Fact #10774
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Short story:
Herbert Clutter, a successful farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, USA, plus his wife and two of their four children are killed by Richard 'Dick' Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, two ex-convicts on parole from the Kansas State Penitentiary. The brutal murders will inspire the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, the 2007 song Honest Goodbye by Bad Religion and the 2008 song The Corner by Smoking Popes.
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