Two days after the murders, Floyd Wells, an inmate at the Kansas State Penitentiary, is lying in his cell listening to the radio when he hears a news report about the Clutter murders. He is stunned because he knows the family. Eleven years ago, he worked for Mr. Clutter on River Valley Farm. He liked his boss and the rest of the family. He remembers Nancy and Kenyon fondly as little kids. He knows that it was because of his relationship with the Clutters that the family ended up murdered.
When Wells was first incarcerated, years after his association with the Clutters, his first cellmate was Dick Hickock. During their conversations, Wells mentioned that he once worked for a wealthy man named Herb Clutter who owned a large farm in Holcomb. Hickock became obsessed.....
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