On August 25, 1984 Truman Capote, the author of the pioneering true-crime novel In Cold Blood dies at age 59 in Los Angeles. In Cold Blood told the story of the 1959 murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, two parolees from the Kansas State Penitentiary, decided to rob Herbert Clutter, a successful farmer, after hearing a rumor that he kept a cash-filled safe in his home. The two men arrived at the Clutter farmhouse on November 15, 1959. After discovering there was no safe, they slit Herbert Clutter’s throat and shot him in the head. Perry Smith then shot Clutter’s wife Bonnie and his two teenage children, Nancy and Kenyon. Hickock and Smith were captured by police over a month later in Las Vegas. At trial, they pleaded temporary insanity but were convicted and sentenced to death. Both men died by hanging on April 14, 1965, at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing. Some say the ghost of daughter Nancy Clutter still walks the home at night. The home was up for auction in 2006 but was withdrawn when no sufficient bid was made.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:00:00 +0000
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