In cold Blood

Although the novel, In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, shocked the nation in its description of a heinous murder of an entire family, the initial crime theory included a murder-suicide since the husband and wife slept in separate bedrooms. However, through careful, descriptive analysis of the crime scene, the actual culprits of the cold, blooded killing were found and determined to have serious mental illness of schizophrenia and other brain injuries leading to a series of events that ended in a brutal crime.
The state of Kansas lacked money to examine Dick and Perry, but Doctor W. Mitchell Johns volunteered his services, as a specialist in criminal psychology and determining criminally sane and insane. However, Perry felt they know they just want to be entertained and hear the killers own terrible lips” (268). Dr. Mitchell worked with twenty-five murder cases and he ran a series of test on Perry and Dick. He found that Dick was not mentally ill, but Perry on the other hand, had mild type of Schizophrenia. Finally, the judge said, “we will find out if they are insane, imbeciles or idiots, unable to comprehend their positions and aid in their defense” (266).
Once Dick and Perry were in court, Perry decided to give a part of his life story saying “I was very severely beaten by the cottage mistress, who had called me names and made fun of me in front of all the boys for wetting the bed at night” (275). “In 1948, Perry joined the Army got in fights and pushed a Japanese police officer off of a bridge into the water” (276). It seems Perry become upset whenever he remembers events of the past because of his alcoholic mother and a father that never spent time him. Whenever his father was stationed in Alaska, he made sure Perry went to school and never missed a day. Yet, the only person he loved and cared about was his brother, but he committed suicide shooting himself with the same type of rifle used to kill the Clutter family.
It seems, when the killings