In Cold Blood
"I didn't want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." (p. 110) These are the words spoken by Perry Smith, one of the men who on November the 15th, 1959 killed the four members of the Clutter household. In Cold Blood, a nonfiction novel by Truman Capote tells just what happened on the days before and after the murder of the Clutters. Right up until the time the two murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, are hanged. While in prison, Dick Hickock hears a cellmate’s story about $10,000 in cash kept in a home safe by a prosperous rancher. When he’s paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith to join him going after the stash. On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holcomb, Kansas house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all - the rancher, his wife, and their teenage son and daughter. The bodies are found by two family friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors were routinely left unlocked. The killers then travel to Mexico, Hickock playing their way with bad checks. Tension grows in the co
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Approximate Word count = 1187
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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