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This Is Monsters

The Birth of True Crime : Richard Hickock & Perry Smith

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Season 20 : Killed For Money

Richard Hickock and Perry Smith came up with a plan to rob the Clutter family of $10,000. The thought they could get away with it by leaving no witnesses behind, but they were caught and their story turned into a book that birthed the true crime genre.

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0:00.0

When the Clutter family went to bed on November 14, 1959, they had no way of knowing that they'd never see morning again.

0:08.5

Before that could happen, they would become victims to one of the most infamous crimes in American history.

0:14.5

After two men broke into their home during the early morning hours of November 15th, then proceeded to massacre them.

0:21.9

It would start a chain of events that would lead to a nationwide manhunt,

0:26.1

a major trial and the involvement of Truman Capote as the man who largely created a new genre

0:32.1

of novel off the back of what happened, the genre of true crime.

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2:27.9

of Holcomb, Kansas, a small Midwestern town known mostly for its abundance of farmland.

2:40.3

The reason he was so respected was because, as the owner of River Valley Farm, he'd gained a reputation for being very good to the many farm hands he employed.

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