In Cold Blood Part 2

Monday, 16 November 1959 a bright-skied day, as glittery as mica

a pheasant hunter good friend of Herb classmate of herb gentle, genially dignified scholar calloused hands and sunburned neck

30 yrs

Dr. J.E. Dale- veterinarian Carl Myers- a dairy owner Everett Ogburn- businessman

Andy Erhart

they volunteered to clean the 4 rooms that the murders occurred in they brought mops, pails, scrubbing brushes, rags and detergents

the guardian of a barricade

1/2 a mile down the elm-shaded lane

Alfred Stoecklein- only employee that loved on the property

1st- furnace room where Mr. Clutter was found 2nd- playroom where Kenyon was found 3rd and 4th- 2nd floor where Nancy and Bonnie were found

it was a relic that Kenyon had rescued and mended and that Nancy had slip-covered and piled with mooted pillows

blood-soiled bedclothes, mattresses, a bedside rug and a Teddy-bear doll

he lives 100 yards away there is a big milo barn between the two houses that can soak up a lot of noise the wind was blowing west so it would have blown the sound to the other side

alongside the highway

from noon to dusk

piled it all on a pickup truck Alfred drove drove deep into the farm's north field made a pyramid of Nancy's pillows, bedclothes, mattresses, the couch

a flat place full of colour, mainly yellow

Alfred

from a poorly paid county agricultural agent into one of the region's most widely known and respected farm ranchers he was modest but proud raised a fine family

How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this- smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big annihilating sky?

a state wide organization with headquarters in Topeka has 19 detectives

The Bureau's Garden city representative and the agent responsible for a sizeable portion of Western Kansas lean and handsome 4th generation Kansan 47yrs old

sheriff of Finney County

former sheriff (1947-1955) FBI special agent (1940-1945) in New Orleans, San Antonio, Denver, Miami and San Francisco

he had a personal proposition because he and his wife were friends with the Clutter family

Special Agents Harold Nye, Roy Church and Clarence Duntz

3rd floor of the Finney County courthouse an ordinary stone and cement building 3 rooms

Sheriff Robinsons's hospitable secretary that always had time to prepare a pot of coffee and time to chew fat

as far East as Chicago as far west as Denver

Midday, Monday

11:00 pm Saturday to 2:00 am Sunday

that Mr. Clutter took out a $40,000 life insurance policy with double indemnity the day before he was killed

Mrs. Donald Jarchow and Miss Beverly Clutter

a friend who knew the house well, knew the doors were seldom locked, that Mr. Clutter slept in the master bedroom alone on the first floor where everyone else slept on the second floor in separate rooms around midnight, dark windows, Clutters asleep, Teddy is afraid of guns, disposed of all telephone connections woke Mr. Clutter up forced him to gag bonnie, bound his daughter and roped them to their beds, then the father and the son were escorted to the basement, taped Kenyon and tied his feet to the couch the Mr. Clutter was hit on the head, gagged and killed

similar to the single killer concept but the killer had an accomplice

single- Kenyon and Mr. Clutter are both strong enough to overtake the killer and would have done so double- how could the killer have found someone with the same amount of rage against the Clutter and be crazy enough to help

to his office, a room that the sheriff had temporarily lent him contained a desk and two straight chairs

courtroom exhibits: the adhesive tape and the yards of cord removed from the victims and now sealed in plastic sacks and photographs taken at the scene of the crime by a police photgrapher

20 blown up glossy print pictures of Mr. Clutter's shattered skull, his son's demolished face, Nancy's bound hands, her mother's death0dulled, still-staring eyes and so on

footprints, the dusty trackings of shoes with diamond- patterned soles not noticeable to the eye, registered on film the delineating glare of a flashbulb had revealed their presence with superb exactness

footprints and the bold and bloody impression of a Cat's paw half sole

started with her thirteenth birthday and ended some two moths short of her seventeeth

Jolene K. came over and I showed her how to make a cherry-pie. Practiced with Roxie. Bobby here and we watched TV. Left at elven

he has undergone one extensive interrogation and although he'd told a straightforward story of having passed just an ordinary evening with the Clutters, he was scheduled for a second interview at which he was to be given a polygraph test

Mr. Clutter wanting Bobby and Nancy to break up

she was found lying in the barn might have been poisoned

it might have been a small, malicious prelude to the murders

they were criss-crossing the countryside, talking to anyone who could tell them anything the faculty of Holcomb School the employees of River Valley Farm (18 men in the spring and summer, but in the fallow season consisted of Gerald Van Vleet and three hired men plus Mrs. Helm friends of the victims neighbors and relatives

Wednesday morning, November 18, 1959

youngest of the KBI group 34 yrs old restless, disgruntled eyes and a sharp nose chin and mind, had been assigned what he called 'the damned delicate business' of interviewing the Clutter kinfolk

Harold Nye- Brother Nye Duntz- Old man Church- Curly

not quite 50 burly but light-footed man with a broad, tomcat face

60 or so pink-skinned and professorial-looking tough according to his colleagues and the fastest draw in Kansas head is partly hairless

a father and a son who are known as John Senior and John Junior John Senior had conducted with Mr. Clutter a minor business transaction, the outcome of which angered John Senior, who felt that Clutter had thrown him a 'queer ball' both John Senior and Junior boozed, indeed John junior was an often-incarcerated alcoholic full of whiskey courage were denied the chance to have an out with Herb when Herb seized a gun and marched them off his property

Mr. Smith who believed that the squire of River Valley Farm had shot and killed Smith's hunting dog Church had inspected Smith's farm home and seen there, hanging from a barn rafter, a length of rope tied with the same knot that was used to bind the four Clutters

because everyone knows Herb doesn't have cash and because Mrs. Clutter was still wearing her gold band and diamond ring

Clutter's wallet was left open and empty on Clutter's bed Nancy's purse was lying on the kitchen floor Clutter cashed a 60 dollar check the day before so there had to have been at least 50 dollars

he called his wife Marie to warn her that he won't be home for dinner

have two young boys married for 17 years Alvin met Marie, a Louisiana- born former FBI stenographer, while stationed in New Orleans

Mrs. Myrtle Clare, the widowed postmistress she has scorned her fellow townsman as ' a lily-livered lot, shaking in their boots afraid to shut their eyes

11 months later a gun-toting team of masked bandits took her at word by invading the post office and relieving the lady of nine hundred and fifty dollars

locks and bolts no matter the type

windows ablaze, fully clothed people who had sat the whole night wide awake, watchfull, listening

it might happen again it happened to a family that was admired and secure, they represented value and respect distrust of the neighbors

a brother of the deceased said 'When this is cleared up, I'll wager whoever did it was someone within ten miles of where we stand now

a Kansas City diner 400 miles east of the Garden City hotel

Dick- narrow-faced and with a blue cat tattooed on his right hand he ate several chicken-salad sandwiches Perry- an untouched hamburger and a glass of root beer in which three aspirin were dissolving

17 November edition of the Kansas City Star Headlined CLUE ARE FEW IN SLAYING of 4

His brother Jimmy and his wife loved each other but Jimmy was very jealous so he killed his wife and then himself in 1949, Perry had been with his dad in Alaska and had told his dad Jimmy is dead a week before it happened Another time, he was helping load a ship, something inside him told him to jump so he did and where he had been previously sitting, a ton of stuff came crashing down

a former cellmate of Dick

He is in Africa in a jungle and he is moving through the trees toward a tree standing all alone, it smelt bad it had blue leaves and diamonds hanging everywhere. Diamonds like oranges but if he tries to reach up, a snake will fall on him, a snake that guards the tree he was saved by a yellow sort of parrot

he was a hated, hating half-breed child living in a California orphanage run by nuns- shrouded disciplinarians who whipped him for wetting his bed

older children, his father, a faithless girl, a sergeant

taller than Jesus, yellow like a sunflower, a warrior angel who blinded the nuns with its beak, fed upon their eyes, slaughtered them as they 'pleaded for mercy', then so gently lifted him, enfolded him, winged him away to paradise

a sense of power, of unassailable superiority transported to a real place saw a garden with white marble steps and fountains, on the edge of the garden you could see the ocean like around Carmel, California Food table full of Oysters, Turkeys, Hot dogs, fruit

' We were like sisters. At least that's how i felt about her-as though she were my sister. I couldn't go to school until after the funeral. So did Bobby rupp

drove around in his old Ford, up and down the highway, out to the airport and back, go to Cree-Mee

a drive-in

A lady from Garden City took teddy Susan took Evinrude Babe might be sold

they were sitting at the railroad tracks watching the trains go by then they drove to Garden City picked up Bobby's brother from school and went to the Phillip's Funeral Home on Main Street

Nancy- cherry-red velvet dress Kenyon- bright plaid shirt Mr. Clutter- navy-blue flannel Bonnie- navy-blue crêpe the head of each was completely encased in cotton, a swollen cocoon twice the size of an ordinary blown-up balloon, and the cotton, because it had been sprayed with a glossy substance

1000 people

Reverend Leonard Cowan

600 people went recited the Lord' prayer

He went into stores made it seem like Perry was getting married, pretended like he forgot his wallet and then wrote up a blank cheque they then went to Best Jewelry, where he bought a diamond engagement ring and a diamond wedding ring with a cheque, they then drove to a pawnshop and sold these items for $150 went to Goldmans bought a gold watch went to Elko Camera Store bought an elaborate motion-picture camera went to Shepherd & Foster's, Rothschild's, Shopper's Paradise

Eden Roc in miami

In 1821, Peruvian bullion, jewelry and 60 million dollars were buried

3:00 am

9 yr old- Paul 12 yr old- alvin Adams Dewey Jr.

A Kansas paper, the Hutchinson News, had offered a thousand dollars

he was in Oklahoma

Nancy's aunt

a gold wristwatch tucked in the toe of her shoe

Kenyon's little radio

it bothered him because why had the murderers taken the trouble to move the box from the far end of the basement room and lay it on the floor in front of the furnace why would a murderer kill bonnie and nancy and then draw up the bedcovers and tuck them in

21 November

luggage was lashed to the fenders and roped to the roof the trunk was so stuffed it could not be shut; inside on the beak seat, two televisions sets stood Perry's possessions other than the guitar were part of the car's untidy interior

around midnight

on Saturday in the First Methodist church three days after the funeral to Mr. Vere Edward English

Cowan- soloist Blanchard- organist

brother of Bonnie from Oregon, Illinois he stated that everyone should forgive and not hold it as a grudge and wish the murderer to be hanged

on a promontory at noon Mountains hawks wheeling in a white sky a dusty road winding into and out of a while and dusty village second day in Mexico

the morning of 23 November and they spent the first night in San Luis Potosi brothel 200 miles north of their next destination

blue light exploding in a black room, the glass eyes of a big toy bear and voices, a silver dollar rolling across a floor, boot step on hardwood stairs and the sounds of breathing, the gasps, the hysterical inhalations of a man with a severed windpipe

his alcoholic mother choked on her own vomit Barbara married and began a family Fern umped out of a window of a San Francisco hotel jimmy killed his wife and then killed himself

a transient wasn't too young done roadwork and other outdoor stuff had a good build wore reading glasses

he invited him to go for a drive out in the desert they parked drank a few beers they got out of the car and Perry grabbed the bicycle chain that he kept under the seat and he hit him across the face and kept going Perry knew a guy named King but he never killed him

Silver Ghost

an old half-dead mongrel, brittle-boned and mangy

a writer at Telegram

the rumor is that Taylor Jones, a rancher whose property adjoins River Valley farm, and his family were the intended target because he was richer than Herb

a lunch counter, a few tables, an alcove harboring a hot grill and an icebox and a radio

to Mrs. Archibald William Warren-Browne

an upper class Englishwoman seemed like a peacock trapped in a turkey pen she escaped the estates in the North of England because of taxes and death duties

Paris and Rome. Monte. london

a tenant farmer who worked for Lester McCoy, a well-known western-Kansas landowner and businessman. Moving to east Colorado Mrs. Hideo Ashida and her 4 red-cheeked kids are moving to Nebraska after Christmas

Mrs. Hideo's kids Bonnie Jean doesn't want to leave

The Estrellita Perry, Dick, a young Mexican and Otto, a rich middle-aged German

south to Cuernavaca, Taxco and Acapulco,where they met the hairy-legged and hearty Otto

Cowboy who is said to be mean as Judas

he found them a room in the house on an uncle, undertook to improve Perry's spanish and shared the benefits of his liaison with the holidaymaker from Hamburg, in whose company and at whose expense they drank and ate and bought women

Cowboy-skippered the boat Otto- sketched and fished perry- baited hooks, daydreamed, sang and sometimes fished Dick- did nothing, moaned, complained of the motion, lay about sun-drugged and listless

a prostitute who had accosted Dick on the steps of the Palace of fine Arts in Mexico City 18 yrs old and Dick had promised to marry her

a woman of fifty, who was the widow of a very prominent Mexican Banker Dick had promised to marry her too

that at approximately four o'clock on Saturday, 14 November, a pair of Mexicans, one mustachioed and the other pockmarked, appeared at River Valley Farm. mr. helm had seen them knock on the door of the office and 10 minutes walk away looking sulky

a man that intruded into the Clutter house he was on his way to New Mexico and he wanted to look at the house because he had heard about the murders a 12-gauge shotgun and a hunting knife were found in his car

2:00 pm

2 dollars a day

San Diego, as far as Barstow, California

suspenders and a belt fabricated from the skins of Nevada rattlers he himself had slain; an erotic netsuke bought in Kyoto; a petrified dwarf tree, also from Japan; the foot of an alaskan bear

Jesus, a bartender in a cafe across the street that Perry knew he could trust to return the boxes on demand

Perry's' father's lawyer

he worked with the Alaska Road Commission

Seattle, Washington

Bobo

a lean Cherokee girl a professional rodeo performer Perry's mom

Flo's husband a professional rodeo performer Irish Perry's dad

touring the Western rodeo circuit

Hawks Brand of condensed milk weakened his kidneys

Reno, Nevada

when perry was 6 to san Francisco and she took the kids with her

Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska

in 1945 in Honolulu

in Korea

1952

a hunting lodge, called Trapper's Den Lodge

Bellingham it was raining and his bike went into a skid

a young Indian logger and fisherman near Bellingham 7 kids

how to play harmonica and guitar , draw and penmanship

The Totem Pole Cocktail Lounge opened for business in 1953

in April 1955

Worcester, massachusettes

washed dishes in an Omaha restaurant pumped gas at an Oklahoma garage on a ranch in texas

Some guy with the last name Smith

they ignored a traffic signal in the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri

they discovered and open window, climbed out of it, stole a car and drove west to mcCook, Nebraska they separated made the FBI's Most Wanted List

a Massachusetts factory town of steep, up and down streets that even in the best of weathers seem cheerless and hostile

Bob Turner arrested for vagrancy spent 14 days in jail and was fined ten dollars

he went down to New York and took a room in a hotel on Eighth Avenue near 42nd street did jobs right around the penny arcade never left the Broadway area

one bright March morning on the edge of spring extradited back to Kansas larceny, jailbreak, car theft 5-10 years wrote a letter to Dad and Barbara

28 April 1958

Freddie, Baby, Donnie

34 inches, 26 lbs and 6 1/2 wide shoe size 15 months and 16 teeth

37 1/2 inches 29 1/2 lbs and 8 narrow shoe size

36 1/2 inches 26 1/2 lb and 7 1/2 narrow shoe size

1. she intended her letter to be a compassionate demonstration of Christian principles 2. it is a foolish letter, but born of human failing 3. She feels that you are a. leaning towards self-pity b. too calculating c. undeserving of an 8 page letter 4.vindicating those who bore influence in her past years 5. respects your dad. resents that you are the favorite 6. you write to her a. love her b. feel a need to contact someone on the outside c. use her

Leavenworth County Board of Education

The Private Diary of Perry Edward Smith

a young lawyer and a close friend of Al Dewey

Courthouse Pete a tiger striped tom weighing fifteen pounds in the hospital because he lost a fight to a boxer dog

20 pounds

the Hefner Slaying

a man working on the Finnup Ranch had a stolen car was a soldier AWOL from Fort Bliss, over in Texas a rascal shot the sheriff Orlie Hefner

Mary Kay Finney was stabbed with the jagged neck of a beer bottle in a room in the Copeland Hotel, Garden City 5-9-47 by John carlyle Polk

a creek Indian 32 years old resident of Muskogee, Okla killed Mary Kay Finney

white female 40 years old a waitress residing in Garden City

a pair of railroad workers robbed and killed an elderly farmer, 11-1-52 a drunken husband beat and kicked his wife to death, 6-17-56 started out at Stevens Park, this man named Mooney was walking around the park, he was from North Carolina, he was followed into the restroom by a 20 year old called Wilmer Lee Stebbins that claimed Mooney made an unatural suggestion so stebbins robbed him and knocked him down and banged his head on the cement floor buried the body northeast of Garden City next day he dug it up and put it down 14 miles to the other side

the coroner

Bonnie, Nancy, Kenyon, and Herb

in the Mojave Desert Perry was sitting on a straw suitcase and was playing a harmonica Dick was standing at the side of a black-surfaced highway, Route 66

Perry's souvenirs, plus three shirts, five pairs of white socks, a box of aspirin, a bottle of tequila, scissors, a safety razor, and a fingernail file

a blue Dodge sedan with a single passenger, a bald, skinny man

50 hr