Troy Newman (activist) on its campaign against abortion doctor George Tiller, which culminated in his assassination by Scott Roeder, an Operation Rescue supporter. More recently, Newman attracted international attention for his illegal entry to Australia (and subsequent deportation). Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Newman was adopted at birth to a family in San Diego, California, where he grew up as a self-described "surfer boy". He has cited his own experience as an adoptee as one of the reasons for his anti-abortion views. Newman made contact with his birth father later in life, and subsequently added his birth father's surname, Mariotti, to his own, although
Bill Tiller Bill Tiller Bill Tiller is an American computer game designer, writer, and artist. At LucasArts, he was the lead artist and art director of "The Dig", the lead background artist on "The Curse of Monkey Island", and the lead artist on "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine". He created the games "A Vampyre Story" and "Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island" for Autumn Moon Entertainment, a studio he co-founded with Mike Kirchoff in 2002. He worked as a game designer on the iOS title Perils of Man. Bill Tiller was hired by LucasArts adventure games by Colette Michaud in 1992 as