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Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon Clutter are murdered in Holcomb, Kansas.
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Perry Smith and Richard Hickock are on the run. They initially fled to Mexico but eventually ended up in Las Vegas.
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Clutter family funeral held in Garden City, Kansas.
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Las Vegas police arrest Perry Smith and Richard Hickock on a Kansas warrent for passing bad checks.
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Capote interviews Richard Hickock and Perry Smith on death row at the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing.
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Richard Hickock, followed by Perry Smith confess to the Clutter murders.
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A jury of 12 men found Richard Hickock and Perry Smith guilty. They were sentenced to death.
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The original exection date was postponed.
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Lawyers for Hickock and Smith appeal the case all the way to the Kansas Supreme Court. Eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court declines to review the cas
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The killers are executed shortly after midnight; Hickock first, pronounced dead at 12:43 a.m.; then Smith on the same gallows at 1:22 a.m. They are buried in unmarked graves at a nearby cemetery.
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The first edition of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was published.