What the records say
- When
- 1959
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 37.99° N, 101.00° W
- Description
- 1959 killings in Kansas
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Clutter family murders
1959 killings in Kansas, US
In the early morning of November 15, 1959, four members of the Clutter family – Herb Clutter, his wife, Bonnie, and their teenage children Nancy and Kenyon – were murdered in their rural home just outside the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas, United States. Two ex-convicts, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, were found guilty of the murders and sentenced to death. They were both executed on April 14, 1965.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The brutal Clutter family murders are committed in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, inspiring Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (1966)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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