Cover of "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, 1955 In Cold Blood: From Fact to Fictions The Holcomb Massacre In the early hours of November 15, 1959, the silence of the Kansas plains was broken by a crime of startling cruelty. Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith, fueled by a false prison rumor of a safe containing ten thousand dollars, entered the unlocked home of Herbert Clutter. When the safe proved non-existent, the robbery devolved into a methodical nightmare. The killers woke the family one by one, herding them through the house. Herbert was taken to the basement, where his throat was slit before he was shot in the face. His fifteen-year-old son, Kenyon, was tied to a couch in the playroom with a pillow placed behind his head before being executed at close range. Upstairs, Bonnie Clutter and sixteen-year-old Nancy were bound in their separate beds and shot. The following morning, the bodies were discovered by Nancy’s best friend, Susan Kidwell, and another cl...
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