Bleeding Kansas

On 05-01-2018, at 0249 hours, I received a radio transmission from Officer Hoopes requesting to respond to the area of Cuthbert Road for a motor vehicle crash that he was involved in. At this time, Officer Hoopes was on-duty for the 1900 to 0700 night shift and was assigned to the west patrol sector. I located him at the intersection of Cuthbert Road and North Barrett Avenue. Upon arrival, Officer Hoopes was walking outside of his patrol unit, 1608. On inquiry, Officer Hoopes related that…

On 11/21/2016, I, Dillon Dickerson, badge #155, was working as a Patrol Officer for the Wichita State University Police Department, in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. At approximately 2315 hours I was asked by Sgt. Garwood #126 to assist with a Death notification at Shocker Hall. Gove County Sheriff, Alan Webber was on campus with the Aunt and Uncle of student Brice Ryan Hackler (WSU ID E776H352). We met with Sheriff Alan Webber in lot 15 and escorted them to Shocker Hall. Dispatch already…

for anyone, and does not want her address disclosed to him. As is states on page 180, “‘Mrs. Johnson?’ one of them said. ‘My name is Nye. This is Inspector Guthrie. We’re attached to the San Francisco police, and we’ve just received an inquiry from Kansas concerning your brother, Perry Edward Smith...’we wondered if you could tell us anything of his present whereabouts.’ Mrs. Johnson was not distressed- and definitely not surprised- to learn that the police were once more interested in her…

What evidence, if any, was left at the Clutter crime scene?- Footprint Why is Dewey’s claim that “Of all the people in the world, the Clutters were the least likely to be murdered” significant?- highlights how normal and stable the Clutters seemed. It appeared as though they had achieved the “American Dream” What does Perry’s dream regarding a snake, diamond, and golden parrot symbolize?- Perry’s misfortune when trying to obtain something significant, and his hopes that he will be saved. (Also…

Capote wrote the book soon after he read about the crime in The New York Times. Before the killers were caught, he began his work in Kansas. He interviewed the people of Holcomb and did extensive research with the help of his childhood friend Harper Lee, who went on to write the classic To Kill a Mockingbird. The character of Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird was based off Truman Capote. Capote lived next door to Harper Lee every summer vacation, and he entertained her with his very imaginative and…

In the opening of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Capote describes a small desolate ghost-town that doesn’t even register on the map by the name of Holcomb, Kansas. This sounds like a place I would not want to visit. Capote conveys his thoughts about Holcomb through the use of imagery and selection of detail. In the text, “hard blue skies and desert-clear air” describes to the reader an image of what the countryside appeared as. “The streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest…

Although in Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood, the author is illustrating the points of view of Holcomb, Dick, and Perry after the murder of the Clutter family, his prime motive is to exploit the devastation felt by the community; therefore, he accomplishes this by emphasizing the agony, confusion, and panic experienced by a loss. Capote uses tricolon to help convey the dark blanket of emotions that overcame Holcomb after the murders, which one can see from the perspective of Agent Alvin…

Throught history the onward debate of, if Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood, is unbiased as been a open debate still today. As he goes into the investigation of the murders Truman devlops a relationship with them. Although Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood is about the killing and process of finding the murders, and their controversial debate over their sentence, the film Capote by Bennette Miller is about Capote himself. What Capote went through in order to produce the novel. Both the film…

Picture your life taking place in a small town where nothing ever happens and suddenly out of nowhere, a family murdered in cold blood. In the nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, he uses many rhetorical devices and strategies. By using these strategies he creates a nonfiction novel worth reading. Capote uses devices such as pathos, imagery, foreshadowing, and an always changing tone. He uses these devices to lead on a mysterious murder first hand in which they are investigating to…

The Power of Capote In Cold Blood was a story which shook the nation. Describing the gruesome murders of the Clutter family, Truman Capote appeals to his readers’ emotions and plays on their empathy. As the story progresses, Capote’s focus changes. His purpose for writing this book seems to shift. He got emotionally invested in the characters, and that determined which direction the story went. Capote has a way of manipulating his readers into supporting his purpose. Their view of the…