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Who was the last of the Clutter family to go to sleep on the night of the murders, and what was in this person's final diary entry? How was this diary entry helpful to the investigating agents? In cold blood

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The last to go to sleep was Nancy and her last entry was about Bobby and how he was liked.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Clutter family, parents Herb and Bonnie and teens Kenyon and Nancy, were wonderful, church-going and happy family residing on their farm in Holcomb, Kansas. The narrator follows the Clutters through the event pertaining to their last day on earth. Perry Smith and D ick Hickock, also known as the killers, slaughtered them late that night.

Perry and D ick left after the murders and made it to Mexico. Kansas lawman Alvin Dewey and his four special agents led the manhunt for the killer(s).

Truman Capote received first-class service from the KBI and Mr. Dewey, its lead detective on the case. Mr. Dewey gave the author access to the diary of 16-year-old Nancy Clutter which was her final entry logged only moments before the unexpected happened -

two strangers invaded her home in late 1959 and murdered her, her brother and her parents. Mr. Dewey opened the KBI's case file to Mr. Capote. He pressured press-shy locals to cooperate with the author and granted him important access to the killers. Mr. Dewey even helped Mr. Capote, a man from New York with no home in Kansas, obtain a Kansas driver's license.

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