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Nov 15, 2019 · Photos from history: Kansas family murdered in cold blood. 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.
Although Hickock would always claim that his partner, Perry Smith, murdered the Clutter family, Hickock and Smith were both convicted, and died on the gallows in Kansas on April 14, 1965. March, 1960: Kansas State Prison photo of Richard Eugene Hickock
Having killed all four members of the family, Hickock and Smith fled the crime scene, taking with them a Zenith portable radio belonging to Kenyon Clutter, a pair of binoculars belonging to Herb Clutter and less than $50 in cash (approximately $480 in 2022) presumed to have been left over from a $60 check Herb Clutter had cashed the day before ...
- November 15, 1959
- Robbery
- 4
Truman Capote, author of the best selling book "In Cold Blood," the story of the mass murder of a family of four in Kansas, is shown as he appeared... Truman Capote Testifying in Court Richard E. Hickock Kansas State parolee, collapses in the hall of the city jail seconds after police said he admitted to the quadruple shotgun murder...
Lastly, Bonnie Clutter was killed by a gunshot wound to the side of the head. The spent shotgun shells were retrieved by the killers before Hickock and Smith fled the crime scene, taking with them a Zenith portable radio, a pair of binoculars belonging to Herb Clutter, and less than $50 in cash.
Nov 22, 2017 · Lenexa man has rare photos inside ‘In Cold Blood’ house where Kansas family was slain. By Matt Campbell. Updated January 02, 2020 1:32 PM. There’s a reddish stain on the basement wall...
Jun 6, 2013 · On November 15, 1959, the Clutter family—Herb and Bonnie, their daughter Nancy, and son Kenyon—were brutally murdered in their Holcomb, Kansas, home. Convicted of the crime were...
