[JULY EXCLUSIVE EP] The Clutter Family Murder

“Holcomb, Kansas, is a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there’,” Truman Capote would later write. It was a place of wide wheat plains, where the railroad tracks cut across the land and where houses were left unlocked because everyone knew everyone else. That is precisely why the events of Sunday, 15 November 1959 tore a hole in the heart of America. That morning began like any other: the sun rising over stubble fields, the smell of coffee and the soft rhythm of chores on River Valley Farm. By nightfall, the nation would know Holcomb as the site of one of the first widely publicised mass murders. This is the story of that sleepy town, that night, and that murder. This is the story of the Clutter family.