In Cold. Blood Part 3 & 4 – Flashcards
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Who is Floyd Wells
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Dick's friend from jail Short, nearly chinless Careers- soldier, ranch hand, mechanic, theif ( served 3-5 years of prison)
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What was Floyd Wells doing on Tuesday, 17 Novemeber 1959
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He was lying with with a pair of headphones listening to the news broadcast about the Clutter case
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Who is the Chancellor
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Konrad Adenaur
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Who is the Prime Minister of London
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Harold Macmillan
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Who is the president of the United States
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President Eisenhower
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Who is the space explorer
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Dr. T Keith Glennan
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Who is Logan Sanford
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Director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation
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How does Floyd know Mr. Clutter
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Autumn of 1948 He was 19 and needed a job He worked for 1 year at River Valley Farm Kenyon and Nancy were about 5-6 years old
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What happened to Floyd after he left River Valley Farm in 1949
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he got married and then divorced The army took him
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What happened in June 1959
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Floyd was sent to Lansing because of breaking into an appliance store Shared a cell with Dick for all of June and part of July Dick finished his 3-5 and was due for parole in August
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What was Dick's plan for when he got out of jail
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Go to Nevada, buy a uniform and pass himself off as an Air Force officer, so he could hang out a regular wash line of hot paper
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What are some jobs that Dick had done in his past
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Car mechanic and an ambulance driver
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How much did Mr. Clutter say it cost him to run his operation per week
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10,000 dollars
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What did Dick tell Floyd he was going to do the Clutters
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Tie them up and gun them down
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Why was Floyd afraid of telling the warden what he knew
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If inmates found out his life wouldn't be worth a dead coyote and also he was afraid that he would be arrested for accessory of murder
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What did Floyd do for a week after he heard the news
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Monitored the radio Followed the newspaper accounts Read Hutchinson News
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What was the reward for any information regarding the murders
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1,000 dollars
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Who did Floyd confide in and what did that person do
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He confided in a Catholic prisoner who told him to go to the proper people He asked for the deputy warden
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What was Herb's gift to Floyd on Christmas
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$50
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Who was Warden Hand
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The warden in Lansing
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Who did Warden Hand call after hearing the information
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Logan Sanford who then issued orders and called Alvin Dewey
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What were the household upsets that Marie Dewey told her husband about
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The family cat attacked the cocker spaniel from across the street and one of the eyes may be severely damaged Paul, 9 yrs, fell out of a tree Al, 12 yrs, started a blaze
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What did Dick's dossier say
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'Hickock, Richard Eugene (WM) 28. KBI 97 093; FBI 859 273 A. Address: Edgerton, Kansas. Birthdate 6-6-31. Birthplace: K.C., Kans. Height: 5-10. Weight: 175. Hair: Blond. Eyes: Blue. Build: Stout. Comp: Ruddy. Occup. Car Painter. Crime: Cheat & Defr. & Bad Cheques. Paroled: 8-13-59. By: So. KCK'
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What did Perry's dossier say
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'Smith, Perry Edward (WM) 27-59. Birthplace: Nevada. Height: 5-4. Weight: 156. Hair: D. Brn. Crime: B&E. Arrested:(blank). By: (blank). Disposition: Sent KSP 3-13-56 from Phillips Co. 5-10 yrs. Rec. 3-14-56. Paroled: 7-6-59
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What did Marie see in Perry's picture
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An arrogant face, tough, yet not entirely, for the lips and nose seemed nicely made Eyes- moist, dreamy, expression, rather pretty- rather in a actorish way, sensitive, 'mean'
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What did Marie think of Dick's eyes
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Reminded her of a childhood memory where she saw a bobcat trapped Radiant with pain and hatred
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What is wrong with Alvin's health
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He is emancipated and smokes 60 cigarettes a day
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Who did Mr. Bye talk to first regarding Dick
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Mrs. Eunice Hickock and Mr. Walter Hickock
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Who is Eunice Hickock
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Dick's mom Has two sons, Dick is the oldest Plump woman with a soft, round face
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Who is Walter Hickock
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Dick's dad Has faded, defeated eyes and rough hands His voice sounds like it is rarely used
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What kind of student was Dick
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Star athlete, he played Basketball, Baseball and football Had A marks in many classes such as history and mechanical drawing
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When did Dick graduate and what did he do after graduation
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In June 1949, he wanted to go to college and become an engineer but they didn't have any money because they only owned 44 acres His first job was at Sante Fe Railways in Kansas City He got $75 dollars a week
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When did Dick and Carol get married and what did they do after they got married
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Dick was 19 and Carol was 16 in 1949 They rented a good-sized house and bought a fancy car
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Who hired Dick as a car mechanic and painter
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The Markl Buick Company
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What did Mrs. Hickock believe was the main reason for Dick changing
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His car accident
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Who is Margaret Edena
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A women who was attracted to Dick
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Why was Dick in prison for 17 months
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He borrowed a hunting rifle from the house of a neighbor
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Where did Dick work after he got out of prison
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Bob Sands Body Shop
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What does Walter Hickock have
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Cancer
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What did Richard Eugene Hickock do on November 20 and who were the victims
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Went on a shopping spree where he passed more than seven hot papers The victims were: salesman of cameras, tv, and radio equipment, jewelry store, a clerk in a clothing store
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Who is Mr. Sands and what did he tell Harold Nye
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Mr. Sands is the owner of Bob Sands Body shop He told him how he never saw him after the 19th or 20th He had a party and dick took perry with him, Friday the 13th
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When did Nye arrive at the Hickock house and what are some characteristics of the house
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At dusk Weathered-greyed four room farmhouse
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What did Nye imply that he was doing to the Hickocks
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That he was looking for Dick because of a parole violation and financial fraud
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What did the Hickocks tell Nye about Perry
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That dick had brought him home one night saying that he needed a place to stay but they said no so Dick took him to hotel Olathe They went on a weekend trip to Fort Scott to get 1,500 dollars from Perry's sister but they didn't find her and Dick was back by noon SUnday
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What conclusion did Nye come to after hearing that Perry and Dick went on a weekend trip
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That within a time span of twenty-twenty four hours, the suspects drove ore than 800 miles and murdered 4 people
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What did Walter Hickock say was unusual about Dick when he came back from his trip
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He slept through the basketball game, ate dinner and went back to sleep
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Who is David
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Dick's younger brother
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What type of hunting gun was hanging on the Hickock's wall
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A .12-gauge Savage shotgun. Model 300; a delicately etched scene of pheasants in flight ornamented the handle Cost over 100 dollar, only a month old when he and David went to Grinnell on a pheasant shoot
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When did dick and Perry disappear
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The 21st
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Who is Mr. Bell
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The driver of a car, a middle-aged traveling salesman Only a 100 miles from Omaha, Nebraska, the headquarters of the large meat-packing company that he worked for Offered Dick and Perry a ride
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What did Dick and Perry plan on doing to Mr. Bell
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Throttling him with a belt and leaving him robbed of his car, money and life in the prairie
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Where had Mr. Bell honeymooned
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Cuernavaca
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How many kids does Mr. bell have
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5 kids
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How long had it taken Dick and Perry to hitchhike from California to Nevada and across Nevada and Wyoming into Nebraska
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3 days
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Who were the other hosts of Dick and Perry during the 3 days of hitchhiking
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Truck drivers, soldiers and a pair of Negro prize-fighters driving a lavender Cadillac
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What did Perry have inside his leather windbreaker pocket and what type of belt was he wearing
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A bottle of Bayer aspirin, a jagged fist-size Rock wrapped in a yellow cotton cowboy handkerchief His belt was a Navajo belt, silver-buckled and studded with turquoise beads
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What was the signal that Dick and Perry had agreed on for when it was time to kill the driver
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'Hey Perry pass me a match Where Dick was supposed to seize the steering-wheel, while Perry, wielding his handkerchief-wrapped Rock, be labored the salesman head
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What did Mr. bell's laugh remind Perry of
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Tex John Smith
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What was the goddam miracle
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As Perry and Dick were about to kill Mr. Bell a negro soldier was waiting for a ride
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When did Harold Nye go to Las Vegas Nevada and what did he see
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16 December, 1959 Age and weather had removed the first letter and the last- an R and an S were faintly present upon a sun-warped sign in front of a run-down and shabby, the lowest type of hotel or rooming house
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What happened to the hotel that used to be one of the biggest cat houses in the West
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A fire destroyed the main building and the remaining portion was converted into a cheap-rent rooming house
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What and who was in the lobby
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A 6 ft cactus plant and a makeshift reception desk The receptionist- wore a soiled housecoat and high heeled gold leathered sandals. Curlers pinioned her thinning yellowish hai, broad, muscular, rouged and powdered, 74 years old
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What were the three places that Harold's employers wanted him to visit
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Las Vegas because it was Perry's hometown Reno because that was were his father lived San Francisco because that it were his sister lives
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Who is Mrs. Frederic Johnson
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Perry's sister
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Who did Nye speak with on arriving in Las Vegas
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Lieutenant B. J. Handlon, Chief of the Detective Division of the Las Vegas Police Department
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What was the memorandum that Lieutenant B. J. Handlon order
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To be on alert of Hickock and Smith: "wanted in Kansas for parole violation and said to be driving a 1949 Chevrolet bearing Kansas License JO-58269. These men are probably armed and should be considered dangerous."
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What did Nye hope to find at the pawnshops
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Pawn tickets from Dick and the Zenith portable radio stolen from the night of the crime
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What was the ticket for that Dick had pawned that a broker showed Nye
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For a bearskin rug
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When did Perry register and pull out of the hotel
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13th of October to 11th of November
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How much did Smith's room cost
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Nine bucks a week. Plus a fifty-cent key deposit
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What did Perry do most of the time he stayed at the hotel
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Tinkered with his old ford
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How much did Perry want to sell his car for
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90 dollars so that he could buy a bus ticket
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What are some characteristics of the inside of the halls inside the hotel
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Grey Odors- lavatory disinfectant, alcohol, dead cigars
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What did Perry leave behind at the hotel, what was written on it and what did it contain
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He left behind a cardboard box It said ' Beware! Property of Perry E. Smith! Beware! It contained a towel, a dirty pillow, " Souvenir of Honolulu; one pink baby blanket; one pair of khaki trousers; one aluminum pan with pancake turner Scrapbook with pics from physical-culture magazines Medicines: rinses and powders and at least a dozen bottles of aspirin
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What did the reporting agent do at 9 am, 17 December 1959 in Reno
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He contacted Mr. Bill Driscoll, chief criminal investigator, Sheriff's Office, Washoe County, Reno, Nevada Mr. Driscoll was supplied with photographs, fingerprints and warrants for Hickock and Smith Stops were placed in the files
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What did the reporting agent do at 10: 30 in Reno
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He contacted Sgt. Abe Feroah, Detective Division, Police Department, Reno, Nevada Sgt checked the police files where neither the name Smith or Hickock was reflected in the felon registration file No info on the radio Permanent stop was placed in these files Took pictures of smith and Hickock ot every pawnshop
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What did Harold Nye do December 18, 1959
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He set forth in the search of Tex John Smith, but at the post office, a clerk at the General Delivery Window told him that Tex had moved to the vicinity of Circle City, Alaska
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What did the clerk from the post office tell Nye about Tex John Smith
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The guy is out of a book, he calls himself the Lone Wolf, he doesn't receive a lot of letters, but he received bales of catalogues and advertising pamphlets. Around 60 years old Dresses Westerd, cowboy boots and a big ten-gallon hat Used to be with the rodeo A man came asking for his father looked pure Indian, hair black and black eyes where as his day was thin-lipped and Irish
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Who was the Johnson family
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Recent arrivals in their San Francisco community- a middle-class, middle-income real-estate development high in the hills north of the city
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Who was Mrs. Johnson expecting on the afternoon of 18 December 1959
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Three women of the neighborhood were coming by for coffee and cake and perhaps a game of cars The hostess was tense, it would be the first time she had entertained in her new home
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What are some characteristics of the Johnson house
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A conventional suburban ranch house, pleasant and commonplace Redwood paneling, wall-to-wall carpeting, the picture windows for and aft, the view that the rear window provided- hills, a valley, then sky and ocean A white picket fence, a house for the family dog and a sand box
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What is Mr. Johnson's profession
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Insurance salesman
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How many kids do the Johnsons have
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2 little boys and a girl
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Who was at the Johnson's door
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Nye and Inspector Guthrie They are attached to the San Francisco police and they had just received an enquirer from Kansas concerning her brother Perry Edward Smith
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How long has it been since Perry's sister has seen him
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4 years
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What were the last few things Mrs. Johnson knew about Perry
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That last summer, he came out of prison and visited her father in Reno, her father was returning to Alaska and taking Perry with him and then in September he was angry because he had gotten in a fight with his dad
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Why are Perry and his sister on bad terms
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Because she is scared of him
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What friend did Mrs. Johnson tell the detectives about
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Joe James A young Indian logger and fisherman who lived in the forest near Bellingham, Washington
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Who is the only friend of Perry's that Mrs. Johnson met
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A women who introduced herself as his wife who appeared at their doorstep in June 1955 bringing with her a letter, she looked 20 but turned out to be 14
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What did Perry's "wife" take when she left
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Their suitcases and everything they could hold- most of Mr and Mrs. Johnson's clothes, silver and the kitchen clock
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Where did Mrs. Johnson used to live
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Denver
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What did Mrs. Johnson truly fear
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That in time she would be overwhelmed; go mad, or contract an incurable illness, or in a fire lose all she valued
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What was the first picture in the photo album that Mrs. Johnson was looking at
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A photograph of her father A studio photo taken in 1922, the year of his marriage to the young Indian rodeo rider Miss Florence Buckskin
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What are some things that Tex John Smith could do easily
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Make a tree fall where he wished Skin a bear Repair a watch Build a house Bake a cake Darn a sock Catch a trout with a bent pin and a piece of string Survived a winter alone in the Alaskan wilderness
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What disease did Perry get in 1933 when they were picking berries in Oregon
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Colic
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How did Barbara (Bobo) feel about Perry
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She was 3 years older She adored Perry, he was her only toy, a doll she scrubbed and combed and kissed and sometimes spanked
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What are some pictures of Perry and Bobo
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A picture of the two together in a diamond-watered Colorado Creek, the brother, a potbellied, sun-blackened Cupid, clutching his sister's hand and giggling Another picture taken at a remote Nevada ranch where the family was staying when a final battle between the parents, a terrifying contest in which horse whips and scalding water and kerosene lamps were used as weapons, she and Perry are astride a pony
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When did Bobo's love for Perry fade
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When the children and their mother had gone to live in San Francisco because he wasn't her baby anymore but a wild thing, a thief and a robber
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When was Perry's first recorded arrest
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27 October 1936, his eight birthday
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Where did Perry go after several confinements in institutions and children's detention centers
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Returned to the custody of his father
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What were some the captions of the photographs that Tex used to send to his other children
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'Perry, Dad and their Husky Dog' 'Perry and Dad Panning for Gold' 'Perry Bear-Hunting in Alaska'- he was a fur-capped boy of fifteen standing on snowshoes among snow-weighted trees, a rifle hooked under his arm; the face was drawn and the eyes were sad and very tired
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When was the last time Mrs. Johnson had seen Perry and what happened
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Spring of 1955 They were discussing his childhood with Tex John and suddenly, Perry who had too much drink inside him, pushed her against the wall and held her there. 'I was his ******,' Perry said. 'That's all. Somebody he could work their guts out and never have to pay them one hot dime.
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What made Jimmy's suicide so ominous
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He had graduated top of his class due to his own will power
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What did Fern change her name to when she was 14
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Joy
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What happened to fern and what did police find in her room
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She fell from the window of a hotl, struck a theatre marquee, bounced off it and rolled under the wheels of a taxi Police found her shoes, a moneyless purse and an empty whiskey bottle
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What did Perry's newspaper article with him in his uniform say
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'Headquarters, United States Army, Alaska, Pvt. Perry E. Smith, 23, first Army Korean combat veteran to return to the Anchorage, Alaska, area, is greeted by Captain Mason, public information Officer, upon arrival at Elmendorf Air Force base. Smith Served 15 months with the 24th Division as a combat engineer. His trip from Seattle to anchorage was a gift from Pacific Northern airlines. Miss Lynn Marquis, airline hostess, smiles approval at welcome
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What did Perry and Dick do after they left Omaha and spent a night in a Salvation Army dormitory
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A truck driver gave them a ride across the Nebraska border into Iowa 16 miles north of an Iowa settlement called Tenville Junction
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Where does Dick want to go
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Back to Kansas City and if they get enough money to Florida
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What is The Corner
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The shed that houses required to hang a man
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What did Dick and Perry find in the barn that they had taken shelter in
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A black-and-white two door 1956 Chevrolet with a key in the ignition
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Who is Bill Brown
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Editor of the Garden City Telegram
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Who is Robert Wells
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Manager of the local radio station, KIUL
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Who is Mrs. Richardson and what did she acquire overnight
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The office secretary and a very down to earth peron Acquired a dainty lol of whispers, tiptoe mannerisms and the men she served conversed in hushed tones
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What is the Trail Room
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A coffee shop that Garden city businessman treat as though it were a private club
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What are some rumors that people have made up
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An eminent citizen was on the point of arrest Or that the crime was the work of killers hired by enemies of the Kansas Wheat growers' association The most accurate was that there was a man who used to work for herb in 1947 went to jail and when he was released he went after Herb and his family for money
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What is the Washateria
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A self-service laundry
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What did Perry and Dick stop for on their way from Iowa to Kansas City
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Siphon gas from parked vehicles When they got to Kansas City they stoppe at the airport where they went to the bathroom, washed and shaved and brushed their teeth and took a nap in the lounge
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Who was party of Perry's purse snatching team when he was a running-wild child in San Francisco and what did they do to an old lady that put up a fight
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Tommy Chan or Tommy Lee They bopped her for God and put her on the pavement All they got was 90 cents
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What is a sign of approaching panic for Perry
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His legs were pulsing with pain 'Bubbles in his blood'
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What does Perry think happened to Dick when he didn't show up on time
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He thinks that Dick was captured and that they had made the connection between dick and the murder and that Dick had spilled and the police were on their way for Perry
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What did Perry think was a less desperate reason for Dick's prolonged absence
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He had gone to visit his parents becauseDick was devoted to them or claimed to be and he had said last night that he would like to see his folks
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Who is Fred Johnson
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Bobo's husband that had offered Perry a job after prison but Bobo didn't allow it
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Why was Dick late in picking Perry up from the laundry mat
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He was on a role so he kept going He had gone to the Markl Buick Company, the firm that once employed him, hoping to find a set of license plates to substitute for the iowa plates He dropped the Iowa plates off then he stopped at a filling station where his friend used to work, Steve, and persuaded Steve to cash a Cheques for 50 dollars he asked a drugstore clerk for money
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Where did Dick and Perry go to eat
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The Eagle Buffet
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Who is Dr. Fenton
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The county coroner
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Who is Tom Mahar
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The manager of the Warren
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Who is Harrison Smith
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He had run for county attorney last year and lost the election to Duane West; and also Herbert W. Clutter, the owner if River Valley Farm and a member of Dewey's Sunday School class
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Who did Alvin Dewey and Clarence Duntz encounter in the Trail Room
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Perry and Dick
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What did Perry and Dick do as soon as they sensed danger
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They crashed through the Trail Room's plate-glass window, and with Duntz and Dewey leaping after them, sped along Main Stret, past Palmer Jewelry, Norris Drugs, the GArden Cafe, then around the corner and down to the depot and in grain-storage towers
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What happened to the detectives as they were chasing Perry and Dick
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They separated Dewey drove by Valley View Cemetry, that grey and green island of tombs and trees and flowered paths, a restful, leafy, whispering oasis lying like a col piece of cloud shade
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Where does Alvin think Perry and Dick are hiding
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Among the dead, maybe behind Dewey's father's headstone: 'Alvin Adams Dewey, Septemebr 6, 1879- January 26, 1948
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Was Alvin Dewey imagining his whole encounter with Perry and Dick
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Yes
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What did Alvin look and feel like when he woke up from his dream
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As though he were a feverish frightened ten-year-old; his hair was wet, his shirt cold-damp and clinging The room that he had fallen asleep in was dull with near-darkness
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Who was calling the sheriff's office and what was the news
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Brother Nye Hickock and Perry are in town and they know this because Dick was writing Cheques all over town using his own name
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What is the license number of Perry and Dick's new car
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Johnson County License 16216 Taken from De Soto in a KC garage
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Where are Perry and Dick for Christmas
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In Miami Beach, 335 Ocean Drive is the address of the Somerset Hotel, a small, square building painted more or less white, with many lavender touches, among them a lavender sign that reads, 'Vacancy- Lowest Rates- Beach Facilities- Always a Sea-Breeze
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What did Somerset's beach facilities consist of in December, 1959
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Two beach umbrellas stuck in a strip of sand at the rear of the hotel. One umbrella, pink and one umbrella was blue
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How much were Dick and Perry paying weekly for renting a double room in Somerset
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18 dollars weekly
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What murder was in the Miami Herald
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The murder of a Florida Family A Mr. And Mrs. Clifford Walker, their four year-old son and their two year old daughter Each victim had been shot through the head with a .22 weapon Took place on Saturday night, 19 December at the Walker home, on a cattle-raising ranch not far from Tallahassee
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Where were Dick and Perry on Thursday- Saturday
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On Thursday night, taking turns at the wheel, they had driven out of Kansas and through Missouri into Arkansas and over the Ozarks, 'up' to Louisiana Friday morning, they'd slept parked by the side of the road somewhere near Alabama-Florida border Saturday- Tallahassee
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What was the generator
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A second-hand replacement, bought in Shreveport, cost twenty-two fifty
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What were the touristic diversions that Perry and Dick
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A visit to an alligator farm, and a rattlesnake ranch, a ride in a glass-bottomed boat over a silvery-clear swamp lake, a seafood restaurant
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Why had Dick envied the son of his neighbor when he was a child
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Because he had gone to the Gulf Coast on holiday and returned with a box full of shells
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Who was Dick's enemy
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Anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have
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What is the Fontainebleau
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An expensive hotel miles away, shrouded in a summary veil of heat-haze and sea-sparkle
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Who was Dick jealous of at the Fontainebleau
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A 28 or 30 year old A blonde who resembled Marilyn Monroe was kneading him with suntan oil and his lazy, beringed hand reached for a tumbler of iced orange juice.
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What was Dick sincerely ashamed of and had not confessed to anyone
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His sexual interest in female children was a failing
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How much was Dick paid an hour at the ABC auto-service company
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65 cents an hour
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Where were Perry and Dick heading to with 27 dollars left
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To Texas to Nevada
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What had always created problems for Bobby Rupp every Christmas
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That his girlfriend Nancy's birthday was always close so he had to get 2 gifts
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What had Bobby gotten navy for her birthday last year
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A small heart-shaped gold locket
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Who is the only person that understood Bobby after Nancy's death
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Sue
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What were times when Bobby forgot about mourning
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When he was playing basketball or driving his car over country roads at 80 miles an hour or when as part of a self-imposed athletic programme, he took long distance jog-trots across flat yellow fields
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How far was the Clutter house from Bobby
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A 3 mile walk
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How many siblings did Herb have
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5 siblings, 3 boys and 2 girls
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Who did Perry and Dick pick up on their way to Texas
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A boy and an old man The boy- a stocky, sharp-eyed, talkative towhead of about twelve was exuberantly grateful The old man- face was seamed and yellow, feebly crawled into the back seat and slumped there silently
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Where are the boy and the grandpa heading and where are they coming from
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They are heading to Sweetwater, somewhere in Texas Johnny the old man, has a sister who lives in Sweetwater. they originally thought she lived in Jasper, Texas but when they got there people said she moved to Galveston but when they got there a lady said she moved to Sweetwater
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What type of car are Perry and Dick driving
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A Chevrolet '56 model
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Where did the boy live with his grandfather and an aunt
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Near Shreveport, Louisiana
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Who is Mrs. Jackson
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Johnny's blood sister
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What was the boy picking up from the side of the road
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Empty cans for refund money
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What is the boy's name that Dick and Perry had given a ride to
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Bill
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How much were the bottles that they had collected worth
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12 dollars and 60 cents
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What happened on the evening of Wednesday, 30 December
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Alvin got a call from his boss saying that had found and arrested Perry and Dick
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What did Perry claim from from the Las Vegas post office
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A package addressed to himself Mailed from Mexico Insured for 100 dollar
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What was the name of the Air Force officer that Dick was going to impersonate
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Captain Tracy Hand
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Who were officers Ocie Pigford and Francis McCauley
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The officers that found Perry and Dick
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What does the Detective Division of the Las Vegas city Jail contain
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Two interrogation rooms- fluorescent-lighted chambers, measuring ten by twelve, with walls and ceilings of celotex In each room- electric fan, a metal table, folding metal chairs, camouflaged microphones, concealed tape recorders and a mirrored one-way observation window
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What hour had the four detectives from Kansas selected for their first confrontation of Hickock and Smith
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Saturday, the second day of 1960 2pm
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How did the 4 detectives arrive at Las Vegas
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Harold Nye had already been in Las Vegas for 2 days took the first flight after the news reached Topeka Al, Roy and Clarence came by car in lousy weather, they spent New Year's Eve snowed up in a motel in Albuquerque
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Where did the detectives find the shoes that had left footprints at the murder scene
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in the cardboard box that Perry had picked up from the post office
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What was Nye's and Church's job
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to pressure Hickock
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What was Al and Old Man Duntz's job
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to pressure Smith
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What was Nye's impression of Dick
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he was 28 but he looked like a kid hungry- right down to the bone was wearing a blue shirt and suntans and white socks and black shoes hands were dry clean, polite, nice voice, good diction, a pretty decent-looking fellow with a very disarming smile
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What did Dick tell Nye and Church about regarding his family background
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he talked about how when he was 9 or 10 , his father had fallen ill and it lasted months never had much money always had clean clothes and something to eat dad was strict he made all the sports teams before his 21st had worked as a railway trackman, an ambulance driver, a car painter, and a garage mechanic married a 16 year old, Carol her father was a minister 3 kids 1958 convicted of house burglary in a Johnson County Court married another 16 year old
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What is Dick's reason for writing bad cheques again
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that his friend Perry had sent him a letter from Idaho reminding him of their plan to go to Mexico and buy a boat and run it so they went to Fort Scott to get money from Perry's sister Met Perry in Kansas City on a Thursday and left for Fort Scott on Saturday, November 14 did some work on the car and had a bowl of chili at the West Side Cafe around 3 when they couldn't find his sister they drove back to Kansas City and stopped at the Zesto Drive-In
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What is Cherry Row
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a stretch of park where one encountered 'hustlers mostly', adding 'but plenty of amateurs, too.
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Who are Mildred and Joan
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maybe sisters both blonde, plump a pair of rollers
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What is Orange Blossoms
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orange pop and vodka
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What is Fun Haven
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it's on the Blue Ridge Road 8 miles south of Kansas a combination night-club-motel ten bucks for the key to a cabin - twin beds, an old Coca-Cola calendar, a radio that wouldn't play unless the customer deposited a quarter the two women rolled them and took 40 or 50 dollars from Perry
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What did Dick and Perry do on Sunday November 15
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they ate breakfast at a truck stop near Happy Hill drove to Olathe and he dropped perry off at the hotel where he lived around 11 went home and had dinner with his amily and watched a basketball game or maybe it was football
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When did Dick see Perry Smith after he dropped him off at the hotel
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on Monday Perry had gone to visit him where he worked at Bob Sands' Body Shopp
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What did Dick tell Nye about their trip from Kansas to Las Vegas and the time in between
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10,000 miles that he and smith had covered in the past 6 weeks talked fro an hour and twenty-five minutes from two-fifty and four-fifteen they stopped or drove by: Apache, El Paso, Corpus Christi, Santillo, San Luis Potosi, Acapulco, San diego, Dallas, Omaha, Sweetwater, Stillwater, tenville Junction, Tallahassee, Needles, Miami, Hotel Nuevo Waldorf, Somerset Hotel, Hotel Simone, Arrowhead Motel, Cherokee Motel gave the name of the man in Mexico to whom he sold his 1949 Chevrolet to described the Mexican widow; Otto, a swish pair of Negro prizefighters, the blind proprietor of a Florida rattlesnake farm; a dying old man and his grandson
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What was Dick's intense visible reaction when he heard about the Clutter murder
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he turned grey and his eyes twitched
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What was Nye fascinated about regarding Perry
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His feet By the fact that his legs were so short that his feet, as small as a child's
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What are some characteristics of Smith's head
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The stiff Indian hair, the Irish-Indian blending of dark skin and pert, impish features Reminded Nye of Mrs. Johnson
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What is The Sunflower State
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Kansas
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When is Nancy's birthday
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Around June 3, 1960 She would have been 17
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What had Dick planned to do to Floyd Wells
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Stab him through the heart with a hand-made shiv
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What did Perry say was their reason for lying about Fort Scott
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That it was only something Dick told his family. So he could stay out overnight. Do some drinking
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What was the name of the room that Dick was being held in
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The smoke-choked room
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What is Dick's religious philosophy
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I know about hell. I been there. Maybe there's a heaven, too
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What does Church say is going to happen to Dick
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He will be taken back to Kansas Charged on four counts of first degree murder
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Who did Dick say killed the Clutters
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Perry and that he couldn't stop them
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What happened after Dick confessed
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He emerged from the interrogation room and fainted in a hallway He was quoted saying that he and Perry had invaded the Clutter house to find a safe containing at least 10,000 dollars, but there was no safe so they tied the family up and shot them one by one
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What did Perry say when the agents told him that Dick had signed a confession
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I'd like to see my buddy's statement
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When is it expected for the agents, Perry and Dick to arrive in Kansas
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They will arrive in Garden City late Wednesday
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Who was sitting in Hartman's cafe listening to the news about Perry and Dick
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Mrs. Clare, Mrs. Hartman, Mabel Helm and a husky young farmer who had stopped to buy a plug of Brown mule chewing tobbacco
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What did Mrs. Clare think about the case
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That there was still someone around them that was involved
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Who is driving the lead car, who is in there with him and what are they all doing
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On the Arizona highway, Dewey is driving the lead car Smith is sitting next to him and Duntz is sitting in the back seat. Smith is handcuffed and the handcuffs are attached to a security belt by a short length of chain When smith wants a cigarette Dewey has to light it for him and place it between his lips
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What does Perry continue to do as Dewey and DUntz keep repeating Dick's confession
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Contemplating the scenery to read Burma-Shave doggerel and to count the carcasses of shot gunned coyotes festooning ranch fences
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What is Perry's side to the story
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It all started with a letter he got while he was in Buhl, Idaho September or October It said that Dick was on to a cinch, the perfect score Smith had a different reason for going to Kansas so he agreed to meet Dick They drove to Dick's house but his mom didn't want Perry there so they went to a hotel in Olathe They bought beer Dick then explained that in Lansing he met this guy who used to work for Clutter Dick drew a diagram of the house, he knew where everything was Plan was to take the money and any witnesses would have to go Left Olathe 1:30 and drove to Emporia where they bought rubber gloves and a roll of cord, the knife, the shotgun and the shells were from Dick Tape from Great Bend Gas from Phillips 66 around midnight Seven more miles to Holcomb When Alfred was turning the lights on and off for his baby, Perry wanted out Dick carried the knife and a flashlight and Perry carried the gun The door was unlocked- a side door - office Took binoculars- sold in Mexico Woke Mr. Clutter up asking for the safe but he said there was no safe Ripped out the telephone wires Dick insisted on going upstairs even after hearing a creak Mrs. Clutter started crying saying she didn't have any money The glory of having everyone at his mercy excited Dick Locked them in the bathroom Nancy thought it was a joke at first Dick stood guard Took the portable radio Tied them up, Mr. Clutter first to the basement Told him to lie down on the mattress box in the furnace room Took Kenyon down to the playroom
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How much money did Perry and Dick get from the Clutters
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40-50 dollars
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What are some characteristics of the two grey tomcats
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Thin, dirty starts with strange and clever habits Ceremony performed at twilight First they trot the length of Main Street, stopping to scrutinize the engine grilles of parked automobiles Hunt for slaughtered birds: crows, chickadees and sparrows
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What was the probable arrival time of Hickock and Smith
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4pm
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Who is James Spor
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The attendant of. The gas station that Perry and Dick had stopped at
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Who is Captain Gerald Murray
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Captain of Highway patrol
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Who is Richard Parr
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Reporter of the Kansas City Star
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Who is Mr. J. P Adams
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Head of the local Veterans Commission office
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What time did Perry and Dick arrive
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6pm
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What co-exists on the fourth floor of the Finney County Courthouse
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Institutional dourness and cheerful domesticity
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Who occupied the Sheriff's Residence in January 1960
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The undersheriff and his wife, Wndle and Josephine Meier Married for more than 20 years Tall people with weight and strength to spare
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What are Mrs. Meier's work hours
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5 in the morning to 10pm
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How many cells does the jail contain
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6 cells The sixth is reserved for female prisoners, it is an isolated unit situated inside the Sheriff's Residence Perry Smith is the first man to stay in the ladies' cell
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What did Hickock look like to Mrs. Meier and what was he wearing
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He had on light summer pants and just an old cloth shirt White as a ghost
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What is the meal schedule for prisoners
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Hot soup and coffee and some sandwiches and pie Breakfast at 7:30am and the main meal at 4:30pm
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What came to Perry's mind when he saw the crowd on the Square
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He though about a movie that he had seen where a man was flung off the balcony, thrown to a mob of men and women, who tore him to pieces
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What is Perry's favorite food
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Spanish rice
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Who is Red
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A male squirrel with auburn fur that Perry lured off a branch onto a window sill and through the bars Perry taught him several tricks: to play with a paper ball, to beg, to perch on Perry's shoulder
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What did Perry do to entertain himself
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Read magazines, filed his fingernails with an emery board, buff them to a silky pink sheen; comb and comb his location-soaked and scented hair; brush his teeth three and four times a day; shave and shower almost as often Sketched
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What is the 'Statement'
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A 78 page document which Perry had dictated to the Finney County court stenographer, recounted admissions already made to Alvin Dewey and Clarence Duntz
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What did Perry want to change about his previous confession
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That he had killed all of the Clutters
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Why did Perry change his mind about blaming Hickock
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Out of consideration for Hickock's parents
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Who is Virgil Pietz
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A county-highway employee, who, working with a road-grader in the area pinpointed by Perry Smith, shaved away the earth inch by inch until the buried articles were uncovered
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Who is Roland H. Tate
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Judge
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Who is Mr. Arthur Fleming
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A local lawyer for Perry 71 years old, a former mayor of Garden City, a short man who enlivens an unsensational appearance with rather conspicuous neckwear
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Who is Mr. Harrison Smith
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Dick's lawyer 45 year old 6 ft tall Golfer An Elk of exalted degree
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What will the county attorney seek
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The death penaly He said this on Friday 15 January
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Who is Duane West
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The county attorney An ambitious, portly young man of 28 who looks 40 nd sometimes 50
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When were Perry and Dick asked to take the lie-detector for the Walker Case
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Wednesday 20 January
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What is Osprey
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A fishing settlement not. Far from Tampa
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Why were Perry and Dick suspects for the Walker murder
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They were in a Tallahassee hotel the day of the murder, 19 December
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When did Dick's dad go visit him
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Sunday 31 January
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What did Perry desire most besides freedom
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To talk to Dick
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Who sent Perry a letter one mid February morning
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Don Cullivan They met the fall of 1951 when Perry was assigned to the 761st Engineer Light Equipment Company at Fort Lewis, Washington Perry cut a hole in the floorboards to let in heat He was chased by the police on his motorcycle Don's brother died of Leukemia at age 17
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Who could Dick talk to
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A plentiful turnover of drunkards, forgers, wife-beaters and Mexican vagrants
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What did Dick do when he wasn't socializing or sleeping
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He was smoking or chewing gum and reading sports magazines or paperback thrillers
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What was Dick's plan for escaping jail
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He must have a weapon and over the period of weeks he'd been making a shiv and he would put it into the Undersheriff's shoulder
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When did the Sheriff find Dick's shiv
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Thursday 10 March
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What was Perry's plan for escape
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He depended on a pair of young men one was red-haired and the other dark They always smiled and signaled him Perry drew a map of the Square and wrote underneath it I need a hacksaw blade 5 inch
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What was Perry's plan for suicide
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To use his toothbrush to unscrew the light bulb and with the broken glass he cut his wrists and ankles
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When was the trial scheduled for
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To start on 22 March 1960
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Why does Mr. Fleming want the trial to be held in Garden City
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It is a religious community 11,000 people and 22 churches The ministers are opposed to capital punishment
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What is the state hospital in Larned, Kansas
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A mental institution with maximum-security facilities, to take custody of the prisoners for the purpose of ascertaining whether either or both were insane, imbeciles or idiots
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Who is Logan Green
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The special assistant prosecuting attorney who was certain that temporary insanity was the defense his antagonists would attempt to sustain in the forthcoming trial Short, pugnacious, a Kentuckian by birth
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Who is Dr. W. Mitchell Jones
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Not yet 30 A sophisticated specialist in criminal psychology and the criminally insane Agreed ti examine Smith and Hickock
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Why did the counsels of defense stand before the judge on the morning of 14 March and what were the reasons
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To plead for a postponement of the trial The reasons were: Hickock, a material witness, is too ill That the auction of the Clutter house happens the day before the trial is prejudice
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How many people attend the Clutter auction
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5,000 people
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Who took care of the food for the Clutter auction
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the Ladies' Circle of the Holcomb Community Church
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Who is Mrs. Bill Ramsey
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The wife of a farmer
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Who were the stagehands for the auction
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Paul Helm, Vic Irski and Alfred Stoecklein
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Who had the River Valley Farm been leased to
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An Oklahoma rancher
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Who got Babe and how much did he pay for her
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A Mennonite farmer paid 75 dollars
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How many people could the. Courthouse sit
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160 people
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How many people were in the jury
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14 men
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Who is N.L.Dunnan
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The airport employee A middle-aged man
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What did Perry's autobiography contain
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His full name, Perry Edward Smith BDay- Oct. 27 1928 in Huntington, Elko County, Nevada 1929 trip to Juneau, Alaska Living in Fort Bragg, California His mom had a thing with a negro man named Sam Mom took them to San Francisco -1935? Frisco-troublemaker In and out of detention homes Weak kidneys 16- joined the merchant marines 1948-army Threw a Japanese man off a bridge into the water-Kyoto 15 months-Korea 5-10 years for grand larceny, burglary and jailbreak
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What did Dick's autobiography contain
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School years- fights, girls Home life was normal Strict father Semi-poor Sports Roark Motor Company Fell in love with a daughter of a baptist preacher Married in July- pregnant $75 a week Nose bleeds 1957 divorce, hit on Margaret
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Who represented Mr. Clutter
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Arthur
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Who was the first and second witness and what did they talk about
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Nancy Ewalt then Susan Kidwell What they saw when they entered
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Who were the following 3 witnesses
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Mr. Ewalt, Clarence and Sheriff Earl Robinson and Dr. Robert Fenton
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Who is Richard G. Rohleder
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Chief investigator of the Garden City police
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Who was the prosecution's most damaging witness
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Alvin Dewey
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Who is Father Goubeaux
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A local priest
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When did the trial resume
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Monday morning at 10
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Who was the first witness on Monday
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Mr. Hickock
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Who replaced Mr. Hickock
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Dr. W Mitchell Jones
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What four witnesses did Fleming present
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Reverend James E. Post Joe James Don Cullivan Dr. Jones
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Who is Dr. Joseph Salten of the Menninger Clinic
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Forensic psychiatry
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Who are Karl Menninger, Irwin Rosen and Martin Mayman
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Colleagues of Dr. Joseph Salten
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Who were the four criminals in The American Journal of Psychiatry(July,1960)
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A negro soldier who mutilated and dismembered a prostitute, a laborer who strangled a 14 year old boy, an army corporal who bludgeoned to death another young boy, a hospital employee who drowned a 9 year old girl
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What was Logan Greene's nickname
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Pinky
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Who was Doc Savage
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A kind of superman Proficient in every field
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How long had the jury's deliberations lasted
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40 minutes
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What were Perry and Dick sentenced to
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Death
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What is Leavenworth
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The largest federal prison
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What is in Fort Leavenworth
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United States Army and Air Force disciplinary barracks
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Who is Sherman H. Carouse
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Warden of Kansas State penitentiary
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What is the total of each race in the jail
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White-1405 Colored-360 Mexicans-12 Indians-6
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What is the Hole
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The lower floor of the Segregation and Isolation Building
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What is death row
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The top floor of the Segregation and Isolation Building
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When did Perry and Dick climb the steps to death row
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Late one rainy April afternoon
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What are the characteristics of Perry and Dick's cells
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Seven by ten feet Unfurnished except for a cot, a toilet, a basin and a lightbulb Narrow Windows, barred and covered Wall- rough stone, pigeons nets inside the crevices A rusty iron door
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When were Perry and Dick scheduled to go to the corner
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One minute after midnight on Friday, 13 May 1960
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When did Kansas abolish capital punishment and when was it restored and used
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1907 Restored in 1935 Wasn't used untill 1944
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How many people were waiting execution in the uS
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190 people
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Who are five in Lansing awaiting execution
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Perry, Dick, Mr. Earl Wilson- kidnapping and rape of a white woman, Mr. Bobby Joe Spencer- murder, Mr Lowell Lee Andrews- poison to murder
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Who was Jennie Marie
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An intelligent but rather plain girl
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Who is Reverand Mr. Virto C. Dameron
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A Dickensian personage, an unctuous and jolly brimstone and damnation orator Minister of the Grandview Baptist Church in Kansas City
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What is the M'Naughten Rule
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Recognizes no form of insanity provided the defendant has the capacity to discriminate between right and wrong
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When was Perry returned to the Row
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October
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Who were George Ronald York and James Douglas Latham
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18 and 19 Personable Claimed 7 victims Ronnie- blond and blue eyed, Floridian Latham- Texas, moneyless, army Met in Fort hood
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Who is Everett Steerman
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Chairman of the legal aid committee of the Kansas State Bar Association
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Who is Russell Shultz
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Young Wichita attorney
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When did Andrew go to the Gallows
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Friday, 30 November 1962
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What was the final set execution date for Perry and Dick
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Between midnight and 2 am., Wednesday, 14 April 1965
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What time did Dick and Perry die
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Dick, 33 years old at 12:41 am Perry, 36 yrs old at 1.19 am
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How many people were invited to watch the execution
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20 people
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When did Tate die of pneumonia
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Following November
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What happened to Bonnie Jean Ashida
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Car collision
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Who did Bobby Rupp marry
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Colleen Whitehurst
