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On November 15, 1959, Perry Smith and Richard "Dick" Hickock entered the home of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas. Promised a safe containing tens of thousands of dollars, Perry and Richard planned to rob the safe and kill any witnesses. Upon entering the home, they found no safe, and proceeded to wake up the members of the Clutter family and moved them to the bathroom. Starting with Mrs. Clutter they bound and gagged everyone in the family, ending with Mr. Clutter. Then beginning with Mr. Clutter, Perry Smith shot all four members of the family in the head with a 22. caliber shot gun. Gaining only fifty dollars, a transistor radio, and a pair of binoculars, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock became America's most wanted murderers.
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Clutter Family Murders
This article gives a detailed account of the Clutter family murders based on the evidence known to the Garden City Police Department. Richard Hickock and Perry Smith went to the Clutter's home in Holcomb, Kansas with the intent of finding a safe and stealing money from it. When they arrived, they failed to find a safe, instead waking Herb Clutter and demanding money. After giving them the little cash he had, Hickock and Smith woke the rest of the family, while continuing to search the house. They collected a total of about fifty dollars, a pair of binoculars, and a transistor radio from the house before executing all four members of the family. After the murders, they fled to Kansas City, eventually traveling to Florida and Nevada. They were arrested in Nevada, tried, and later hanged at the Kansas City Prison.
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Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain
This article was posted in the New York Times the day after the murders took place. It states that a wealthy farmer in Holcomb, Kansas was found, along with three of his family, dead in their home. They had been killed by shotgun blasts and were then bound and gagged. Sheriff Earl Robinson, who was assigned to the case, said it was the work of a "psychopathic killer." This article gives a brief description of Herbert Clutter, who was appointed to the Federal Farm Credit Board by President Eisenhower and was also the founder of the Kansas Wheat Growers Association. The bodies were discovered by two of Nancy's (their daughter) classmates. Two of their daughters were not at the scene and had not been murdered.
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