The Clutter House
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N 37° 59.100 W 100° 59.976
14S E 324395 N 4206037
Site of the 1959 Clutter family murders made famous in Truman Capote's book "In Cold Blood".
Waymark Code: WM4F83
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 08/16/2008
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In 1959 two ex-convicts on parole from the Kansas State Penitentiary, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, murdered Herb Clutter, a wealthy farmer in Holcomb, Kansas, his wife, and two children. They were captured six weeks later in Las Vegas. They were tried and convicted of the crime and sent to death row. After many appeals, they were executed on April 14, 1965. The story is told in Truman Capote's masterpiece "In Cold Blood" which is considered by many to be the originator of the true crime novel. The Clutter family is buried in Valley View Cemetery in nearby Garden City.
Date of crime: 11/15/1959
Public access allowed: no
Fee required: no
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