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Information: The crime that inspired Truman Capote's book In Cold Blood.
On a November night in 1959, Holcomb, Kansas wheat farmer Herb Clutter, his wife and two teenage children were bound and gagged, then shot in the head.
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Clutter Family Murders Sites:
NPR : Hidden Museum Treasures: 'In Cold Blood' NPR : Hidden Museum Treasures: 'In Cold Blood': Years ago, the tombstones of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith - the two killers portrayed in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - mysteriously disappeared. Now they have resurfaced at a museum that won't put them on display. Harriet Baskas reports on a Kansas (Clutter Family Murders) http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1503950
Crimelibrary - The Clutter Family Killings Crimelibrary - The Clutter Family Killings: Distillation of Truman Capote's book about the 1959 crime. (Clutter Family Murders) http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/clutter/