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Because many offenders with mental illnesses don't receive treatment during incarceration, conditions can worsen and  offenders can become a greater threat to themselves and to others when they leave jail or prison. America's poor reform system for former fugitives does not prepare for society and sends them back to their deplorable lifestyle.

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Truman Capote Talks About In Cold Blood on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - Part 1 of 3

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This video informed the audience that Dick and Perry were given the death penalty because of their aggressive and evil crime. I learned that Capote built a somewhat intimate relationship with Dick and Perry while he was gathering information for the book and he felt almost sad for them, not that they weren’t getting what they deserved, that they were throwing away their life when they could have had lots of potential. Currently, there is a lot of disagreement surrounding the death penalty so that leads me to wonder, if these crimes were committed more recently, would Dick and Perry’s verdict have been the same or would it have been softer.

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Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith were in prison when they heard from another prisoner that Herb Clutter was very wealthy and he had money stashed in a safe in his house. This prisoner, who told Hickock and Smith this, had previously worked for the Clutter family. After being re leased from prison, Hickock and Smith immediately drew up plans to get their hands on the stashed cash.

They went to the Clutter home outside of Holcomb, Kansas when four of the six family members happened to be home. Once entering the home, they realized that there was not a safe which contained money, they awoke Herb Clutter. Mr. Clutter gave them the little cash he had and said the re was no more. They aroused the remainder of the family and again searched the house, confirmed Clutter's story for themselves. They ransacked the entire house getting no more than roughly fifty dollars, a pair of binoculars and a transistor radio. Once the two had all they could find and assuming that Herb Clutter wasn't volunteering the information of where the cash was stored, executed in cold blood all four family members.

When officers arrived, Herb Clutter, 48, lay sprawled on a mattress in the basement, stabbed, his throat slashed and a shotgun charge fired to his head. He wore pajamas. His hands were bound and his mouth was taped shut. On a couch in an adjoining room was 15-year-old Kenyon Neal Clutter, bound, gagged and shot in the head. In separate upstairs bedrooms were the bodies of Mrs. Bonnie Mae Clutter, 45, and Nancy Mae Clutter, 16. Mrs. Clutter was bound and gagged, Nancy only bound. Each had been shot in the head.

Garden City Police Department Chief Mitchell Geisler was one of the first officers to arrive to the horrific scene. Accompanying him was Assistant Chief Ritch Rohleder. Rohleder was an expert photographer and used his skills to photograph the crime scene. 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.

Alvin Dewey, of the Kansas Bureau of Investigations (KBI), lead the investigation with help from four other KBI investigators working under him. He also solicited the support of other governmental agencies to develop evidence and leads.

Immediately following the murders, Hickock and Smith fled to the Kansas City area where Hickock wrote a series of hot checks. After overstaying their welcome, they decided to flee to Mexico where they lived for a short period of time. There, they pawned the binoculars and eventually hitchhiked their way through California enroute to Omaha, Nebraska. After a short stay in Omaha, they made their way to Iowa where they stole a car and returned to the Kansas City area. From Kansas City, they eventually travelled to Florida and Nevada. It was in Nevada where Dewey and the KBI eventually caught up with them on December 31, 1959.

The time Hickock and Smith spent canvassing the country, 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. As karma goes, the prisoner that ratted out Hickock and Smith was later killed himself in a prison break in Mississippi.

When Hickock and Smith were captured in Nevada they were still driving the stolen car they had acquired in Iowa. They also had in their possession the boot which made the bloody print. Once word got out that they had been captured, Dewey and three other KBI investigators flew to Nevada to solicit a confession from the two men. After the confession, they were flown from Nevada to Garden City where they stood trial in Finney County District Court for the murders. On March 29, 1960, a jury of all men returned a verdict of guilty and recommended the death penalty. For the next five years they lived on death row at the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas (just north of Kansas City). They were executed by hanging on the gallows of the grounds of the prison with very little fan fare on April 14, 1965. Hickock died at 12:41 a.m. and Smith at 1:19 a.m. The State paid for the burials but Smith's would cost $250 less than Hickock's. Smith, an honorably discharged Korean War veteran, was entitled to a $250 veterans burial allowance. They were buried in Mt. Muncie cemetery.

The last words of Smith were, "I think it is a hell of a thing that a life has to be taken in this manner. I say this especially because there's a great deal I could have offered society. I certainly think capital punishment is legally and morally wrong. Any apology for what I have done would be meaningless at this time. I don't have any animosities toward anyone involved in this matter. I think that is all."

The last words of Hickock were, "No, I guess I don't." But then he motioned for KBI Agent Roy Church, who played a major role in the arrest of the two men, to come to where he (Hickock) was standing. "You're sending me to a better place than this," and added that he did not bear any grudge against Church for his role in the case. He then shook hands and said, "Goodbye."

As Hickock waited for the trap to spring beneath him, the prison chaplain, Rev. Edgar Meissner, read a portion of the 23rd Psalm. As Smith waited, the Rev. James Post, former prison chaplain prayed quietly, "The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. Blessed is the name of the Lord. May the Lord have mercy on your soul." Later the Rev. Mr. Post said Smith had not wanted anything read over him. "I cheated him a little bit, " the former chaplain added.

Hickock and Smith ate their final meal in separate rooms, each with a chaplain sitting by. They had ordered spiced shrimp, french fries, garlic bread, ice cream and strawberries with whipped cream.
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Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith were in prison when they heard from another prisoner that Herb Clutter was very wealthy and he had money stashed in a safe in his house. This prisoner, who told Hickock and Smith this, had previously worked for the Clutter family.

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The real story behind Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”. In April last year, the home with a dark history went back on the market. What was once home to the Clutter family was said to fetch between $150,000 and $200,000 in price. The house via people.com The seemingly regular farmhouse continues to at…

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Sudden Personality Changes in Adults | Dual Diagnosis

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A personality change occurs when a person’s appearance, behaviours, emotions, or feelings change drastically. Gradual personality change and personality change in adulthood are standard, particularly in the aftermath of trauma or achievement. On the other hand, uncontrollable, upsetting, or anxiety-…

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This page provides a summary of what occurred, and what was done in response to the murders. (comparable to a police report.) This described what happened in jail when Dick and Perry were cellmates, as well as their motive of why they wanted to kill the Clutters. It's fascinating since they were well aware of everything that might have led to their arrest and managed to escape it. I knew they'd previously been in the jail reform system, but this appeared to be a very sophisticated murder. It included a detailed summary of the killings, which was useful because it was brief and to the point.

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A sudden change in your attitude or uncontrollable unwelcoming behavior may suggest a severe issue. A variety of mental disorders may cause personality changes. Among them are anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, and depression are all conditions that can alter a person’s personality.

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Because Dick and Perry were convicted of these crimes it brings the question of why they did it. Was it out of greed, out of jealousy / vengeance, or was it really out the blue? If there truly was no motive to this crime then it seems that there could have been underlying issues with both Dick and Perry. From the book we can presume that Perry has some kind of insecurity (about his knees) that could lead him to overcompensate in the form of murders. You can assume that Dick has taken the dominant role in the friendship and Perry kind of trails behind. You can assume that Perry has some kind of inferiority complex that makes him constantly feel the need to prove himself to Dick.

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Source 1 would agree with the claim because it discusses the motive of the crime and  discusses Dick and Perry's dynamic.

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This police report provides a detailed scenario in which it describes who Dick and Perry are and what they did. It describes how these former inmates thought this family had a lot of money, therefore they made a plan to rob them. However, when things don't go according to plan, the 2 men slaughter the family. The report also mentions the men's trials and days leading up to their death, as they were given the death penalty.

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Source 2 would agree with the claim because it discusses the crime in its entirety and shows how Dick and Perry had wasted their lives.

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https://www.audible.com/pd/In-Cold-Blood-Audiobook/B002UZJTXM

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"If the Oscar-winning film Capote has brought this story's outline to a new audience, Scott Brick's outstanding narration should introduce a generation of listeners to the complete story. Capote's 1965 "nonfiction novel," built around the senseless murder of a Kansas family, is a marvelous blend of rigorous reporting and poetic license. His portrait of the two killers is sympathetic - the act was monstrous, but the men were not monsters - and the soft edges of Brick's voice convey this perfectly. Though the recording is more than 14 hours, Brick is just so easy to listen to. It's not so much what he does, but what he doesn't do: he attempts no Kansas accents, no melodramatic phrasing. He steps back and lets the story breathe, and in doing so, leaves the listener breathless." ( AudioFile magazine)

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Check out this great listen on Audible.com. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues....

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This page has text along with an informative video that vivdly demostrates the complexity of what was likely going through Dick and Perry's head. It focuses on the struggles of mental illness and examines not only what they were feeling, but why they were feeling that way. It gave insight that Dick was a sociopath and Perry was a schitzophrenic that would often break from reality and not necessarily know what he was doing. This page provides quotes as well. It states that Perry displays signs of schitzophrenia when her says, "I didnt want to harm the man. I though he was a very nice gentle-man. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." This page dismisses any that state they were cold blooded murderers, which yes they were but you must also take into consideration that they were both severly mentally ill.

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This page provudes many examples and quotes of when these mental illnesses are displayed through Dick and Perry. With the quote used previously you can really see the internal conflict that Perry felt and that when a schitzophrenic breaks from reality which happens often, they have little awareness of right and wrong. In an interview with Capote, he displays sympathy for Dick and Perry because he spent many years with these men and he often implied he viewed them as nothing more then troubled young men. This source has the same type of tone, while it is very sophisticated when describing the illnesses, it is also easy to understand.

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Source 4 would support the overall claim because it acknowledges their mental illnesses and they, primarily Perry, cannot be punished for something that is entirely out of control.

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Source 4 would most likely contradict this evidence because this source seems to have no compassion or anything towards while as the other source has a more light approach and treats them as people rather than criminals punished with death. My source does not focus on the murders, rather it focuses on the detrimental diseases that Dick and Perry have.

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Source 4 does not really have anything to do with this evidence, it would not contradict nor agree with it. This just gives a very monotone description of the murder and doesnt really address Dick and Perry directly. While as my source shows more emotion along with the science.

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Source 4 would agree with this evidence. When Truman Capote speaks of them, it is evident that he has sympathy for Dick and Perry and sees them as troubled young men not the monsters they are depcited as. Source 4 does the same thing and shows them as humans. It shows that this source is credible, because it is Truman Capote himself and he spent about ten years getting to know them and he showed sympathy.

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Source 4 would agree with this evidence because this gives a detailed description of the science behind this disorder and conditions and they explain why they did it, not just that they did it. Both focus on the extremities of the disorders and do not pay much attention to the murders. This source is credible as it is a medically approved diagnosis site and it is explaining what these disorders are.

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Source 3 would not really support our claim because the police report does not mention anything about mental illness or anything in that category. The police report is more focused on what they did and the motive, which they claim was robbery, money.

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Source 1 would agree with this source because it provides a more analytical explanation of the murders rather than the emotional explanation that Capote gives.

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Source 1 and 2 would most likely not agree with this information because they don't have any evidence that relates to this claim.

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Source 1 might agree with this claim because Capote discusses how he feels for both Dick and Perry (doesn't feel bad for them because he knows their punishment is justified) and you could defend the narrative that Capote feels bad for Dick and Perry because their mental issues are going unnoticed and untreated,