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.  Perry Smith and Richard "Dick" Hickock, the killers featured in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, have been the primary suspects in the 1959 Walker family murders in Osprey, Sarasota Florida. While the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has aggressively pursued ...