The death of Joan Vollmer. When Burroughs and Vollmer arrived in the Roma district of Mexico City in 1949, the colonia was much as it is today: an upscale neighbourhood popular among visitors and ...

In 1945 in New York City, a 31-year-old Harvard graduate from St. Louis named William Seward Burroughs II was introduced to 22-year-old Barnard graduate Joan Vollmer by two young writers both knew ...

Pig-farmer Ralph Vollmer had first noticed his wife Joan was behaving strangely a few weeks before he decided to stage the violent four-day exorcism that led to her death.

Luca Guadagnino and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes tell IndieWire how they wove Burroughs' accidental and morbidly slapstick murder of his wife, Joan Vollmer, into their film. “Queer,” a new ...

Joan Vollmer lived in a small rural community in Victoria when her personality started to change. Then, she was exorcised. Nathan Jolly. 5 min read. December 15, 2018 - 7:37AM.

Joan Vollmer at the Antwerp house with her beloved garden which was torn up during her violent exorcism to expose demons. Photo / Rob Baird, News Corp Australia.

As for the murder of Joan Vollmer, "We had to find a way to bring that in while at the same time being very clear that we were making a movie about a fictional character Lee and not a real ...

Pig-farmer Ralph Vollmer had first noticed his wife Joan was behaving strangely a few weeks before he decided to stage the violent four-day exorcism that led to her death.

Pig-farmer Ralph Vollmer had first noticed his wife Joan was behaving strangely a few weeks before he decided to stage the violent four-day exorcism that led to her death.