In Cold Blood

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   linda-allen Teacher
   High School - 10th Grade

   They were cold-blooded killers. Capote's book is a fictionalized account of the true murders of the Clutter family by Perry Smith and Richard Hickok. While they were awaiting execution on death row, George York and James Latham are sentenced to death killing seven people. While Smith and Hickok were in Leavenworth because their crime was committed in Kansas, York and Latham were sent there because they were active-duty military who went AWOL and committed a cross-country killing spree. Smith and Hickok committed murder out of greed; they had heard that Herbert Clutter kept thousands of dollars in his safe at home. York and Latham, however, decided that life was not worth living and decided to end the lives of others.

   See the articles I've linked below.

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   http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/112199/met_...

   http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/208831

   http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/28/home/capote-blood2....

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