Name of Victims Victimology Crime Scene

● Age: 48 ● The bedcovers in his

​Herbert William Clutter ● 5 feet 10 inches room were drawn

● Average weight of back

144 pounds ● Towards the foot of

● “The master of River his bed was his

Valley Farm” billfold with a mess of

● The father of 4 cards spilling out, as if

children someone had shuffled

● Graduated from through them looking

Kansas State for something specific

University with a ● There was no cash in

major in agriculture his billfold- however,

● “the communities it was rare that Mr.

most widely known Clutter carried cash

citizen” ● His glasses were

● Wealthy sitting on a bureau

● The chairmen of ● He is unable to see

Kansas Conference of without them

Farm Organization ● The telephone in his

● Had a mangled finger office was off the

on his left hand hook and the wires

● Domesticated had been cut

● Slept in a different ● There was no sign of

room than that of his struggle

wife ● Mr Clutter was found

● Does not drink in the furnace room

alcohol ● He had been shot with

● Does not smoke a gun held right in

● Opposed all front of his face

stimulants ● However, he was

● Did not like Nancy probably dead or

and Bobby together dying anyways before

● A giving person he had been shot

● The secluded office in ● His throat has been

the house was Mr. cut

Clutter’s sanctuary ● He was wearing

● His last day alive was striped pajamas-

spent at work nothing else

● Strong willed ● His mouth was taped

● “born leader” and the tape had been

● Took out a 40,000 life wound around his

insurance policy the head

day he was murdered ● His ankles had been

tied but not his hands

● He was sprawled out

in front of the furnace

on a cardboard box

that looked as if it had

been set there just for

him

● A mattress box with a

blood stained footprint

with two holes in the

center of the footprint

● A piece of cord was

tied to the steampipe-

at some point Mr

Clutter had been

strung up by his hands

and then cut down

 ● Age: 45 ● Her door was closed,

​Bonnie Mae Fox Clutter ● Mother of 4 children she was in the room at

● Wife of Herbert for a the end of the hall

quarter century ● She had been tied with

● Weighed 98 pounds her hands in front of

● “timid, pious, and her- she looked as

delicate” though she was

● On and off psychiatric praying, one hand was

patient due to a gripping a

displaced vertebrae handkerchief/kleenex

causing ”little spells” ● The cord around her

● A nervous attitude wrist ran down to her

● Slept in a separate ankles- they were

room than her bound together and

husband ran to the bottom of

● “slept in as late as the bed tied to the

possible” footboard

● She believed that her ● The tying was very

children didn’t need intricate and must

 her have taken a while

● Many outsiders ● She was wearing two

believed her to be rings, a robe, a white

“strange” nightgown, and white

● She had two cups of socks

coffee every morning ● Her mouth was taped

● She wore a wedding with adhesive

band ● She was shot point

● She had spent a lot of blank on the side of

her childhood in the head

California by the ● The impact ripped her

ocean tape loose

● Collected little things ● Her eyes were wide

● Had a lovely open as if she had

childhood watched the killer do

● The only daughter of a the entire thing

prosperous wheat

grower

● She had three older

brothers

● She wanted to be a

nurse but then realized

 that it wasn’t for her

because the smells

sickened her

● Suffered postnatal

depression after the

birth of her children

● She rarely left her bed

● She felt as if keeping

the room she was

staying in impersonal

“lessened the offense

of not sharing her

husbands quarters”

● Bonnie believed that

she was missing out

on “the best year, the

children-everything”

● Bonnie made a

comment to Mrs.

Kidwell, Susan’s

mother that she was

worried Kenyon
 would remember her

as “some kind of

ghost”

● Age: 16 ● The bedroom she was

​Nancy Mae Clutter ● “the town darling” killed in was the

● A real southern belle “smallest, most

● Took care of many of personal room in the

the domestic duties house”

around the house due ● Her bedroom was

to her mother's illness very girly following a

● “going steady” with color scheme of pink

the basketball hero- and blue with

Bobby Rupp ballerina tutus and a

● She participated in writing desk

school plays ● There was a big teddy

● Her best bear on her bed that

friend/confidante was Bobby had won at a

Susan Kidwell fair

● She was a role model ● She had a pink cork

● She put others first board in her bedroom

● Very well liked in the in which she would

 community hang up things she

● Always had a full wanted to remember

schedule such as recipes, old

● A pretty girl, lean, valentines, and

“boyishly agile” photos.

● The prettiest thing ● Her favorite photo on

about her was her the cork board was a

short, bobbed, photo of her and

shining, chestnut hair Bobby looking

● Easily triggered adoringly at one

kindliness another

● Chewed her ● A photo of her cat,

fingernails Boobs who she

● Nancy planned to go thought had been

off to Manhattan and poisoned was also on

be enrolled at Kansas the cork board

State University ● Nancy’s purse was

where she would be lying on the floor in

an art student and the kitchen “sort of

room with her best open”

friend Susan ● Nancy’s door was left

● Nancy had a desire to open and the curtains

 please. She just hadn’t been drawn yet

wanted to “be ● Nancy’s teddy bear

(Herb’s) daughter and was lying beside her

do as he wished” ● After the girls found

● Nancy kept smelling Nancy they tried to

cigarettes call an ambulance but

● “definition of a lady” the receiver was off

● Always in a hurry but the hook and the

always on time phone line had been

● The last to fall asleep cut

of the Clutter family- ● Sheriffs arrived at

for the midnight hours 9:35 am after the girls

were her time to be discovered Nancy

“selfish and vain” and ● She was shot in the

go through her beauty back of the head with

routine a shotgun held about

● She always recorded two inches away

her thoughts in her ● Lying on her side

diary and had rarely facing the wall

missed a day covered with blood

● Her last moments ● The bedcovers were

alive were spent drawn up to her

recording in her diary shoulders

before saying her ● She was wearing a

prayers and then she bathrobe, pajamas,

went to bed socks, and slippers

● As if when it

happened she hadn't

quite gone to bed yet

● Her hands were tied

behind her and her

ankles roped together

with a type of cord

that you see on

venetian blinds
 ● Age:15 ● His bedroom door was

​Kenyon Clutter ● The youngest of 4 closed, there was a lot

children of “boy stuff” in

● Loud Kenyon’s room

● Abrupt ● A dining room chair

● “the devil was in was out of place in his

Kenyon” bathroom

● 6 feet tall ● His glasses were on

● Lanky the bookshelf beside

● Hemp colored hair the bed

● Interested by ● The bed was empty

carpentry but looked like it had

● Enjoyed being alone been slept in

● Found a sanctuary in ● Kenyon was laying in

basement where he the corner of the

could bang, saw, and basement on a couch

mess with his ● He had been gagged

inventions with adhesive tape

● He resembled neither ● He had been bound

of his parents hand in foot like his

physically mother- the same

● He had crew cut hair complicated process

● He was strong enough connecting the hands

to save a pair of full and feet and then

grown sheep from a tying the feet to the

blizzard arm of the couch

● Sturdy and strong but ● He looked the most

cursed with a lanky like himself

boys lack of muscular ● He had been shot in

coordination the face directly head

● He was unable to on

function without ● He was wearing a

glasses t-shirt and blue jeans

● He did not participate and he was barefoot-

too much in team as if he had gotten

sports such as dressed in a hurry

basketball and ● His head was propped

baseball because of by a couple of

this lack of pillows- perhaps to

coordination make an easier target

● He had one close

friend- Bob Jones

● Kenyon was 11 when

he bought a truck for

himself- Bob and him

had called it the

Coyote Wagon

● Enjoyed going on

hunting trips with Bob

● “adolescent

bachelor”,

● Kenyon couldn’t

imagine wanting to

waste an hour with a

girl that could be

spent with guns,

horses, tools,

machinery, or a book

● When bob couldn’t

hangout Kenyon

chose to be alone

● Kenyon had his

 mother- Bonnie’s

temperament

● Sensitive

● Reticent

● “Standoffish”

● Lived in a world of

his own