Lisa McPherson - A Brief Chronology
| 1959 | Lisa McPherson is born in Texas. |
| 1973 | Lisa's 16-year-old brother commits suicide. |
| 1977 | Lisa learns about Scientology from a co-worker and becomes a member. |
| 1983 | Lisa's father commits suicide. |
| 1989 | Lisa joins Scientology's elite Sea Org, signing a billion-year contract committing her to many lifetimes of service. |
| 1994 | Lisa earns more than $135,000 in her sales job at AMC Publishing and donates over $55,000 to the Church of Scientology. |
| June 1995 | Lisa suffers a psychotic break. |
| September 7, 1995 | Lisa attests to the Scientology status of Clear. |
| November 18, 1995 | Lisa is involved in a minor traffic accident. She removes her clothes and walks down the street. Paramedics take her to the hospital, where Scientologists sign her out and take her to Scientology's Fort Harrison Hotel. |
| December 5, 1995 | Lisa is pronounced dead at the New Port Richey Hospital. |
| December 6, 1995 | Clearwater Police begin an investigation into Lisa's death. |
| December 1996 | Clearwater newspapers begin covering the story of Lisa's death. |
| February 19, 1997 | Lisa's estate (her remaining relatives) file a wrongful death suit against the Church of Scientology. |
| November 13, 1998 | The State of Florida files two felony charges against the Church of Scientology, indicting them for abuse or neglect of a disabled adult and unauthorized practice of medicine. |
| June 12, 2000 | The State of Florida decides not to prosecute the felony charges against the Church of Scientology. |
| August 3, 2001 | Dr. David Minkoff, a Scientologist who prescribed medication for Lisa without seeing her first and who attended her death at New Port Richey hospital, is fined and has his medical license suspended for one year. |