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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 ...Read More
Victim Details

Kent Lauten

Male

Tucson

AZ

1988-12-18

51

Kent

Lauten

11/26/2025