WOMAN FOUND IN HUNTER THOMPSON'S CESSPOOL!
"She Pestered Me for Sex in My
Hot Tub," Claims Outlaw Writer
ASPEN, COLO., Feb. 14 (AP)-Acting on telephone calls from nervous local residents, Pitkin County Sheriff Deputies early this morning discovered a 24-year-old scantily clad woman in an abandoned cesspool behind the secluded mountain home of famed "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
The woman, who appeared well-fed, with no apparent marks of violence on her body, gave her name as Miss Laetitia Snap, an ornithologist and contributing editor to American Wildlife magazine. Friends of Miss Snap have described her as a "shy, refined" Ph.D., an "illustrious authority on peacocks," and an executive vice-president of the Indiana chapter of the lzaak Walton Society. She was reported missing from her Huntertown, Indiana, home 11weeks ago by members of the Allen County Bird-Watchers Assoc.
Forced to Compose Biography
Miss Snap, wearing only a pair of men's boxer shorts and a polka-dotted purple kerchief tied around her chest, told reporters who had gathered at the scene that Dr. Thompson held her captive in the cesspool, a dry cement pit measuring 15 x 8 feet, and after repeatedly "indulging his perverted appetites," had forced Miss Snap to write his biography.
"He made me compose this revolting record of human calamity," said the red-haired pavologist, who is 5 feet, 3 inches tall, 106 pounds, and a former Miss Indiana. "It's all here," she said, removing a thick manuscript from a broken leather case, "the history of the biggest degenerate of the 20th century."
Miss Snap, who said she had not slept in many days because of "seal bombs being dropped in the cesspool," declared that she was giving the manuscript to a fellow Hoosier, E. Jean Carroll, an acquaintance of Dr. Thompson, to be edited, and added: "And then the world will fairly call him a hog."
Last Arrested for Tweaking
Dr. Thompson, the inspiration for Uncle Duke in the "Doonesbury" comic strip, told reporters that "Miss Tishy Snap is an inebriated nymphomaniac," and said she had pestered him for sex in his hot tub. He had no further comment as he arrived for questioning at the Sheriff's office at 530 Main Street in Aspen.
Ranked by many critics with Swift, Gogol and Twain, Dr. Thompson is the author of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Hell's Angels," 'The Great Shark Hunt" and several other best-sellers. His "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" was cited by the New York Tunes as the best campaign book ever published.
To quote Professor Cybriane Vonne of Harvard University, "Hunter Thompson falls most naturally into place not with other writers, but with the great myths of Western Civilization: Ulysses, Faust, Dorian Gray."
Dr. Thompson first came to the nation's attention in 1970 when he ran for Sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Power ticket, and nearly won. "Where the Buffalo Roam," a movie starring Bill Murray, is based on Dr. Thompson's life. The actor, Johnny Depp, captured Dr. Thompson's quirky looks and speech in the film, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." A symbol of freedom around the globe, Dr. Thompson was last arrested in 1990 for brutally tweaking the breast of Porn Queen Gail PalmerSlater. That case was dismissed for lack of evidence.
Miss Snap's 667-page manuscript, which carries one of the most astonishing sex scenes of the modem era, is rumored to contain many "shocking and disgusting" surprises, and has excited speculation among some experts that Thompson himself may be its author. A bidding war is reported to have begun among publishing houses in New York.
Hot Tub," Claims Outlaw Writer
ASPEN, COLO., Feb. 14 (AP)-Acting on telephone calls from nervous local residents, Pitkin County Sheriff Deputies early this morning discovered a 24-year-old scantily clad woman in an abandoned cesspool behind the secluded mountain home of famed "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
The woman, who appeared well-fed, with no apparent marks of violence on her body, gave her name as Miss Laetitia Snap, an ornithologist and contributing editor to American Wildlife magazine. Friends of Miss Snap have described her as a "shy, refined" Ph.D., an "illustrious authority on peacocks," and an executive vice-president of the Indiana chapter of the lzaak Walton Society. She was reported missing from her Huntertown, Indiana, home 11weeks ago by members of the Allen County Bird-Watchers Assoc.
Forced to Compose Biography
Miss Snap, wearing only a pair of men's boxer shorts and a polka-dotted purple kerchief tied around her chest, told reporters who had gathered at the scene that Dr. Thompson held her captive in the cesspool, a dry cement pit measuring 15 x 8 feet, and after repeatedly "indulging his perverted appetites," had forced Miss Snap to write his biography.
"He made me compose this revolting record of human calamity," said the red-haired pavologist, who is 5 feet, 3 inches tall, 106 pounds, and a former Miss Indiana. "It's all here," she said, removing a thick manuscript from a broken leather case, "the history of the biggest degenerate of the 20th century."
Miss Snap, who said she had not slept in many days because of "seal bombs being dropped in the cesspool," declared that she was giving the manuscript to a fellow Hoosier, E. Jean Carroll, an acquaintance of Dr. Thompson, to be edited, and added: "And then the world will fairly call him a hog."
Last Arrested for Tweaking
Dr. Thompson, the inspiration for Uncle Duke in the "Doonesbury" comic strip, told reporters that "Miss Tishy Snap is an inebriated nymphomaniac," and said she had pestered him for sex in his hot tub. He had no further comment as he arrived for questioning at the Sheriff's office at 530 Main Street in Aspen.
Ranked by many critics with Swift, Gogol and Twain, Dr. Thompson is the author of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Hell's Angels," 'The Great Shark Hunt" and several other best-sellers. His "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" was cited by the New York Tunes as the best campaign book ever published.
To quote Professor Cybriane Vonne of Harvard University, "Hunter Thompson falls most naturally into place not with other writers, but with the great myths of Western Civilization: Ulysses, Faust, Dorian Gray."
Dr. Thompson first came to the nation's attention in 1970 when he ran for Sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Power ticket, and nearly won. "Where the Buffalo Roam," a movie starring Bill Murray, is based on Dr. Thompson's life. The actor, Johnny Depp, captured Dr. Thompson's quirky looks and speech in the film, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." A symbol of freedom around the globe, Dr. Thompson was last arrested in 1990 for brutally tweaking the breast of Porn Queen Gail PalmerSlater. That case was dismissed for lack of evidence.
Miss Snap's 667-page manuscript, which carries one of the most astonishing sex scenes of the modem era, is rumored to contain many "shocking and disgusting" surprises, and has excited speculation among some experts that Thompson himself may be its author. A bidding war is reported to have begun among publishing houses in New York.
