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In the early morning hours of November 15, 1959, four members of the Clutter family – Herb Clutter, his wife, Bonnie, and their teenage children Nancy and Kenyon – were murdered in their rural home just outside the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Two ex-convicts, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, were found guilty of the murders ...
On Nov. 15, 1959, four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, were found murdered in their home. The brutal farmhouse slayings in which the victims were bound and shot, gripped the nation and shattered its sense of security. Ex-convicts Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were caught, and later convicted and hanged for the killings.
Until now. Several relatives will speak for the first time in SundanceTV’s Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders, a two-part documentary airing Saturday and Sunday as part of the network’s ...
On 15 November 1959, the peaceful town of Holcomb, Kansas, was shattered by news of the brutal and senseless murder of the Clutter family. This heinous crime and the subsequent investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the two killers became the inspiration for Truman Capote’s groundbreaking true crime masterpiece, In Cold Blood.
When officers arrived, Herb Clutter, 48, lay sprawled on a mattress in the basement, stabbed, his throat slashed and a shotgun charge fired to his head. He wore paja mas. His hands were bound and his mouth was taped shut. On a couch in an adjoining room was 15-year-old Kenyon Neal Clutter, bound, gagged and shot in the head.
Nancy Clutter’s classmates, Susan Kidwell and Nancy Ewalt, found the Clutter family dead. They reported the family murders to the police, the New York Times reported. In the initial ...
Clutter family murders Main article: Clutter family murders Hickock testified after the trial that he and Smith had gotten the idea to rob the Clutters after Hickock was told by Wells, their former cellmate, that there was a safe in the family's house containing $10,000.
