Herbert Clutter

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Herbert William Clutter (May 24, 1911 – November 15, 1959) was one of four members of the Clutter family murdered during an invasion of their Holcomb, Kansas farmhouse by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, two ex-convicts who mistakenly believed that a large amount of money was kept in a safe in the house. Herbert Clutter, the family father, had a successful career first as a government official, and later as an affluent rancher. Smith admitted to slashing Herbert Clutter's throat while he was tied up then shooting him in the head with a shotgun.

The Clutter family murders became famous after Truman Capote used the murders and their aftermath as the basis for his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.