Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 - April 14, 1965) was one of two career criminals convicted of murdering the four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime that was made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. December 19, 2012 Paul G The two men who were executed for of the famous murders described in Truman Capote's book In Cold Blood can't quite rest in peace just yet. Richard Hickock and Perry.
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Along with Perry Edward Smith, Hickock took part in the burglary and multiple murder at the Clutter family farmhouse. Early life Richard Hickock was born on June 6, 1931 [1] in Kansas City, Kansas to farmworker parents, Walter Sr. and Eunice Hickock. He was one of several siblings, including a younger brother named Walter Jr. The Night Of The Clutter Family Murders On the night of Nov. 14, 1959, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock gathered a shotgun, a flashlight, a fishing knife, and some gloves and drove to Herbert Clutter's farm. Shortly after midnight, they entered the house through an unlocked door, woke Clutter, and asked him where the safe was. 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 Perry Edward. Perry Smith, left, and Richard Hickock were arrested in Las Vegas in connection with the November 15, 1959, murders of four members of the Clutter family in rural Kansas. Courtesy of Las Vegas Review-Journal Archive.
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The people of Holcomb, Kansas, had not forgotten them, but the trial and punishment of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith came and went unnoticed by most Americans. Within months of their execution, however, Smith and Hickock became two of the most famous murderers in history. Richard Hickock (left) and Perry Edward Smith (right), Kansas State Penitentiary, March 1960. 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. Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith were in prison when they heard from another prisoner that Herb Clutter was very wealthy and he had mo ney stashed in a safe in his house. This prisoner, who told Hickock and Smith this, had previously worked for the Clutter family. Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith were two ex-convicts, recently paroled from the Kansas State Penitentiary. Floyd Wells, a former cellmate of Hickock's, had been a farmhand for Herb Clutter. Wells told Hickock that Clutter kept large amounts of cash in a safe. However, Clutter did not have a safe and transacted all of his business by check.
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An interview with Joe Berlinger, director of 'Cold Blooded'. The 1959 murder of Herbert Clutter and his wife and kids in Holcomb, Kansas by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock was, by itself, rather unextraordinary. Such killings — the extermination of an entire family — don't happen every day, but they're not so statistically rare as. Perry Smith, 31, and Richard Hickock, 28, met as petty thieves serving time at the Kansas State Penitentiary. Smith, a drifter from Nevada, had been placed in an orphanage at age 13 after his.
Perry Smith, left, and Richard Hickock, the two men hanged for the Nov. 15, 1959 murders of Herb and Bonnie Clutter and their children, became infamous in Truman Capote's true-crime book "In Cold. ASSOCIATED PRESS 1959: Clutter Murders Smith Perry Smith, 31, right, smiles and turns to make a comment to Richard E. Hickock, 28, back to camera, as both men left the court room in Garden City, Kansas, on March 30, 1960, following their convictions in the Clutter family murders.
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Capote's 1966 book was a bestseller, garnering acclaim for its author and shining a spotlight on killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, who bound and shot four members of the Clutter family at. Date of Death April 14, 1965 (both; Hickock aged 33; Smith aged 36) Place of Death Lansing, Kansas (both) Job Mechanic (Hickock) Car painter (Smith) Pathology
