The Clutter Family: Why They Were Killed For $50 and A Radio Pt. 2
6/3/202626 min
The Clutter family was murdered for approximately $50 in cash and a radio. The safe full of money that the killers drove 400 miles to find never existed.
In part two of three episodes on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring introduces the two men responsible: Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, the lie that brought them to River Valley Farm, and the investigation that quietly closed in while they believed they'd gotten away clean. Plus, how Truman Capote and Harper Lee arrived in Holcomb and began the research that would change American literature forever. This episode contains descriptions of murder, violence, and child abuse. Please listen with care.
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First 90 secondsKatie Ring· Host0:00
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Katie Ring· Host0:50
After the Clutter family was murdered on November 15th, 1959, everyone in the town of Holcomb, Kansas, was left asking the question, why? Why would anyone do something this terrible to a family that everybody loved? Who could have done it? And the scariest question of all, would it happen again? The investigation was going nowhere until a prisoner in a Kansas jail heard a news report on the radio and realized he might know exactly who was responsible. Today, I'm taking you to the other side of this crime. I'll introduce you to the two men who drove 400 miles to rob a family they'd never met,