Born 6 September 1951. William S. The writer Burroughs killed his wife Joan Vollmer from a head shot. According to the first version of Burroughs to the Police, during a party the couple decided to make Gilen Tellena, one of the members of the band. Instead of the apple he had put a glass of whiskey on his wife's head. Instead of the whale, he used a 38-gauge revolver that, instead of hitting the whale, pierced John's head.

The couple arrived in Mexico last year, fleeing the prison sentence that Burroughs had pending in Louisiana. They were about to separate. Vollmer was abandoning amphetamines with the “help” of alcohol, while Burroughs, in the absence of heroin, started taking Benzedrine excessively; both drank too much that night.

After thirteen days locked up for failing the shot in such an unfortunate way, Burroughs changed his initial version on the recommendation of attorney Bernabé Jurado, who realized that the revolver was loaded. Son of a wealthy family, he purchased officials, lawyers, witnesses and ballistic experts and, finally, he had no more penalties for his wife’s murder.

Moreover, according to the words of Burroughsen himself, he had taken some advantage of the event: “If by Joan’s death I had not had to conclude that I had never been a writer, unfortunately (...) Joan’s death brought me into contact with the invader, the Ugly Spirit, put me in a lifelong conflict and had only one chance to leave him,” he wrote in 1953 and published it in the preamble of the Queer novel in 1985.

But his wife didn't do anything. Brenda Knight wrote about him in The Women of the Beat Generation: “Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs was key at the birth of the Beat Revolution, as the fuel that launched the Beat engine was brought by Juan as both patron and muse. His apartment in New York was the meeting point of several people who played the fundamental role for the formation of the Beat generation; (...) very quickly and expert in philosophy and literature, Joan was the point that brought the point to the mind of the leading writers Beat, Allen [Ginsberg], Jack [Kerouac] and Billen [Burroughs]. He was the most acute member of the group and his firm and determined character pushed the Beat generation towards a new sensibility.”

In the words of journalist and playwright Leela Ginelle, the poet killed at the age of 28, “Now it’s a curious note at the foot of Burroughs’ history.”