The Clutter's Murder In Garden City

You are correct when you state “It is always difficult to know for sure whether someone is guilty or innocent, even if they admit one way or the other” That was my first thought until I read into the case a bit more. I stated, “the son did it.” Because as you mentioned Mrs. Hossack did not have emotion until her son spoke, did she show emotion because she was afraid of what he may say? As far as the dog wouldn’t the son know the dog’s behaviors?

Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentleman…Todays trial will be on Felony Murder and Attempted Robbery. John Hudson and Dale Buckner are murderers. And the evidence of this case will show, that they have undoubtedly committed the crimes brought upon them and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

After the murder a group of Mr. Clutter's old friends go to the house and help clean up. The KBI starts to investigate the murders, a man named Alvin Dewey is in charge. He has absolutely no clues except for one footprint and a radio that went missing. He does not know the motive but suspects there was more than one murderer and that they were close to the Clutter family. All four of the Clutters were tied down and shot, Mr. Clutter's throat was slit as well, Nancy and Mrs. Clutter were shot in their own beds. Paranoia is rapidly spreading through Holcomb and everyone is suspecting everyone else. Dick and Perry are in the town of Olathe eating dinner, Perry has almost no appetite and is very anxious that they are going to get caught.

In Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith commit a murder of all four Clutter family members with no apparent motive. They go all over the United States running from the authorities, while also passing bad checks. They are later caught in Las Vegas and sentenced to death row by a jury comprised of family men that were associated with the Clutter’s. Many years go by before they are hung on April 14, 1965. Considering that Perry Smith had many mental problems that most likely have developed from his early childhood, he should be tried with his disorders in mind and given psychiatric care.

Many people say the documentation of the murder of the Clutter family is Truman Capote’s best work. It started out as an article for The New Yorker, and evolved into the non-fiction novel; the first of its kind. Capote traveled to Kansas with friend Harper Lee to research the killings. In the course of six years bringing this narrative together, Capote began taking drugs and drinking heavily due to the dark nature of the book. Truman Capote tells the true story of a family murdered in In Cold Blood, through character analysis and symbolism to prove nature is a stronger force than nature in shaping a person’s character.

In Ozark, Missouri on Monday, June 16th, a 911 call was made about a fire. When officials arrived to the scene, the Clemons family were not present. During the same day, Arron Clemons (left) called 911 saying he was in that fire, where he was then taken to a hospital. While he was there, a statement was made to the police saying that “he had tied up his wife and set fire to the house after she died,” as well as saying he "taped his wife's whole body to a pole by wrapping her around her feet, knees, butt, jaw and head with boxing tape in the basement.” On Tuesday, June 17th, Bailey Clemons (right) was found in the burned remains of the house with a sock in her mouth and a belt wrapped around her neck, as well as being found near a pole with

Murder on a Sunday Morning is about an African American boy who was wrongly convicted of murder. He was only fifteen years old when his life changed forever. While first watching the documentary, it seems to the audience that Brenton Butler, the convicted boy, is guilty. Mr. Stephens, husband of the victim, Ann Stephens, claims that Butler came over, tried to take Anna Stephens’ purse, and then before she could comply, he raised his gun and shot her in the face. Sadly, Mr. Stephens was the only eye-witness, which is a major red flag, as he is connected to the victim. After being forced by the detective, Butler confesses. Once defense attorney, Patrick McGuinness is involved, he has Butler tell the court of his innocence and thus beings the criminal proceedings for Brenton Butler.

In the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, the Clutter family is murdered with apparently no motive and the killers leave almost no evidence. In order to figure out who the killers are, the KBI, or Kansas Bureau of Investigations, follows an order of operations. First, they look for physical evidence at the scene of the crime; then they talk to people who knew the Clutters and/or lived near them at the time of the murders; next, they take tips called in by various citizens; and finally, they systematically track down and interview anyone who had ever been employed by the Clutter family. By doing all these things, the KBI tracked down the killers and apprehended them in the end.

Fifth Estate’s 40th episode, “the interrogation room”, essentially analyzes an open murder case that occurred on November the third of 2006; the murder case revolves the shooting and eventual death of a male attending named Mervyn “Mikey” Spence, at a birthday party. The case was investigated over the course of four years in which the Peel Police had made arrests, but through the use of controversial interrogation methods, were redirected to charge and imprison an innocent male named, Eric “Action” Morgan. To further justify his innocence, Morgan reveals his guests to the investigators at his party who were at the time of the shooting, ultimately be his alibi(s). However, after the witnesses being held for several hours, threatened and reprimanded, they recanted their statements and later stated that s/ he

On November 15th, 1959, Herbert Clutter and three of his family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas. At first, the killers were unknown, and the neighborhood suspected each other because they were terrified that the killers could be among one of the people living in Holcomb. So, the KBI was asked to solve this mission even though they were struggle a lot with finding who were the real killers. Nevertheless, eventually, the KBI had found two murders who were known as Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. After a long period of trials from the quan tòa, the two killers were sentenced to death.

They were both poor, white, unemployed criminals, who were always seeking to rob and commit various crimes. The Clutter family murders, were in a way, justified when the murders were convicted and hung in Garden City, Kansas. Dick and Perry knew exactly what they were doing and yet, felt no sympathy for the innocent family. But also, the government killed them to show that killing others isn’t right. This leads to a whole different argument as to if the capital penalty or the death penalty should yet, still be allowed. In the case of Perry and Dick, I believe they did deserve the death penalty to justify the murders of Herb, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon

On November 15, 1959, the Clutter family was found murdered in their home in Holcomb, Kansas. Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith were arrested for murdering the family of four six weeks after the crime was committed. During my research, I found that prior to the murder, Hickock and Smith were both in jail when a fellow prisoner, Floyd Wells, told Hickock about Mr. Clutter and the amount of cash he had stashed in a safe in his house. Hickock contacted Smith and convinced him to commit the robbery with him and start a new life in Mexico with the money.

In the book “Dollhouse Murders” by Betty Ren Wright the main character is a developing young girl with a mentally handicapped sister, she changes from a snotty brat to a nice competent young woman. Making the development of said sister crucial to the story, a brief summary of the book would help a reader before jumping in and just reading. The year is 1957 grandmother and grandfather Treloar are murdered at home and their daughter Clare was at the movies with her friends. Twelve-year-old Amy is having difficulties at home being responsible for her brain damaged sister. While visiting her Aunt Clare at the old family home, she finds a haunted dollhouse in the attic a copy of the family home. The dolls mysteriously move around but her aunt won't listen to Amy that the dolls are trying to tell her something. Amy researches old news reports where she discovers a family secret-the murder of her grandparents- grandma and grandpa Treloar.. Amy grows to accept her sister and to understand that Louann is more capable to do normal things than she had first thought.

In my last discussion post, I had an idea that Dick and Perry were robbing and murdering people so they could gain wealth and move up to a different social class. After reading this section, the difference in social classes was greatly shown. During the trial, the jury was filled with higher class people that had relationships with the Clutters. Since Dick and Perry are portrayed as lower class people they are not really given a good chance of survival. I think the psychiatrist should have given more time to evaluate Perry because Perry had I good chance to be freed with the trauma from a young age. The psychiatrist believed that Perry could have killed the Clutters because of the incidences at a young age, but I feel like due to the lower

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