Monday, January 14, 2008

In Cold Blood: Journal # 4

I n Cold Blood, the author is pretty descriptive in the details of the crime, the investigation, arrest and the execution of the murder. It is just crazy how the murder had no apparent motive of why it should had been done, nor left any clues for the crime to be done that way. Picturing this family of four being murder in a calm city in Kansas by shotguns is impossible. It is just a pretty horrible event that did not need to happen. Why would anyone do something like this?
I can’t imagine what the murderers were thinking. They must have been uniquely crazy. I just wonder what was going through their minds. I mean something like this just seems unreal. Are there still people like this in the world? Why did it have to be like this?
Could it have been done differently?

1 comment:

Emily B said...

I don’t know. You know how they say, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” I guess it’s one of those kinds of situations. I remember it being said that they lived far off in the county so I don’t think the shots could be heard really, which must have been good for Dick and Perry, but bad for the Clutters. Especially being tied down and shot, I just shiver. I’m surprised that the two sisters could even continue with their weddings, but I suppose it’s good to move on. I suppose. I think there still are people out there, infact there are. The guy that caused the Virginia Tech Massacre and Columbine massacre and there was Lenin and Marx, dictators of Russia. There’s many from each generation and it’s sad. I'm sure there could have been plenty of ways, their idea was just easier.