Video: 'RIP Brandon Teena (1972-1993) Tribute Video '

(Friday, December 31, 1993, around 1:00 a.m. CST) — Brandon Teena, a 21-year-old female-born transgender, was murdered this morning along with two other people at a farmhouse near Humboldt, Nebraska.

Convicted murderer John Lotter is on Nebraska’s death row; co-defendant Thomas Nissen is serving a life sentence. The case inspired the 1999 movie Boys Don’t Cry.