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Murder weapon used by Dick and Perry. There were four shots fired, one for each of the family members. (Not actual gun used)
Perry Smith and Richard Hickock first met in the Kansas State Prison, at Lansing, Kansas, resuming their acquaintance after Hickock's release in November 1959. Hickock and Smith later testified that they had gotten the idea to rob the Clutters after Hickock was told, by a former cellmate, that there was a safe in the family's house containing $10,000. Smith and Hickock were captured in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 30, 1959, following an extensive manhunt which extended into Mexico.
Born in New Orleans in 1924, Capote was abandoned by his mother and raised by his elderly aunts and cousins in Monroeville, Alabama. As a child he lived a solitary and lonely existence, turning to writing for solace. In 1959, Capote set about creating a new literary genre — the non-fiction novel. In Cold Blood (1966), the book that most consider his masterpiece, is the story of the 1959 murder of the four members of a Kansas farming family, the Clutters.
