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Richard Hickock and Perry Smith

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Richard Hickock and Perry Smith

Lansing, KS | Leavenworth County

Richard Hickock and Perry Smith's murder of the Clutter family of Holcomb was chronicled in Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood." The two men are buried two rows in front of a spruce tree in potter's field (all stones are flat). Hickock and Smith were executed at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing in 1965.

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