Overview:
Genre: Adult non-fiction, crime thriller.
Early morning hours of November 15, 1959. Holcomb, Kansas State farmland.
Floyd Wells (former cellmate of Hickock and worker of Clutter) told Richard Hickock and Perry Smith of a safe at the farmhouse of Herb Clutter containing ten thousand dollars - plan: to leave no witnesses and start a new life in Mexico with the money.
Discovered there was no safe and found little of value - bound and gagged the Clutter family.
Smith (prone to violet acts in fits of rage) slit Herb Clutter's throat and shot him in the head. The others were also killed by a single gunshot to the head. Hickock and Smith left with a small portable radio, a pair of binoculars and less than fifty dollars in cash.
Hickock and Smith were identified as suspects and arrested in Las Vegas on December 30, 1959. Their trail lasted from March 22 to March 29, 1960 and were executed just after midnight on April 14, 1965.
Cover Copy:
"'Dick became convinced that Perry was a rarity, "a natural killer" - absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows.'
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children were found brutally murdered. Blood all over the walls, the telephone lines cut, and only a few dollars stolen. Heading up the investigation is Agent Al Dewey, but all he has are two footprints, four bodies, and a whole lot of questions.
Truman Capote's detailed reconstruction of the events and consequences of that fateful night, In Cold Blood is a chilling, gripping mix of journalistic skill and imaginative power."
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