Jan 1, 2010

In Cold Blood | Part 1 Summary - The Last to See Them Alive

The first part of In Cold Blood establishes the Clutter family and the duo of Hickock and Smith on two different, but inevitably intersecting, paths. In the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, the Clutter family's activities are ill-fated: Herb Clutter, the father, takes out a forty-thousand-dollar life insurance policy, and the family does not lock the doors to their house. Each member of the family residing in the palatial house at the center of the successful River Valley Farm is painted with delicate, exacting strokes. Kenyon is a boy's boy, not interested in girls yet at...