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The Clutter's Murder In Truman Capote´s In Cold Blood

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The book In Cold Blood is written by Truman Capote, an American novelist who wrote about the Clutter’s murder. In Cold Blood is about the murder of the Clutter family in 1959, at Holcomb, Kansas. Although this murder would be an ordinary murder in New York City or a very densely populated city it was very odd in a small town like Holcomb. The Clutter family consisted of Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon. There were two other children from Herbert and Bonnie, but they were in college during their family’s murder. The actual murder of the Clutter family happened inside their house by Richard, or Dick, Hickock and Perry Smith. This murder was executed sloppily and until is what got both men caught. They left too many traces behind including

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