Kent Lauten

On December 18, 1988, on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, Kent Lauten, a 51-year-old male of unknown ethnicity, was attacked in a makeshift “hobo camp” situated along a freight-line corridor frequented by transient rail riders. Contemporary descriptions portray him as a drifter living among other itinerant people in this informal encampment, where tents and lean-tos were clustered near the tracks and residents relied on odd jobs, panhandling, and shared resources to survive. Lauten was fata ...

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