The Cold-Blooded Clutter Family Murders on this Day in History

This day in history: Today marks the 63rd anniversary of the Clutter family murders. The killers drove more than 400 miles across the state of Kansas in the belief that Herb Clutter kept large amounts of cash in a safe (he didn't). The killers left the crime scene with only a small portable radio, a pair of binoculars, and less than $50 in cash. This crime led to the Truman Capote bestseller "In Cold Blood," the first true crime book written in a novelistic style  (which gave birth to the True Crime genre), and the second best-selling true crime book ever, behind Vincent Bugliosi's book "Helter Skelter" about the Charles Manson murders.

The top 10 true crime books of all time are:

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi 

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

Zodiac by Robert Graysmith

The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore

Mindhunter by John E. Douglas

My Dark Places by James Ellroy

You can download In Cold Blood at https://www.chinhnghia.com/1836.pdf

Watch the Movie

Listen to: Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter - The True Story of the Manson Murders:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CJ8FHcEO7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr7yZ8CHvmg

THE MURDERS THAT MADE TRUE CRIME A GENRE - The Clutter Family Case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXJrJDGnHdo

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True Crime Queen, Ann Rule, on This Day in History

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This Day in History: The Queen of True Crime, Ann Rule, was born on this day in 1931. In the early 1970's Rule worked alongside Ted Bundy at a Suicide Hotline (crisis call center), and even though she was ten years older and a mother, they had a friendship for quite a few years. She turned this relationship into a best-selling book about Ted Bundy called The Stranger Beside Me. This book would come to be a landmark book in the True Crime genre alongside books such as Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood; and the best-selling true crime book of all time, Helter Skelter, by the lead Manson family prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry.

Another popular book by Rule was the 1987 work, Small Sacrifices, which tells the story of Diane Downs, an Oregon woman who in May 1983 murdered her daughter and attempted to murder her other two children. The book was filmed for television in 1989, with Farrah Fawcett in an Emmy-nominated and Peabody-cited performance.

In 2006, Associated Content stated that since 2000, the genre of writing that was growing the fastest was true crime. The majority of readers of true crime books are women. Other true crime authors of note are M. William Phelps (Murder in the Heartland), Joe McGinniss (Fatal Vision), Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City), Jack Olsen (Son, A Psychopath and His Victims), Gregg Olsen (Starvation Heights), Jon Krakauer (Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith) and Joseph Wambaugh (The Blooding).

Ann Rule passed away in 2015, but before she died she was terrorized by her sons. "Bestselling true crime author Ann Rule was bilked out of more than $100,000 by two of her sons, one of whom demanded money while she 'cowered in her wheelchair,' authorities said. Michael Rule, 51, has been charged with theft in the first degree and forgery, for allegedly writing himself $103,628 in checks from his mother's bank account, according to charging documents. Andrew Rule, 54, was accused of coercing his mother into giving him $23,327 and was charged with first-degree theft." Source

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