Herbert William Clutter

Herb Clutter was a wealthy wheat farmer in rural Kansas. Mr. Clutter owned River Valley Farm, a farm where he raised both cattle and wheat. Clutter was well known in his community not only for his good works through his church and the local 4-H club, but also because he once held the position of local agricultural agent. Clutter would sometimes employ as many as eighteen men on his farm/ranch. However, at the time of his death, Clutter employed only two men, one of whom lived on the property in a caretaker’s house near the main house.

Clutter was the father of four children. Clutter’s two eldest daughters no longer lived at home. Eveanna, the eldest, was married and living in Illinois while his second eldest daughter, Beverly, was away at college and planning her own wedding in less than a month’s...