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Book Review of We Were Killers Once

Perry Smith and Richard Hickock were arrested in Las Vegas for murdering four members of the Clutter family. Courtesy of Las Vegas Review-Journal Archive.

We Were Killers Once begins with a flashback to 1959: six-year-old Brigid Quinn sits on her father’s lap as he and his police buddies recount the brutal murder of a Florida family just before Christmas. As the men sit in the kitchen drinking and smoking, they can’t help but make the connection between the Walker murders and the equally gruesome killings of the Clutter…