The Clutter Family Murders

Detectives Don't Sleep

NOISER

True Crime, Fiction, History, Drama

4.6 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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It’s one of the most famous cases in True Crime history, thanks to Truman Capote’s classic book In Cold Blood. The story begins one night in November 1959 when something dark and dangerous drifts into the small village of Holcomb, Kansas, killing four members of the same family. Special Agent Alvin Dewey leads the team investigating this apparently senseless crime. With barely $50 in cash taken from the house, detectives struggle to understand why anyone would want to kill the Clutter. A Noiser production, written by Roger Morris For ad-free listening, exclusive content, and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Sunday, November 15th,
0:07.0	1959, and we're in Kansas.
0:11.0	They call it the Midwest, but it's pretty much the geographic center of the United States.
0:18.0	This is farming country.
0:22.1	Nearly 90% of the state is devoted to agriculture.
0:26.5	Cattle, sheep, soybeans, hogs,
0:30.7	but more than anything, wheat.
0:33.6	Everywhere you look, there's undulating fields
0:37.1	of golden wheat.
0:39.3	The wide horizon stretches in every direction.
0:43.3	Here and there, the monotony is broken by towering grain hoppers.
0:48.3	The sky has a crystal clarity to it, hard-edged, almost brutal.
0:55.0	During the day, it feels like a place where there is nowhere to hide.
1:00.0	At night, it's a different story.
1:03.0	It's a land of remote homesteads, of small towns and even smaller villages.
1:10.0	Holcomb and Finney County is one of those places. of small towns and even smaller villages.
1:14.6	Holcomb and Finney County is one of those places.
1:18.6	To look at, it's just a handful of buildings clustered around the post office and divided by the railroad.
1:23.6	Not that any passenger trains ever stop here.
1:29.3	The population of Holcomb is tiny, less than 300.
1:33.3	But sometime in the early hours of this morning, it was reduced by four.
1:38.3	Four members of one family, Herb, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyan clutter were murdered in their own home.
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