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raccoon

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2. No, they didn't even have a safe. Herbert Clutter wrote checks for even small amounts of money.

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 3, 2012, 09:00 AM

Apr 2012

I don't know if Floyd Wells made up the story about the safe, or perhaps heard it from another hired
hand, who heard it from someone else....and so on.

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Question relating to the Clutter family murders. [View all] raccoon Apr 2012 OP

Did the CLutters really have the money in the safe in the office? hlthe2b Apr 2012 #1

No, they didn't even have a safe. Herbert Clutter wrote checks for even small amounts of money. raccoon Apr 2012 #2

Co-conspirator Floyd Wells was a gullible cretin who believed Tom Ripley Apr 2012 #3

By George, I think you've got it. nt raccoon Apr 2012 #4

Good catch ailsagirl Aug 2012 #5

Wells Scairp Aug 2012 #6

One source (link below) I found says Wells ended up back in prison for 30 years for armed raccoon Aug 2012 #7