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After killing four members of the Clutter family in Kansas, 34 days before the Walker murders, Smith and Hickock fled to Florida in a stolen car, and were spotted at least a dozen times between Tallahassee and Miami. [5] The pair checked into a Miami Beach motel, about four hours from Osprey, and checked out on the morning of the Walker murders.
Wells told Hickock about the affluence of the family's patriarch, Herbert Clutter, specifically telling Hickock that Clutter kept a safe in his house containing $10,000. [4] Hickock and Smith devised a plan to rob and murder the Clutter family. Hickock was released from prison in August 1959, after serving seventeen months. [2]
Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 – April 14, 1965) was one of two career criminals convicted of murdering the four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime that was made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.
Herbert William "Herb" Clutter (May 24, 1911 – November 15, 1959), age 48. Bonnie Mae Fox Clutter (January 7, 1914 – November 15, 1959), age 45, Herb's wife. Nancy Mae Clutter (January 2, 1943 – November 15, 1959) was the 16-year-old daughter of Herb and Bonnie Clutter. She was the third of the four Clutter children and the youngest daughter.
The article said the murder was "believed to be the first mass murder in Emmet County and the first apparent homicide since 1959.” The Robison’s cozy cottage was a bloody crime scene.
Ronald DeFeo Jr. Family Murders (1974): Basis for The Amityville Horror, where the perpetrator was convicted for the killing of his parents and siblings, six people in all. January 18, 1973 Washington D.C. 7 2 9: Hanafi Murders: Three individuals were shot and killed, while two others were wounded, and four children drowned in an attack by six ...
1959 cold case of boy's murder in Wisconsin solved through DNA testing. Todd Feurer. Updated November 11, 2024 at 3:39 PM. ... 1959, in the city of Mequon, about 20 miles north of Milwaukee.
Scott Walker was jailed in 2021 for the murder of Bernadette Walker, who had called him her father but was not his biological daughter, after she claimed he had sexually abused her over a number ...