Perry
Edward Smith
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Perry Edward Smith is led by police officers into the courthouse
at Garden City. Smith was arrested
in Las Vegas and charged with
first-degree murder in the slaying of four members of the Herbert
Clutter family at their farmhouse in Holcomb. (William Straeter / Associated Press)
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Perry Edward Smith is seen as he was returned to the Finney
County Courthouse in Garden City,
in this 1960 photo. (Anonymous / Associated Press)
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Clutter family murder suspect Perry
Edward Smith, right, is interviewed by Dr. Mitchell Jones,
staff psychiatrist
of the Larned, Kansas State Hospital, March 21, 1960.
(William Straeter / Associated Press)
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Photograph of bloody boot print in the
Clutter farm.
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Bottom of Smith's boot.
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Smith's boot print.
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Perry
Edward Smith
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Perry
Edward Smith
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Prison guards accompany Perry Smith,
at left in suit coat, and Richard Hickock, right, as they head
to the federal courthouse in Topeka to make their last appeal.
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Smith's fingerprint card
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Smith's rap sheet
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Perry
Edward Smith
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Perry
Edward Smith in prison with Truman Capote
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Perry Edward Smith biography