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¨On November 20 the suspect Richard Eugene Hickock had gone on a
Kansas City shopping spree during which he had passed not fewer than "seven pieces of
hot paper." pg  103
"Now, I'll
just run through this, see if I have it straight. Perry Smith arrived in Kansas Thursday,
the twelfth of November. Your son claimed this person came here to collect a sum of
money from a sister residing in Fort Scott. That Saturday the two drove to Fort Scott,
where they remained overnight - I assume in the home of the sister?" pg 105
"Nevertheless, they stayed away overnight. And during the week
that followed - that is, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first , and since then you've not heard from him¨ pg 105

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Information from Nye’s interview with Dick’s family

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Information from Nye’s interview with Dick’s family

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We have two sons, and he's one
of them, our first-born. An outstanding athlete - always on
the first team at school. Basketball! Baseball! Football! Dick was always the star player.
A pretty good student, too, with A marks in several subjects. History. Mechanical
drawing. After he graduated from high school June, 1949 - he wanted to go on to
college. Study to be an engineer.  The first job he had was
with Santa Fe Railways, in Kansas City. Made seventy-five dollars a week. He figured
that was enough to get married on, so him and Carol got married.¨ pg 102

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Crime: Cheat & Defr. & Bad Checks. Paroled: 8-13-59. By:
So. K. C. K. pg101
Gambling, writing bad checks. pg 102

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¨A few of his conclusions were unshakable: he believed that the
death of Herb Clutter had been the criminals' main objective. The motive being a
psychopathic hatred, or possibly a combination of hatred and thievery, and he believed
that the commission of the murders had been a leisurely labor, with perhaps two or more
hours elapsing between the entrance of the killers and their exit."pg 95

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petty crimes, such as creating and using fraudulent checks, to help make ends meet, and eventually landed in prison, where he met Smith and hatched his plan for robbery and murder. Also allegedly an ephebophile; according to Truman Capote in his account of the Clutter murders, In Cold Blood, he was prevented by his partner in crime, Smith, from raping 16-year-old Nancy Clutter during the crime in the Clutter home.

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His connection to Floyd Wells and a picture of Floyd

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His connection to Floyd Wells and a picture of Floyd

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While serving a term at Kansas State Penitentiary he spoke with another prison, Floyd Wells, and learned about the Clutter family. Wells had worked for Mr. Clutter in 1949, found him a fair employer, and mentioned that he was quite well off. Dick asked if there was a safe in the house, and Wells thought there was. pg 99

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His connection to Perry Smith and a picture of Perry

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His connection to Perry Smith and a picture of Perry

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Perry Smith and Richard Hickock first met in the Kansas State Prison in
Lansing, Kansas. Smith was eventually paroled, and the pair later resumed their acquaintance upon Hickock's release in November 1959. Hickock allegedly wrote to Smith, imploring him to violate his parole by returning to Kansas to assist Hickock with a robbery he had been planning. Smith claimed that his return was initially motivated not by meeting with Hickock, but by the chance to reunite with another former inmate, Willie-Jay, with whom he had developed an especially close bond while in prison; Smith soon discovered, however, that he had arrived in the Kansas City area just a few hours after Willie-Jay had left for the east coast.

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At least 3 things that connect him to the Clutter murder

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At least 3 things that connect him to the Clutter murder

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Although technology wasn't nearly to the level it is today, it was through Rohleder's photographs that the discovery of a bloody footprint remained from Smith. This footprint was not visible to the naked eye. A photograph was also taken of a tire track left in haste by the murders. Dewey and the KBI were able to piece together evidence which was corroborated by a fellow prisoner (Floyd Wells) who ratted out the murders for some ransom money being offered at the time.

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Richard (Dick) Eugene Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965)

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Richard (Dick) Eugene Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965)

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Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics: Robbery - Crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood
Number of victims: 4
Date of murder: November 14, 1959
Date of arrest: December 30, 1959
Date of birth: June 6, 1931
Victims profile: Herbert W. Clutter, 48; his wife, Bonnie Clutter, and their daughter Nancy, 16, and son Kenyon, 15
Method of murder: Shooting / Cutting the throat
Location: Holcomb, Kansas, USA
Status: Executed by hanging in Lansing on April 14, 1965

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Richard (Dick) Eugene Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965)

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Richard (Dick) Eugene Hickock (June 6, 1931 – April 14, 1965)