
"Herb, his wife Bonnie, and two of his four children Nancy and Kenyon, "were killed November 15 1959 by intruders who entered their home with the intent of robbery".
That is a very minimalist way of describing a multiple murder that devastated the town of Holcomb, inspired one of the great books of American 20th-century literature and spawned a stack of Hollywood films on that fateful night exactly 50 years ago this Sunday."
via Guardian