The Murder Of The Clutters By Floyd Wells

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A previous prisoner with Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, Floyd Wells, believed that he had some part in the murders of the Clutters because he told both Dick and Perry about the Clutter’s wealth, this resulted in Dick telling Floyd that once Perry and himself get out of jail, their going to rob the Clutters. To avoid any problems toward him, Floyd creates an Alabi and gives this information to Alvin Dewey, the investigator of this case. Alvin receives photographs of both Dick and Perry where Alvin’s wife comments on how Dick looks like a murderer, but Perry doesn’t look evil at all. Alvin, with the help of Floyed, continues to further investigate both Dick and Perry’s life and habits. They start by going to Perry’s old apartment in Mexico, then …show more content…

After much hesitation from Perry, eventually, the driver picks somebody else up, which Perry considered “a miracle”, since he can’t kill the driver anymore. Dick insists on going back to Kansas to earn some money, but Perry is unsure of this as going to Kansas means they get closer to the crime scene. After successfully scamming people and earning money, Dick and Perry leave Kansas with no suspicion, this causes Dick and Perry to believe they will never be caught. With their new wealth, Dick and Perry travel to Las Vegas where they are arrested due to illegally owning a stolen vehicle, the news about this arrest was sent to Alvin and he and Floyd go to Vegas to interrogate both Dick and …show more content…

Dick uses this fake alibi , while Perry couldn’t handle the stress of lying and told the truth about the murders. After this, both Alvin and Floyd went back to interrogating Dick to try and break his lying similar to Perry. After confessing, Dick switches the story up at the last minute saying that Perry was the one that killed the Clutters and he was only there to try and stop Perry. This lead to the official arresting of both Perry and Dick, but something about Perry gave Alvin sympathy for him, the more he looks into Perry’s life, the more he realizes none of this was his fault, but his bad family history setting him up for failure, but nonetheless, he will still have to be punished for murder. The news of the arrests are spread throughout Holcomb and to the town’s surprise, the murderers were not fellow citizens as they previously