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:
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
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
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXJrJDGnHdo
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