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Perry doesn't want to be hanged so he starves himself so that he can be taken to the hospital, which is also a pretty good idea. This makes the workers at the hospital force feed him and makes him postpone the hanging a little longer. While at the hospital, he starts to get really weird dreams. Perry then gets a letter from his dad but doesn't seem to care about it and just rips it up on the spot. When he became stable, he was moved back to the prison, where he stayed for another two years. People were somehow able to postpone his hanging. They get a new prisoners, one eighteen and the other nineteen. They killed seventeen people. Dick sends letters to the Kentucky Bar association so that he and Perry would get a retrial that was more fair. And they get one. The verdict was that they were able postpone the hanging a lot longer. Andrews gets sent to the gallows because he was still considered guilty. Another three years go by and Dick and Perry finally get hung.

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The last day for the trial and the defendants stand no chance. They have nothing up their sleeves and nothing to help defend Dick and Perry other than their rights and the use of some bible verses. Dick and Perry are then found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. That was probably the decision from the start, but whatever, an eye for an eye. Mrs.Meior spends one more night with Perry, but she soon has to go eat out with her husband. While Perry starts crying, he hands Mrs.Meior a picture of himself at a younger age that he drew so that she could remember the good him. Makes me feel really bad for Perry because he had an awful childhood and such. Dick and Perry are then transferred to the hanging building that looks like a giant cross. How ironic. The hanging coffin already has five other inmates, one guy named Cowell Andrews, who apparently killed his entire family using guns to probably sell their land. Death penalty for him.

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So Dick's in jail and he's planning on making a shiv out of a tooth brush and I guess that's kind of smart, but if he gets caught he's screwed. The next day, the sheriff has a shake out and finds Dick's shiv. Extremely bad luck. Perry thinks about committing suicide by using the light bulb at the top of his cell. He then has some weird dream of a giant yellow bird saving him. Dick and Perry are then interviewed for a diagnosis and their lawyers attempt to post pone the trial. The Clutter home is also on sale the day before the hearing. The auction attracts a lot of people, like 5,000 and everything gets sold. In the psychiatry diagnosis, Dick and Perry had to write a biography of sorts. The trial begins and things start to go down hill for Dick an Perry.
 The trial goes on and the defense has practically nothing to defend Dick and Perry. Al testifies and it seems to be the most impacting testimony. Same with Mrs.Hitchcock's statement. Perry then Dines with Don Cullivan in the Jail place and they get to talk. The next day, the trial continues and the Doctor is not allowed to elaborate on his diagnosis. If he did, Perry might have been saved a little, or at least received sympathy. I feel that the judge is bias and helps the persecution side a lot more than the defense side. He probably wants to get this over as soon as possible. Or maybe he hates Dick and Perry. Dr.Satten also researches Perry because he's doing a book for Murders without motives.

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Dick and Perry seem to be restless after the interrogation and I guess they're scared since they're probably going to get hanged. During their second interview though, they're more fortified and don' budge toward the idea that they murdered the Clutters. Dick then back stabs Perry and focuses all the blame to Perry, saying he made me do it and all those excuses. What a selfish person, only thinking for himself. Perry finds out that Dick spilled the beans so Perry tells the truth too. Probably not to have as much of a guilty conscience when he dies. There then seems to be a lot of people waiting for the arrival of Dick and Perry. Reporters, neighbors, and classmates of Nancy and Kenyon Clutter all seem to be there. When Dick and Perry arrive, nothing that interesting seems to happen and the Meirs take care of them in their cells. Mrs.Meir seems to be a really nice person because she cooks them food that they like. Perry also seems to be showing a good side because he's holding up for Dick, even though it might be because he want's Dick's parents to think Dick didn't have anything in the murders. Perry also recalls his life story and receives a letter from an old army friend. Guess he's going to meet him sometime soon.

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Bobby Rupp is still in Grief after the death of Nancy Clutter. Must be pretty hard on him. He goes on a jog and recalls memories of Nancy and her dad's story. Dick and Perry pick up some hitchhikers on the road, probably to rob them? Nope, they become a little friendly with each other and start picking bottles off the road to recycle for money, which seems like a genius idea when you're broke. Dewey then gets a call that Dick and Perry were found so he's probably really excited. Dick and Perry were found at OOM. I think it's room but the r fell off? Anyways, they get interrogated and Dick plays it really smooth, but gets caught telling lies. Perry, however does a horrible job. He gets caught and acts like a guilty person. No smooth acting for him.

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Dick and Perry don't end up killing Mr.Bell but stay in a salvation army place and then travel a bit. It starts raining and they find a barn to take shelter in. Inside the barn, they find a car with a key in the ignition. Talk about lucky...Dewey Then attempts to find where Dick and Perry are. Dick and Perry end up at Kansas City again, I think at an airport. They cleaned up in the bathroom and washed their clothes. Dick ends up robbing some friends and getting seventy five dollars. Dewey is then having some weird dream of the Clutter shoot out and Dick and Perry are there. When he wakes up, he is notified that Dick and Perry are in Kansas City. I don't even know why they're there. If I were one of them, I'd be staying faaaar away from Kansas City. Anyways, time for some action. Dick and Perry then end up in Miami and read in the paper about some killing with a shot gun. It wasn't them so maybe it was the one at the Clutter House with the shotgun. Then there's a scene of Dick acting like a pedophile.

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Mr.Bell goes to pick up Dick and Perry since they were hitchhiking. Dick and Perry planned to kill him and burry him and rob him a few minutes later, but I guess the plan didn't go smoothly since it didn't happen. Mr.Bell gets a miracle because right before Dick and Perry strangle him, another hitchhiker appears and Mr.Bell picks him up. Story switches to Nye and he's in Vegas to talk to a land lady. She was Perry's Land Lady and she gives him a lot of his possessions that he left behind. She seems to be afraid of Perry by the way she acts when she talks about him. Mrs.Johnson opens a picture album and recalls a lot of memories of her family. Apparently, when Perry was in Korea, he threw some random guy off a bridge. Kind of a random add in, but I guess it adds to his personality.

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Starts off with a man named Floyd Wells recalling an encounter with Dick in jail. Dick keeps talking to Floyd about wanting to break into the Clutter house because they were so rich and he was telling this to Dick because Floyd used to work there. After the recall, Floyd connects the Clutter case with Dick I guess he's probably going to try and tell the police. So he actually does tell the police and Al Dewey gets some mug shots of Dick and Perry. Guess it's time for him to hunt them down. Nye, the other FBI agent guy, goes to talk to Dick's parents and they tell him he was a good guy, but when he left for somewhere and came back he turned bad. All of the victims from Dick's acts dislike him a lot but don't tell his parents because they respect the parents. Nye then get's a clue from the parents that Dick and Perry left for a trip the day the Clutters died. More suspicion for Dick and Perry.