Alvin Dewey's Involvement In The Clutter Case

The two primary suspects of the Clutter case, Richard Eugene Hitchcock and Perry Edward Smith, were arrested on December 30, 1959 for driving a stolen vehicle in Las Vegas, Nevada. Alvin Dewey, the detective assigned to the Clutter case, was informed by a colleague that the suspects were arrested. Fearing that he would lose his only opportunity to interrogate Hitchcock and Smith, Dewey drove to the Las Vegas police station. When first questioned about their involvement in the quadruple homicide, both suspects recounted a phony story they had conceived and notably rehearsed. Perry is the first of the suspects, to succumb to the detective's scrupulous questioning, he then began to recount what really occurred on the evening of November 14,1959.