The detail in the book, In Cold Blood, facilitates the reader’s understanding the imagery that develops suspense throughout. Dick and Perry (the murders of the Clutter’s family) not being “the kind to kick off his shoes and sit by the shore” worked hard to accomplish their murders clear from any possible clues that could be used against them. Nancy faced towards the wall covered with blood due to the bullet that made its way through the back of her head with her hands tied together, blocking her possibilities to escape. Nancy’s mother, Bonnie, tied with “very complicated and artful pieces of art” of knots from her hands to her ankles. A bullet too passed through the side of her head. Tied like his mother and shot directly in the
