John Lotter and Marvin Thomas Nissen, and began dating a 19-year-old named Lana Tisdel. There's not saying, 'I'm gay!'. Tisdel, was not included in either film but inadvertently played a role in springing Brandon Teena from jail. Up to ten years in prison if an ex gets a second mortgage using the house that now belongs to the ex and not to both of them. The last time Lana Tisdels name came up in the press was the year 2000, when she settled a lawsuit with movie distributor Searchlight Pictures for an undisclosed sum. Nissen is serving three life sentences at the Lincoln Correctional Center. Teena started dating Lana Tisdel in 1992, and it seemed he may have finally found his match. Lana Tisdel has a very close and a very positive relationship with her daughter, probably amazingly so. When my letter requesting an interview went unanswered, I called Laux's home in Dawson. I know a Philadelphia Irish dude who made Chief, and he told me that Irish working poor construction laborers he came out of lived physically hard, but short lives, and his point physically hard but free of mental and emotional stress. Lanas dad gave her a blank check to get her hair done, about $30.00 USD. Lana Tisdel, her sister Leslie, and mother Linda were all involved in the criminal trial and later lawsuits that followed the murder and later, movie development. I hope she, too, rots in hell. Including Lana, Linda Gutierres left four children behind. He became friends with several local residents. And there is more. Lana Tisdel is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the 1993 murder of Brandon Teena was chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry.She was portrayed in the film by Chlo Sevigny, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Tisdel.. Brandon Teena was born Teena Renae Brandon, and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska - smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt. Why wouldnt they? . Struggle to survive. 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. In a recent interview from her L.A. office, director Peirce called it a third rape.. Right up there with Laux ..gross. Brandon Teena The Boy Who Should've Stayed Alive. C: You didn't look. Lana admitted that she even kissed Teena as a man, but this statement also indicates awareness that Teena is a woman. Another head scratcher to your enormous knowledge about this situation is how all these intense relationships took place in just over five weeks. This is not as easy as it sounds. Adults, namely Linda Gutierrez, acted on camera, like the two were crazy kids and she was the adult in the room. lets get us a tenderloin The fatality victim was . They went looking for Teena, but Lisa did not know that Teena got kicked out of Lanas and was now staying with Nissen, and when police came knocking, Tisdels told police they had no idea where Teena was. BB: You mention suicide viz police officers. Thanks. Although Tisdel did not seem terribly disturbed to learn the truth, her friends and family were angry and began harassing Teena. Did she triumph over her ex-husband or did she triumph over the local thugs and keep Lana out of their clutches? Brandon identified as a boy from early childhood . Brandon Teena (right) with Lana Tisdel in 1993. Why would Linda lie about this? 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)? They then drove to the house of Lisa Lambert, where Brandon had been hiding out. At the same time, Tom Nissen, a thief and a sex offender out on parole, who has three kids and owns a home on Stone Street right behind the town square, he spends time ingratiating himself to Linda Gutierrez. Just a few years after the tragedy, he was voted commissioner of Richardson County. 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. At about the same time, her sister, Leslie Tisdel, was dating Phillip DeVine, 22, of Fairfield . He moved into the home of Lisa Lambert and later started dating Lana Tisdel. And thats what they did. Teena did not want to stay with Lisa and was looking to go back to Lincoln. Lana Bachman works as a maid at a casino in Kansas. Another point of divergence is how Lotter and Nissen found out that Teena talked to police about the rape. What do you call a thing that responds to brute force and lacks any sense of human gratitude or compassion? He introduced Teena Brandon to a biker friend of his father, this was a grown man with a felony assault conviction about a decade older than Tom Nissen. C: Then you think he had it worked up on his own, or what? The only person who didnt know that her pants were going to get pulled off at that Christmas Party was Teena herself. No wonder he lived in a small house. Here is the interesting part: Lanas side was able to successfully stop the distribution of Boys Dont Cry in parts of Kansas and Nebraska and Kims side quickly settled for an undisclosed sum. If Tom Nissens biker brother was in the same club as the biker who threatened Nissen, then his brother could protect him. When I first visited the States, in 89, I was struck by how F A T people were. This in itself is a traumatic event, before any set up or betrayal enters into question. Ex-cons John Lotter and Thomas Nissen had targeted Brandon Teena for murder to quiet a rape case against the two ex-cons. Then they come back and she chastises them for raping Brandon and has not a clue that these guys are psychopaths? Nissen and Lotter sent their girlfriends and children out of the house to spare them the violence of the sexual violence that they were planning. I wish I could have finished it though but I figured you were getting ready to let the transphobia start flying. He was transgender. He has rationalized his role to the point where he's blameless. The rape kit would be lost. I found it in Falls City. Rude comments will be deleted) #brandonteena #teenabrandon #boysdontcry #brandonteenastory. People who get brutally tortured are further traumatized by real or imagined abandonment. 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. Excellent intelligence on the buildup to the rape and murder, BB. Aphrodite Jones reports it wrong. We have a training session scheduled on Jan 18th, Houser wrote to me two weeks later. She was wounded in a stabbing attack by an ex-husband and supported her family on a monthly disability check of less than $400, according to an account by writer Eric Konigsberg, who grew up in Omaha. Facebook gives people the power to. In 2007, he recanted his original testimony and now admits he murdered the three victims with Lotter as his accomplice. They went on to say that Teenas interview was not unusually callous. According to her, Philip DeVine meets Leslie Mayfield (Lanas Half Sister) at Job Corps and comes with her to Falls City for the holidays. OSS and SOE operators during WW2 who parachuted behind enemy lines and were later captured, interrogated, and survived the war, later were convinced that someone had to have betrayed them. She has been married to Josh Bachman since 2001, and they are blessed with a daughter and two sons. if so you must grasp a chisel Nissen was a convicted felon on parole. In New York police, there is unlimited sick time if you are actually sick. Lanas Wikipedia page said that Lanas dad gave her a blank check to get her hair done or something, and she used that blank check to post Brandons bail. Marcus, I agree about average age, but thats for the comfortable middle class. Not to justify his wrongdoing, but to partially explain Laux's ignorance, Houser told me that Laux's training was far inferior to what officers receive today: Charlie was in his third 4-year term as sheriff in 1993. Laux worked with Teena to trace the route through Nebraska countryside and to the location where she was raped. Afterwards, Teena came to Tisdel's house, and Tisdel and her mother convinced him to speak to the police and go to the hospital. It sounds as though her relationship with Brandon was even more complicated than it seemed. Join Facebook to connect with Lana Bachman and others you may know. Linda Gutierrez had four children by four different men and was collecting child support from all of them. Then there is the fact that Teena was not a boyfriend or older brother to Lana, much as certain segments of LGBT would like to believe in Brandon. In the Hollywood movie, she came off as a sympathetic character who was kind to Brandon (and she had a job). Linda Gutierres had a rough life.