{"id":7231,"date":"2017-09-15T01:34:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T05:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truecrimetruant.com\/?p=7231"},"modified":"2023-05-20T23:54:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T03:54:37","slug":"in-cold-blood-no-saints-in-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/in-cold-blood-no-saints-in-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"In Cold Blood: No Saints in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Girl Detective Takes on a Quadruple Homicide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just a brief post this week since I went a little off the rails with the long-form blogging last time.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7233\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/in-cold-blood-no-saints-in-kansas\/no-saints-book\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/No-Saints-Book.jpg?fit=400%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"No Saints Book\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/No-Saints-Book.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/No-Saints-Book.jpg?fit=400%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7233 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/truecrimetruant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/No-Saints-Book-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/No-Saints-Book.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/No-Saints-Book.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like Truman Capote&#8217;s writing and true-crime stories so much that it&#8217;s hard to stop elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>The first <em>In Cold Blood<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/truecrimetruant.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/in-cold-blood-murders-that-live-on\/\">post<\/a> discussed how the flamboyant Capote created a new literary genre, and <a href=\"http:\/\/truecrimetruant.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/in-cold-blood-alternate-facts\/\">last week&#8217;s<\/a> explored his alleged efforts to snuff out a competing manuscript.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never stop.<\/strong> But when the subject is <em>In Cold Blood<\/em>, there&#8217;s always more.<\/p>\n<p>The tale of the brutal collision between the wholesome Clutter family and two dissolute criminals in Holcomb, Kansas, has been fascinating readers since the book hit the best-seller list in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Soho Press has a new telling of the story coming out in November.<\/p>\n<p>The novel <em>No Saints in Kansas<\/em> offers the tale through the eyes of the fictional Carly Fleming, a 15-year-old who recently moved to Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>Carly was just beginning a friendship with Nancy &#8220;the town darling&#8221; Clutter when the teenager was murdered along with three members of her family on November 15, 1959.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking the initiative.<\/strong> In the early days of the investigation, detectives (in real life, too) suspected that Bobby Rupp, Nancy&#8217;s boyfriend, was the culprit who tied up, robbed, and shot her and her brother, Kenyon, and their parents, Herb and Bonnie.<\/p>\n<p>Carly, who feels protective of Bobby, launches her own investigation in order to clear his name.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of going off the rails, Carly sneaks onto the murder scene, barges in on a press conference, and does her own ballistics tests.<\/p>\n<p>She ends up grounded and arrested. Nevertheless, she persisted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hometown girl.<\/strong> If all this sounds like a novel for a teen audience, it&#8217;s because it is. Soho Press is publishing the book as young adult fiction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6935\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6935\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/in-cold-blood-murders-that-live-on\/the-guilty\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Guilty.jpg?fit=202%2C249&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"202,249\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Guilty\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Murderers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. Smith later told Capote that he liked Nancy Clutter and could see she was trying to put him at ease. He shot her anyway.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Guilty.jpg?fit=202%2C249&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Guilty.jpg?fit=202%2C249&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6935\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/truecrimetruant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Guilty.jpg?resize=202%2C249\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"249\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murderers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. Smith later said that he liked Nancy Clutter and could see she was trying to put him at ease. He shot her anyway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I enjoyed the telling just the same, especially because author Amy Brashear brings credibility to the characterizations.<\/p>\n<p>Brashear and her family moved to Finney County, Kansas, in 1991, when she was 9.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 33 years after the homicides, but locals hadn&#8217;t stopped talking about them, and probably never will.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lose the halo.<\/strong> The author grew up around people old enough to have known the Clutters personally and still feel the psychic trauma caused by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock&#8217;s crime.<\/p>\n<p>I found the novel engaging also because it seems to confirm something that I&#8217;ve always suspected: that Nancy Clutter wasn&#8217;t quite the perfect human being that Capote portrayed.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;You&#8217;ve idolized that poor dead woman beyond all human recognition,&#8221; as Ruth and Augustus Goetz wrote in\u00a0<em>The Heiress.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>That and other story elements made <em>No Saints in Kansas<\/em> a nice read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nice holiday gift.<\/strong> I caught a couple of examples of anachronistic language in <em>No Saints in Kansas<\/em>. The first known use of &#8220;face-plant&#8221; was in 1982, according to\u00a0<em>Webster<\/em>&#8216;s, and I suspect people didn&#8217;t say &#8220;sounds like a plan&#8221; back in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not the author&#8217;s fault that this reader makes her living by pointing out errors; I&#8217;m an editor by day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7236\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7236\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/in-cold-blood-no-saints-in-kansas\/amy-brashear\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Amy-Brashear.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Amy Brashear\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Amy Brashear&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Amy-Brashear.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Amy-Brashear.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7236\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/truecrimetruant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Amy-Brashear-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Amy-Brashear.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Amy-Brashear.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Amy-Brashear.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Amy Brashear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;d recommend the book for any preteen or young teen reader who likes detective stories and true crime.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good introduction to a U.S. tragedy that Truman Capote made sure will never become arcane.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this post. Until next week, cheers. <em>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/truecrimetruant.com\/index.php\/about-me\/\">RR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35016\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/scott-dunn-lost-and-found\/cover-final-book-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cover-Final-Book-.jpg?fit=315%2C472&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"315,472\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cover-Final-Book-\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Forensic Files Now book cover&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;vv&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cover-Final-Book-.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cover-Final-Book-.jpg?fit=315%2C472&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cover-Final-Book-.jpg?resize=274%2C411\" alt=\"Book cover\" class=\"wp-image-35016\" width=\"274\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cover-Final-Book-.jpg?w=315&amp;ssl=1 315w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cover-Final-Book-.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 85vw, 274px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>To order the book:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3gbY48m\">Amazon<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3SdNM4S\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3TAQC5b\">Books-a-Million<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3D9H9fE\">Target<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3DeyKb3\">Walmart<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/forensic-files-now-inside-40-unforgettable-true-crime-cases-rebecca-reisner\/18962362\">Indie Bound<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Girl Detective Takes on a Quadruple Homicide Just a brief post this week since I went a little off the rails with the long-form blogging last time. I like Truman Capote&#8217;s writing and true-crime stories so much that it&#8217;s hard to stop elaborating. The first In Cold Blood post discussed how the flamboyant Capote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/in-cold-blood-no-saints-in-kansas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Cold Blood: No Saints in Kansas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[201],"tags":[211,202,212,204],"class_list":["post-7231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-cold-blood","tag-amy-brashear","tag-in-cold-blood","tag-nancy-clutter","tag-no-saints-in-kansas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In Cold Blood: No Saints in Kansas - Forensic Files Now<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/in-cold-blood-no-saints-in-kansas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Cold Blood: No Saints in Kansas - Forensic Files Now\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Girl Detective Takes on a Quadruple Homicide Just a brief post this week since I went a little off the rails with the long-form blogging last time. 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