In Cold Blood Part 2 Flashcards
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How many people attended the Clutter Funeral?

1000 people

Who said the mass?

Reverend Leonard Cowan

How many people went to the Valley View Cemetery and what did they do?

600 people went; recited the Lord's prayer

How did Dick get enough money to get them to Mexico?

<p>He pretended Perry was getting married and wrote a blank check. They sold the engagement and wedding rings to a pawnshop for $150 and bought other items.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is Perry supposedly marrying?

<p>Eden Roc in Miami</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the supposed treasure off the coast of Costa Rica?

<p>In 1821, Peruvian bullion, jewelry, and 60 million dollars were buried.</p> Signup and view all the answers

At what time did Dewey's phone ring again?

<p>3:00 am</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are Dewey's two sons' names?

<p>9 yr old - Paul, 12 yr old - Alvin Adams Dewey Jr.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the reward for information leading to the solution of the crime?

<p>A Kansas paper, the Hutchinson News, had offered a thousand dollars.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was Mr. Smith's alibi?

<p>He was in Oklahoma.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is Mrs. Elaine Selsor?

<p>Nancy's aunt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Elaine find while sorting Nancy's clothes?

<p>A gold wristwatch tucked in the toe of her shoe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Mrs. Helm realize was missing after taking a KBI agent with her and exploring all the rooms?

<p>Kenyon's little radio.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why did the mattress box and bedcovers bother Dewey?

<p>It bothered him because the murderers moved the box and tucked in the bedcovers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

When did Perry and Dick leave Kansas City in the old Chevrolet?

<p>21 November</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did Perry and Dick fit all their stuff in the car?

<p>Luggage was lashed to the fenders and roped to the roof; the trunk was too stuffed to close.</p> Signup and view all the answers

When did Perry and Dick cross the border into Oklahoma?

<p>Around midnight</p> Signup and view all the answers

When did Beverly get married?

<p>On Saturday in the First Methodist Church three days after the funeral to Mr. Vere Edward English.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who are Mrs. Leonard Cowan and Mrs. Howard Blanchard?

<p>Cowan - soloist; Blanchard - organist.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the setting of the day after the murder?

<p>Monday, 16 November 1959, a bright-skied day, as glittery as mica.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is Andy Erhart?

<p>A pheasant hunter, good friend of Herb, classmate of Herb, gentle, genially dignified, scholar with calloused hands and a sunburned neck.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How long have Andy and Herb been friends?

<p>30 years.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who are Herb's 3 other close friends?

<p>Dr. J.E. Dale (veterinarian), Carl Myers (dairy owner), Everett Ogburn (businessman).</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is the superintendent of the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station?

<p>Andy Erhart.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Andy, Dale, Carl, and Everett all volunteer to do and what did they bring with them?

<p>They volunteered to clean the 4 rooms where the murders occurred and brought mops, pails, scrubbing brushes, rags, and detergents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who was the patrolman?

<p>The guardian of a barricade.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How much longer did the 4 men have to drive after passing the patrolman?

<p>1/2 a mile down the elm-shaded lane.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who admitted the 4 friends into the Clutter house?

<p>Alfred Stoecklein, the only employee that lived on the property.</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what order of the rooms did the 4 men clean?

<p>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.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was special about the couch that Kenyon was found on?

<p>It was a relic that Kenyon had rescued and mended, and Nancy had slip-covered and piled with mooted pillows.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the 4 men find in Nancy and Bonnie's room?

<p>Blood-soiled bedclothes, mattresses, a bedside rug, and a teddy-bear doll.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the reasons that Alfred Stoecklein couldn't have heard the gunshots?

<p>He lives 100 yards away, there is a big milo barn that soaks up a lot of noise, and the wind was blowing west.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where does Alfred want to move to?

<p>Alongside the highway.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How long did the 4 friends clean up for?

<p>From noon to dusk.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the 4 friends do with all of the items from the Clutter house?

<p>They piled it all on a pickup truck; Alfred drove deep into the farm's north field, making a pyramid of Nancy's pillows, bedclothes, mattresses, and the couch.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the farm's north field?

<p>A flat place full of color, mainly yellow.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who sprinkled the pyramid of items with paraffin and struck a match to light it on fire?

<p>Alfred.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Herb's life evolve from?

<p>From a poorly paid county agricultural agent into one of the region's most widely known and respected farm ranchers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Erhart wonder about when he heard of Herb's death?

<p>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?</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Kansas Bureau of Investigation?

<p>A state-wide organization with headquarters in Topeka that has 19 detectives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is Alvin Adam Dewey?

<p>The Bureau's Garden City representative and the agent responsible for a sizeable portion of Western Kansas, lean and handsome, 4th generation Kansan, 47 years old.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is Earl Robinson?

<p>Sheriff of Finney County.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was Dewey before he became an agent at KBI?

<p>Former sheriff (1947-1955) and FBI special agent (1940-1945) in New Orleans, San Antonio, Denver, Miami, and San Francisco.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was Dewey's attitude to the Clutter murder investigation?

<p>He had a personal proposition because he and his wife were friends with the Clutter family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who are some of KBI's best investigators?

<p>Special Agents Harold Nye, Roy Church, and Clarence Duntz.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some characteristics of the sheriffs' office?

<p>3rd floor of the Finney County courthouse, an ordinary stone and cement building with 3 rooms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is Mrs. Edna Richardson?

<p>Sheriff Robinson's hospitable secretary who always had time to prepare a pot of coffee and time to chew fat.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where have the case headlines of the Clutter's murders reached?

<p>As far East as Chicago and as far West as Denver.</p> Signup and view all the answers

When did Dewey hold a press conference?

<p>Midday, Monday.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the estimated time of the murders?

<p>11:00 pm Saturday to 2:00 am Sunday.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Dewey think is a mere coincidence?

<p>That Mr. Clutter took out a $40,000 life insurance policy with double indemnity the day before he was killed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who are the only 2 people that benefit financially from the deaths?

<p>Mrs. Donald Jarchow and Miss Beverly Clutter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the single killer concept?

<p>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...</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the double killer concept?

<p>Similar to the single killer concept but the killer had an accomplice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some doubts about the single killer concept and the double killer concept?

<p>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.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where did Dewey retire to after the news conference?

<p>To his office, a room that the sheriff had temporarily lent him, containing a desk and two straight chairs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was Dewey's desk littered with?

<p>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.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the photographs of the crime scene consist of?

<p>20 blown-up glossy print pictures of Mr. Clutter's shattered skull, his son's demolished face, Nancy's bound hands, her mother's death-dulled, still-staring eyes and so on.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What valuable surprise did a close-up of Mr. Clutter and the mattress box upon which he lay provide?

<p>Footprints, the dusty trackings of shoes with diamond-patterned soles not noticeable to the eye.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were the only serious clues that the investigators could claim?

<p>Footprints and the bold and bloody impression of a cat's paw half sole.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Nancy's diary start and end with?

<p>Started with her thirteenth birthday and ended some two months short of her seventeenth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were the three lines written in her diary an hour or two before Nancy died?

<p>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 eleven.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What have the investigators done with Bobby Rupp already?

<p>He has undergone one extensive interrogation and was scheduled for a second interview at which he was to be given a polygraph test.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was Bobby's motive?

<p>Mr. Clutter wanting Bobby and Nancy to break up.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What happened to Nancy's cat Boobs?

<p>She was found lying in the barn, might have been poisoned.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Dewey think of the poisoning of Boobs?

<p>It might have been a small, malicious prelude to the murders.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were Agents Church, Duntz, and Nye doing while Dewey was reading Nancy's diary?

<p>They were criss-crossing the countryside, talking to anyone who could tell them anything.</p> Signup and view all the answers

When was the funeral to take place?

<p>Wednesday morning, November 18, 1959.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some characteristics of Harold Nye?

<p>Youngest of the KBI group, 34 years old, restless, disgruntled eyes and a sharp nose chin and mind.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the nicknames of the KBI members?

<p>Harold Nye - Brother Nye; Duntz - Old man; Church - Curly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some characteristics of Clarence Duntz?

<p>Not quite 50, a burly but light-footed man with a broad, tomcat face.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some characteristics of Roy Church?

<p>60 or so, pink-skinned and professorial-looking, tough according to his colleagues.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Duntz's story consist of?

<p>A father and a son known as John Senior and John Junior who had a minor business dispute with Mr. Clutter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was Church's story?

<p>Mr. Smith believed that the squire of River Valley Farm had shot and killed Smith's hunting dog.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why couldn't robbery be an explanation?

<p>Because everyone knows Herb doesn't have cash and Mrs. Clutter was still wearing her gold band and diamond ring.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why does Nye think it could be a robbery?

<p>Clutter's wallet was left open and empty on Clutter's bed, Nancy's purse was lying on the kitchen floor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Dewey do when he interrupted the consultation?

<p>He called his wife Marie to warn her that he won't be home for dinner.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some characteristics of the Dewey family?

<p>They have two young boys and have been married for 17 years.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is the only person not scared?

<p>Mrs. Myrtle Clare, the widowed postmistress.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did Mrs. Myrtle Clare die?

<p>11 months later a gun-toting team of masked bandits took her at word.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the current fastest-going items?

<p>Locks and bolts, no matter the type.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did a carload of pheasant hunters from Colorado encounter on Tuesday, at dawn?

<p>Windows ablaze, fully clothed people who had sat the whole night wide awake, watchful, listening.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were some reasons that everyone was so scared?

<p>It might happen again; it happened to a family that was admired and secure; distrust of the neighbors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is Arthur Clutter and what did he say while talking to journalists in the lobby of a Garden City hotel on 17 November?

<p>A brother of the deceased who said, 'When this is cleared up, I'll wager whoever did it was someone within ten miles of where we stand now.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Eagle Buffet?

<p>A Kansas City diner, 400 miles east of the Garden City hotel.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who were the two men sitting at the Eagle Buffet and what were they doing?

<p>Dick - narrow-faced 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.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was Perry reading?

<p>17 November edition of the Kansas City Star headlined 'CLUE ARE FEW IN SLAYING of 4'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some examples of Perry's extrasensory perception?

<p>His brother Jimmy and his wife loved each other but Jimmy was very jealous and killed his wife; another time, he was helping load a ship, something inside him told him to jump.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is Floyd Wells?

<p>A former cellmate of Dick.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has been Perry's dream since he was a kid?

<p>He is in Africa in a jungle, moving through trees toward a tree with blue leaves and diamonds hanging everywhere.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How was Perry's childhood?

<p>He was a hated, hating half-breed child living in a California orphanage run by nuns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who tormented Perry about the parrot?

<p>Older children, his father, a faithless girl, a sergeant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the characteristics of the parrot?

<p>Taller than Jesus, yellow like a sunflower, a warrior angel who blinded the nuns with its beak.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the ascension to paradise like?

<p>A sense of power, of unassailable superiority, transported to a real place, saw a garden with white marble steps and fountains.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does Susan Kidwell describe her friendship with Nancy Clutter?

<p>'We were like sisters. At least that's how I felt about her - as though she were my sister.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Susan do with Bobby after the deaths?

<p>Drove around in his old Ford, up and down the highway.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Cree-Mee?

<p>A drive-in.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who has the Clutter pets?

<p>A lady from Garden City took Teddy; Susan took Evinrude; Babe might be sold.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Nancy and Bobby do the night before the funeral?

<p>They were sitting at the railroad tracks watching the trains go by.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were each of the Clutter family members wearing in their caskets?

<p>Nancy - cherry-red velvet dress; Kenyon - bright plaid shirt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

Setting and Background

  • The day after the murder was Monday, November 16, 1959, characterized by a bright sky, reminiscent of mica.
  • The murder victims, the Clutter family, were admired and secure, representing values that resonated with the community.

Key Characters

  • Andy Erhart: A close friend of Herb Clutter, a gentle and dignified pheasant hunter, and the superintendent of Kansas State University's Agricultural Experiment Station.
  • Herb Clutter: A respected farmer who evolved from a poorly paid county agricultural agent to a prominent rancher, deeply involved in his community.

Cleaning Up After the Murder

  • Andy Erhart and three friends volunteered to clean the Clutter house, bringing mops and cleaning supplies.
  • The cleaning order of the rooms began with the furnace room where Mr. Clutter was found, followed by Kenyon's playroom, and finally Nancy and Bonnie's rooms.

Investigation Insights

  • The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is a statewide organization with 19 detectives, led by Alvin Adam Dewey, who had a personal connection to the Clutter family.
  • The only serious clues in the investigation were footprints with a distinctive pattern and impressions left at the crime scene.

Motivations and Suspects

  • Doubts about potential robberies arose as cash was not found, but there was speculation regarding Mr. Clutter's recent life insurance policy.
  • Bobby Rupp, Nancy's boyfriend, underwent interrogation regarding his relationship with Nancy, with underlying tension from Mr. Clutter about the pair dating.

Emotional Responses and Community Impact

  • The murders instilled fear in the community, with people feeling insecure and distrustful of their neighbors.
  • The Clutter funeral had a massive turnout, with around 1,000 attendees, highlighting the family's prominent position in the community.

Perpetrators and Theories

  • Discussed theories regarding a single or double killer present in the Clutter household, with implications about their familiarity with the family.
  • Floyd Wells, a former cellmate of Dick, was brought up as a potential connection to the crime and introduced a narrative of the suspects’ pasts.

Miscellaneous

  • Dewey's family dynamic includes two young boys, and his work-life balance becomes a theme juxtaposed with the pressing investigation needs.
  • The emotional struggles faced by those close to Nancy Clutter were evident, with friends recalling their sister-like bond and the impact of her tragic loss.### Missing Elements
  • Helm was missing after taking a KBI agent and exploring all rooms.

Mattress and Murders

  • Dewey was disturbed by the strange arrangement of a mattress box and bedcovers.
  • The murders of Bonnie and Nancy raised questions about the murderers’ actions, specifically moving the box and neatly tucking in the bedcovers.

Departure Details

  • Perry and Dick left Kansas City in an old Chevrolet on 21 November.

Packing Methods

  • Their luggage was secured to the car's fenders and roof, causing an overstuffed trunk unable to close.
  • The back seat was cluttered with two television sets, showcasing the disorder of Perry’s belongings.

Border Crossing

  • Perry and Dick crossed into Oklahoma around midnight, marking a significant transition in their journey.

Wedding Timing

  • Beverly got married on Saturday in the First Methodist Church, just three days after a funeral, to Mr. Vere Edward English.

Key Figures

  • Mrs. Leonard Cowan served as a soloist at the event.
  • Mrs. Howard Blanchard was the organist.

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