| Clutter family murders | |
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 The Clutter family home, the site of the murders, pictured in 2009 | |
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| Location | Holcomb, Kansas, United States |
| Coordinates | 37°59′6.2″N 100°59′58.6″W / 37.985056°N 100.999611°W |
| Date | November 15, 1959 |
| Deaths | 4 |
| Victims | Herbert Clutter (age 48) Bonnie Clutter (age 45) Nancy Clutter (age 16) Kenyon Clutter (age 15) |
| Motive | Robbery |
| Convicted | Perry Edward Smith Richard Hickock |
| Verdict | Guilty |
| Convictions | First degree murder (4 counts) |
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 and sentenced to death. They were both executed on April 14, 1965. The murders were detailed by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.[1][2]
- ^ "Anatomy of a Murder". Time. December 22, 1967. Archived July 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965.