The murderers ran for a few years and finally they were caught, tried, and

accused for murder. In 1965 they were hung for the crime.

In the story a family was killed for no reason. This well respected farming

family had no enemies, and no quarrels. Although they were wealthy, Mr. Clutter

never kept cash in the house. The whole region and eventually the country was

shocked by the randomness and brutality of the act, in much the same way it was

by the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The two men in which didn't even know the

Clutter family went into their house and shot all four of them.

There were two main characters. Dick is the first one that I will talk about.

Dick was 33 years old and he did not have the best character. Dick was one who

helped participate in the killing of the Clutter family. I didn't like him from

the very beginning. He struck me as the type that is your friend one minute and

enemy the next. Perry is the other charecter that I will talk about. Perry

wasn't as bad as Dick but yet he still struck me as having a bad character for

what he did to the family. It took me awhile to get a good impression of Perry.

I feel that if the murder had of occured in todays society people would not have

a really nice guy and I think that he just got mixed in with the wrong

law. The book presented the arrest, trial and eventual conviction/execution of

Why is the book on the Law reading list? Legal aspects of the book:

jubilant mumbo-jumbo. They left the highway, sped through a deserted Holcomb,

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