180: The Alday Family Massacre

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

For the Alday family, May 14th of 1973 started like any other day. The Alday men woke up before sunrise to tend to their family farm, and the Alday women began working on their chores. They plowed the field, planted corn, and ate lunch. Little did they know that, by the end of that afternoon, their lives would be irreparably changed forever. Six members of the Alday family dead. Their farm decimated. Their future destroyed. All because four dangerous men, three of whom were prison escapees, would accidentally stumble upon their modest home in rural Seminole County, Georgia.

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Researched and written by Andrea Marshbank
Additional writing by Erica Kelley
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Original Music by Rob Harrison of Gamma Radio
Edited & Mixed by Brandon Schexnayder of Southern Gothic & Erica Kelley
Case suggested by: Tommy, Sandra, Carrie & Jordie

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0:00.0	7. Southern Fried True Crime Covers Cases That Are Not Suitable For Young Listeners
0:06.7	And There May Also Be Some Explicit Language Used
0:10.0	Today's case involves sexual assault.
0:13.1	Listener discretion is strongly advised.
0:18.6	On November 15th of 1959, four members of the clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas were
0:25.5	murdered in cold blood.
0:28.4	Hip and Bonnie Clutter were in their late 40s, and their children were just teenagers,
0:33.8	a 16-year-old daughter named Nancy, and a 15-year-old son named Kenyan.
0:40.0	They were killed by two ex-convicts, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock.
0:45.7	Six years later, in 1965, both killers were executed by hanging.
0:52.0	Here after that, in 1966, Truman Capote published his groundbreaking novel, In Cold Blood,
1:00.0	which began a new True Crime genre.
1:02.7	One that was much more respected than the salacious detective magazines, born of the earlier
1:08.2	penny dreadfuls from centuries before.
1:11.7	And Capote had found the perfect subject.
1:15.0	The clutter family massacred shocked the nation.
1:18.8	The clutters were the epitome of 1950s innocence.
1:22.8	They were farmers, pillars of the church, and good people, beloved by their community,
1:29.4	well off but not conspicuously wealthy.
1:32.8	And their deaths were just so senseless, the innocence was shattered.
1:38.8	Perry Smith had heard a rumor from a former cellmate that Herb Clutter kept large amounts
1:44.1	of cash in his home, but Herb didn't.
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