Dick Hickock was an American criminal known for his involvement in the infamous Clutter family murder case in 1959. Along with his accomplice, Perry Smith, Hickock was convicted of the brutal killings of Herbert Clutter, his wife Bonnie, and their two teenage children, Nancy and Kenyon, in Holcomb, Kansas. Hickock was born on June 6, 1931, in Kansas. After the murders, he was apprehended and sentenced to death. He was executed by hanging in 1967, making him one of the last individuals to be executed in the state of Kansas before the death penalty was abolished.