Accounting Hw Chapter 3

Mohammed Ahmed

Eng. 201

02-24-15

Amanda Harris

Assignment #4

Lets look at “In Cold Blood” from a Criminal Justice standpoint. The Clutter family murders took place in the late 1959 in a small town of Holcomb Kansas, which traumatized the entire neighborhood. In search of the criminals, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation did a great job of hunting down the criminals, although they did not have all the advanced technology available to them to track down criminals like they do today. For example, when the neighbors burned most of the evidence from the crime scene at Clutters house, which made It even harder for the KBI to track down the criminal, yet they still managed to come to the conclusion that more than one person was present at the crime scene, because they found “footprints, the dusty tracking of shoes with diamond-patterned soled” from the photographs taken at the scene of crime.

A person who commits a crime is rational, he/she will only commit a crime if he/she thinks the chances of getting away with it is high and that includes no witnesses, but little do they know it doesn’t matter how much of an efficient killer he/she is, they will always leave evidence behind. That was the case with Perry and Dick who thought killing all the witnesses would minimize their risk of getting caught, which it did quite frankly. However, they have left behind plenty of other evidence such as “the same type of knot, a half hitch, was used” to bound all four members of Clutter’s family, which indicated that it was done by one person. Also a shotgun was used to kill all four victims and the execution of all four victims were identical, so it specified that it was a crime of more than one man. Also, it is common sense if a person knows that his family members are at risk or they might get killed, he/she will resist and fight till the very last moment, but in the case of the Clutter murders, there were no sign of resistance from the victims, as they were cooperating...