The case
- small village
-300/400 residents
- everyone knew each other
- no one locked their doors, very trusting community
- clutter family,active members of community. Well loved and known by everyone
- Killers entered the home through the front door
- The killed the family
- Tied them all up by their feet and their ankles apart from Nancy (the daughter)
- Herbet (the father) had his throat slit before being shot
- They were all killed by a single shot to the head
- Rouletters photography helped link a bloody footprint at the scene to Perry Smith (on of the killers)
- Perry Smith had been in and out of prison that's where he met Richard Hickok
- Smith and Hickock were told that the Clutters had a safe in the house containing lots of money
- Upon entering the house they confronted Herbet about the safe but he had no idea what they were talking about as there was no safe in the house.
- There was no cash in the house, they had travelled all this way for nothing. This angered them.
- The took a radio and some binoculars, and a few minor things they could find.
Looking at 'in cold blood definition'
What does it mean to be killed in cold blood?
> It is never morally acceptable to "murder someone in cold blood". The legal definition of murder is: "The killing of a human being by a sane person, with intent, malice aforethought and with no legal excuse or authority." Murdering "in cold blood" means to do so without remorse or feeling.
> In a purposely ruthless and unfeeling manner, as in The whole family was murdered in cold blood. This expression alludes to the notion that blood is the seat of emotion and is hot in passion and cold in calm. The term therefore means not "in the heat of passion," but "in a calculated, deliberate manner."
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