And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body in the Hudson River. For eight years, Kam…

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