The KBI, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, acquired the information that would eventually solve the Clutter case from a man named Floyd Wells, a prisoner at the Kansas State Penitentiary. Floyd told detectives, that he was listening to the news one evening when he first heard about the unsolved quadruple homicide and knew who was responsible for the atrocious crime. Subsequently, Wells began to elaborate how he knew. Wells recounted the evening when he and his former cellmate, Richard Hitchcock, spoke about their lives before prison. He told Hitchcock that he formerly worked for the wealthy farmer, Mr. Clutter, in his vast estate in Holcomb. Floyd then recalled Hitchcock incessantly asking very peculiar questions about the Clutters and their