I would have thought over time some of the significance of the Clutter murder would have been buried under the avalanche of murder and mayhem that the news cycle brings us 24/7. We live in a time when any crime anywhere in the country is broadcast out to the nation and something tragic that happens in Illinois or in Virginia or Alaska impacts our lives. The murders became a demarcation line in her life there was life before the Clutter murders, and then there was life after the Clutter murders. She watched her father put locks on the doors for the first time. She looked up at me with pinched blue eyes and said in a whisper, "I remember when this happened". I noticed a shiver had rolled up her back and rippled her shoulders. The librarian at the check out desk, a woman about mid-sixties, slender, elegant, and still attractive ran her finger along the edge of the spine. I picked up a copy of this book at the Dodge City Library. I want to go about my life with a degree of caution, but not be ruled by the fear I feel such books will instill. I don't want my head filled with tragedy. I usually avoid reading true crime books.
#WHITE PAGES KANSAS HICKOCK PLUS#
This is a place where everyone in the whole county not only knows your name, but also has a working knowledge of your family history going back fifty plus years. Holcomb is a small, farming community located just west of Garden City. Paroled: 7-6-59.Īs I write this review, I'm sitting about 60 miles from the Clutter house in Holcomb, Kansas. Disposition: Sent KSP 3-13-56 from Phillips Co. K.C.K.īottom Picture Smith, Perry Edward (WM) 27-59. Top Picture Hickock, Richard Eugene (WM)28 KBI 97 093 FBI 859 273 A.
"How much money did you get from the Clutters?"
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