**What does the setting of the text include?**
+- Holcomb, Kansas, America, 1959
- cultural information - America, small isolated community, agricultural economy, 1959
- explicit mention of dates to set period (Nov 14, 1959)
- Holcomb, Kansas - small town, "not a place that strangers come upon by chance"
### Herbert Clutter
- owns River Valley Farm
-- four children - two daughters + Nancy + Kenyon
+- four children - two daughters (Eveanna + Beverly) + Nancy + Kenyon
- successful - owns large property
- "I'm not as poor as I look"
+- devout Methodist
+- approves of Bobby but wary of their relationship
-### Nancy Clutter
+### Bonnie Clutter
+- wife of Herbert Clutter
+- mentally unstable (anxiety/BPD)
### Kenyon Clutter
- 15
- builds stuff
+### Nancy Clutter
+- boyfriend Bobby Rupp
+- best friend Susan Kidwell
+
+### Bobby Rupp
+- Nancy's boyfriend
+
+## Alvin Dewey
+- Investigator for Kansas Bureau of Investigation
+- wife Marie (stenographer), two sons
+
+
### Dick Hickock
-- murders Clutter with Perry Smith
+- murders Clutters with Perry Smith
+- "Dick, the practical Dick"
+- appears confident
+- married twice, had three sons
+- calls Perry "honey"
### Perry Smith
-- murders Clutter with Dick Hickock
+- murders Clutters with Dick Hickock
+- injured in motorcycle accident
- breakfast - "three aspirin, cold root beer and a chain of Paul Mall cigarettes"
- self-centred/egotistical - “Every time you see a mirror you go into a trance”
- more open/prominent in text than Dick
+- messy/materialistic - “Christ, Perry. You carry that junk everywhere?”
+- "know the ins and outs of hunting gold"
+- 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"
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+### Willie-Jay
+- assistant to prison chaplain
+- respects and mentors Perry
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+### Minor characters
+
+- Myrtle Clare - postmistress
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+### Suspects
+- John Jnr/Snr
+- Mr. Smith
+- robbery?