In Cold Blood Part 2 – Flashcards
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What is the setting of the day after the murder
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Monday, 16 November 1959 a bright-skied day, as glittery as mica
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Who is Andy Erhart
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a pheasant hunter good friend of Herb classmate of herb gentle, genially dignified scholar calloused hands and sunburned neck
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How long have Andy and Herb been friends
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30 yrs
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Who are Herb's 3 other close friends
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Dr. J.E. Dale- veterinarian Carl Myers- a dairy owner Everett Ogburn- businessman
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Who is the superintendent of the Kansas Sate University Agricultural Experiment Station
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Andy Erhart
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What did Andy, Dale, Carl and Everett all volunteer to do and what did they bring with them
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they volunteered to clean the 4 rooms that the murders occurred in they brought mops, pails, scrubbing brushes, rags and detergents
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Who was the patrolman
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the guardian of a barricade
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How much longer did the 4 men have to drive after passing the patrolman
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1/2 a mile down the elm-shaded lane
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Who admitted the 4 friends into the Clutter house
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Alfred Stoecklein- only employee that loved on the property
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In what order of the rooms did the 4 men clean
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1st- furnace room where Mr. Clutter was found 2nd- playroom where Kenyon was found 3rd and 4th- 2nd floor where Nancy and Bonnie were found
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What as special about the couch that Kenyon was found on
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it was a relic that Kenyon had rescued and mended and that Nancy had slip-covered and piled with mooted pillows
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What did the 4 men find in Nancy and Bonnie's room
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blood-soiled bedclothes, mattresses, a bedside rug and a Teddy-bear doll
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What are the reasons that Alfred Stoecklein couldn't have heard the gunshots
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he lives 100 yards away there is a big milo barn between the two houses that can soak up a lot of noise the wind was blowing west so it would have blown the sound to the other side
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Where does Alfred want to move to
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alongside the highway
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How long did the 4 friends clean up for
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from noon to dusk
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What did the 4 friends do with all of the items from the Clutter house
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piled it all on a pickup truck Alfred drove drove deep into the farm's north field made a pyramid of Nancy's pillows, bedclothes, mattresses, the couch
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What is the farm's north field
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a flat place full of colour, mainly yellow
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Who sprinkled the pyramid of items with paraffin and struck a match to light it on fire
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Alfred
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What did Herb's life evolve from
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from a poorly paid county agricultural agent into one of the region's most widely known and respected farm ranchers he was modest but proud raised a fine family
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What did Erhart wonder about when he heard of Herb's death
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How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this- smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big annihilating sky?
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What is Kansas Bureau of Investigation
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a state wide organization with headquarters in Topeka has 19 detectives
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Who is Alvin Adam Dewey
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The Bureau's Garden city representative and the agent responsible for a sizeable portion of Western Kansas lean and handsome 4th generation Kansan 47yrs old
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Who is Earl Robinson
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sheriff of Finney County
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What was Dewey before he became an agent at KBI
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former sheriff (1947-1955) FBI special agent (1940-1945) in New Orleans, San Antonio, Denver, Miami and San Francisco
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What was Dewey's attitude to the Clutter murder investigation
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he had a personal proposition because he and his wife were friends with the Clutter family
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Who are some of KBI's best investigators
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Special Agents Harold Nye, Roy Church and Clarence Duntz
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What are some characteristics of the Sheriffs' office
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3rd floor of the Finney County courthouse an ordinary stone and cement building 3 rooms
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Who is Mrs. Edna Richardson
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Sheriff Robinsons's hospitable secretary that always had time to prepare a pot of coffee and time to chew fat
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Where have the case headlines of the Clutter's murders reached
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as far East as Chicago as far west as Denver
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When did Dewey hold a press conference
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Midday, Monday
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What is the estimated time of the murders
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11:00 pm Saturday to 2:00 am Sunday
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What does Dewey think is a mere coincidence
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that Mr. Clutter took out a $40,000 life insurance policy with double indemnity the day before he was killed
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Who are the only 2 people that benefit financially from the deaths
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Mrs. Donald Jarchow and Miss Beverly Clutter
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What is the single killer concept
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a friend who knew the house well, knew the doors were seldom locked, that Mr. Clutter slept in the master bedroom alone on the first floor where everyone else slept on the second floor in separate rooms around midnight, dark windows, Clutters asleep, Teddy is afraid of guns, disposed of all telephone connections woke Mr. Clutter up forced him to gag bonnie, bound his daughter and roped them to their beds, then the father and the son were escorted to the basement, taped Kenyon and tied his feet to the couch the Mr. Clutter was hit on the head, gagged and killed
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What is the double killer concept
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similar to the single killer concept but the killer had an accomplice
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What are some doubts about the single killer concept and the double killer concept
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single- Kenyon and Mr. Clutter are both strong enough to overtake the killer and would have done so double- how could the killer have found someone with the same amount of rage against the Clutter and be crazy enough to help
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Where did Dewey retire to after the news conference
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to his office, a room that the sheriff had temporarily lent him contained a desk and two straight chairs
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What was Dewey's desk littered with
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courtroom exhibits: the adhesive tape and the yards of cord removed from the victims and now sealed in plastic sacks and photographs taken at the scene of the crime by a police photgrapher
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What did the photographs of the crime scene consist of
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20 blown up glossy print pictures of Mr. Clutter's shattered skull, his son's demolished face, Nancy's bound hands, her mother's death0dulled, still-staring eyes and so on
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What valuable surprise did a close-up of Mr. Clutter and the mattress box upon which he lay provide
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footprints, the dusty trackings of shoes with diamond- patterned soles not noticeable to the eye, registered on film the delineating glare of a flashbulb had revealed their presence with superb exactness
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What were the only serious clues that the investigators could claim
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footprints and the bold and bloody impression of a Cat's paw half sole
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What did Nancy's diary start and end with
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started with her thirteenth birthday and ended some two moths short of her seventeeth
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What were the three lines written in her diary an hour or two before Nancy died
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Jolene K. came over and I showed her how to make a cherry-pie. Practiced with Roxie. Bobby here and we watched TV. Left at elven
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What have the investigators done with Bobby Rupp already
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he has undergone one extensive interrogation and although he'd told a straightforward story of having passed just an ordinary evening with the Clutters, he was scheduled for a second interview at which he was to be given a polygraph test
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What was Bobby's motive
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Mr. Clutter wanting Bobby and Nancy to break up
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What happened to Nancy's cat Boobs
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she was found lying in the barn might have been poisoned
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What does Dewey think of the poisoning of Boobs
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it might have been a small, malicious prelude to the murders
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What were Agents Church, Duntz and Nye doing while Dewey was reading Nancy's diary
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they were criss-crossing the countryside, talking to anyone who could tell them anything the faculty of Holcomb School the employees of River Valley Farm (18 men in the spring and summer, but in the fallow season consisted of Gerald Van Vleet and three hired men plus Mrs. Helm friends of the victims neighbors and relatives
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When was the funeral to take place
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Wednesday morning, November 18, 1959
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What are some characteristics of Harold Nye
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youngest of the KBI group 34 yrs old restless, disgruntled eyes and a sharp nose chin and mind, had been assigned what he called 'the damned delicate business' of interviewing the Clutter kinfolk
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What are the nicknames of the KBI members
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Harold Nye- Brother Nye Duntz- Old man Church- Curly
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What are some characteristics of Clarence Duntz
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not quite 50 burly but light-footed man with a broad, tomcat face
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What are some characteristics of Roy Church
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60 or so pink-skinned and professorial-looking tough according to his colleagues and the fastest draw in Kansas head is partly hairless
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What did Duntz's story consist of
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a father and a son who are known as John Senior and John Junior John Senior had conducted with Mr. Clutter a minor business transaction, the outcome of which angered John Senior, who felt that Clutter had thrown him a 'queer ball' both John Senior and Junior boozed, indeed John junior was an often-incarcerated alcoholic full of whiskey courage were denied the chance to have an out with Herb when Herb seized a gun and marched them off his property
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What was Church's story
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Mr. Smith who believed that the squire of River Valley Farm had shot and killed Smith's hunting dog Church had inspected Smith's farm home and seen there, hanging from a barn rafter, a length of rope tied with the same knot that was used to bind the four Clutters
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Why couldn't robbery be an explanation
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because everyone knows Herb doesn't have cash and because Mrs. Clutter was still wearing her gold band and diamond ring
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Why does Nye think it could be a robbery
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Clutter's wallet was left open and empty on Clutter's bed Nancy's purse was lying on the kitchen floor Clutter cashed a 60 dollar check the day before so there had to have been at least 50 dollars
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What did Dewey do when he interrupted the consultation
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he called his wife Marie to warn her that he won't be home for dinner
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What are some characteristics of the Dewey family
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have two young boys married for 17 years Alvin met Marie, a Louisiana- born former FBI stenographer, while stationed in New Orleans
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Who is the only person not scared
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Mrs. Myrtle Clare, the widowed postmistress she has scorned her fellow townsman as ' a lily-livered lot, shaking in their boots afraid to shut their eyes
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How did Mrs. Myrtle Clare die
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11 months later a gun-toting team of masked bandits took her at word by invading the post office and relieving the lady of nine hundred and fifty dollars
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What are the current fastest-going item
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locks and bolts no matter the type
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What did a carload of pheasant hunters from Colorado encounter on Tuesday, at dawn
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windows ablaze, fully clothed people who had sat the whole night wide awake, watchfull, listening
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What were the some reasons that everyone was so scared
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it might happen again it happened to a family that was admired and secure, they represented value and respect distrust of the neighbors
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Who is Arthur Clutter and what did he say while talking to journalists in the lobby of a Garden City hotel on 17 November
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a brother of the deceased said 'When this is cleared up, I'll wager whoever did it was someone within ten miles of where we stand now
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What is the Eagle Buffet
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a Kansas City diner 400 miles east of the Garden City hotel
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Who were the two men sitting at the Eagle Buffet and what were they doing
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Dick- narrow-faced and with a blue cat tattooed on his right hand he ate several chicken-salad sandwiches Perry- an untouched hamburger and a glass of root beer in which three aspirin were dissolving
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What was Perry reading
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17 November edition of the Kansas City Star Headlined CLUE ARE FEW IN SLAYING of 4
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What are some examples of Perry's extrasensory perception
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His brother Jimmy and his wife loved each other but Jimmy was very jealous so he killed his wife and then himself in 1949, Perry had been with his dad in Alaska and had told his dad Jimmy is dead a week before it happened Another time, he was helping load a ship, something inside him told him to jump so he did and where he had been previously sitting, a ton of stuff came crashing down
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Who is Floyd Wells
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a former cellmate of Dick
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What has been Perry's dream since he was a kid (around 7)
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He is in Africa in a jungle and he is moving through the trees toward a tree standing all alone, it smelt bad it had blue leaves and diamonds hanging everywhere. Diamonds like oranges but if he tries to reach up, a snake will fall on him, a snake that guards the tree he was saved by a yellow sort of parrot
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How was Perry's childhood
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he was a hated, hating half-breed child living in a California orphanage run by nuns- shrouded disciplinarians who whipped him for wetting his bed
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Who tormented Perry about the parrot
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older children, his father, a faithless girl, a sergeant
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What are the characteristics pf the parrot
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taller than Jesus, yellow like a sunflower, a warrior angel who blinded the nuns with its beak, fed upon their eyes, slaughtered them as they 'pleaded for mercy', then so gently lifted him, enfolded him, winged him away to paradise
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What was the ascension to paradise like
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a sense of power, of unassailable superiority transported to a real place saw a garden with white marble steps and fountains, on the edge of the garden you could see the ocean like around Carmel, California Food table full of Oysters, Turkeys, Hot dogs, fruit
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How does Susan Kidwell describe her friendship with Nancy Clutter
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' We were like sisters. At least that's how i felt about her-as though she were my sister. I couldn't go to school until after the funeral. So did Bobby rupp
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What did Susan do with Bobby after the deaths
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drove around in his old Ford, up and down the highway, out to the airport and back, go to Cree-Mee
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What is Cree-Mee
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a drive-in
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Who has the Clutter pets
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A lady from Garden City took teddy Susan took Evinrude Babe might be sold
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What did Nancy and Bobby do the night before the funeral
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they were sitting at the railroad tracks watching the trains go by then they drove to Garden City picked up Bobby's brother from school and went to the Phillip's Funeral Home on Main Street
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What were each of the Clutter family members wearing in their casktes
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Nancy- cherry-red velvet dress Kenyon- bright plaid shirt Mr. Clutter- navy-blue flannel Bonnie- navy-blue crêpe the head of each was completely encased in cotton, a swollen cocoon twice the size of an ordinary blown-up balloon, and the cotton, because it had been sprayed with a glossy substance
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How many people attended the Clutter Funeral
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1000 people
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Who said the mass
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Reverend Leonard Cowan
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How many people went to the Valley View Cemetery on the north edge of this city and what did they di
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600 people went recited the Lord' prayer
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How did Dick get enough money money to get them to Mexico
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He went into stores made it seem like Perry was getting married, pretended like he forgot his wallet and then wrote up a blank cheque they then went to Best Jewelry, where he bought a diamond engagement ring and a diamond wedding ring with a cheque, they then drove to a pawnshop and sold these items for $150 went to Goldmans bought a gold watch went to Elko Camera Store bought an elaborate motion-picture camera went to Shepherd & Foster's, Rothschild's, Shopper's Paradise
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Who is Perry supposedly marrying
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Eden Roc in miami
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What us the supposed treasure off the coast of Costa Rica
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In 1821, Peruvian bullion, jewelry and 60 million dollars were buried
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At what time did Dewey's phone ring again
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3:00 am
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What are Dewey's 2 sons names
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9 yr old- Paul 12 yr old- alvin Adams Dewey Jr.
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What was the reward for information leading to the solution of the crime
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A Kansas paper, the Hutchinson News, had offered a thousand dollars
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What was Mr. Smith's alibi
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he was in Oklahoma
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Who is Mrs. Elaine Selsor
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Nancy's aunt
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What did Elaine find while sorting Nancy's clothes
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a gold wristwatch tucked in the toe of her shoe
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What did Mrs. Helm realize was missing after taking a KBI agent with her and exploring all the rooms
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Kenyon's little radio
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Why did the mattress box and bedcovers bother Dewey
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it bothered him because why had the murderers taken the trouble to move the box from the far end of the basement room and lay it on the floor in front of the furnace why would a murderer kill bonnie and nancy and then draw up the bedcovers and tuck them in
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When did Perry and Dick leave Kansas City in the old Chevrolet
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21 November
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How did Perry and Dick fit all their stuff in the car
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luggage was lashed to the fenders and roped to the roof the trunk was so stuffed it could not be shut; inside on the beak seat, two televisions sets stood Perry's possessions other than the guitar were part of the car's untidy interior
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When did Perry and Dick cross the border into Oklahoma
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around midnight
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When did Beverly get married
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on Saturday in the First Methodist church three days after the funeral to Mr. Vere Edward English
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Who are Mrs. Leonard Cowan and Mrs. Howard Blanchard
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Cowan- soloist Blanchard- organist
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Who is Howard Fox
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brother of Bonnie from Oregon, Illinois he stated that everyone should forgive and not hold it as a grudge and wish the murderer to be hanged
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Where did Dick and Perry stop to picnic
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on a promontory at noon Mountains hawks wheeling in a white sky a dusty road winding into and out of a while and dusty village second day in Mexico
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When did Perry and Dick cross the border at Laredo, Texas
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the morning of 23 November and they spent the first night in San Luis Potosi brothel 200 miles north of their next destination
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What happens to Perry when he remembers things
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blue light exploding in a black room, the glass eyes of a big toy bear and voices, a silver dollar rolling across a floor, boot step on hardwood stairs and the sounds of breathing, the gasps, the hysterical inhalations of a man with a severed windpipe
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What happened to Perry's mother, 2 sisters and one brother
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his alcoholic mother choked on her own vomit Barbara married and began a family Fern umped out of a window of a San Francisco hotel jimmy killed his wife and then killed himself
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Who is King
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a transient wasn't too young done roadwork and other outdoor stuff had a good build wore reading glasses
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How did Perry kill King and did he actually kill him
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he invited him to go for a drive out in the desert they parked drank a few beers they got out of the car and Perry grabbed the bicycle chain that he kept under the seat and he hit him across the face and kept going Perry knew a guy named King but he never killed him
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What was the old car that Perry used to own called
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Silver Ghost
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What type of dog did Perry and Dick encounter
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an old half-dead mongrel, brittle-boned and mangy
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Who is Bill Brown
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a writer at Telegram
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What was the rumor that originated in Hartman's café
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the rumor is that Taylor Jones, a rancher whose property adjoins River Valley farm, and his family were the intended target because he was richer than Herb
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What does the Hartman's Cafe consist of
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a lunch counter, a few tables, an alcove harboring a hot grill and an icebox and a radio
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To whom, did Mrs. helm say ' Anybody reads the paper knows as much as I do. More. Because I don't read them
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to Mrs. Archibald William Warren-Browne
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Who is Mrs. Archibald William Warren-Browne
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an upper class Englishwoman seemed like a peacock trapped in a turkey pen she escaped the estates in the North of England because of taxes and death duties
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Where did Mrs. Archibald William Warren-Browne used to live
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Paris and Rome. Monte. london
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Who were the two of the cafe's steadiest customers that announced plans to pack up and leave the state
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a tenant farmer who worked for Lester McCoy, a well-known western-Kansas landowner and businessman. Moving to east Colorado Mrs. Hideo Ashida and her 4 red-cheeked kids are moving to Nebraska after Christmas
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Who are Bruce, Bobby and Bonnie Jean
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Mrs. Hideo's kids Bonnie Jean doesn't want to leave
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What was the name of the boat Perry and Dick were on and who was with them
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The Estrellita Perry, Dick, a young Mexican and Otto, a rich middle-aged German
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Where did Perry and Dick go after a week in Mexico City
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south to Cuernavaca, Taxco and Acapulco,where they met the hairy-legged and hearty Otto
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What was the name of Otto's young native Acapulcan
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Cowboy who is said to be mean as Judas
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What did the Cowboy do for Perry and Dick
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he found them a room in the house on an uncle, undertook to improve Perry's spanish and shared the benefits of his liaison with the holidaymaker from Hamburg, in whose company and at whose expense they drank and ate and bought women
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What did Perry, Dick, Cowboy and Otto each do on the boat
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Cowboy-skippered the boat Otto- sketched and fished perry- baited hooks, daydreamed, sang and sometimes fished Dick- did nothing, moaned, complained of the motion, lay about sun-drugged and listless
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Who is Inez
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a prostitute who had accosted Dick on the steps of the Palace of fine Arts in Mexico City 18 yrs old and Dick had promised to marry her
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Who was Maria
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a woman of fifty, who was the widow of a very prominent Mexican Banker Dick had promised to marry her too
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What did Paul Helm inform Al Dewey about the Mexicans
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that at approximately four o'clock on Saturday, 14 November, a pair of Mexicans, one mustachioed and the other pockmarked, appeared at River Valley Farm. mr. helm had seen them knock on the door of the office and 10 minutes walk away looking sulky
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Who is Jonathan Daniel Adrian
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a man that intruded into the Clutter house he was on his way to New Mexico and he wanted to look at the house because he had heard about the murders a 12-gauge shotgun and a hunting knife were found in his car
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What time do the guests of the hotel in Mexico City have to vacate the room
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2:00 pm
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What is the wage for an expert mechanic
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2 dollars a day
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Where would the bus tickets that Dick bought take them
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San Diego, as far as Barstow, California
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What were some of Perry's unusual souvenirs
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suspenders and a belt fabricated from the skins of Nevada rattlers he himself had slain; an erotic netsuke bought in Kyoto; a petrified dwarf tree, also from Japan; the foot of an alaskan bear
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Who did Perry intend on leaving his stuff with
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Jesus, a bartender in a cafe across the street that Perry knew he could trust to return the boxes on demand
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Who was Mr. Rinso Turco
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Perry's' father's lawyer
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What did Perry do in Alaska
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he worked with the Alaska Road Commission
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Where was Perry discharged
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Seattle, Washington
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What is Barbara's nickname
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Bobo
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Who was Flo Buckskin
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a lean Cherokee girl a professional rodeo performer Perry's mom
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Who was Tex John
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Flo's husband a professional rodeo performer Irish Perry's dad
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Where did Flo and Tex meet
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touring the Western rodeo circuit
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Why was Perry always wetting the bed
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Hawks Brand of condensed milk weakened his kidneys
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Where did Tex and Flo retire
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Reno, Nevada
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When did Flo leave
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when perry was 6 to san Francisco and she took the kids with her
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Where did Perry and Tex move to
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Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska
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When did Perry get his snake and dagger tattoo on his left forearm
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in 1945 in Honolulu
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Where did Perry get his Bronze Star
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in Korea
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What year did Perry complete his military service
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1952
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What did Perry's dad want to build
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a hunting lodge, called Trapper's Den Lodge
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Where did Perry get into his motorcycle accident
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Bellingham it was raining and his bike went into a skid
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Who is Joe James
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a young Indian logger and fisherman near Bellingham 7 kids
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What did Perry teach Joe's kids
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how to play harmonica and guitar , draw and penmanship
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What was the name of the lounge in Tex's lodge
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The Totem Pole Cocktail Lounge opened for business in 1953
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When did Perry's dad attempt to shoot him
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in April 1955
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After a few weeks at staying at the James house again after being throw out where did Perry decide to
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Worcester, massachusettes
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What jobs did Perry work at
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washed dishes in an Omaha restaurant pumped gas at an Oklahoma garage on a ranch in texas
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Who said he would give Perry a ride as far as Chicago
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Some guy with the last name Smith
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What mistake did Perry and Smith do after robbing the Chandler Sales Company
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they ignored a traffic signal in the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri
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How did Perry and Smith escape jail
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they discovered and open window, climbed out of it, stole a car and drove west to mcCook, Nebraska they separated made the FBI's Most Wanted List
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What is Worcester
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a Massachusetts factory town of steep, up and down streets that even in the best of weathers seem cheerless and hostile
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What was the name that Perry adopted and what was he being arrested for under that name
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Bob Turner arrested for vagrancy spent 14 days in jail and was fined ten dollars
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Where did Perry go after being released from jail
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he went down to New York and took a room in a hotel on Eighth Avenue near 42nd street did jobs right around the penny arcade never left the Broadway area
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When did Perry get arrested again and what were the charges
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one bright March morning on the edge of spring extradited back to Kansas larceny, jailbreak, car theft 5-10 years wrote a letter to Dad and Barbara
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When was Barbara's letter to Perry written
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28 April 1958
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What are the names of Barbara's three kids
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Freddie, Baby, Donnie
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What are some characteristics of Donnie
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34 inches, 26 lbs and 6 1/2 wide shoe size 15 months and 16 teeth
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What are some characteristics of Baby
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37 1/2 inches 29 1/2 lbs and 8 narrow shoe size
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What are some characteristics of Freddie
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36 1/2 inches 26 1/2 lb and 7 1/2 narrow shoe size
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What are the impressions that Willie-Jay garnered from Barbara's letter
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1. she intended her letter to be a compassionate demonstration of Christian principles 2. it is a foolish letter, but born of human failing 3. She feels that you are a. leaning towards self-pity b. too calculating c. undeserving of an 8 page letter 4.vindicating those who bore influence in her past years 5. respects your dad. resents that you are the favorite 6. you write to her a. love her b. feel a need to contact someone on the outside c. use her
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Who issued Perry his high school diploma
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Leavenworth County Board of Education
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What was Perry's book of random facts called
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The Private Diary of Perry Edward Smith
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Who is Clifford R. Hope, Jr
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a young lawyer and a close friend of Al Dewey
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What is the Dewey's family cat called and what type is it
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Courthouse Pete a tiger striped tom weighing fifteen pounds in the hospital because he lost a fight to a boxer dog
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How much weight has Dewey lost
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20 pounds
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What was the name of a murder that had happened in 1920 before the Clutter murder
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the Hefner Slaying
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Who was Walter Tunif
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a man working on the Finnup Ranch had a stolen car was a soldier AWOL from Fort Bliss, over in Texas a rascal shot the sheriff Orlie Hefner
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What was the incident that Dewey encountered in 1947
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Mary Kay Finney was stabbed with the jagged neck of a beer bottle in a room in the Copeland Hotel, Garden City 5-9-47 by John carlyle Polk
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Who was John Carlyle Polk
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a creek Indian 32 years old resident of Muskogee, Okla killed Mary Kay Finney
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Who was Mark Kay Finney
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white female 40 years old a waitress residing in Garden City
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What were the three other murder investigations that Dewey was involved in
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a pair of railroad workers robbed and killed an elderly farmer, 11-1-52 a drunken husband beat and kicked his wife to death, 6-17-56 started out at Stevens Park, this man named Mooney was walking around the park, he was from North Carolina, he was followed into the restroom by a 20 year old called Wilmer Lee Stebbins that claimed Mooney made an unatural suggestion so stebbins robbed him and knocked him down and banged his head on the cement floor buried the body northeast of Garden City next day he dug it up and put it down 14 miles to the other side
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Who is Dr. Robert Fenton
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the coroner
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What is the theorized order of the killings
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Bonnie, Nancy, Kenyon, and Herb
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What desert were Perry and Dick in and what were they doing
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in the Mojave Desert Perry was sitting on a straw suitcase and was playing a harmonica Dick was standing at the side of a black-surfaced highway, Route 66
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What did the straw suitcase contain
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Perry's souvenirs, plus three shirts, five pairs of white socks, a box of aspirin, a bottle of tequila, scissors, a safety razor, and a fingernail file
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What car did Perry and Dick attempt to steal and who was driving it
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a blue Dodge sedan with a single passenger, a bald, skinny man
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How long was the bus drive from Mexico City to Barstow, California
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50 hr
