In the final part of our series taking apart the true crime myth of In Cold Blood, we make the case with evidence with eyewitness statements, letters, and testimony that the killers were part of a Murder-for-Hire plot. One that arose out of the collapsing "vast empire" of Herb Clutter's wealth.Behind the myth we find a far more interesting hardboiled reality of clandestine meetings, straw-purchased guns, shady insurance deals, and kidnapping plots. Of desperate and broken people carried by material forces to a bloody massacre.Sources: Gary McAvoy's And Every Word Is True, as well as In the Shadow of My Brother’s Cold Blood As told to Linda LeBert-Corbello, PhD by David Hickock, and, we must acknowledge Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, particularly the interviews conducted without acknowledgement by Nell Harper Lee.Acknowledgements: Our thematic clips are excerpted from the 1958 Noir classic "Murder by Contract".Music: As always thanks to Komakino for their cover of atrocity exhibition by Joy Division. Thanks as well to Junkyard Shaman for our interlude music from the album "We Become our Own Ghosts."The Document, Folks: Richard Hickock's final clemency hearing notes where he claims that "more money was taken than ever presented. Over $1000 was taken..." (page 2).
