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Perry Smith: Exposed.
A perfect family, adored by their fellow citizens in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, living the American Dream until Saturday, November 14, 1959 when the Clutter family’s lives were shattered by two psychologically ill assassins: Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. ... On the opposite side of the state, Dick Hickock, a man who grew up in a typical family yet possessed a violent streak, and Perry Smith, a man who grew up in a not so ordinary family, dysfunctional, to say the least, were getting ready for their long drive across the state to find the so called safe that one of Dick’s cellmates, Floyd Wells, had told him about on Herb Clutter’s farm before Dick was released from jail, where he had been for writing bad checks. When Dick and Perry arrived at the Clutter’s house and found that there was no safe, they tied the members of the family up, and shot each one of them, one by one. ... Dick and Perry were driven back to Kansas, while each of them confessed to the murder of the family. ...
Both Dick Hickock and Perry Smith displayed characteristics of being abnormal. Perry Smith, however, seemed to be the most interesting. Perry met a great deal of the criteria of Schizoid Personality Disorder, yet seems to comorbiditly show signs of Paranoid Personality Disorder. ... First of all, Perry didn’t have a good relationship with a single member of his family. His father, Tex John Smith, always favored Perry to the rest of his kids, yet Perry never responded to this.
Approximate Word count = 1359
Approximate Pages = 5.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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