Perry Smith and Richard Hickock Mass Murder In Cold Blood Holcomb KS November and Osprey Fl December 1959

Perry Smith and Richard Hickock linked to mass murder in cold blood, the Clutter family in Holcomb KS on November 14th and the Walker family in Osprey Fl on December 19th 1959. All 8 victims were murdered in the same manner. Mad dog killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock first met in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas. Smith was eventually paroled, and the pair later resumed their acquaintance upon Hickock's release in November 1959. Hickock allegedly wrote to Smith, imploring him to violate his parole by returning to Kansas to assist Hickock with a robbery he had been planning. Perry Smith met with Richard Dick Hickock, and almost immediately the two set to work carrying out Hickock's plan. 

Driving west to Holcomb KS, they entered the Clutter home through an unlocked door late in the evening of November 14, 1959, whereupon they murdered the four family members present: Herbert Clutter and his wife Bonnie, and their younger children, Nancy and Kenyon, they were all shot in the head. Clutter Family mass murder, Hickock later testified that he had gotten the idea to rob the Clutters after being told by former cellmate Floyd Wells, who had worked as a farmhand for the Clutters, that there was a safe in the family's house containing $10,000. When they invaded the house, however, they discovered that there was no such safe. Following the Kansas massacre, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock had stolen a Chevrolet Bel Air and drove it to Florida. On the morning of the Walker murders, the duo checked out of a Miami Beach motel. On Dec. 19 — the day of the killings — they shopped at Grant's Department Store on Tamiami Trail in Sarasota only several miles from the crime scene. They were in the area of the Walker Family mass murder, who were all shot in the head just like the Clutter family.

Mass murder killer Perry E. Smith was crack shot with a rifle. Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 - April 14, 1965). At age 16, Perry Smith joined the United States Merchant Marine in 1942. Perry E. Smith joined the army in 1949 in Alaska, he served in the Korean War. “Headquarters, United States Army, Alaska. Pvt. Perry E. Smith, 23, first Army Korean combat veteran to return to the Anchorage, Alaska, area, is greeted by Captain Mason, Public Information Officer, upon arrival at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Smith served 15 months with the 24th Division as a combat engineer. His trip from Seattle to Anchorage was a gift from Pacific Northern Airlines. Perry Smith had lived for a time with his father in Trapper's Den a small town about 160 miles from Anchorage, Alaska. 

Pvt. Perry E. Smith was a hunter and trapper with his father John Tex Smith in Trapper's Den Palmer Alaska, where Perry learned to shoot. Pvt Perry E. Smith also spent 15 months in the Army during the Korean War, Perry was a marksman with a rifle (see news article above). His last fifteen months of service were spent at the Bay of Inchon during the Korean War, where he helped bridge the many rivers needed to ensure troop mobility leading up to the Battle of Inchon, where Smith was awarded the prestigious Bronze Star, the Army’s fourth highest military decoration for valor an honor given only for heroic or meritorious achievement and services in a combat zone. It appears that Perry Smith shot at least 6 of the 8 victims in the two families, shooting all of them in the head with one shot, using a shotgun in Kansas and then a 22 rifle in Florida. Perry Smith tells a former friend from his Army days that he is not sorry and feels no regret for his crimes. Dick Hickock was an ephebophile; according to Truman Capote in his account of the Clutter murders, In Cold Blood, having been prevented by his partner in crime, Perry Smith, from raping 16-year-old Nancy Clutter during the crime in the Clutter home, but Perry Smith appears to be the guy who raped Christine Walker in Osprey Fl.

Pvt Perry E. Smith and his father, John "Tex" Smith, attempted to build the Trapper’s Den Lodge in Palmer Alaska. All their physical and creative energy expended on a venture doomed to fail. Truman Capote wrote that Perry’s life was "an ugly and lonely progress toward one mirage and then another." The frustration and pain of this failure at Trapper's Den led to a terrible argument in which Perry tried to strangle his father and Tex, the Lone Wolf, pulled out a gun and tried to shoot him. The gun wasn’t loaded, but the intention was there. In a moment of mania Tex had tried to kill his own son, Perry.

On December 19th 959, unknown assailants entered the home of the Walker family and massacred Christine, 22; her husband Cliff, 25; and their children: three-year-old Jimmie and two-year-old Debbie. It remains one of the most haunting unsolved cases in Sarasota County Florida history. Over the past decade, though, the Walker family murders have taken on another chilling dimension, as the prime suspects are, at present, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. Less that one month earlier, Smith and Hickock slaughtered the four-member Clutter family in Kansas, creating the tragedy that was immortalized in author Truman Capote’s 1966 true-crime masterpiece In Cold Blood and its classic 1969and 2005 movie adaptations. 

At about 4 P.M. on December 19, 1959, Christine Walker, 24, came home to a house she thought was empty in Osprey Fl. It wasn’t. She was raped and shot to death. When Cliff arrived later with the kids, a gunshot cut him down immediately. The killer then also shot both Jimmie and Debbie. The little girl didn’t die immediately, though, so the perpetrator drowned her in the bathtub before leaving.

Nearly 50 years after the executions, the bodies of the killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were exhumed from Mount Muncie Cemetery in Lansing, as authorities hoped to solve a 53-year-old cold case using DNA. Smith and Hickock had originally been questioned about the December 19, 1959, shooting murder in Osprey, Florida of Cliff and Christine Walker and their two young children. Evidence indicated they had spent time just a few miles from the Walker crime scene after the Clutter murders. On December 19, 2012, officials in Kansas exhumed the bodies of Smith and Hickock and retrieved bone fragments to compare their DNA to semen found in the pants of Christine Walker.

Back in Jan 1960 at least 5 different people claimed they had spoken to or had interacted with mass murderers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock in the Sarasota - Osprey area prior to 12/20/1959 after seeing their photos in the Sarasota Herald Tribune as per the Sarasota County Sheriff Office. The Sheriff added that an 'expert marksman' shot each of the Walker family members with a 22 caliber rifle, one shot each, neatly through the head. Mass killer Perry E. Smith worked with his father a hunter/trapper in 'Trapper's Den' Palmer Alaska where they built a hunting lodge in the wilderness. Perry worked as a hunter trapper with his dad from about 1946 to 1949 when Perry Smith joined the Army in Alaska and served in combat during the Korean War. Perry returned to 'Trapper's Den' Palmer Alaska and to work with his father, John Tex Smith, in Oct. 1951 when he was discharged from the Army. Perry E. Smith learned to hunt and shot from his father, Tex, in Alaska. Perry E. Smith most likely was an 'expert marksman' with a rifle before he joined the Army in 1949, Perry was a skilled hunter. In August 2013, the Sarasota County Sheriff's office announced they were unable to find a match between the DNA of Smith or Hickock and the samples in the Walker family murder. Only partial DNA could be retrieved, possibly due to degradation of the DNA samples over the decades or contamination in storage, making the outcome one of uncertainty (neither proving nor disproving the involvement of Smith and Hickock). Investigators have stated that Smith and Hickock still remain the most viable suspects.


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Murderers Who Targeted Women Like William Devonshire, Delmer Smith and John Waterman Seemed to Flourish in Sarasota Fl.

The worst of the worst lived and walked amongst us in Sarasota Fl. Serial Killers William Devonshire and Delmer Smith move to Sarasota & Bradenton Fl after release from out of state prisons The worst of the worst, serial rapist and murderer Delmer Smith and serial killer William Devonshire had no known connections to Sarasota and Bradenton Fl and yet within days of their respective release from prison in Michigan and Delaware these two monsters show up in Florida. Serial Killer Delmer Smith moved to Bradenton Fl in September 2008 to hook up with older woman prison pen pal who he supposedly married. Then all Hell Broke Loose in Paradise thanks to the FBI who had not recorded Smith's DNA in CODIS after he was released from prison. Convicted Serial Sexual Killer Delmer Smith Transferred From State Prison to Sarasota County Jail to Stand Trial For Murder. Friday, February 23, 2018 The State Attorney’s Office in Sarasota Fl is finally charging ‘Monster’ Delmer Smith with the April 5th, 2009 rape and murder of Georgann Smith on Jo Ann Drive in Sarasota Fl. 

WTSP CBS TV June 15, 2019, SARASOTA, Fla. — Time is running out for Delmer Smith III. He's been on death row for more than five years for the heinous murder of Kathleen Briles in her Terra Ceia home in 2009. Marjorie Almeter lost her sister Georgann Smith the same year Briles was killed, but Almeter didn't get the satisfaction of a conviction at the same time. Delmer Smith III was responsible for a string of violent home invasions in Sarasota and Manatee counties targeting women home alone that caused fear and panic for the people who lived there. “He pummeled these women into the ground,” Bill Warner, a private investigator who’s followed the case since 2009, explained. “He beat them with bricks, baseball bats, whatever he could get his hand on. It was over-the-top violent.” Bill Warner became interested in the case because the attacks happened near his office and home. “It was going nowhere,” he explained. “Nobody knew who this guy was.” Then, the big break came. Smith was first convicted for the home invasions, then the murder of Kathleen Briles. Finally, in 2017, new DNA evidence connected the man already on death row to Georgann's murder. A jury found him guilty.

Serial Killer William Devonshire Attacking Women in Sarasota Since Nov 2013 Arrival From Newark DE On Parole for Murder in 2003. This 6' 4" tall, 220 pound monster has been roaming amongst us in downtown Sarasota since Nov 2013, his current location Sarasota County jail, recently terminated. Ex-con William J. Devonshire, DOB 9/23/1969, decided this area was best for him after his parole for murder in Wilmington DE, lucky us. William J. Devonshire had arrests in New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, Wilmington Delaware (Mid Atlantic trucking routes) and Sarasota Florida, I get the impression William Devonshire worked as a long haul trucker. I-95 runs directly through Wilmington Delaware, a transportation hub, where William Devonshire had lived. William Devonshire is a convicted murderer, as a result of an incident which occurred on April 3, 2003 in the State of Delaware. Serial Killers like William Devonshire in Sarasota go after marginalized individuals particularly prostitutes, drug addicts and the homeless relatively easy marks as they tend to lose touch with family and friends and might have a history of disappearing for extended periods of time. There is no doubt in my mind that William "Bill" Devonshire killed the two homeless women along the north Tamiami Trl, in Feb and March of 2022, that makes him a serial killer with his prior murder conviction in Delaware. How many other bodies are on this monster is unknown who just recently died in Sarasota County jail, good riddance to bad rubbish.

Sarasota Psycho Killer John Waterman sent to Sex Offender Halfway Housing in Lake Shore Village Trailer Park Orlando Fl after release August 1st 2011. The outrageous release of John Waterman for the 1991 Rape and Torture Murder of Jackie Galloway. John Waterman only did 16 years in prison and then sent to “Treatment Center for Rapists” in Arcadia Fl. John Waterman, 54, raped, tortured and killed a Sarasota County woman and then raped and tortured, with a knife, another woman in the Hudson Bayou section of Sarasota Fl. JOHN BENSON WATERMAN is now free to roam, current verified address is 5389 Rose Ave apt B Orlando Fl. JOHN BENSON WATERMAN, DOB: 05/06/1966. Registered sex offender and murderer John Waterman is now mobile. Registered Sexual Predator and Murderer John Waterman purchased a black 2009 Ford pickup truck in Orlando. On November 11, 2021 John Waterman registered the 2009 black Ford pickup and then re-registerd the truck on May 20, 2022. John Waterman appears to have purchased the truck and is making payments to ORANGE SPORTS CENTER INC Orlando Fl, sort of a buy here, pay here, used car lot.

Vehicle Make	Vehicle Type	Vehicle Color	Vehicle Year	Vehicle Body	Tag Number
FORD	AUTO	BLACK	2009	UTILITY	QBFN26

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