In November of 1959, the slaying of four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas created a media frenzy. All four victims, Herb, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon were found the morning of November 16th, bound and shot in the head with a shotgun. Upon preliminary investigation, little evidence was found to catch the killer or killers of the Clutter family, nor any indication of a motive. Only after a tip from a former cell mate of one of the killers did the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) discover the identity of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith. Richard and Perry had been on the run ever since the murder, traveling through Mexico, Nevada, Florida, and back to Kansas for a brief time. Arrested under the grounds of writing faulty checks, Smith and Hickock were brought in for interrogation. During this, Hickock, followed by Smith, made a verbal confession for the Clutter massacre. Their trial ended with their guilt, along with a sentence of death. They stayed on death row until April of 1965, and were then hanged.
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