Nancy Clutter
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Nancy Mae Clutter (January 2, 1943 – 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. Smith later alleged that Hickock had planned to sexually assault Nancy Clutter, but that Smith prevented it. Though at first Hickock claimed that Smith had done all of the shootings, later Smith orally confessed that he (Smith) killed the men but Hickock shot the women. However, in Smith's signed confession, he admitted to being the sole killer.
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.
