In Cold Blood Chapter Summary & Analysis | Part 4

Part 4 Summary

The reader is introduced to Mrs. Meier, the wife of the undersheriff, who lives with her husband in an apartment in the courthouse that adjoins the jail. Mrs. Meier cooks meals for the prisoners and washes and mends their clothes. She is a kind and nonjudgmental woman who forms a kind of affection for Perry Smith. She cooks him his favorite dish, Spanish rice, and engages him in conversation.

Smith's cell has a view out over the town square, where he watches people and animals go about their activities. Treetops brush against his window, and he coaxes a squirrel to come inside his cell. Smith names the squirrel Red and teaches it to do tricks inside his cell. Smith sketches and keeps a diary. He signs a document that recounts his confession of his crimes, making one correction. He admits to killing all four of the Clutters himself. He says...
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