The Brit gran who hopes to wed an American triple murderer awaiting execution on death row has been branded “beyond sick” by the mum of one of his victims.
Michele German, 46, has previously told of her “obsession” with John Lotter, saying she would marry him “in a heartbeat”.
She first knew of Lotter when she was 22 after he was sentenced.
Since then the grandmother of four closely followed his case and eventually wrote him a letter three years ago.
Convinced of his innocence she runs Lotter’s Facebook page from her home in West Lothian, Scotland, from where she regularly exchanges letters, emails and phone calls with the killer.
And she is even asking strangers to crowdfund a flight to Nebraska so she can meet him for the first time.
But the mum of victim Brandon Teena says the “deluded” former carer is a “crazy b****” who has been “sucked in” by Lotter .
“I hope she’s never allowed to step foot in America,” JoAnn Brandon, 62, said from her home in Nebraska.
Insisting Lotter “should be dead by now” she added: “He beat, raped and murdered my child.
“He took a gun to his head and executed him at a point-blank range. His accomplice then stabbed him through the liver. They also murdered Lisa Lambert and Philip DeVine.”
In a direct message to Ms German she said: “Close your eyes for one second, Michele, picture the man you say you’d marry in a heartbeat, stopping the heartbeat of three innocent people in cold blood.
“Do you never stop to imagine if this was your child who’d been raped and murdered what you would think?
“The man whose eyes you look into when saying ‘I do’ will be the same eyes I hope one day will be looking back at his victims’ families when justice is finally served.”
Brandon Teena’s murder in 1993 inspired the film Boys Don’t Cry, which earned Hilary Swank an Oscar for her portrayal of him.
Born female and christened Teena, he posed as a man, adopting the name Brandon Teena, and dated several women, including Lotter’s ex, Lana Tisdel.
But after an arrest for forging cheques he was placed in the local women’s prison.
News of the crime made the local paper, outing Brandon Teena as transgender to locals, which enraged serial con Lotter and his friend, arsonist Tom Nissen.
At a Christmas Eve party, they forced Brandon Teena to remove his trousers, in a sick attempt to prove to Tisdel he was born female.
Lotter and Nissen later forced him into a car and drove to an area by a meat-packing plant, where they attacked and raped him.
After finding out the 21-year-old reported the attack to police, Lotter and Nissen tracked him down to a remote farmhouse on New Year’s Eve 1993.
On breaking in, they found Brandon Teena hiding under a blanket at the foot of pal Lambert’s bed.
There they shot and stabbed him, before murdering Lambert, 24, and DeVine, 22, to silence them. At trial Nissen, who is serving life said Lotter pulled the trigger. But, 14 years later, Nissen recanted his testimony saying he shot all three.
It led Lotter, who has always protested his innocence, to demand a new trial or a sentencing hearing, which the appeal courts rejected.
Mrs Brandon, meanwhile, is serving her own life sentence and says Lotter has never shown “one bit of remorse.”
“Twenty-seven years on, I still live with the pain,” she said.
