Hear/Say

Just got done with Capote’s In Cold Blood. How fantastically written! Incredibly believable. And as sexy sensationalism goes, I can’t stop Googling the Clutter killings… not without an innate sense of guilty curiosity…

pictures courtesy of the Garden City police website themselves; some graphic material.

If you haven’t read the book or heard of the story, the Clutter family were found murdered in separate parts of their house, bound by robes before being executed with a .12 shotgun blast to the head. Mr. Herb Clutter was also found with a gashed throat.

The book delves deeper into the psychology of Holcomb community, the friends and family, and even the psychological framework of the two killers’ collaborative efforts. The painstaking detail used to recreate the less appealing side of Perry and Dick’s lives up to this climactic act “bred from the race of Cain” is what lured me in; after all, which lady justice can rightfully avenge the excruciating memories of a lonely Perry?

It took Truman Capote 6 years to write the book.

I know it’s a famous book, but I hope people still find time to read these “OLD” books (a friend admitted he never read anything that ‘old’ unless he was forced to in hs); not that that I understand fictional texts to become outdated– like movies, they’re new until you see’em.

Graceee