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47 Cards in this Set
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Perry |
Spanish rice |
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Perry |
Pet squirrel named Red |
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Dick |
Severe character disorder |
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Perry |
Paranoid orientation towards the world |
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Dick (last words) |
"You people are sending me to a better world than this ever was." |
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Dick |
Left his eyes to an eye doctor |
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Perry |
" I'm embraced by shame." |
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Dick |
Glass worked out of his head after a car wreck |
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Dick |
"I knew there would be a girl there." |
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Perry (last words) |
".. it's a hellava thing to take a life in this manner." |
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Perry |
"as lonely and inappropriate as a seagull in a wheat field." |
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Perry |
In and out of Detention Homes |
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Perry |
Fed intravenously or through a tube inserted into his nostril |
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Dick |
"I neglected my business, spent more money than I earned, wrote bad checks and in the end became a thief." |
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Dick |
Participated in all sports |
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Perry |
"Maybe it's just the Clutters were the ones who had to pay for it." |
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Paul Helm |
" it's like a second funeral." |
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April 14, 1965 |
Date of Dick and Perry's execution |
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Reverend Post |
"...any man who could paint this picture can't be one hundred percent bad...Capital punishment is not the answer." |
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Babe (Nancy's horse) |
Sold to a Mennonite farmer |
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Hangman at Dick and Perry's execution |
Job paid $600 |
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Mélange |
A mixture; a medley |
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Pedeophiliac |
Pedophile |
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Virile |
Having or exhibiting masculine energy, forcefulness, or strength in a marked degree |
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Voir Dire |
An oath taken by jurors to tell the truth |
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Undulating |
To move with a smooth wavelike motion |
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Perry |
Killed the whole Clutter family |
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Dick and Perry's sanity |
The American Journal of Psychiatry |
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Dick and Perry |
The last laugh |
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Dr. Satten |
"Murder without apparent motive" |
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Lowell Lee Andrews |
"The paths of glory lead but to the grave" |
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Mélange |
"[S]he cooks and sews for the prisoners, darns, does their laundry, takes splendid care of her husband, and looks after their five-room apartment, with its gemütlich ______ of plump hassocks and squashy chairs and cream-colored lace window curtains." |
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Pedophiliac |
"Here Hickock revealed his _____ tenddencies, and after describing several sample experiences, wrote: I know it is wrong." |
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Virile |
"Dick was not 'hard rock' he'd once thought him: 'pragmatic', '_____', 'a real brass boy'; he'd proven himself to be 'pretty weak and shallow', 'a coward.' |
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Voir Dire |
"During the _____ examination, four of them told the court that they had been personally, though not intimately, acquainted with Mr. Clutter; but upon further questioning, each said he did not feel this circumstance would hinder his ability to reach an impartial verdict." |
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Undulating |
"Seen today, it is a dark island lapped by the _____ surf of surrounding wheat fields - a good refuge from a hot day, for there are many cool paths unbrokenly shaded by trees planted generations ago." |
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Undulated |
"All summer Perry _____ between half-awake stupors and sickly, sweat-drenched sleep." |
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Josephine Meier |
She cooks and sews for the prisoners |
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Don Cullivan |
A friend of Perry's from the army |
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Dr. Mitchell Jones |
The psychiatrist who had volunteered to examine Dick and Perry |
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Susan Kidwell |
Nancy's friend; testified in court |
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Dr. Joseph Satten |
Psychiatrist from Menninger clinic in Topeka, Kansas who consulted the evaluations of Dick and Perry with another psychiatrist |
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Reverand Post |
Lansing's Protestant chaplain |
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Floyd Wells |
Old cellmate of Dicks who told him about Mr. Clutter and told the police who comited the murder when he heard about it. |
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Lowell Lee Andrews |
"The Nicest Boy in Wolcott" who murdered his entire family to inherit money (began Durham Rule where an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act is the product of mental disease or illness) |
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Voir Dire |
"As for the jurors that were chosen, at least two had clearly indicated a presumption of guilt during the _____." |
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Voir Dire |
"...unfortunately, the ______ had not been recorded because Kansas law does not require it unless a specific demand is made." |