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Aug 22, 2019
Teri
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On November 15, 1959, in a quiet town in western Kansas, a family of four were sound asleep resting up for another day on the prairie. It would be their last night alive. During the night two men, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith broke into the home of Herbert Clutter with the expectation to rob the family of the tens of thousands of dollars apparently sitting in a home office safe. There was no safe and there was only $40 total in the house. The men planned to leave no witnesses, executing the four
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True crime has never really been my jam, unless you count a brief foray into amateur Ripperology during my adolescence. (Not sure who he was, but he probably wasn’t the prince.) One of the worst aspects of the true crime genre is that the victims tend to end up getting far less space in the narrative than the murderers, which is partly because, by definition, they aren’t around to tell their side of the story, and partly because it seems as though we have a deep seated urge to attempt to underst
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Very well done.
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