Comments on: In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:38:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Vincent T. Marchese http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6494 Vincent T. Marchese Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:10:10 +0000 http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6494 Sorry, you've lost me. I don't understand your reply! Sorry, you’ve lost me. I don’t understand your reply!

]]> By: CicaLevica@girlsandnylons http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6493 CicaLevica@girlsandnylons Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:39:06 +0000 http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6493 Are you free? Is it still miserably little his books written in and annotated anymore? Is that a fact. Are you free? Is it still miserably little his books written in and annotated anymore? Is that a fact.

]]> By: Vincent T. Marchese http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6490 Vincent T. Marchese Thu, 28 May 2009 01:04:12 +0000 http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6490 I HAVE BEEN INTRIGUED BY THIS STORY EVER SINCE I READ THE EXCERPTS IN THE NEW YORKER AND THEN SAW THE RICHARD BROOKES FILM ADAPTATION OF THE BOOK IN 67'. SINCE THEN I'VE COMPILED QUITE A BIT OF WRITTEN AND VISUAL DATA, INCLUDING THE CRIME SCENE IMAGES. BUT WHAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW IS...WHAT IS THE REAL VERSION OF WHAT WENT DOWN WITH THIS STORY. THERE ARE, I'VE COUNTED, ABOUT 5 DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF EVENTS. IS THERE ANYONE WITH AUTHORITY ON THIS CASE THAT REALY KNOWS? I'VE SPOKEN TO THE ARCHIVIST AT THE FINNEY COUNTY LIBRARY BUT IT DIDN'T HELP MUCH. I'VE TRIED TO GET IN TOUCH WITH GARDEN CITY SHERIF KEVIN BASQUE WITH OUT MUCH SUCCESS. VINCENT T. MARCHESE PATERSON, NJ I HAVE BEEN INTRIGUED BY THIS STORY EVER SINCE I READ THE EXCERPTS IN THE NEW YORKER AND THEN SAW THE RICHARD BROOKES FILM ADAPTATION OF THE BOOK IN 67′. SINCE THEN I’VE COMPILED QUITE A BIT OF WRITTEN AND VISUAL DATA, INCLUDING THE CRIME SCENE IMAGES.
BUT WHAT I’D LIKE TO KNOW IS…WHAT IS THE REAL VERSION OF WHAT WENT DOWN WITH THIS STORY. THERE ARE, I’VE COUNTED, ABOUT 5 DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF EVENTS. IS THERE ANYONE WITH AUTHORITY ON THIS CASE THAT REALY KNOWS? I’VE SPOKEN TO THE ARCHIVIST AT THE FINNEY COUNTY LIBRARY BUT IT DIDN’T HELP MUCH. I’VE TRIED TO GET IN TOUCH WITH GARDEN CITY SHERIF KEVIN BASQUE WITH OUT MUCH SUCCESS.

VINCENT T. MARCHESE
PATERSON, NJ

]]> By: Reading Responds « Good’s http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6456 Reading Responds « Good’s Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:58:58 +0000 http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6456 [...] “In Cold Blog-A blog for historical true crime fans.” Wordpress.2007. http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/. [...] [...] “In Cold Blog-A blog for historical true crime fans.” WordPress.2007. http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/. [...]

]]> By: C Shuford http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6451 C Shuford Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:44:45 +0000 http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6451 Here is an aerial map of Holcomb as taken from mapquest.com. http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&cat=&address=&city=Holcomb&state=KS&zipcode= If I'm not mistaken, you need to go south on Main Street from Jones Avenue. Main Street will intersect Oak Avenue on the right. Turn right on Oak Avenue. Oak Avenue actually dead ends at the drive which leads to the Clutter home. Off to the right of this point is South West Street. You will probably not be able to enter the drive without risking being blasted by the current owners of the home. Last I heard they had posted no trespassing signs at the entrance. However, I have also heard that ownerpship of the property may have changed hands in the last year and a half, so the current owners may be more amenable to visitors. Notice that as you pan south and west of Jones Avenue, a collection of several large buildings and smaller ones surrounded first by dirt roads and then by large open fields appears just south of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad line. It will lie in the lower left of the map. This is River Valley Farm, the old Clutter homestead. It is actually large enough to be considered a geographical landmark. There are two large metal buildings oriented north and south. To the northeast of the northernmost building is where the house is located. I have seen modern pictures of the house, and it looks much the same as it did the day the murders took place. Good luck finding it. Here is an aerial map of Holcomb as taken from mapquest.com.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&cat=&address=&city=Holcomb&state=KS&zipcode=

If I’m not mistaken, you need to go south on Main Street from Jones Avenue. Main Street will intersect Oak Avenue on the right. Turn right on Oak Avenue. Oak Avenue actually dead ends at the drive which leads to the Clutter home. Off to the right of this point is South West Street. You will probably not be able to enter the drive without risking being blasted by the current owners of the home. Last I heard they had posted no trespassing signs at the entrance. However, I have also heard that ownerpship of the property may have changed hands in the last year and a half, so the current owners may be more amenable to visitors.

Notice that as you pan south and west of Jones Avenue, a collection of several large buildings and smaller ones surrounded first by dirt roads and then by large open fields appears just south of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad line. It will lie in the lower left of the map. This is River Valley Farm, the old Clutter homestead. It is actually large enough to be considered a geographical landmark. There are two large metal buildings oriented north and south. To the northeast of the northernmost building is where the house is located. I have seen modern pictures of the house, and it looks much the same as it did the day the murders took place. Good luck finding it.

]]> By: historicaltruecrime http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6078 historicaltruecrime Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:41:19 +0000 http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6078 If I remember correctly, it's south of 50. It's on the road the High School is on and south of there. It's on a road off to the right. If I remember correctly, it’s south of 50. It’s on the road the High School is on and south of there. It’s on a road off to the right.

]]> By: Mike http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6072 Mike Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:52:18 +0000 http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-6072 I just drove through Holcomb on US 50. Where was the house located from Rte 50 and the Holcomb sign which is on Rte. 50? I just drove through Holcomb on US 50. Where was the house located from Rte 50 and the Holcomb sign which is on Rte. 50?

]]> By: Russell l. ross http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-5196 Russell l. ross Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:40:27 +0000 http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-5196 McClatchy's Joseph L. Galloway,1959 murder of Herbert Clutter familyas wonderful. Joe Galloway a McClatchy Reporter, who thinks that "Murder is wonderful". this statement by Joe Galloway can be found at this ural. http://www.doingoralhistory.org/virtual_archive/2004/Papers/PDFs/A_Goldstein.pdf Joe Galloway also says he has the works of Enie Pyle. Joe Galloway " And they had wonderful murder cases in the flatlands of Kansas, I worked on the appeals of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Cold_Blood_(book) It details the 1959 slaying of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, his wife, and two children. Two ex-convicts on parole from the Kansas State Penitentiary, Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, committed the robbery and murders on November 15, 1959. McClatchy’s Joseph L. Galloway,1959 murder of Herbert Clutter familyas wonderful.

Joe Galloway a McClatchy Reporter, who thinks that “Murder is wonderful”.

this statement by Joe Galloway can be found at this ural.

http://www.doingoralhistory.org/virtual_archive/2004/Papers/PDFs/A_Goldstein.pdf

Joe Galloway also says he has the works of Enie Pyle.

Joe Galloway ” And they had wonderful murder cases in

the flatlands of Kansas, I worked on the appeals

of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Cold_Blood_(book)

It details the 1959 slaying of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, his wife, and two

children.

Two ex-convicts on parole from the Kansas State Penitentiary, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Edward

Smith, committed the robbery and murders on November 15, 1959.

]]> By: jacob D http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-552 jacob D Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:41:32 +0000 http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-552 ^^^ that guy is wierd ^^^ that guy is wierd

]]> By: kyle privet http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-551 kyle privet Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:40:51 +0000 http://incoldblog.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/in-cold-blood-by-truman-capote/#comment-551 i like men and such. i like men and such.

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