Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

The book I chose to read was In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote. The book is about the viscous murder of a Kansas family and the investigations leading up to the killers being caught. In the book there is the two characters presented, Dick or Richard Hickock and his former penatary friend, Perry Smith, these were the two people that committed the Clutter crime. The members of the Clutter family consisted of Nancy Clutter, a young high school girl, her brother similarly in high school, Kenyon Clutter and the mom and father Bonnie and Herb Clutter. There was other members of the Clutter family as well but they were moved out on their own. The family was a simple target for these men considering they were kind hearted people, the mother was very …show more content…
It describes the family members in great detail. The book describes the young girl, Nancy Clutter to be extremely busy and organized. She had a boyfriend, Bobby Rupp whom she was very close to. She also taught the children of her town and attended local club meetings. Her brother was Kenyon Clutter who was less social liked to spend his time crafting in their basement. The mother was very mentally ill and was not with it most of the time. Lastly the father pretty much worked a lot, he was known for his beautiful farm and his kindness to all of his employees. The book then turns over to Dick and Perry. Perry was asked by DIck to come and help him with a robbery, and Dick states that no witnesses will be left behind. They start their journey off and stop and many different places, getting rope, trying to get masks and other supplies for the murder. This chain of events continues up until the murderers break into the …show more content…
DIck and Perry finally arrived at the Clutter home. Dick was told by a friend in prison about the layout of the home and how Mr.Clutter had a safe full of money in his office. Once they break in they can not find a safe and tie the members up, Dick insisting there is a safe, after them not finding the safe they decide they better kill the family to fulfil the previous statement “no witnesses will be left behind”. No one knew about the murder until Nancy’s friend, coming over for a ride to church like they usually do notices that the house is oddly quiet and gets others to come inside with her, they later find the bodies and alert the authorities. At this point Dick and Perry are way out of town after following their plan to go to Mexico and live their, but when they get their with the little money they had stolen from forging checks they realized they are running low on money and that none of the jobs there pay enough to fulfil their needs, so they decide to go off to Florida where they stay for a few days and there they begin to run out of money as well and come all the way back to Kansas where they believe they will be able to find more

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