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The town of Holcomb was thrust into national and, eventually, international notoriety after November 15, 1959, when four members of the prominent Clutter family (father Herbert, 48; his wife Bonnie, 45; their youngest daughter, Nancy, 16; and son Kenyon, 15) were found bound and shot to death in various rooms of their home, on the family's River Valley Farm on the outskirts of Holcomb.
This is a list of daily newspapers currently published in Kansas. For weekly newspapers, see List of newspapers in Kansas. The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle – Abilene; Atchison Daily Globe – Atchison; Augusta Daily Gazette – Augusta; The Chanute Tribune – Chanute; Clay Center Dispatch – Clay Center; Columbus News-Report – Columbus
After they had been extradited back to Kansas, their trial was held at the Finney County Courthouse in Garden City. Both Smith and Hickock were found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder, and they were sentenced to death. On April 14, 1965, they both were hanged at the Kansas State Prison near Lansing, just north of Kansas City. Hickock ...
Richard Eugene Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.
A journalist’s seemingly routine public records search sparked unprecedented law enforcement raids on a Kansas newspaper office and the publisher's home, court papers revealed.
He eventually became the editor of the Journal-World and, later, its publisher. Under his leadership, the newspaper was firmly committed to community journalism and local news coverage. [5] In 1979, Allen Neuharth sought distributors for a new daily national newspaper called USA Today. Simons Jr. told Neuharth, "If you want to have a print site ...
Police are asking the public for help locating a suspect who allegedly shot and killed an 18-year-old in Lawrence. Officers responded to the shooting around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday at a home in the ...
Her father, Neal Niemczyk, who was the district chief for the Palm Beach County Fire Department, checked her vitals and immediately called 911.“Make sure they bring whole blood,” he told the ...