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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 15, 1967
Clutter slaughter recalled
Editor's note: Eight years ago today four members of a prominent Kansas community gave their home near Holomb, Kan. The killings resulted in the subsequent execution of two e4-convicts and produced a debate over whether the person was The some 100 residents of Holomb don't discuss the Herbert Clutter family much anymore, but the quadruple murder has been wined completely from memory, the following is an anniversary report.
HOLCOMEB, Kan.—(UPI)The buff brick house, buried in the high wheat country of western Kansas, stands today as it did eight years ago.
Although a fresh coat of paint is visible even from the gate 100 yards away, the structure has not changed. But the whispering winds feel different somehow for not even the corrosive power of time has wiped clean the events of Nov. 15, 1559.
University of Oklahoma Coach Chuck Fairbanks Tuesday called the Jayhawks "the most improved team in the conference" and said he couldn't "guarantee anything yet" about Saturday's game.
Hawks called most improved
"The Jayhawks are the most improved team in the conference, and I'm worried about their offense," Fairbanks said. "It sometimes lulls you to sleep and then bang—they make the big play on you."
Jayhawk Coach Pepper Rodgers said this week's clash with the Sooners will be a turning point for the KU team in the title race. Rodgers made three changes in his offensive unit.
In the pre-dawn hours of that day, two ex-convicts, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, crept into this house and, in search of a non-existant safe, killed all four members of the Herbert Clutter family in what state law officers termed the "most heinous crime" in Kansas history.
The Sooners lead the Big Eight with a 4-0 record. Kansas is in second place, 4-1.
Ben Olison was moved to split end. Mike Reeves to fullback and John Jackson to flanker back.
Today the house and the big ranch once operated by Herbert Clutter are under new management. Of the Clutters, one Holcombite says, "We don't talk about them much anymore."
"In Cold Blood," Truman Capote's best selling novel, which tells of the murder and subsequent execution of Hickock and Smith, served to keep the slaying alive in western Kansas.
"Most of the talk about the murder has died down now," says Mrs. Sadie Truitt, the oldest native born Holcombite.
Unlike the 48-year-old Clutter, who was renowned throughout western Kansas, the new owner is not well known here and many area residents say only that he "lives somewhere else . . . and I think a hired hand is taking care of the place."
"The Clutter place is still intact, but none of them live around here anymore."
Last April a motion picture company completed on-location shooting for a film, which has been adapted from Capote's book.
"When the movie comes out, I guess there'll be a lot of talk around here again," said Bill Brown, editor of the Garden City Telegram, 10 miles north of Holcomb.
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