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[BigOlChiefsfan]

I grew up in Olathe - in the 60's the fellow who fixed the 'cats paw' shoes that helped convict them was still fixing shoes and sniffing shoe-repair glue just off the old downtown square. You couldn't get your shoes fixed in his shop without hearing how he caught those no good murderers. Hey, who could argue? Plus, a good lesson to stay away from sniffing glue. A timely reminder.

FWIW, I watch 'In Cold Blood' now and then just to see the 2 seconds of old downtown Olathe.

JJ Maloney, a heckuva crime reporter for the KC Star and a murderer who spent a lot of time in prison in Jeff City before he got released to one of the editors for the Star gig - always said that the prison grapevine indicated that the Klutter murders were over jealousy. The two murderers had been 'jailhouse boyfriends' and when one was trying to boink the Klutter daughter the other went a little crazy, killed her and then killed the others.

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/n...clutter/8.html

http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/sinn...nt?oid=2159101

If you grew up here in the 70s and 80s, you may have read some of JJ's stuff in the local paper and the 'alt press'. His book 'I speak for the Dead' about the River Quay mob war is worth tracking down.

http://www.amazon.com/I-Speak-Dead-J.../dp/0441358829