Word: kenyon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state penitentiary at Lansing, Kans. and the farmhouse of Herbert Clutter at Holcomb, Kans., 400 miles apart, belonged to separate worlds, and the Clutter family could not have imagined that a hidden thread connected the two. Wheat-grower Herbert Clutter, 48, his wife Bonnie and their teen-age children Kenyon and Nancy might have thought themselves the happiest and most secure family in Kansas. They were prosperous; they lived in a peaceful, law-abiding community; they were liked and admired. But one day a year or so ago, a prisoner in the penitentiary, a sometime farm hand who had once...