The extraordinary life of one of America’s most unusual novelists.
In Cold Blood is about the 1959 killing of Herbert Clutter, his wife, Bonnie Clutter, and their two children. Clutter was a wealthy and successful farmer from Holcomb, Kansas. He employed up to eighteen workers, and he was respected for his fair treatment and good wages. Clutter’s wife, Bonnie, suffered from depression. The Clutters had four children: three girls and a boy. The two eldest, Eveanna and Beverly, had moved out. The two younger children, Nancy (16) and Kenyon (15), were still living at home. The 14th November 1959 seemed to be a perfectly ordinary day. But it wasn’t. Two young men were planning to rob the Clutters.