icb part 2

What is the setting of the day after the murder

Monday, 16 November 1959
a bright-skied day, as glittery as mica

Who is Andy Erhart

a pheasant hunter
good friend of Herb
classmate of herb
gentle, genially dignified
scholar
calloused hands and sunburned neck

How long have Andy and Herb been friends

30 yrs

Who are Herb's 3 other close friends

Dr. J.E. Dale- veterinarian
Carl Myers- a dairy owner
Everett Ogburn- businessman

Who is the superintendent of the Kansas Sate University Agricultural Experiment Station

Andy Erhart

What did Andy, Dale, Carl and Everett all volunteer to do and what did they bring with them

they volunteered to clean the 4 rooms that the murders occurred in
they brought mops, pails, scrubbing brushes, rags and detergents

Who was the patrolman

the guardian of a barricade

How much longer did the 4 men have to drive after passing the patrolman

1/2 a mile down the elm-shaded lane

Who admitted the 4 friends into the Clutter house

Alfred Stoecklein- only employee that loved on the property

In what order of the rooms did the 4 men clean

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

What as special about the couch that Kenyon was found on

it was a relic that Kenyon had rescued and mended and that Nancy had slip-covered and piled with mooted pillows

What did the 4 men find in Nancy and Bonnie's room

blood-soiled bedclothes, mattresses, a bedside rug and a Teddy-bear doll

What are the reasons that Alfred Stoecklein couldn't have heard the gunshots

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

Where does Alfred want to move to

alongside the highway

How long did the 4 friends clean up for

from noon to dusk

What did the 4 friends do with all of the items from the Clutter house

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

What is the farm's north field

a flat place full of colour, mainly yellow

Who sprinkled the pyramid of items with paraffin and struck a match to light it on fire

Alfred

What did Herb's life evolve from

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

What did Erhart wonder about when he heard of Herb's death

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?

What is Kansas Bureau of Investigation

a state wide organization with headquarters in Topeka
has 19 detectives

Who is Alvin Adam Dewey

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

Who is Earl Robinson

sheriff of Finney County

What was Dewey before he became an agent at KBI

former sheriff (1947-1955)
FBI special agent (1940-1945) in New Orleans, San Antonio, Denver, Miami and San Francisco

What was Dewey's attitude to the Clutter murder investigation

he had a personal proposition because he and his wife were friends with the Clutter family

Who are some of KBI's best investigators

Special Agents Harold Nye, Roy Church and Clarence Duntz

What are some characteristics of the Sheriffs' office

3rd floor of the Finney County courthouse
an ordinary stone and cement building
3 rooms

Who is Mrs. Edna Richardson

Sheriff Robinsons's hospitable secretary
that always had time to prepare a pot of coffee and time to chew fat

Where have the case headlines of the Clutter's murders reached

as far East as Chicago
as far west as Denver

When did Dewey hold a press conference

Midday, Monday

What is the estimated time of the murders

11:00 pm Saturday to 2:00 am Sunday

What does Dewey think is a mere coincidence

that Mr. Clutter took out a $40,000 life insurance policy with double indemnity the day before he was killed

Who are the only 2 people that benefit financially from the deaths

Mrs. Donald Jarchow and Miss Beverly Clutter

What is the single killer concept

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

What is the double killer concept

similar to the single killer concept but the killer had an accomplice

What are some doubts about the single killer concept and the double killer concept

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

Where did Dewey retire to after the news conference

to his office, a room that the sheriff had temporarily lent him
contained a desk and two straight chairs

What was Dewey's desk littered with

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

What did the photographs of the crime scene consist of

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

What valuable surprise did a close-up of Mr. Clutter and the mattress box upon which he lay provide

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

What were the only serious clues that the investigators could claim

footprints and the bold and bloody impression of a Cat's paw half sole

What did Nancy's diary start and end with

started with her thirteenth birthday and ended some two moths short of her seventeeth

What were the three lines written in her diary an hour or two before Nancy died

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

What have the investigators done with Bobby Rupp already

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

What was Bobby's motive

Mr. Clutter wanting Bobby and Nancy to break up

What happened to Nancy's cat Boobs

she was found lying in the barn might have been poisoned

What does Dewey think of the poisoning of Boobs

it might have been a small, malicious prelude to the murders

What were Agents Church, Duntz and Nye doing while Dewey was reading Nancy's diary

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

When was the funeral to take place

Wednesday morning, November 18, 1959

What are some characteristics of Harold Nye

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

What are the nicknames of the KBI members

Harold Nye- Brother Nye
Duntz- Old man
Church- Curly

What are some characteristics of Clarence Duntz

not quite 50
burly but light-footed man with a broad, tomcat face

What are some characteristics of Roy Church

60 or so
pink-skinned and professorial-looking
tough according to his colleagues and the fastest draw in Kansas
head is partly hairless

What did Duntz's story consist of

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

What was Church's story

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

Why couldn't robbery be an explanation

because everyone knows Herb doesn't have cash and because Mrs. Clutter was still wearing her gold band and diamond ring

Why does Nye think it could be a robbery

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

What did Dewey do when he interrupted the consultation

he called his wife Marie to warn her that he won't be home for dinner

What are some characteristics of the Dewey family

have two young boys
married for 17 years
Alvin met Marie, a Louisiana- born former FBI stenographer, while stationed in New Orleans

Who is the only person not scared

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

How did Mrs. Myrtle Clare die

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

What are the current fastest-going item

locks and bolts no matter the type

What did a carload of pheasant hunters from Colorado encounter on Tuesday, at dawn

windows ablaze, fully clothed people who had sat the whole night wide awake, watchfull, listening

What were the some reasons that everyone was so scared

it might happen again
it happened to a family that was admired and secure, they represented value and respect
distrust of the neighbors

Who is Arthur Clutter and what did he say while talking to journalists in the lobby of a Garden City hotel on 17 November

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

What is the Eagle Buffet

a Kansas City diner
400 miles east of the Garden City hotel

Who were the two men sitting at the Eagle Buffet and what were they doing

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

What was Perry reading

17 November edition of the Kansas City Star
Headlined CLUE ARE FEW IN SLAYING of 4

What are some examples of Perry's extrasensory perception

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

Who is Floyd Wells

a former cellmate of Dick

What has been Perry's dream since he was a kid (around 7)

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

How was Perry's childhood

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

Who tormented Perry about the parrot

older children, his father, a faithless girl, a sergeant

What are the characteristics pf the parrot

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

What was the ascension to paradise like

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

How does Susan Kidwell describe her friendship with Nancy Clutter

' 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

What did Susan do with Bobby after the deaths

drove around in his old Ford, up and down the highway, out to the airport and back, go to Cree-Mee

What is Cree-Mee

a drive-in

Who has the Clutter pets

A lady from Garden City took teddy
Susan took Evinrude
Babe might be sold

What did Nancy and Bobby do the night before the funeral

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

What were each of the Clutter family members wearing in their casktes

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

How many people attended the Clutter Funeral

1000 people

Who said the mass

Reverend Leonard Cowan

How many people went to the Valley View Cemetery on the north edge of this city and what did they di

600 people went
recited the Lord' prayer

How did Dick get enough money money to get them to Mexico

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

Who is Perry supposedly marrying

Eden Roc in miami

What us the supposed treasure off the coast of Costa Rica

In 1821, Peruvian bullion, jewelry and 60 million dollars were buried

At what time did Dewey's phone ring again

3:00 am

What are Dewey's 2 sons names

9 yr old- Paul
12 yr old- alvin Adams Dewey Jr.

What was the reward for information leading to the solution of the crime

A Kansas paper, the Hutchinson News, had offered a thousand dollars

What was Mr. Smith's alibi

he was in Oklahoma

Who is Mrs. Elaine Selsor

Nancy's aunt

What did Elaine find while sorting Nancy's clothes

a gold wristwatch tucked in the toe of her shoe

What did Mrs. Helm realize was missing after taking a KBI agent with her and exploring all the rooms

Kenyon's little radio

Why did the mattress box and bedcovers bother Dewey

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

When did Perry and Dick leave Kansas City in the old Chevrolet

21 November

How did Perry and Dick fit all their stuff in the car

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

When did Perry and Dick cross the border into Oklahoma

around midnight

When did Beverly get married

on Saturday in the First Methodist church three days after the funeral to Mr. Vere Edward English

Who are Mrs. Leonard Cowan and Mrs. Howard Blanchard

Cowan- soloist
Blanchard- organist