## Alvin Dewey
- Investigator for Kansas Bureau of Investigation
-- wife Marie, two sons
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+- wife Marie (stenographer), two sons
### Dick Hickock
- murders Clutters with Perry Smith
- "Dick, the practical Dick"
- appears confident
+- married twice, had three sons
+- calls Perry "honey"
+- impulsive - if he had enough money, he "would spend it on vodka and women"
### Perry Smith
- has trouble meeting deadlines - "if Dick had not hammered home the every-minute importance of the next twenty-four hours"
- criminal past
- "never drank coffeemy name sluger lolol"
+- personal account of boyhood while in Mexico
+- parents were rodeo riders
+- two siblings and one inlaw committed suicide
### Willie-Jay
- assistant to prison chaplain
- respects and mentors Perry
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+### Minor characters
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+- Myrtle Clare - postmistress
+- Mrs Hideo Ashida - family moved due to crime
+- Floyd Wells - worked on Clutter farm, imprisoned with Dick, snitched Dick & Perry
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+### Suspects
+- Bobby Rupp - lie detector test
+- John Jnr/Snr
+- Mr. Smith
+- robbery?
+- Mabel - cafe worker
+- Jonathan Daniel Adrian
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+**Manhunt** - Floyd Wells alerts authorities and Alvin Dewey starts manhunt. Dick and Perry steal car then return to Kansas to produce more cheques. They then move to Miami, then Las Vegas. Policewoman in Vegas recognises car. Dick confesses first, then Perry. Both undergo trial and are condemned to death. Five year appeal process - Perry starves himself, Dick writes letters to organisations. Dick accepts death sentence politely, Perry regretful/apologetic.