Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Vintage Books, 1965. In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel and Alvin Dewey is the lead investigator for the KBI on a murder case that took place November, 1959 on the Clutters farm in Holcomb, Kansas. On the morning of November 14th, 1959 one of the Clutter’s friends came upon Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon Clutter dead in their house. When the cops got on the scene no evidence was found. The police found no motive for the crime after reviewing the information and evidence. So they got ahold of the KBI (The Kansas Bureau of Investigation) and they sent three detectives to Holcomb to investigate among them was Alvin Dewey, Roy Church, and Clarence Duntz when they get to …show more content…
While Floyd Well and former employee of Herbert Clutter is in jail for theft already knows who did this to the family because he was cellmates with one of the killers Dick Hickock. Wells told Hickock he worked for a rich framer and Hickock thought that there was safe inside the Clutters home. By the time the investigators learn this information Hickock and the other killer Perry Smith had already went to Mexico and came back to Kansas City and wrote fake checks. The investigators finally get information from wells that lead them to investigating Hickock, and Smith. They were eventually caught in Las Vegas were a cop that had saw them on the news seeing Hickock on the news for the murders. While in custody the cops find out that Smith actually killed the four members of the family because Hickock would not do it after they had agreed on the plans so Smith did it his self. After the trail both men were found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. The purpose of Capote writing this book is to give a perspective of family and how even if you come from a good family like Perry did does not mean you are going to be a good person or do good things. The other theme is that a family like the Clutters can do as much good in the world as …show more content…
This book really will open the readers eyes to all the good and bad in the world and how even in small tight kept community things can happen. It will also make the readers to think about the people that look like they have a good life but behind closed doors they have a bad life and might get abused. Truman does this through the whole book and does a really good job at doing so. The book is good over all is explains everything well and also will leave the reader feeling a bit upset but glad when the Clutter family gets justice at the end. People will like reading this book if they enjoy law and crime books with a mystery. Truman wrote this book in a way where the reader will learn about the day leading up to the murders and also about the family in a way where it actually feels like you make a connection with them, But Truman gives you the same view on the two killers as well. So it makes it hard at first to really tell who the victim is till you read the rest of the story. Then the fact that Hickock did not actually kill any of the family does that make him worst then Smith or should of Hickock not have been executed but just had life in