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“And so it happened that in the daylight hours of that Wednesday morning, Alvin Dewey, breakfasting at the coffee shop of a Topeka hotel, read, on the first page of the Kansas City Star, a headline he had long awaited: ‘Die on Rope for Bloody Crime.’ The story, written by an associated press reporter, began: ‘Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, parteners in crime, died on that gallows at the state penetentary early today for one of the bloodiest murders in Kansas criminal annals. Hickock, 33 years old, died first,at 12:41 A.M.; Smith died at 1:19...’” (Capote 337). Though this quote is fairly long, I chose it because it shows justice being served to the brutal murderers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. The book, In Cold Blood, is a …show more content…

The book goes on to introducing the Clutter family, as mentioned in the first paragraph. Next, the book shifts to Dick and Perry and their planning for the murders, they bought their supplies and went to the Clutter house to kill them. The pair kill the family in the night with a shotgun and a knife, placing their bodies in comfortable positions after killing them to show remorse for the killings. A schoolmate of Nancy’s, Nancy Ewalt grew concerned that she could not get ahold of Nancy and goes to the Clutter’s house, finding them all dead. KBI, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, investigator, Alvin Dewey gets assigned the clutter case. Meanwhile, Dick and Perry know that they have to get out of the small town of Holcomb, so that they are not found and accused of the slaying of the Clutters. They continue to run from place to place including Mexico, Colorado, Las Vegas, and Iowa. Floyd Wells, a former friend of Dick Hickock, whom Dick had told his plans for killing the Clutters, hears the news of the Clutter familiy’s murder on the radio and reported it. Dewey and 3 other KBI agents, recieve information from the Las Vegas police that Perry Smith’s license plate has been spotted, and arrest Dick and Perry. The book goes on to detail Dick and Perry’s time in prison, right up to their

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