I remember “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote - those guys who killed the Clutter family in KS were hanged and rightly so. There sure didn’t seem to be any drawn out hearings or long trial. Say your piece and go straight to the gallows!
We traveled from CA through OK years ago and that movie was scheduled to be shown. I had read the book and looked forward to watching it in the motel that night but it was not shown in OK....
We were at my mother’s in PA on vacation after those murders and my mother and stepdad didn’t lock their doors at night. I told them the story about the Clutters and it didn’t phase them. On a farm - out in the country and who is going to bother them? I told them the Clutters didn’t have the choice of changing their habits...They said, “we don’t keep cash around” and I said, “neither did the Clutters.”
There were no fewer than 5 doors leading into the house - from the back door to the cellar door and from there up the stairs...they may have slept well but my husband and I didn’t even tho’ he took a .22 rifle upstairs to our bedroom just in case...He had borrowed it from my brother in law to shoot woodchucks while were there.
I forgot about the Clutter’s !! But not the BTK killer.
..and I moved out here for the peace and quiet!