in cold blood journal 2
A large part of the book involves the psychological relationship of the two felons that committed this senseless crime.Two ex-convicts on parole from the Kansas State Penitentiary committed the robbery and murders of the Clutter family. They had heard from a fellow prisoner, Floyd Wells, who had once worked for the Clutters, that there was a safe at the ranch where Herbert Clutter kept large amounts of cash. They belived it was up to thousands of dollars in cash. The things that were told to these two men was absolutly wrong, becasue Herbert did all of his business in checks.
The two killers were Richard Hickock and Perry Edward Smith. Richard Hickock was a life time conman. He was very intelligent and had an excelletn memory. He was basically a man with the gift of gab. He could please anyone with his words. His childhood was pretty much normal with good parent but theye definatly not the wealthiest they were quite poor. Growing up it was obvious that he was a sociopath. He treated his family and friends horrible. Subjecting them to a lifetime of misdeamenors. Ironically he always returned home for acceptance, and a job for a normal chance at life. But he kept going back to his old ways. Richard Hickock was know for of fordging checks and petty theft. It got to the point where that way of life was just normal to him.
Perry Simth grew up in a good family and his parents were rodeo performers. He was half Cherokee Native American and half Irish American.He was short and dark and also partialy injuerd from a motorcycle accident and in constant pain from the damage done to his legs. As a result of his accident, he became addicted to aspirin and did not see the seriousiness of his addiction. He was also very intelligence, artistically and musically. Early in his childhood his mother took him away away from his father and they moved to San Francisco. Because Perry's mother was a single mother and had a hard time raising her childeren he did not receive a very good education.UNfortantly perr's mother became a huge alcholic and later died becasue of her addiction. Soon after that perry's other siblings had commmited suicide and was soon forced to move in an orphanage. Growing up people did not accept him and he suffered from constant rejection. He blamed others for his misfortune and soon put his anger towards others.
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