How many members in clutter family?
Four members in clutter family. Richard “Dick” Eugene Hickock (June 6, 1931 in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts who murdered the four members of the Herb Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.[1] Along with Perry Smith, Hickock initiated the home invasion of the Clutter family farmhouse. In Cold Blood is a 1966 book by Truman Capote, an American author. The book details the brutal 1959 murder of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas; his wife, and two children. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime. Bringing his childhood friend and fellow author Harper Lee along, together they interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. The killers, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry S