On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb,
Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely
murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from
their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime,
and there were almost no clues.
Five years, four
months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965,
Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward
Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a
gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in
Lansing, Kansa.
In Cold Blood is the story of
the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already
been hailed as a masterpiece.
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