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Kenyon Neal Clutter ( August 28 1944 – November 15 1959 ) was one of four members of the Clutter family murdered during an Invasion of their Holcomb, Kansas farmhouse by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock , two ex-convicts who mistakenly believed that a large amount of money was kept in a safe in the house. At age 15, Kenyon was the youngest child in the family and the only boy (two of his older sisters lived away from home at the time). He was known in the community as a friendly, quiet, withdrawn boy. Smith admitted to firing the shotgun blast that killed Kenyon Clutter while Clutter was bound and gagged on a basement couch. The Clutter family murders became famous after Truman Capote used the murders and their aftermath as the basis for his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood . SEE ALSO |
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