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Deaths by Force on December 18

631 open cases in our database happened on December 18. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Deaths by Force (433)

Death by Force

Kent Lauten

Male, age 51 · Tucson, Arizona

Killed Dec 18, 1988 · 38 years ago

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…

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